RU2248815C2 - Method for getting rid of excessive body weight - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine, psychotherapy, psychology.

SUBSTANCE: it is necessary to form groups of patients, to perform diagnostics to select persons with psychic and other serious diseases. Moreover, rational alimentary behavior includes the skill for correct identification of true and false feeling of starvation, the skill to have meals at the presence of true feeling of starvation only, the skill to restrict the volume of single food intake by rational one, the skill for correct intake of pure drinking water, the skill for physiologically correct escape out of food breaking, the skill for realized nutrition and that of intuitive identification of the quantity and type of necessary food in each concrete situation. The present innovation helps to develop patient's realized attitude towards food.

EFFECT: higher efficiency.

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Description

The invention relates to medicine, namely to psychotherapy and psychology, and can be used to rid patients of excess weight.

There is a known method for correcting addictive behavior according to the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2112559, including the formation and strengthening of motivation for losing weight, autoheter-suggestive effects aimed at mastering the patient's skills in rational eating behavior and consolidating the information through visual-motor reaction, as well as repeatedly writing verbal settings for various aspects of returning to a natural state and retaining it for 7-10 days, as well as during the subsequent (rehabilitation) period, for lasting up to 6 months after the end of active classes.

As a prototype, the method of weight correction according to the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2033199 was selected, which includes the formation and strengthening of motivation for losing weight, autoheter-suggestive action aimed at mastering the patient's skills in rational eating behavior and consolidating the information through visual-motor reaction, as well as repeatedly writing verbal attitudes to various aspects of returning to a natural state and retaining it for 7-10 days, as well as during the subsequent (rehabilitation) period, for lasting up to 6 months after the end of active classes.

The disadvantages of these methods are the formation of a program not conscious, but an indifferent attitude to food, which leads to a decrease in the effectiveness of ridding patients of excess weight.

The task to which the claimed invention is directed is to increase the efficiency of ridding patients of excess weight.

The solution to this problem is achieved by the fact that in the method of losing weight, including the formation and strengthening of the motivation for losing weight, an autoheterosuggestive effect aimed at mastering the patient's skills in rational eating behavior and consolidating the information through visual-motor reaction, as well as multiple writing verbal attitudes to various aspects of returning to a natural state and retaining it for 7-10 days, as well as during the subsequent (rehabilitation o) a period lasting up to 6 months after the end of active classes, when forming a group of patients, they are diagnosed in order to screen out people with mental and other serious diseases, and rational eating behavior includes the skill of clearly recognizing the true and false feelings of hunger, the skill of eating only in the presence of a true feeling of hunger, the skill of limiting the amount of a single meal ration, the skill of proper consumption of clean drinking water, the skill of physiologically correct exit from food disruptions, the skill of conscious nutrition and the skill of intuitive recognition of the amount and type of food needed in each specific situation.

Screening of persons with mental and other serious diseases during the formation of patient groups helps to prevent negative phenomena associated with these diseases.

The need to possess these skills is explained by the following circumstances.

1. The skill of recognizing the true and false feelings of hunger.

The true feeling of hunger is understood as a physiologically sound sensation, which serves as a signal of the need to take a new portion of food. A false sense of hunger is a situational appetite in the form of a reaction to stressful effects, unpleasant emotional experiences, boredom and lack of impressions, as well as with the neurotic nature of euphoric conditions. It is a kind of reflex to such conditions, and therefore the emergence of food desire under such circumstances is a typical sign of a false sense of hunger.

A false feeling of hunger is also characterized by a selective attitude to food, when simple, simple food does not cause appetite, and the mere thought of a “favorite” food becomes an occasion for immediate eating.

A true feeling of hunger occurs when the body really needs an extra serving of food. The simplest simple food and “favorite” food are perceived equally attractive.

The main thing is that a false and true feeling of hunger is subjectively perceived as different sensations, and the formation of the skill of clearly distinguishing between them is one of the initial goals of therapy.

