Many struggle with losing weight or when they do lose weight, too many times it just comes back. There may be some hidden factors to consider to help people to become more effective in being healthier. Please refer back to my blogs on “Are you having difficulty losing weight”? and “Pouring Water on a stone”.
The following is a response from Owen Dodge, who is an excellent Myofascial Therapist:
“My reflections on this thread steer away from the focus on emotional considerations with respect to compulsive behavior such as overeating, and focus more on John’s title relating to general difficulty losing weight.
I recently heard glowing feedback from a client I treated with Myofascial Release who had for years tried to lose weight with diet and exercise modifications. She’d lose weight to a certain level, but could never get to her modest target weight.
Adding this aside to her history of neck surgery earlier in life and whiplash from a car accident, I wondered if maybe her thyroid function could have been affected by these traumas and associated scarring.
Several weeks after our one MFR treatment focusing on cervical balance, this client called to tell me how delighted she was to have finally dropped more weight without any special effort than she ever did with diet and exercise regimens.
Of course, this outcome leads to more questions than answers. But, at least in the eyes of my client, it also adds another piece of anecdotal evidence to the growing mountain of favorable treatment outcomes seen worldwide from those who put John Barnes’ “unproven” but straight-foward theories to the test”.
Sincerely,
Owen Dodge
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Laura Allen // Jun 28th 2009 at 6:09 am
I hope that works for me! I have struggled for many years w/diets, worked out with personal trainers and gone to the gym and ended up gaining weight (trainer points out muscle weighs more than fat, but that was NOT my desired result). Receiving MFR for the past few weeks and the therapist specifically homed in on my neck and told me I needed a lot more “space” there and that I was very constricted. My husband and I started a diet at the same time a few weeks ago and he lost 18 pounds in the same amount of time that I lost 5, in spite of the fact that he eats a lot more than I do and eats a lot of stuff that I won’t consume, like fatty lunch meats and a quart of mayo every week. My chiropractor also asked me when I had suffered a whiplash. I have no recall of that whatsoever, although I have been in a few minor car accidents, the usual childhood injuries etc. Maybe as the therapist gets my neck straightened out, my thyroid will function better and I will see better results!
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