6 signs you’re obsessed with losing weight

“Some people are genetically predisposed to start with healthy eating, move on to disordered eating, and end up with an eating disorder,” says clinical psychologist Stacey Rosenfeld. These are the habits the experts say tell you to slow down.

It’s not necessary to check your weight every morning, let alone before and after meals, it naturally fluctuates throughout the day. According to psychologist Bonnie Brennan, weighing yourself once a week is enough, and when done consistently, it can indicate the onset of an eating disorder.

As Rosenfeld explains, this leads to the fact that a person begins to choose products based solely on calories, while ignoring their nutritional value and their own needs. It’s a dangerous road – if you stop considering your desires, you destroy the connection with your own body.

Are you sure that after losing weight you will get rid of health problems, improve your personal life and finally become happy? Such unrealistic views will only turn into disappointment: Losing weight won’t help you build relationships or find harmony with yourself, Brennan says.

If the diet started out with a few restrictions and ended up not knowing what to order at a restaurant or buy at a snack bar “so you don’t get fat,” that means the diet has gone too far. According to Rosenfeld, a long list of “bad” foods is one of the first signs of an eating disorder.

Are you afraid to celebrate the New Year with your friends because there will be too much food on the table, and you no longer go to the bar with your colleagues because the cocktails are too high in calories? There is nothing healthy about such self-imposed “isolation” – it seems like it’s time for you to turn to a specialist.

An illness, an injury, a deadline, a family reunion, isn’t that a reason not to go to the gym anymore? You absolutely have to be careful: if exercise has become an absolute priority, it will very quickly turn into exhaustion, fatigue and burn-out.

If you notice more than one of these symptoms in yourself, contact a psychologist who specializes in eating disorders – this may help you avoid serious problems.

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