2. The skill of eating only in the presence of a true feeling of hunger.

This is a fundamental skill for losing weight. Highly effective with the ability to clearly distinguish between true and false feelings of hunger.

Unlike the first - sensory - skill, this skill is a strong-willed order and requires strong motivation for its development. Therefore, it is successfully formed in combination with the cognitive strategy of the therapy under consideration - with the simultaneous replacement of negative cognitive attitudes that lead to overweight with positive ones. In this case, he becomes the behavioral embodiment of new positive beliefs, feelings and emotional experiences.

As you master it, it requires less and less willpower and tends to turn into an automatic habit.

3. The skill of limiting the amount of a single meal rational.

Despite the fact that for each person the amount of necessary food is strictly individual, its exact recognition is possible only with a significant development of food intuition. Therefore, this therapeutic technique is based on the principle of rational limitation of the volume of a single meal. Given the many years of experience in nutritional research, it is accepted that during active therapy to get rid of excess weight, the amount of food eaten for men should be limited to no more than 300 g, for women - no more than 200 g at a time.

After reaching the optimal body weight, a less severe restriction on the amount of food eaten once is allowed, if the latter does not lead to a repeated increase in excess weight. But in any case, explicit overeating is unacceptable - food intake until a characteristic severity occurs in the stomach and hypochondrium. As the skill of conscious nutrition and food intuition develops, awareness of other bodily sensations that are individual in nature and serve as signs indicating that the amount of food taken is already sufficient.

Like the previous one, this skill is effectively mastered simultaneously with the cognitive strategy of this therapy. Having at first a purely strong-willed character, gradually it almost completely becomes sensory and automatic.

4. The skill of proper consumption of clean drinking water.

This skill includes the skills of sufficient intake of clean water and the correct consumption of water in relation to food intake.

A sufficient daily intake of clean drinking water of at least 2 liters is considered sufficient, in addition to tea, coffee and other drinks (soups).

The physiological need for this skill is justified by at least two circumstances:

4.1. Today, in modern civilization, the culture of drinking pure water as the main drink is sharply reduced almost to extinction. At the same time, pure water is an indispensable drink for the human body. As a result, residents of the urban zone are almost in a chronic state of dehydration, which they fall into from childhood. Dehydration, in turn, significantly weakens the body's defenses and is a favorable environment for the development of a wide variety of dysfunctions of the internal organs and central nervous system, despite the fact that the medical community as a whole pays insufficient attention to this problem. The commercial interests of manufacturers of cola, beer, tonic and other drinks also impede widespread media coverage of dehydration problems.

Restoring natural thirst and normal consumption of pure water significantly contributes to a reduction in food addiction.

4.2. In the process of intense weight loss, a large amount of toxins and toxins accumulated in body fat is released and released into the bloodstream. For their timely elimination from the body, an increased consumption of pure water is required, otherwise overload and even diseases of organs that perform cleansing functions in the body — the liver and kidneys — are possible.

At the same time, increased water consumption should be carried out physiologically: often in small portions (1-3 sips). Rarely drinking in large portions can cause shock loads on the heart and kidneys and also lead to negative consequences.

In this regard, this skill also implies the skill of constantly carrying with you a convenient hand-held water container such as a flask or a special adapted bottle.

Also important is the skill of observing the rules of drinking water in relation to food intake, namely:

- Directly during meals, as well as immediately after it, water, as well as other drinks should not be consumed at all. Drinking in these situations leads to dilution of the gastric juice and a malfunction of the normal digestion process. As a result, to cover the energy needs of the body you have to take an increased amount of food, which contributes to chronic overeating and the development of food addiction;

- it is physiologically correct to consume water and drinks no later than 20 minutes before a meal and no earlier than 40 minutes after it.

5. The skill of physiologically correct exit from food breakdowns.

A violation of skills 2 and 3 of this list, i.e. overeating and eating food in large quantities without a true feeling of hunger.

This therapeutic concept suggests that the likelihood of a food breakdown in patients is quite high, especially in patients with weakened volitional function or a strong somatized dependence on food (food addiction).

