Losing pounds, but not just anywhere, and only where you need it, requires a specific program, comprehensive care. “Indeed, the place where food abuse, slippages and other nutritional errors are stored says a lot about the type of abuse (you eat too much sugar, or fat or too much protein …), but also on the type of “food and psychological” profile, explains Dr Bernard Philippe Bulidon, nutritionist and psycho-consultant in Royan, author of Psycho-morpho-nutrition (ed. J. Lyon).
Slimming from the bottom: the diagnosis
Do you have a rather thin bust, but a voluminous lower body, called an “Orangina bottle” with too many hips, thighs and buttocks? For the nutritionist, you eat too much fat, but also too much sugars, including starches such as potatoes, and too much salt: however, these increase water retention and cellulite.
Generally, you also eat too little protein, animal and especially vegetable. “In some cases, too large doses of vegetables” to lose weight “increase volume, especially in the thighs, for biochemical reasons related to mineral salts, with an unpleasant feeling of swelling”, explains Dr Bernard-Philippe Bulidon, nutritionist doctor,
For the doctor, it is often emotional deficiencies, sometimes very old, which are compensated for by food, mainly sugar and comforting fats, and sometimes real food compulsions, day or night, which put the line and health in danger. “But these are not always recognized, or even denied, despite the discomfort caused by overweight. And the latter often pulls morale and self-esteem down,” said the specialist.
Slimming from the bottom: boost your motivation
Working your mind is essential, assures the specialist. Behind every weight problem, there are always psycho-emotional components. It is therefore necessary to adopt good reflexes not to crack and boost his motivation according to his “nature”. “If you want to achieve a long-term balance, it is important to eat in line with your real physiological needs but also to take into account your personal” disturbances “, explains Dr Bernard-PhilippeBulidon.
Good daily reflexes
- Go out, to go for a walk, phone a good friend to get out of the instinctual diet and find ways to stop “cracking” and nibble at the slightest stress. And if you’re not working from home, chat with a friendly colleague instead of rushing to the chocolate bar or the office vending machine.
- Boost your self-confidence and calm the mind and with individual practices such as yoga or oriental disciplines (martial arts for example).
- Focus on your victories, even small ones, and not its failures, so as to drive out permanent devaluation, to gradually regain self-confidence and therefore, to open up better to others.
- Write down all its small progress, even minimal, so as not to forget them and to be able to hang on to them when needed.
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