How My Undiagnosed Anxiety Kept Me OVERWEIGHT and How I fixed it! (With psychology)
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In this video, I share how my undiagnosed anxiety disorder prevented me from getting fit and how I overcame it. If you struggle with anxiety and fitness, this video is for you!
*Disclaimer I am not a personal trainer or a dietietian. All of this is based on my own research, experience and opinion. Proceed at your own risk. This is not intended as personal advice. I am a licensed therapist in my state but no mental health advice is meant to be taken as personal advice.
My name is Alexandria. I am a 35 year old toddler mom, therapist, and gym rat. I want to help YOU meet your weight loss and health goals by sharing my experience with you. My goal is to help women to be the absolute best and healthiest versions of themselves by using my personal weight loss experience as well as my therapy background to help teach you how to train your brain for weight loss.
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00:00 My anxiety and fitness story
06:04 What Helped my anxiety with exercise
07:29 Exposure Response Prevention and Anxiety
10:18 The Role of the Brain in anxiety
6 Comments
Thank you guys so much for watching! I hope you find this video helpful! Please let me hear your thoughts!
My anxiety makes me tired and breathless everyone day can you suggeste me some tips
Anxiety has definitely reinforced negative patterns in my health journey, too. I’m slowly seeing progress after I started therapy 🌱
For years I thought it was my depression that affected me the most but I realized my aniexty fuels my depression. Thank you so much for sharing this❤
How do you deal with the anxiety of not exercising (ie while being sick or on vacation?). That's what I'm struggling with.
How do you deal with overtraining anxiety and or burnout? Trying to fit in steps, strength training and cardio plus all the whammies life is throwing at me ( hello perimenopause ) It’s so hard to find the right balance. I feel like all I want to do is sleep and hide from the world.