It is not the food breakdown itself that is dangerous as a one-time event, but a sharp increase in the probability of the patient returning to the old (neurotic) eating skills after him, due to the inevitable temporary drop in the patient’s confidence in his abilities and a decrease in his intention to achieve / maintain optimal body weight. However, a return to the neurotic style does not occur if the patient takes the right physiologically sound measures to exit the breakdown.

The correct way out of a food breakdown forms a special skill, the mastery of which, and especially bringing it to automaticity, makes sporadic overeating that occurs after a patient reaches optimal body weight practically safe, and helps reduce the negative consequences of food breakdowns during intensive care. At the same time, this skill is only complementary to previous skills, but not a substitute for the latter. Assuming chronic nutritional disruption is tantamount to disrupting all therapy.

The correct way out of a food breakdown involves the following actions:

- drinking 2 glasses of clean water immediately after a breakdown. This leads to a significant dilution of gastric juice, which reduces the digestibility of food intake and contributes to its "idle" passage through the intestine;

- performing special work with the diary, in which the admitted breakdown is recognized with all the consequences arising from it, and measures are being taken to further reprogram the mind to abandon neurotic cognitive attitudes and nutritional skills and confidently return to healthy positive cognitive attitudes and nutritional skills. The main goal of this work is to restore positive motivation and strengthen the patient's unbending intention to achieve the desired result. The diary technique itself is described below in the section on therapy techniques.

6. The skill of informed nutrition.

While many religious and spiritual traditions (Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism) cultivate the attitude to eating as a sacred ritual, in which food is absorbed in an atmosphere of reverent silence and complete conscious immersion in the process, in modern secular food culture, such an attitude is practically is absent. Some of its rudimentary residues can be traced in the rules of behavior at the table, which are taught to children, and which are prescribed by formal etiquette: thoroughly chew food, do not swallow large pieces, do not talk with a mouthful, etc. But even these rules are not taken seriously by most people. Instead, a thoughtless and automatic style of eating is widespread, when attention to food is limited only by the choice of dishes (in patients with overweight - according to neurotic and unhealthy principles), and everything else is done on the machine: “the hands and jaws do something there themselves, and attention and thoughts are far away. ”

However, it is the attitude towards food practiced in sacred traditions that is physiologically correct and justified, because it provides the best assimilation of food.

In different religious traditions, sacred food rituals differ among themselves, but they are all built on a single basis - a fully conscious process of eating.

The skill of informed nutrition implies not only a full focus on the food process, but also a conscious choice of the type and amount of food in each specific situation. Even with a food breakdown, it is important to clearly be aware of what is happening, not deceiving yourself about the fact that there is a breakdown, and to consciously decide on the use of a particular food.

Conscious nutrition, in addition to physiological advantages, allows much less frequent breakdowns, and the severity of the latter is significantly reduced. But more importantly, informed nutrition is a direct way of knowing one’s own body in all its individuality regarding nutrition. This is a way to directly learn how the body reacts to certain types of food, what sensations it signals about satiety and different stages of overeating, as well as the true and false feeling of hunger, and much more. Among other things, conscious nutrition is the best way to quickly arouse nutritional intuition.

7. The skill of intuitive recognition of the quantity and type of necessary food in each specific situation.

Developed food intuition is the best “expert” in food.

The mechanisms of intuition are difficult to study and far from deep understanding, but in practice it is not difficult to achieve a significant level of development of food intuition. The key here are the practice of conscious nutrition, as well as the ability to unconditionally follow what intuition “suggests”. The unconditional following of intuition is a necessary condition for its development; on the contrary, non-following of intuition leads to its quick fading and loss of skill.

The method is as follows.

Lesson 1.

Topics:

Overweight problem.

The essence and principles of a balanced diet.

The difference between a rational nutrition system from the usual type of nutrition and from other systems aimed at getting rid of excess weight.

Primary nutritional education.

Lesson 2.

