Counseling

Counselling is something I'd recommend for anyone, particularly young folks. Research your counsellor first. Make sure your values and theirs are in alignment. Beware of advice freely given. Counsellors are supposed to listen and guide you in a healthy, respectful way, not offer advice. Going through counselling can be difficult emotionally, but the benefits of going through something and getting it 'out' are immeasurable. Does it help you lose weight? Just too general a question without knowing what the counselling is centreing on. If it's weight loss, then let's hope so.

Kudos to you for considering it!

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I'm a teacher and a counsellor and one of the most popular things I deal with is teenagers wanting to lose weight when really they have self esteem issues. I find that if you help them with those then all the rest falls into place. I'd reccomend counselling though as it really can help.

I started going to counseling for the first time several months ago because I had been really stressed out and anxious. A couple months into counseling is when I began to focus on weight loss. Talking about my stress and the situations going on really helped me realize that they were out of my control, and how much time I was wasting stressing about things I couldn't change. When I started to accept that, I decided to focus all that energy on myself, and use it positively. So I really focused on weight loss, because it's something that only I have control over. Exercise turned into a great time to clear my mind and ended up making me feel so good and refreshed. Watching my calories gave me something else to think about during the day. So yes, I think releasing some of the stress and tension helped, along with finding a better way to redirect my energy.

Yes - I started going to counseling in March for my depression and I was also frustrated about gaining back a lot of weight I had lost a year and a half ago.

It has been incredibly helpful. Only last week did I finally have a breakthrough, and was able to forgive myself for some things, including gaining weight back. None of what we talk about is nutritional. We talk about thought processes, how to handle emotions, and since my counselor also goes to my church, it is partly faith based counseling, and partly practical counseling. Being able to forgive myself has been huge, and I am finally feeling like I'm back on track with eating and exercise - we will see what the future holds in regards to weight loss! But I'm thinking that losing weight is going to be easier now.

I have learned a lot, and will continue going! I am getting a lot out of it, and while I enjoy it, I will say that it is NOT easy. It requires committment and hard work, but the results are so worth it.

I started going to counseling for the first time several months ago because I had been really stressed out and anxious. A couple months into counseling is when I began to focus on weight loss. Talking about my stress and the situations going on really helped me realize that they were out of my control, and how much time I was wasting stressing about things I couldn't change. When I started to accept that, I decided to focus all that energy on myself, and use it positively. So I really focused on weight loss, because it's something that only I have control over. Exercise turned into a great time to clear my mind and ended up making me feel so good and refreshed. Watching my calories gave me something else to think about during the day. So yes, I think releasing some of the stress and tension helped, along with finding a better way to redirect my energy.

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This is great. I do a lot of discussion with mine as well about control. Figure out what you can control and what you can't, and then stop worrying about what you can't control, and spend your time focusing on what you can control. This takes practice... or at least it did/does for me.

Yes and I think it is a spendid idea. I had Weight Loss surgery and one of the requirements was for me to get a Psch eval. I realized through that I needed to continue for lots of reasons. The lady who did my evaluation is an accomplished author and speaker in the field of obesity. You can even go online and read the first 2 chapters of her latest book, "Eat it up". Her name is Connie Stapleton. This is her website:
www.mindbodyhealthservices.com
One of the scariest statistics she taught me was the alarming rate of divorce after one person loses a lot of weight. I am really happy in my marriage and don't want to see that happen. So, I talk to my pastor about once a month just to kind of check in.