Are there prayers for losing weight?

The attitude to food over the last hundred years has changed. In Europe, people no longer starve, on the contrary, the problem has become a constant overeating. This is understandable, because the products are available, and the culture of entertainment is at a very low level for many. The traditions of nutrition that existed among the religious Russian people are now completely destroyed and replaced by a cult of food. Everyone knows that food should be balanced, correct and environmentally friendly. And the fact that one does not always have to eat until full saturation, many even do not suspect.

That's why overweight is a scourge of many Russians and Europeans. Fighting him is not just a job for the sake of a good figure. Obesity makes more likely diseases such as diabetes, arthrosis, cholecystitis. It is difficult for a person to walk and actively move. For the struggle, diet and special nutrition schemes are used. But for many, this is work and deprivation of pleasure, and they turn to the church for help to find prayers for losing weight. Of course, it's good when a person resorts to God with any of his problems, but in this case the church can not help. There are no such prayers. But Orthodoxy can help to look at the problem much broader. After all, obesity often overtakes those who misjudge food, displays gluttony. That is, prayers for losing weight are prayers against this sin.

If a person comes to the temple with the desire to get rid of gluttony, the Orthodox Church can offer him help. This is one of the deadly sins, so prayers for weight loss in the form of prayer against gluttony are very common.

In the Orthodox tradition there are four posts: Great, Christmas, Petrov and Uspensky. Food restrictions during these periods are very significant. Believers ask God to help them overcome their addictions and desires, their passions. For example, the prayer of Ephraim the Syrian is practically a prayer for slimming Orthodox, and it is pronounced repeatedly every day of fasting. According to the charter, during a short prayer, 4 prostrations are performed (kneeling, bowing to the floor) and 12 waistcloths, which are supposed to touch the floor with only an outstretched hand.

Of course, believers do not perceive the prayer work of Lent as a prayer for losing weight. But if you approach them physiologically and psychologically, they are exactly that.

Many psychologists have investigated the problem of excess weight, the increased importance of food in the system of values of modern Europeans. And the desire to lose weight in itself takes a special place. We must completely stop thinking about nutrition: calorie, taste, virtues and lacks of dishes. If the interest in food is replaced by some more significant interest, for example spiritual values, religious life, then the person himself will not notice how he will lose weight.

Many people use what they call a "prayer for weight loss." Feedback on the results depends on the general mood of the person. If he is ready to radically revise his value system, usually the weight gradually goes away and does not return any more. And if the food and personal pleasures are still on the first place, the struggle for harmony can last a lifetime, but it will not be won.