Topics:

Nutrition skills development

Work with a diary

Wellness for losing weight

Lesson 3.

Topics:

Properties and qualities of various types of food

Cooking in a balanced diet

Lesson 4.

Topics:

Additional means of getting rid of excess weight in the system

nutrition: a set of qigong exercises “jasper frog”

Lesson 5.

Topics:

Difficulties in developing a balanced diet

Bowel and liver cleansing

Lesson 6.

Topics:

Cleansing the kidneys, joints, blood and blood vessels

Lesson 7.

Topics:

Disruptions in the development of a rational nutrition system

Disruption Prevention

Lesson 8.

Topics:

Fasting and fasting as additional means of cleansing the body and preventing weight gain

Lesson 9.

Topics:

Wellness moods for rejuvenation, increased performance and weaning from bad habits (smoking, etc.)

Consideration of individual problems in the development of rational nutrition among students

Lesson 10.

Topics:

Consideration and evaluation of individual results achieved by students during classes on the rational nutrition system

Recommendations for further work with the rational nutrition system

Individual Issues

In addition to the information received in the classroom, patients are given homework aimed at mastering good nutritional skills. The process of homework, emotional states and achieved results are reflected in the diary. At each lesson, diaries are analyzed to track the progress of the process of getting rid of excess and adjust subsequent homework.

Within 6 months after the period of active classes, control classes are periodically held to maintain high motivation to achieve the optimal result in getting rid of excess weight.

The course of studies according to the claimed method on the date of filing the application for the invention was 8000 people. Analysis of the results showed a high efficiency of the method.

Example 1. I.A. - woman 35 years old, manager of a commercial company. Height - 162 cm, weight before the start of classes - 87 kg, suffered from shortness of breath, arrhythmia, drowsiness, frequent colds. After classes, weight - 58 kg, all previous painful symptoms disappeared. Almost ceased to suffer from colds. Significantly increased the tone of cheerfulness. Satisfaction with my appearance appeared.

Example 2. S.I. - man 39 years old, director of a travel agency. Height - 181 cm, weight before class - 136 kg, suffered from shortness of breath, endometriosis, heartburn, arrhythmia.

Right after classes, weight - 115 kg, after 3 months - 87 kg, all previous disorders disappeared, the blood cholesterol content returned to normal. Efficiency has grown significantly, relations in the family have improved.

Example 3. L.M. - woman 55 years old, retired. Height - 173 cm, weight before the start of classes - 90 kg, suffered from hypertiriosis, was forced to take hormones for 5 years. After classes, the weight was 72 kg, the tests returned to normal, and hormones were canceled by doctors. I am very pleased with the improvement in appearance, the relationship with my husband has significantly improved.

Example 4. L.B. - woman 40 years old, manager of a commercial company. Height - 169 cm, weight before class - 100 kg, suffered from shortness of breath, endometriosis, heartburn, underwent 2 heart operations and was preparing for the 3rd. Right after classes, weight - 87 kg, after 3 months - 70 kg. The menstrual cycle returned to normal, the cardiogram was excellent, and heart surgery was canceled.

Claims (1)

A way to get rid of excess weight, including the formation and strengthening of the motivation for getting rid of excess weight, an auto heterosuggestive effect aimed at mastering the patient’s skills of rational eating behavior, and consolidating the information obtained through a visual-motor reaction, as well as repeatedly writing verbal patterns on various aspects of returning to the natural state and its retention for 7-10 days, as well as during the subsequent (rehabilitation) period, lasting up to 6 months after completion active classes, characterized in that when forming a group of patients, they are diagnosed with the goal of screening out people with mental and other serious illnesses, and rational eating behavior includes the skill of clearly recognizing the true and false feelings of hunger, the skill of eating only in the presence of a true feeling of hunger , the skill of limiting the amount of a single meal rational, the skill of proper consumption of clean drinking water, the skill of physiologically correct way out of food breakdowns, the skill is conscious of the power and skill of the intuitive recognition of the amount and type of food required in each situation.