By Faye Martins
Meditation for weigh loss - Does it really work? Anyone who knows anything
about weight loss understands that it is not just a physical challenge. You
don’t just have to count calories and exercise, but you also have to make sure
that your mind is in the right place.
For the purpose of making
sure that your mindset is optimized, few things come close to the heightened level
of concentration when you meditate. You can take all of those distracting
thoughts that ruin your dieting discipline and put them into a box where they
cannot interrupt your progress.
Anti-stress hormones
Beyond all of the other
things that could potentially throw your weight loss off-course, stressful
thoughts are near the top of the list. A stressful day can put you in a state
of mind where you stop prioritizing about health and eat to dull the mental pain,
but meditation can you help you avoid this pitfall.
Help your diet survive
the hardest days
Even the most disciplined
and determined people can suddenly be thrown off track by a bad day that leads
them to their cravings. Meditation isn't just a one-time fix. After meditating
consistently, your natural state of mind can be more resilient against stress
than before.
After meditating becomes
part of the fabric of your life, you will not be at the mercy of a loss of
conviction or craving attacks. Anyone can lose weight when they feel their
best, but meditation will help them resist those temptations when they are not
feeling at their best.
Preserve your progress
Meditation alone will not
literally make the fat burn off, but it will be an important factor in making sure
that unnecessary weight is not piled on. After all, the true objective of
weight loss campaign isn’t just to lose the weight, but to keep it off. Meditation
will ensure that you are able to actually keep the progress that you make after
a long-fought battle.
Even people who have managed
to be healthy for the majority of their lives can run into problematic periods when
their health out of balance. Unseen challenges and sudden tragedies can remove
a person’s resilience to a drop in self-control that happens in an extremely
stressful situation. With meditation, you will have an all-purpose aide for
stress-induced overeating in the moment where it's most tempting to slip.
Resources
Mindfulness meditation as an
intervention for binge eating, emotional eating, and weight loss: A systematic
review
Shawn N. Kattermana, Brighid M. Kleinmanb,
Megan M. Hooda, Lisa M. Nackersa, Joyce A. Corsicaa, ,
a Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush
University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
b Department of Behavioral Sciences,
Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, United States
An Exploratory Study of a
Meditation-based Intervention for Binge Eating Disorder
Jean L. Kristeller
Department of Psychology, Indiana
State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
C. Brendan Hallett
Project Reality, Salt Lake City, Utah
Exploratory randomised
controlled trial of a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention for women
Katy Tappera, , , Christine Shawb, Joanne
Ilsleyc, Andrew J. Hilld, Frank W. Bonde, Laurence Moorec
a Department of Psychology, Swansea
University, United Kingdom
b Department of Care Sciences, University of
Glamorgan, United Kingdom
c Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and
Ethics, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
d Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural
Sciences, Leeds University, United Kingdom
e Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths
College, University of London, United Kingdom
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