I read a beautiful article written by psychotherapist Judith Matz. Struggling with a client with compulsive hunger problems that prevented her from living normally, the doctor has established criteria that may apply to many of us about nervous hunger, and thus help us.

The original article is very long , and is the story of a good part of the therapy that the doctor has carried out with her client, so I will try to extrapolate the peculiar concepts.

Before that, however, I will explain who Judith Matz is, and why it is important for those suffering from compulsive or nervous hunger to know something about her. In fact, Dr. Matz runs a center, the  Chicago Center for Overcoming Overeating, where she helps people stop overeating by neutralizing their compulsive hunger.

He has also written a book in which he links the need for excessive eating to weight loss diets to one’s body image and to a society of image that leads us to believe that thin is not only beautiful, but also healthy. Which obviously isn’t always the case.

In its center, the HAES method (Health at Every Size, a project born by Dr. Linda Bacon) is also adopted, in which men but above all women are helped to get out of the trap of the thin = healthy, and to create a lifestyle correct from the point of view. from the point of view of health, not of size. So let’s see her advice.

COMPULSIVE HUNGER: HOW TO GET OUT ACCORDING TO DOCTOR MATZ

RESOLVING COMPULSIVE HUNGER DOES NOT MEAN AUTOMATICALLY LOSE WEIGHT. 

This is a very important thing to understand and internalize if you are suffering from nervous hunger. When you stop overeating, you don’t necessarily lose weight. All people who want to get out of binge eating and compulsive hunger should not think about doing it because they want to lose weight, but to return to a healthy and normal relationship with food. Weight loss can be a consequence but it can also not be there.