E Abramson, PhD – Overcoming Emotional Eating: Practical Methods to Gain Control

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Discover the “secrets” that make it difficult for your clients to resist tempting foods. Learn strategies for overcoming emotional eating, so that your clients will be able to break free from self-defeating patterns.

Putting a stop to emotional eating will help your clients fnally lose weight for good and end the cycle of dieting and unnecessary eating which is followed by guilt and self recrimination.

OBJECTIVES

• Distinguish between emotional eating and eating for other reasons
• Identify the role of emotional eating in dieting failure, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa
• List six possible causes of emotional eating
• Describe methods for assessing patterns of emotional eating
• Implement strategies to help clients control eating
• Teach parents how to prevent or control emotional eating in their children
• Describe the role of emotional eating treatment in eating disorder therapies

What You’ll Learn In Overcoming Emotional Eating:

Eating in the Absence of Hunger

• The 3 types of eating: Emotional eating, hungry eating, and external eating
• Time out from life: Mindless numbing with food
• Is emotional eating an addiction?
• Male vs. female emotional eating
• Alixathymic eating
• Mood-driven food choices

Emotional Eating

• Biology of eating
• Cortisol
• Carbs and serotonin
• Sleep
• Dopamine and Eating Binges
• Childhood antecedents of emotional eating and eating disorders
• Sexual abuse
• Relationship problems triggering emotional eating
• Celebrating and grieving with food: cultural elements of emotional eating
• Dieting relapse and emotional eating
• Eating out and the release from restraint

Assessing Emotional Eating

• 5 critical questions of the client
• Defining the emotions that can trigger eating
• Monitoring eating patterns
• Emotions in bingeing vs. snacking vs. grazing

Emotional Eating in Obesity, Anorexia, and Bulimia

• The effects of “normal” emotional eating
• Obesity
• Binge eating disorder
• Bulimia nervosa
• Anorexia nervosa

Treatment Methods

• Medication for bingeing
• Bariatric surgery and emotional eating
• Focusing on feelings instead of food
• Changing the thinking behind the feeling
• Self-nurturing without food
• Mindful Eating
• Getting physical
• Treating emotional eating in eating disorder therapies
• Planning for the inevitable slips
• Preventing and treating emotional eating in childhood

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