Depression and Weight Loss

If you are an emotional eater, you have to ask yourself why you emotionally eat. What happened in your past that’s causing you to be upset? Until you deal with that issue, weight will continue to be a problem because you will continually eat when you’re depressed.

I’ve read numerous stories of people who have had various surgeries to help them lose weight, only to pick up another addiction (drinking, drugs, etc.) because they hadn’t dealt with the real problem.

Let’s say you were abused as a child and you eat to comfort yourself. So you decide to have lap ban surgery to lose weight because you think that will make you feel better. So now you have this brand new body but those feelings of low self esteem and depression are still there. So what happens is you go back to your destructive habits because you haven’t dealt with the real issue.

That’s why so many people constantly struggle with their weight. If you truly love and accept yourself and want to lose weight for the right reasons (you want to be healthier and look better for YOU) then you will be motivated to take the steps (exercise and eating right) to keep the weight off.

But if you are still harboring some ill feelings or have low self esteem, depression, etc. you won’t be motivated to do the things you need to do in order to keep your weight off.

Here’s a fact many people do not know…

One of the fastest ways to lose weight and get the body you desire is to learn to master your depression and boost your self esteem.

A lot of people believe they are depressed because they are overweight, but in a lot of cases (not all) the depression was there long before the weight came on.

People often medicate the depression with food, gain weight and then assume the reason they are depressed is because of their size.

And people who have been overweight all their life often define their self worth by their size so they’ve never spent any time valuing the good things about themselves.
Find The Cause

So I ask you, what’s the real cause of your depression? If you dig deep enough you will probably discover that it’s not really the extra pounds. The added weight could be a symptom of a bigger emotional issue.

Get to the core of the problem and you may find that you won’t struggle with weight any longer. Once your self esteem improves and depression ends, some of you may even discover that you are comfortable with your current size!

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