Weight - Reduction Therapy Without Diets and Sports

Two Croatian doctors treat patients suffering from obesity with a therapy that involves many disciplines. To succeed is more important to the spiritual balance and patience than sports and fasting radically.

A person who struggles to reduce his weight well knows how difficult it is to lose his extra weight: Sports is exhausting, and diets often have short - term success. As soon as you're down a few pounds of food, they come back in a while. Overweight - obesity - affects the quality of life and shortens the life span of the affected.

Doctors from Osijek, Mario Curkoviq and Drazen Gorjanski are talking about the success they have had in helping those 130 overweight people to drop their weight.

These two doctors do not use any therapy or diet but treat patients with different ways because Curkoviq and Gorjanski believe that obesity is a complex but curable disease. The method doctors use is called “POST”, the ossies program for weight reduction, (Program Ojeckog Smanjivanja Tezine). They have not expected the very success of behavioral therapy.

Body communication complex ways

Human psychology is hard to understand, Goranjski points out. And since it is complex, many factors also play a role in obesity. Hence, obesity should be treated as a disease involving many disciplines.

“Like many other diseases, obesity has many causes, treatments, and cures”, says the doctor. There is a constant weight storage system in our body, homeostatic system. It relies on communication between the digestive system and brain centers responsible for hunger, saturation and taste. ”

Most people eat normally when they are hungry. And they eat what they like, not gaining weight. “Anyway, with today's lifestyle, a large food supply is offered and is eaten more frequently by causing damage to communication between the digestive system and the brain,” says Gorjanski.

Consuming this communication back into balance is the goal of PET therapy. “Through training of autogens, meditation, recovery of the treatment system and fasting on occasion, we actually update both the digestive system and the homeostatic system and communication between them,” says the doctor. The key key key key key key step is for normal functions to be restored to our bodies. ”

Away From Myths of Obesity

During the development of therapy, two doctors have had to deal with multiple myths on obesity, for example, that weight can be reduced by diet combined with movement, according to the motto “eat less than move more”. Sports and movements are healthy and good, yet none of the patients spend much on therapy. Doctors do not make patients count calories or keep diets strong.

In their therapy the goal is more to make the habit of hunger worse. Therapy reverses hunger - related harassment until the brain is driven by it only when it really needs food - when it is hungry.

“If the adjustment works, then the weight decrease occurs. So success is achieved: “if calories are reduced, then results are achieved in weight reduction. ”

Learning to Listen to the Body

The program contains courses that are held once a week for six months. Patients lose between 15 and 20 pounds [15 and 20 kg] during this period. One has even managed to lower 40 kilos.

Doctors point out that the amount of pounds put down by someone is not an indication of the effectiveness of their method. The important thing is simply to balance communication between the stomach and the brain.

130 patients who have used therapy POST, agree with the doctor's confidence in the scientific values of their method. Both doctors are currently working on a scientific study.

Comparisons to Other Programmes on Behavioral Treatment

In the U.S. has been created during Corona's pandemic, a similar therapy programme called the Behavior Fashion Program (TBMP). This programme has had even better results than POST, Croatian doctors say. However, this programme has ruled out patients who have not had apparent weight loss in the first six weeks of the test phase. This is as if a way to operate only the cases where you know it will succeed,” says Curkovic. “ ”

Gorjanski says TBMP is estimated to be the world's most successful weight reduction programme, but participants do not reflect the real average population. While the region participants are a set of “legally democratic”. Anyone who reaches adulthood and lowers his weight has been welcomed “regardless of age, gender, or physical condition. ”

Target group not only the obez

Actually, the POST parts are a heterogen group. There are people with extreme obesity, excessive overweight, or diabetes who have to care for food. Thus, both doctors have developed a wide array of tools that can be used by patients. Participants share in what they personally need. Some people don't like autogen training, some like it. They don't need to use anything because they can choose what is appropriate for them,” says Curkovic. The important “is that there are no limits to food. ”

They can eat Cullen, a type of sausage, which is special from the Slavonia region or dried ham, says the doctor. But: “We cannot tell people from Slavonia not to eat Kulen!”, says Curkovic.

Food as a Habit 

The two doctors' huge urine is compared to drug addiction: “exhumation can become vice”, says Gorjanski. “But it's complicated: Our patients learn what vice is and how to break free from it. So far, it has not been seen forming an addiction to the cabbage, but sugar addiction is a serious problem. A person who is perfectly healthy and begins to consume large amounts of sugar can develop a habit like a person who begins to consume alcohol. ”

The scientific research arm Curkovic and Gorjanski are also working on a book. We've witnessed, that works. It wouldn't be nice not to share this knowledge, to help other people,” says Curkovic.

But why are behavioral therapies not yet common to combat obesity? Nobody gets money this way of lowering the weight. Because it does not contain medications that need to be taken constantly or special money. No one wins money with people who took the fat,” says the doctor.