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The more you lose sleep, the more weight you gain

Until now, everyone thought that insomnia and stress would make you thin and tired, but in fact, the opposite, the more you lose sleep, the more you gain weight.

Ms. Le Thanh Hoa, born in 1982, Hanoi, said that before, she was as thin as a stick of wood and could not gain weight after eating forever. After giving birth to two babies, she still couldn’t gain weight while other mothers struggled to lose weight. In the last two years, Ms. Hoa has been stressed due to the impact of the epidemic and her work.

Stress made her lose sleep, eat a lot and within 1 year she increased from 55 kg to 68 kg.

The more stressed, the more she ate and the more she gained weight, she tried to lose weight again but failed.

Your case Nguyen Anh Tuan – Tay Mo, Nam Tu Liem, Hanoi is similar. Tuan said that in the past two years he gained from 65 kg to 90 kg. Weight gain makes Tuan always tired. Tuan went to the doctor and the doctor only advised him to lose weight everywhere.

Each time using the weight loss menu of the consultant, Tuan only lasted 2 weeks and then failed. Recently, when working away from home, Tuan gained 6kg more. The feeling of hunger made him unbearable and kept falling into a vicious circle – hunger is eating, eating a lot leads to weight gain.

Stress makes your weight increase 'galloping'
Doctor Man advises patient.

MSc BS. Nguyen Minh Man – Head of Clinical Psychology Unit, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, said stress is also a cause of obesity.

Psychological factors including stress are also one of the causes of obesity. Stress has a negative effect on cognition, changing behaviors and habits in daily life in a negative way.

The most obvious manifestation is the unhealthy eating, living and exercising. Not only that, stress can also cause biological functions of the body to be out of balance, which can lead to disorders in metabolism leading to obesity.

When the stress reaches a more severe level, the person will fall into depression.

In the opposite direction, obesity also contributes to increased severity of stress or depression. Many obese people also have to endure the stigma of those around them.

This makes stress or depression worse. In addition, the markedly reduced quality of life, narrowed social relationships, loss of self-belief, suicidal ideation are also psychological obstacles that obese patients have. may encounter.

Many obese patients are very anxious to find a way that can help them lose weight quickly, creating a vicious cycle of being impatient and unable to lose weight.

Mostly because obese people are too impatient, don’t understand the treatment methods, and there are too many sources of inaccurate information about functional foods and weight loss support measures that can make people fat. make the wrong decision.

When these measures do not bring the desired effect, the patient’s psychology is more severely affected.

MSc BS. Nguyen Minh Man said studies have demonstrated that patients can lose 5%-10% of their initial body weight over a 6-month period when treated with a physical exercise program, changing their regimen eating and especially strategies to change behavior and lifestyle.

Psychologists will help patients successfully intervene to change behavior, improve self-regulation, thereby aiming to build and maintain healthy habits, positively contributing to the effectiveness of the patient. obesity treatment.

With intensive psychotherapy, psychologists will help patients learn how to manage stress on their own; actively control the triggers of cravings, thereby maintaining a healthy diet and activities; gradually replace limiting and negative beliefs about yourself with healthy, positive beliefs; regain confidence in yourself.

Psychotherapy and support should be carried out throughout the process of obesity treatment from lifestyle interventions, drug therapy, before and after obesity treatment surgery (for patients with indications such as: ) to weight management, maintaining effective weight loss.

MSc BS. Nguyen Minh Man shared, obesity treatment is a long process. In addition to the need for multi-specialty coordination in treatment, it also requires the commitment and determination of the patient.

Therefore, the psychological support therapies and techniques of experts are always an important resource to help patients stay firm in the journey of obesity treatment, avoiding falling into negative psychological states.

Khanh Chi

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