Abstract

GROMOWSKI, Alessandra Elisa; CORDEIRO, Silvia Nogueira; NAVES, Nayara Tiemi  and  CARREIRA, Clísia Mara. Meanings assigned to eating by obese women who participated in a program for weight reduction. Rev. SPAGESP [online]. 2016, vol.17, n.1, pp. 110-123. ISSN 1677-2970.

This study aimed to understand the experiences and emotional meanings assigned to eating by obese women who participated in a program for weight reduction with a multi-professional team. A qualitative study was carried out with the help of focus groups as a facilitator for the emergence of different discourses on the topic. Results were encoded into four categories. It was found that these women use food as a way to fill up the "emptiness" they feel for displaying bodies that do not fit into the aesthetic ideal, which makes them suffer. The social and psychological aspects involved in obesity have not been taken into account both in understanding and in the form of treatment usually offered to women who are overweight.

Keywords : obesity; female body; psychoanalysis; multidisciplinary team; focus group.

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