Beyond Disorderly Eating - Yo Yo Weight Gain

We can learn much from listening to the experiences of others. Throughout this book you will meet people very much like yourself or someone you know. Their experiences will allow me to present important “knowledge hooks” that can change your own lifestyle outcomes quite dramatically.

Meet Tess…

I’ve had a problem with yo-yo weight gain since I was a teenager. After the birth of my second son my weight my weight was up another twenty pounds. I exercise daily and lost most of the weight, but find that if I miss exercising the weight comes back so quickly it’s almost ridiculous. I also tend to feel better as far as the cravings go if I don’t eat in the morning, but by afternoon my emotions are on a roller coaster and having two toddlers doesn’t help. Sometimes I’m afraid of my emotional self and frightened for my children’s safety.

KNOWLEDGE HOOK

It is not uncommon for women to have difficulty losing weight after giving birth, especially if they have a history of yo-yoing. To understand this, it is important to review what happens when the body over produces insulin and begins the building of insulin resistance. When one talks about weight gain, the subject should be excess fat storage because the term weight gain doesn’t tell us what we need to know.

We all have a lean body mass and a body fat percentage. Most people who are overweight have a body fat percentage that is too high for the size of their lean body mass. The excess fat storage is simply an indicator that the body is out of balance in some way. In order to find out what’s going on, one has to look at the lifestyle behaviors. Unfortunately most people don’t know what they are looking for and therefore can’t focus on solving the problem. If you can’t see something you can’t fix it.

If the family medical history and/or addictions history is positive for a tendency towards reactive hypoglycemia, there is a history of yo-yoing and then a pregnancy, the stage is set for a metabolic hormonal dance. Tess is trying to manage this hormonal dance only with exercise, and that is not sufficient. Her body is reporting this to her when she feels better without eating breakfast, but has uncontrollable cravings and emotional instability in the afternoon. As she learns to work with the needs of her own body including high level nutrition and the other tools for managing stress, her body physiology will balance.

Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, President & Program Designer for Sarasota Medical & Sports Hypnosis Institute located in Sarasota, FL & online at www.hypnosis-audio.com & www.sugar-addiction.com She is the author of Sugar....the Hidden Eating Disorder & How to Lick It & Beyond Disorderly Eating...The Truth About Sugar, Bingeing & How to Stop. She has also written & produced +350 audio CD's & mp3's. The websites include moderated discussion groups, ezines, library & a host of other educational tools for learning Interactive Self-Hypnosis. Visit the online Boot Camp & work directly with the author. Download a free mp3 each month

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