Women who want to lose weight need to pay attention to emotional management to avoid weight rebound due to emotional fluctuations.

Emotional Balance: Women with Poor Emotions Are More Prone to Weight Gain

I have a colleague who was busy with her professional title evaluation recently. We all witnessed her worries, anxieties, and struggles. Unexpectedly, instead of the evaluation results, she gained weight. One lunchtime, she poured out her woes to me. At first, I thought she was going to complain about the evaluation, but it turned out she was talking about weight loss.

It turns out she had tried to lose weight two years ago, spending a whole year finally reaching her target weight. For the following year, she maintained it well without any significant rebound. Unexpectedly, these past few months of being busy with this task didn't make her lose weight; instead, she gained weight. It's truly ironic.

Her situation is actually quite common. Generally, the body burns more calories and nutrients during stressful work, which should make one appear thinner. However, if this matter greatly affects a person's emotions, the result may be the opposite of weight loss—leading to obesity.

From a Western medical perspective, when a person experiences negative emotions (currently known as negative energy), the body secretes various hormones, commonly referred to as endocrine disorders. Sometimes, these hormones suppress appetite, leading to loss of appetite when experiencing negative emotions. However, other times, the secreted hormones increase appetite or decrease metabolism, resulting in some people overeating and gaining weight rapidly when experiencing negative emotions.

Generally speaking, the impact of emotions on weight loss occurs primarily in two periods: during the weight loss process and after weight loss.

Emotional problems during the weight loss process are mainly caused by dieting. Some women diet excessively, experiencing severe hunger, which can lead to feelings of depression and emptiness, making them prone to irritability. Women experiencing these emotions are often the most emotionally sensitive. Sometimes, a sudden shock can cause a mental breakdown, leading to binge eating to compensate, undoing all the previous weight loss efforts.

Emotional issues after weight loss occur because the body's memory of its previous obese physique is reactivated by emotional fluctuations, leading to a relapse into obesity. Like my colleague, who was previously obese and whose body retained some memory of her former shape, she successfully suppressed her obesity after a period of weight loss. However, a period of emotional fluctuation caused her body to "recall" this past memory, stimulating fat storage and making her prone to weight gain.

Women are emotional beings, so emotional well-being is a crucial factor to consider in weight loss. Therefore, weight loss should not neglect the well-being of the mind; to lose weight, one must first lose weight emotionally. Women need to care for their mental well-being at all times.