I want to lose weight: where to start?

I want to lose weight ... What woman does not say this phrase, who with hope, who with desperation, and someone and with confidence that everything will turn out. In fact, the inexorable figures of statistics say that if everything depends on motivation, then more than half of the success is accurate.

In addition, what you need to decide, why lose weight, you need to find out the reason for gaining and retaining weight. Once these two tasks have been solved and specified, the strategy of reducing weight to the level of physiologically normal builds up optimally accurately.

So, the first two tasks relating to the field of psychology and creating a condition for fulfilling the coveted desire - "I want to lose weight" are formulated as follows: 

1. Determine why lose weight personally to you. This should not concern comparisons with an asthenic friend or an anorexic model. What will personally give you weight reduction - increasing self-esteem, improving well-being, attracting attention from the opposite sex, career growth and so on. It is desirable to describe yourself in the ideal weight as much as possible, more specifically. 
2. Find the reason for the formation of food dependence. This task is not only psychological, but, possibly, medical. Among the psychological causes of food dependence may be: 
   • Dissatisfaction with his life in principle, the feeling of constant vital discomfort, the inner void that fills the food. This problem, which psychotherapists call a "hungry mind," requires the help of a specialist, detailed analysis and elaboration of psycho-trauma. 
   • Dissatisfaction with a personal life, which is called a "hungry heart", that is, an inability to give vent to emotions and feelings. Their suppression leads to food compensation, which replaces the joy of product satisfaction. A problem solved with the help of a psychologist. It is necessary to find out which emotions, including negative ones, are "jammed". 
   • Unrealized professionalism also often leads to "seizing" career failures. It requires self-examination, sometimes hard, honest, dramatic, but necessary for further development. 
   • Chronic stressful situations, which are compensated by food "joys". The task that requires self-examination, perhaps the assistance of a specialist, and building a plan for getting out of stress. 
   • Suppressed childhood fears and anxieties can be projected into adulthood as food "protection". They require elaboration and elimination. 
   • Metabolic disorders due to somatic diseases, including hormonal dysfunctions. A task that requires thorough, comprehensive diagnosis and therapeutic measures.

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