Obesity and Obsessions
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An obese person does not eat because of hunger any more than an alcoholic drinks because of thirst. Therefore, a pill to curb the appetite makes no since for the obese. Yet that is what most look for once they allow themselves to see that they have a problem. My mother was 5'2" tall and weighted 200 pounds. She said she didn't know what it felt like to be hungry. She also was in total denial as to her real size because she was always asking me if she looked as large as someone that she would point out, and she actually looked much larger. The problem isn't appetite but an obsession with food.
As soon as Oprah was able to get in touch with and release the anger that she had been nurturing from her abusive childhood, her weight problem became manageable. Sometimes fat can seem like an effective armor of protection. Take away the need for the protection and the fat drops away.
Twelve step programs work about 50% of the time. I, personally, never liked the thought system that one of the steps encourages us to express; our powerlessness over a substance. We need to take our power back not give it away to something else.
When ever we turn to food for any reason other than nourishment, it is a symptom that something is going on with us other than hunger. An emotion is being felt, a longing of the heart is being expressed, but neither is being addressed.
Hypnosis is, in my opinion, the best way to delve into the subconscious mind and delete those harmful negative programs. It's fast, efficient, and it doesn't cost a lot.
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Thanks! I just learned how to cut and paste and I'm having lots of fun trying it out.
I think it's great that you're trying to educate the public about compulsive eating! I'd just like to make the note that, actually, not all obese people are disordered eaters... just as not all anorexics and bulimics are emaciated.
Great work, though! I enjoy your writing.
Thanks for your comment Maddie. My experience shows me that the vast majority of obese people are compulsive, addictive eaters. It is frequently a learned behavior that can affect many members of a family where food is used as a distraction or substitute for emotional satisfaction. It may be possible that a small percentage could have a physical condition that would cause the calories consumed to be stored instead of burned, but this is very rare condition. I am not that familiar with anorexics or bulimics but it probably takes a while for the effects of the condition to manifest into emaciation.
I'd have to agree you on this, Connie. I admit I'm confuzzled by the previous commenter's assertion that people of proportional height and weight and not experiencing health problems might be secretly anorexic. I think emaciation and the resulting health problems would be very basis of a diagnosis of anorexia.
I realize that it's something of a hobby among compulsive overeaters to classify non-overweight women as anorexic but that would be a lay person's terminology and not the medical community's opinion, I suspect.
In any event, anorexia affects perhaps .5% of the American public while obesity has become a very expensive epidemic affecting some 35% or 40% of Americans. Very timely hub considering the swelling economic costs of obesity!
Sharon, I think that both extremes share the same problem and that problem is denial. Once that barier is broken then the work can begin to make the necessary corrections. But, I so agree with you and thanks for your comment.
It's also rather interesting that it seems to be a rage directed at women only. I don't believe I've ever seen a group of heavy people, male or female, point to men of healthy weight and insist they must be secretly anorexic. That judgement seems to be reserved solely for attractive women. :p
You are quite correct that anorexia and compulsive overeating are both flip sides of the same coin and that both indicate using food as an escape from negative feelings. One would think that if an overweight woman thought other particular women were truly anorexic they would greet such women as sisters in arms in the fight for physical health, rather than a target for their inner self hate.
I suspect the mislabeling of healthy women as anorexic and the projecting of rage onto non-fat women is just another symptom of those negative feelings large women are trying to assuage ineffectively rather than taking the personal responsibility to simply work to lose weight. Focusing on and blaming other women for their own unhappiness keeps them from having to deal with their own painful emotional issues.
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Robin says:
3 years ago
Great article. Is that a picture of you? ;)