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A person does not fatten a day to the next. The process to gain weight for many years during the bad habits that could not obese, did not seek or did not want to reverse their situation. The more weight is gained, the harder it is to take the decision and return to the starting point, because our body is adjusting to this harrowing situation and added physical and psychological problems that lead us to continue to suffer.

When a person feels he can no longer continue in this situation because your body does not respond as it wants, because he feels shame or for other reasons is that it decides to seek a solution but what he does not know is that your mind can play some traps to make desist.

After initial enthusiasm, it appears that the first common excuses and fears about what will come. The patient does not know how to live to be thin, obesity has served as an excuse to hide and feel out of society, as thin as it is presented means risking being criticized by his real self and not just by their physical appearance.

Given these fears are normal for the patient to use excuses to “cheat” on the plan to weight loss and attempt to sabotage their own success. The desire to leave the treatment is often advanced by ideas and attitudes that reveal: the obese patient can lie about what you eat, find an excuse for failure in treatment, lying to family members and friends about what can or not eating, etc..

If these attitudes are not controlled in time the patient may stop treatment. If you were next to performing a bariatric surgery may even postpone or cancel the operation completely.

Summary: Addressing these situations is normal in any treatment for weight loss and should not be blamed in case you repent, but you must remember why you decided to weight loss. When you are unsure ask for help from their families and talk with your doctor. A wrong decision will put at risk their health and it is better not to waste time.