WEIGHT LOSS BENEFITS

Weight Loss Benefit

Local 1014 continues to be committed to providing one of the most extensive weight loss benefit available. Due to changes in criteria, we now require a review of physician documentation by our 1014 Patient Care Coordinator to ensure weight loss criteria is met. This added step will ensure that our members receive the most appropriate treatment and that they are advancing their weight loss goal in the healthiest safest manner possible.

Understanding and Overcoming Emotional Barriers to Weight Loss

How many of us struggle with weight loss, frustrated when we achieve less than our desired results? Assuming you have ruled out possible medical causes contributing to difficulty with weight loss, some of the most powerful forces that can inhibit weight loss are the barriers that exist in our heads.

That being said, many of the emotional barriers to weight loss are not initially obvious, so it is important to identify common emotional barriers and be honest with yourself about how they might be affecting you. Once you better understand any psychological factors that may be holding you back, you may be better able to tackle them. Several common emotional barriers are described below.

How We Think About Weight Loss

If we think we’re going to fail, we are more likely to fail. Less-than-successful weight loss attempts in the past can contribute to self-defeating thoughts and/or the belief that we lack willpower. This may create the (false) belief that our destiny is to be stuck where we are now.

If you don’t believe you can lose the weight you want to lose, it will be extremely hard to do so. Skepticism and self-doubt can easily stand in the way of making lasting, positive lifestyle change.

All-or-nothing thinking

Many people attempting to lose weight focus solely on results, look for immediate progress, and tend to view any setbacks as failures (disproportionate to how others may view the setback in question). Sometimes setbacks experienced may lead people to abandon the healthy changes they are trying to implement. The pattern of thinking often becomes, “If I can’t do this exactly the way I want to do it, what’s the point of doing it at all?”