In a study done among obese or overweight women, the results were best with the group that included mindfulness in their regimen including long hours of concentration. This group of heavyset or plump ladies lost more fat in the abdomen than the women in the group who just did some physical activities and a diet program as mentioned in Psychology Today.
People have the tendency to overeat when stressed according to Binge Eat. You can hear emotional stories about women gaining weight after a relationship breakup. The increase in weight has always been attributed to emotional problems and the tendency to disconnect with food.
In the real world, working class women gain weight in the face of long work hours and lack of sleep. Life-threatening illnesses result to being overweight and obese like heart disease. So more and more people who have excess body weight work on shedding body fat especially on the stomach.
Although body built can also run in the family, most people have a really tough time to lose weight. More and more people are alarmed obesity is considered the biggest threat to health, Huffington Post reports. These perceptions can change soon, as possibilities are endless if initial findings are positive.
Mindfulness, in this context, is simply being watchful or sensitive to your body's reaction, could spell lots of good results. It could mean being more alert to one's own hormonal changes, like the increase in cortisol, the "stress hormone". So when this happens, one could teach the body to relax more. And when the body is more relaxed bad habits are easier to control, like overeating. Meditation can do wonders. It is some sort of "mind over matter" thing that a person gets to discipline one's actions.
The test is not conclusive yet. Nevertheless, this positive result is heartening. Obese people can expect for more experiments and studies to be done in the future regarding the effectivity of mindfulness.
