Acupuncture and Weight LossAcupuncture and weight.What about it? How does it help? You may ask. Well, the overeating, yoyo dieting cycles that many of us have is due to emotional eating patterns, stressful daily lives, and our lifestyles in general. As I have discussed in this site, people will go to extreme lengths in order to lose weight doing things such as these crazy fad diets, or just downright starvation altogether. Fad diets work for the short term, but not the long one. Eventually the body will give up when it is feeling deprived, and health problems will ensue. This is kind of where the old Chinese practice of acupuncture and weight loss can come in. What does acupuncture do? Well, for one thing, it addresses digestive issues, is calming and de-stressing to the body, and helps to control the cravings. Now this traditional chinese practice will not magically work by itself in the loss of your weight. You need a sensible diet plan like Weight Watchers to go along with this practice. It has been known by many researchers studying this Chinese practice, that acupuncture benefits you from cravings, speeds up metabolism, and helps to reduce your appetite.
How often you see the acupuncturist for weight loss depends on how quickly or slowly you would like to lose weight, or how much you need to control your cravings. Once you achieve your ideal weight, a treatment twice a month or so may still help you to control your cravings for certain high calorie foods. The Chinese practice and the word "Qi" which is pronounced as "chi," is a type of energy which is capable of helping to control your mind as well as your body in general. These acupuncture points are areas where Qi may be used to help the body and its daily functions along with major organs. So to sum it up, acupuncture and weight control may help you along the way if your eating habits too difficult for you for you to control and you need additional help with your cravings that control you.
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