Case Study: Mrs. Willow

Subject 1: Mrs. Willow, 34 years old.

Mrs. Willow is a fulltime graphic designer and a mother of one. According to her story, in the past she attempted to make dietary changes. She managed her food and exercise and succeeded to lose weight. However, it wasn’t long until she gain her weight back and stop dieting. She claims that her environment at home did contributing the changes in her dietary regime. Her spouse always supportive in her decision to lose weight, however, did not willing to do the diet and exercise with her. He believed that his hard labor at work and being a man, he does not need exercise anymore nor dieting. When I asked her, would it be a different if her spouse also making dietary changes with her? Would her attempt be more
Castro is a full time worker in a hospital. She attempted to make dietary changes in the past. She tried juicing, exercising, and limiting carb and sweets. She was succeeded for two weeks, but then fell of the wagon right away. She claims that it was hard to follow through because her significant others was not fully supportive on the whole process of losing weight. He was fine with her decision but did not want to contribute some actions such as limiting some bad foods at home. He would made her heavy dinner, or buying a lot of high calorie snacks. Even though he claimed that all of those foods were meant for him, she could not help to also eat them.
At work, Mrs. Castro is provided with free lunch every day. Sometime she said it is hard to control what you eat when you can have pretty much everything. “My eyes are bigger than my stomach”, that is what she said when she put too much food on her plate. In addition, there is always pot lucks, birthday and work party which also contributing her intake in high calorie food. When asked if she did not work in the environment where provided so many food, would it be any different? She said no because she loves food so much that she would always find the access to