Relation between characters traces and the function of overweight: the importance and power of this relation in the weight loss process

Obesity, a growing threat to health systems worldwide, is associated with biological cultural, socioeconomic, and psychological factors, as too to the understanding of the individual's body structure. This structure can be evaluated using the body analysis technique, which allows the individual to know his behavioral and emotional patterns by knowing the percentage of character traces (schizoid, oral, psychopathic, masochist and rigid), helping to identify the functions of excess weight. This research was made to demonstrate how the knowledge of character traces can help in the weight loss process. This is a retrospective, exploratory study, with a qualitative approach. We gathered the data by searching the open comments posted by followers on the social medias of The Body Explains ®. Those that mentioned the relation of character traces and the weight loss process went for a content analysis, which valued the significance in the data and their correlation with the issues investigated. Of the 55 individuals who participated on the sample of this study, 45% mentioned that their character traits “were in pain”. After learning it and getting control of the role weight has in their life, 40% reported having lost an average of 20 pounds.