Fat people will have obvious social discomfort and low self-esteem problems. How to change these bad situations?

According to research by psychologists, obese people generally have lower self-esteem and higher feelings of anxiety and depression. Compared with the proportion of moderate to severe depression in the population, which is 7-10%, the proportion of moderate to severe depression in obese people is more than 20%, which is basically 2-3 times higher than that of ordinary people. Therefore, there is basically no such thing as a fat heart and a fat body. If you are fat, your mood will be worse.

The psychological problems caused by being "fat" are also very cruel to children. A longitudinal psychological follow-up experiment on 8,000 kindergarten children in the United States showed that children who became obese in kindergarten had obvious social discomfort and low self-esteem by the third grade of elementary school. Twenty years ago, the average age when girls first understood and tried to "lose weight" was 14 years old. Today, the average age is 8 years old. In school bullying cases, more than a quarter of the bullies are the fat guys in the class.

Obesity brings social problems

Job hunting and courtship are the hardest hit areas for fat people. More than half of the HR managers interviewed admitted that they are unwilling to recruit fat people because they think fat people represent "lazy", "have no self-control", "have difficulty moving and are more likely to suffer work-related injuries", and "are more likely to not come to work because of illness" ". All other things being equal, they will choose the thinner one.

When dating, fat people are often rejected by the opposite sex. Relatively speaking, fat women have been hit harder in the dating market: the opposite sex is unwilling to date for the purpose of marriage.

Traditional weight loss brings more risks

Obesity can cause so many psychological problems. Is it just a matter of losing weight? and! slow! Weight loss is an area fraught with more dangers. People who are losing weight are the target groups for eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia, etc.) and body image disorders (hallucinatory perceptions of one's own body shape - feeling that one is too ugly and too fat). Anorexia, an eating disorder, has a mortality rate of 10-20%.

Bulimia is one of the more common eating disorders. One in four women will experience varying degrees of bulimia at some point in their lives: cravings for food that are suppressed and then rebound, resulting in various overcompensatory behaviors. Patients often use laxatives or vomit in an attempt to pass the food after overeating. These behaviors are extremely damaging to both the body and the mind.

Weight changes caused by weight loss often lead to depression. Many people can lose some weight initially, but will rebound once they stop trying. At this time, they are even less willing to return to their weight loss efforts, and lose more and more weight amid feelings of guilt, shame, and self-blame. In other words, the life of an obese person is unpleasant and full of disease risks. But blindly losing weight is not the real solution.