Treating Obesity With Credit Counseling

Is our obsession with weight a disease? It might be, but we certainly don’t treat it as such. Take someone who is a shopaholic. They live and breathe to shop. They wake up thinking about it. They go to sleep thinking about it. Chances are they are in debt to afford their addiction. No matter how much they feed the beast, they cannot seem to figure out how to stop.

So what is the right course of therapy? Do you get them in for psychiatric help? Do you send them in for credit counseling? Or do you give them a crash course, week-long solution and hope that it cures what ails them? It’s exactly how we treat our obsession with weight.

Men and women alike are obsessed with the way they look. They know their weight better than they know their bank balance. It’s a combination of the television we watch and the ads we see in movies and in magazines. We are obsessed with looking thin, but the cure is coming in the wrong ways.

We are telling overweight people that the key to a good body is to go on crash and fad diets. These are diets that challenge the body by abusing it for a short amount of time. They don’t usually work and they end up leaving the participants feeling hungry and gaining the weight back.

What should be done is teaching people, children especially, how to restructure the way they eat. We should be teaching everyone how to live a healthy life and not just how to fix it for a week or two. When someone is stricken with a disease you have to give them a broad spectrum of treatments. You have to attack the disease from all angles if you are hoping to beat it. Shouldn’t we be doing the same about our weight?