Emotional Eating & Psychology-Based Weight Management in Saudi Arabia
If you are tired of losing weight, regaining it, and feeling that the answer is simply to start another restrictive diet, there is another way to approach the problem. CBT-OB with Aseel Aborashid, licensed psychotherapist. Online across the Kingdom, in Arabic and English.
CBT-OB — Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity — focuses on the psychological and behavioral processes involved in losing weight and, importantly, maintaining healthy changes over time. Together, we work on the thoughts, habits, situations and setbacks that can make long-term weight management difficult, so that you can develop a more sustainable way of eating, moving and thinking about weight.
WHAT IS CBT-OB?
CBT-OB stands for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Obesity — a structured psychological approach developed specifically for weight management, not adapted from something else.
It works on two levels at once. The behavioural level covers eating patterns, routines, self-monitoring, your food environment, and realistic goal-setting. The cognitive level covers the thinking that decides what you do next: all-or-nothing rules, unrealistic targets, what a "bad day" means, and how you interpret a setback.
I eat when I'm stressed, bored, or upset.
Sometimes eating that has little to do with hunger and a lot to do with what you're feeling. It often arrives after a hard day, late at night, or alone. Willpower isn't the missing piece; understanding the pattern is.
I lose the weight, then it comes back.
You can do the losing part. You've proved that. Maintaining it is a different psychological skill entirely, and almost nobody is ever taught it. Weight regain shows up as predictable and treatable pattern.
I came off the injection and regained it.
The medication changed your appetite. It didn't change your habits. When it stops, the old patterns are still there waiting — unless something else changed in the meantime.