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Thursday, November 17, 2011

"I'm not hungry, but I can't stop eating."

That's what my new client said to me today.

She is, unfortunately, pretty much homebound. She's in her 60s, can't movie very well, and is about 100 pounds overweight.

The only way she will be able to lose any weight is to control her eating habits. But, as you might expect, being homebound, she's not the happiest of campers, and indeed is fighting a bit of depression (normal depression, not clinical depression.)

And when people are bored, or depressed, they eat. If you are home bound... can't just pick up and leave whenever you want to, dependent on others for your transportation...that leads to feelings of helplessness...and the desire to comfort yourself, and the easiest way to comfort oneself is to eat.

So I'll be working with her on these issues.

One's mental attitude is 90% of the weight loss/maintenance battle.

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