By Richard Weil, M.Ed., CDE Transformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com If you think you’re going to wake up one day and a wave of energy, commonly known as motivation, is going to wash over you and get you doing the activity you’ve been putting off, think again. And if something like that does happen, I’ll bet my […]
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By Richard Weil, M.Ed., CDE Transformation Weight Control www.transformationweightcontrol.com A Brief History of Psychological Treatment Therapies for Weight Loss and Preventing Regain I. PSYCHOANALYSISIn the early part of the 20th century the Freudians (that’s Sigmund in the image below) made an effort of solving the challenges of weight loss and preventing regain). It turned out
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By Richard Weil, M.Ed., CDETransformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com I covered the first part of the ABCs of CBT in the blog, “The ABCs of Cognitive Behavior Therapy – CBT Part 1 of 2”. In a nutshell, you start with an activating event, you then have a belief about that event (often an irrational belief), and that
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by Richard Weil, M.Ed., CDEFounder and DirectorTransformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com See images at the end of the post which illustrate and clarify some of the content. BMIA bit of background.The original BMI was created in the 1830’s by Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, and sociologist. He called it the Quetelet index and developed it