Description of the standard weight loss group
As a rule, such groups are led by well-known, well-established specialists in the field of psychology, nutrition and sports activities. They have good skills in organizing group process and understand physiology. If the lead trainer has personal experience in fighting excess weight, this is an additional plus.
Other important aspects:
- Information about the nutritional process and proper life activity obtained in the group is based on modern scientific concepts. Ideally, it is adapted to the understanding and needs of all team members.
- In a community of like-minded people, a person solves his problem in a complex and separately - on all emerging issues related to proper weight loss.
- Group activities are reminiscent of hobby activities in various clubs. The best option for a group is to operate with a long-term perspective and the possibility of visiting when a specific need arises.
People in the group become familiar with the general program of action. The coach draws attention to an important condition - your presence in the team should be useful to everyone, and not just to you personally. You must share your experiences and your failures equally. They will help develop a general and individual weight loss method.
The process of losing weight in a group does not tolerate indifference to the needs of your comrades.
Methods of group psychotherapy. What is their advantage?
Please note that any group should be considered as a kind of platform for active learning of correct life activities. This is its main goal.
To defeat Fat, an addict needs information about the functioning of the body, the nature of metabolism, food ingredients, useful ways of exercising the body and much more. All this technical information serves only as the basis for a psychological transformation towards positive thinking and a radical change in eating habits.
A group united by a common task is a practical platform for obtaining important knowledge and transforming it into useful practical capital.
All information received by group members is specially adapted to individual requirements and perception capabilities. The learning process involves the possibility of asking any questions, surveys and questioning without restrictions. All work is “tailored” to obtain a powerful information basis, without omissions, ambiguities and unexplained problems.
After each group lesson, group members put new knowledge and skills into practice at home. This is an exciting process aimed at strictly completing individual homework. At the next lesson, the successes of each team member will be analyzed and compared with the results of all other like-minded people. This is the basis for selecting the most rational individual methods of losing weight and effectively working on the development of a new personality.
Why is this so important?
To answer this question, it is necessary to know the nature of the team as a social phenomenon. Any community is also a process. That is, a group of people moves from one point of existence to another, more perfect one. In other words, a team cannot exist without a specific goal. It unites people who are inherently different.
An important aspect of the development process of a small society should be considered the psychological and emotional harmonization of individuals in it.
A person who is in a weight loss group notices after a while that his mood no longer deteriorates. He becomes more cheerful and purposeful.
Other positive changes:
- Confidence in success.
- Increased self-esteem.
- Strengthening the feeling of friendship.
- Increasing responsibility to team members.
- The ability to correctly combine one’s desire for development with the implementation of a common task in a group.
There is a simple and convincing explanation for this - people have recently emerged from the state of pack animals. Working on the problem of losing weight among people, in general, gives a person confidence, calms him down and helps him feel harmonized with the outside world. All these positive factors are extremely useful for actively combating obesity with high results.
Note. Recent studies confirm the long-standing guess of nutritionists that positive psychological changes directly affect the restructuring of metabolism and, ultimately, the acceleration of fat loss.
Great mood – increased muscle tone
We remind you that tone is a partial contraction of muscles. It requires energy consumption.
Where can I get it?
From fat mass. Consumption leads to the appearance of nutrients in the blood. This energy enrichment helps you consume less food and balance your intake.
The psychological aspect of the influence of a general idea on an individual
Perhaps you have not paid attention to such an interesting point - studying detailed information about something, analyzing it and practicing it alone is extremely difficult. Any mental work done in a group is much easier. This is a manifestation of the power of group process.
Just yesterday you really liked fatty foods, but today they disgust you.
But that's not all. You began to move more, get angry less and treat people kindly. You are drawn to creativity, and not to watching a series while lying on the couch.
Yes, what is this happening to me?
Do not be surprised. Any team is, first of all, a certain idea under which life activity is built. The overall task inevitably influences the development of the thinking process of an individual group member. What previously seemed acceptable and even useful to him, over time turns into the focus of evil. The positive process of change is subtle but very effective.
The group process requires the interaction of all team members, active cooperation, and assistance to each other. In disputes and the struggle of different points of view, a new method of losing weight is born, the optimal way to solve a particular problem. The lead trainer of the group sensitively guides the changes towards the beneficial benefit of all like-minded people. We are talking about painstaking, creative psychological work. Only it brings high and stable results.
Active group methods. Lasting effect
Practice shows that group classes to combat obesity give better results than any other methods (for example, an aggressive diet). This is due to the fact that a person through the team receives a mood for personal growth.
Over time, he becomes psychologically more mature:
- Correctly chooses priorities and sets serious but achievable tasks.
- Finds the best way to solve them.
- Consciously eats and uses energy reserves rationally.
- Takes care of your health.
- Changes his previous lifestyle to a healthier and more pragmatic one.
Personal growth is not only the ability to choose the best method of combating excess weight, but also a significant improvement in all areas of a person’s life. He finds a more interesting and highly paid job that brings spiritual satisfaction. Family relationships are improving for those who have been “stormed” for decades. Life in general becomes richer. Boredom is a thing of the past. Cure for it in the form of donuts and sandwiches is no longer required.
Normal weight is “maintained” due to the balance of proper physical activity and psychological “calm”.
Note. Participants in aerobics groups, various sports and training also note the effect of losing weight and improving mental health. The group process in them operates on the same principle as in specialized anti-obesity communities - a common goal, a positive attitude, personal growth, physical health. The same applies to groups with certain psychological goals not related to weight loss. In them, overweight people lose weight due to a positive change in worldview.
Fast weight loss methods and group process
Such a process can only arise in a community of people gathered for a specific purpose. This is a very effective mechanism for body correction, but only if the team is managed by a true professional, an experienced trainer and presenter. If by process we mean a course of boring lectures about losing weight, proper nutrition and a list of special exercises, nothing will work. Your personal attitude towards the fight against obesity and your overall commitment to the goal should create synergy and creative direction for development.
Losing weight in such a value system is only a natural consequence.
The team must mature for the enormous task of spiritual transformation, “like new wine.” If the team has not formed, the group development process will not be able to arise.
