We all know Maurizio Coruzzi, radio-television presenter, television personality and writer with many talents, especially in the role of Platinette.

Today Mauro Coruzzi appears visibly thinner, in fact he would have lost several sizes.

A difficult goal for everyone, but three times difficult if you also think about his age (he is over sixty) and above all the ailment he suffers from.

Coruzzi in fact explained that he had moved away from television commitments because he needed time to work on himself and be able once and for all to defeat his Binge Eating Disorder.

It is an eating disorder, caused by binge eating, for which those who suffer from it tend to eat compulsively, without being able to satiate themselves.

A FEW MORE WORDS ABOUT BINGE EATING DISORDER

In general, binge eaters, or compulsive eaters, have as their main characteristic the urge to eat in a very voracious and fast way without control. I am the victim of real binges that happen more than 3 times a week, sometimes even daily. Healing is defined by the progressive reduction, until the disappearance, of episodes of binge eating.

The big difference with bulimia, which I personally suffered from, is that the binge eater after eating this way does not look for a “solution” to eliminate that food from the body. Therefore he does not remedy or use laxatives.

As I said before, anyone with an Eating Disorder that leads to overweight cannot think about dieting or losing weight by other methods unless they are cured of the disorder often.

In fact, the problem is that if the disorder is not resolved first, any attempt to lose weight is doomed to fail . Simply because upstream the problem is that of feeling out of control in regards to food.

BINGE EATING, BLOODY AND “HEALING”

Let us clarify here once and for all what it means to heal , because it is a concept at the limit, which has different interpretations. Technically, we heal from a disorder when we no longer have those behaviors that characterize it.

I consider myself cured of bulimia simply because I can’t, and now it’s been twenty years, to binge.
I don’t use any particular technique to avoid it. It just doesn’t come to me.

And I say this after other treatments, pharmacological or psychotherapeutic, at least in my case, have not been effective. Then, in twenty years, public centers have made great strides, which is why I invite those suffering from a disorder to contact the competent centers.

Can we say that although I consider myself cured of bulimia, I have no compensatory or controlling attitude? Not exactly. If I happen to eat more, the next day I eat less because I choose it. If I don’t want to diet the next day, no problem: I will reduce the calories a little at a time in the following days or when I feel like it.
But the substance does not change. If anything, the approach changes.
I feel in control of myself not because I require myself to be checked twenty-four hours a day, but because it comes naturally to me not to think according to the point of view of all or nothing.

For example Christmas. If I eat too much for two days in a row I never think, and I say never, that I have lost control over myself and with food. I have tremendous confidence in my body and my abilities. I am not afraid of Christmas and I do not think about how much I will eat.

I know very well that somehow I’ll eat less later.
I no longer have the fear of thinking: what if this doesn’t happen?
In that extreme case I would say to myself: ok, if it doesn’t happen, I trust you, you know how to do it, in any way you know how to get out. But that extreme case, that alarm bell that triggers panic, I no longer have. It is all very natural.
After all, I’m the first to ask for dessert if I want it.
But it’s also true that I have a different approach to food. I look at the food, I taste it. I never eat something I like in a hurry. I like to enjoy the moment. I’ve always enjoyed doing this since I was a child.

It was simply something that the disease had made me forget, and that I was able to reacquire.
By default this means that a slice of cake is enough.
I love cannoli. But I would never be able to eat two in a row. Because I don’t like the second. I’m not holding back!

Some disagree with what I am writing, that it can be healed.
Including as far as I understand Mauro himself.

But in my opinion you simply have different visions.
When you are still inside the problem, when you have to learn to manage it, you cannot consider yourself cured. When it is managed, however, over the years, with time, with patience, that management becomes healing, and little by little that management becomes less and less psychologically preponderant and it is like acquiring a new ability.

Many people when I eat with them limit themselves and look at me as if to say: why don’t you do it and yet you are thin?
Because I eat as long as I enjoy it, and I generally know that I enjoy it up to a point. If I ate me to say half cannoli I would be dissatisfied. I would always think of the other half. This yes then is dangerous. With your head you are still behind that half cannolo. When one can simply enjoy the moment and then, past that experience, move on.

In fact, a kind of very dangerous power relationship occurs between the person suffering from the disorder and food.

Only by “neutralizing” this relationship, that is, by making the person consider food as something neutral, can one then heal and thus regain one’s weight and health.

And this happens when there are days when you would eat lasagna and days when lasagna if you see it in front of you you don’t notice.

At that point, despite having compensatory attitudes that are now internalized, food stops having a power.

Let’s see now (finally) how Platinette managed to lose weight.

SLIMMING PLATINETTE: MAURO CORUZZI’S DIET

As you may have guessed from the premise, Platinette also went through various attempts to lose weight without much success.

He tried both a low-calorie diet and an intragastric balloon, but the pounds returned precisely because of his ailment.

In a very touching video he talked about his story on the Italia Sì show , on which he collaborated last season: in the video he mentions a very restrictive diet, which he speaks of as a “showdown”.

A test that allowed him to first lose about 30 kilos in 6 months, passing from a liquid to a semi-liquid diet and finally normal but moderate thanks to the help of a public center and Dr. Dall’Aglio who followed him. This was the state of things as declared to the weekly DiPiù, but in a video that appeared on his Instagram profile of him in June we see him further slimmed down.

A lot of criticism has rained down following the new photos. So to clarify Mauro Coruzzi made a very nice Instagram direct in which he talks about his path.

A weight loss of over 50 kilos that took place thanks to physical activity (treadmill in his case), portion reduction, moderation. At the moment, the di lui is an approach that includes techniques now defined as mindful eating and portion control.

We wish all the best to the “Platinette slimming” for his journey, and we hope that he still works so well on himself.

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