Obesity: what if a discussion group could help?
More and more pathologies are no longer the result of a single approach technique. Whether for low back pain, stress or obesity, it is clear that it is multifactorial causes that make the bed of these diseases.
For subjects who suffer from lumbar disease, the professionals of the back school relieve them with targeted advice and wise exercises. For overweight people, it is mainly private structures that offer to manage them.
Fees are not for all scholarships. Thus, like his association “Bien vivre avec son poids ” in the Côtes d’Armor, President Gilbert Damas, accompanies obese subjects ina holistic, human and accessible approach to all.
Speaking out is an essential element
For Gilbert Damas, being comfortable in your body implies being well in your headand to achieve this result, you have to go through the word. It was in 2013 in Lannion that the association took shape and since then, it offers various activities to its members in order to consider weight loss in a sustainable way. However, it focuses on an original activity that allows exchange and speaking as therapy: “the organization of discussion groups”. In order to be confident and professional, the association “Living well with your weight”, works with three specialists in stress management and adapted physical activity. With a dozen people taking part in these meetings, the meetings address various themes such as the way we look at ourselves, the relationship to the other, the look of the other on oneself … It is the relationship with oneself, others and one’s environment that is put forward as during a treatment in Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (The “famous” CBT).
Strangely, Gilbert Damas noticed that these discussion groups aremade up mainly of women. Perhaps they are better predisposed to communicate, to discuss their disorders? However, they are determined to face the facts, whether they are young, “addicted” to food or diabetics. The proof is, some even have to start cooking again. They have a hard time finding new bearings! In any case, the association does not advocate miracle diets while it is strongly solicited by laboratories of all kinds. It makes all the difference!
Further inputs are needed for efficient care
In addition to topics relating to fitness, well-being, psychological health or dietetics, the association offers various activities: garage sales, evening at the restaurant, conference on obesity for the youngest, evening of remodeling, introduction to tango … The advantage of such practices is to build a relational, friendly and familiar network.
More than a discussion group, it is a support group that is formed as the sessions progress. The exchanges are, a priori, without judgment, in confidentiality and listening. This state of confidence allows the overweight subject to focus on the event that is at the origin of his weight gain even if it remains very buried.
The association hopes to obtain on the one hand, the approval of the ARS (Regional Health Agency) which would make it possible to financially relieve those who do not have the means and who find themselves in a vicious circle; and on the other hand, Gilbert Damas is working on a partnership with a clinic in the region to offer a follow-up of more or less five years, to patients who benefit from a gastric bypass surgery (click to consult our file on the bypass).
Stephen Paul is the lead author and founder of My Health Sponsor. Holder of a diploma in health and well-being coaching with more than 200 articles in the field of health, he makes it a point of honor to offer advice based on reliable information, based on scientific research, and verified by health professionals.