Eating habits

As already mentioned, it usually brings only annoyance if you forbid a person to eat. For this reason it is important not to consider the food itself, but its composition in the therapy. In concrete terms this means, for example, that animal fats should be replaced by vegetable fats and that about half of the food consumed should consist of carbohydrates.

Fat should generally not make up more than 30% of the diet. Eating habitsThis important step is ultimately about applying what you have learned. For example, when buying food, most people have certain rituals for buying certain things and not others.

Also there are rituals, how a person e.g. lubricates itself a bread. This often does not work so much consciously (ask yourself how often you have made a loaf of bread in your life), but is often “trained” over many years. The goal of therapy must now be to retrain this behavior. If you consciously try out new foods (which are not so dissimilar to the “old” ones), sooner or later you will certainly find some that taste good and are also lower in fat than the ones you are used to. Once again, it should be emphasized that it is not about bans (sweets are also allowed), but about the responsible use of the knowledge that has been imparted to the patient about obesity.

Movement

One cannot but say that any efforts to lose weight are significantly improved by regular exercise. Again, it is not about Olympic-ready achievements, but about the responsible use of the knowledge imparted. Every change in behavior, even small ones (e.g. small distances on foot and not by car etc.)

will have a lasting and positive effect on the patient. Here too, it is important to set realistic goals, as otherwise there is also the danger of destroying the motivation to continue the therapy.

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