METHOD OF EXCESSIVE WEIGHT REDUCTION Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention concerns medicine and psychology, particularly methods of psychic personality correction aimed at weight optimisation, and can be applied in obesity treatment, excessive weight prevention and health nutrition and eating habit self-control skill training. At the first stage rational, imperative/suggestive and emotional stress group psychotherapy is performed where weight losing motivation is enhanced, attention is focused on procedures of stomach volume reduction, skills of autosuggestion and self-control are taught, and the group is convinced by rational psychotherapy methods to comply in obligatory manner for 2-5 months with eating regimen involving the following rules: total food volume per day should comprise 1200 to 1400 ml and exclude animal fats of solid or viscous texture at room temperature, bakery and refined sugar. Once a week drinking regimen is implemented, consisting of juices, teas and herbal decoctions of fat-burning effect, selected individually with account of concomitant diseases present and distributed over the day span according to the following schedule: 250 ml - 250 ml - 250 ml - 250 ml - 250 ml - 250 ml. Further emotional stress psychotherapy is performed by direct and mediated suggestive exposure accompanied by pinpoint pressure irritation of sensitive zones in stomach projection area, eyeballs and trigeminal nerve outlet points; suggestive exposure is performed along with respiratory exercises involving deep abdominal inhalation and forced exhalation. At the second stage obesity affected person complies with drinking regimen for 3-6 days, then maintains eating and drinking regimens for 2-5 months, and autosuggestion sessions with larvated psychotherapy elements are performed daily to block pathological hunger, along with respiratory exercises involving deep abdominal inhalation and forced exhalation.

EFFECT: rearrangement of system of values of obesity-affected patient so as to subdue delicious food motivation by more significant attitudes, such as health, longevity, career, private life, art.

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