Through this comprehensive six-week course, participants will:
- Learn how to eat, not how to diet
- Discover how to change your attitudes
- Learn to free yourself from the diet cycle
- Manage your eating and exercise behaviors
- Discover how to stop "sneak" eating
- Identify triggers that lead to excessive eating
- Put body size in proper perspective
- Stop putting your life on hold until you lose weight
- Develop respect for your body
Goals for the program include:
- Learn why diets don't work:
- Dispel the myths
- Learn how diets damage
- Understand all the factors that determine how much you weigh
- Transform your diet-binge failure cycle into a positive, personal growth cycle.
- Explore your own internal regulators for hunger and satiety.
- Identify emotional, social and behavioral cues for negative eating and thinking.
- Establish normal, healthy eating based on your internal regulators.
- Establish low-risk, realistic lifestyle and weight management goals.
- Promote health rather than weight loss.
- Encourage other personal changes that support improved self-esteem and body image.
- Diminish shame and embarrassment related to body image. Disrupt preoccupation with weight and body size.
- Learn that you do not need to be thin to be a person worthy of love, respect and self-confidence.
- Increase self-esteem and general feelings of health and wellness.
- Discover a new approach to healthy eating - one that works for you for a lifetime.
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