“How To Eat” Method helps resolve food and weight issues
Dieting is NOT the answer.
The “How to Eat” method helps resolve food and weight issues.
EATING IS OKAY
Eating well is one of life’s great pleasures. However, for many people, the enjoyment is ruined by feelings of conflict, anxiety and guilt about eating. They are distressed about their eating and locked in a struggle to change their bodies. They feel pressure to lose weight, but are burned out with dieting. As a “dieting casualty,” they are out of touch with their body’s natural regulatory signals of hunger and fullness.
HOW TO EAT
Is a short-term (8-12 week) program for men & women for whom eating and weight is a major issue in life. It can be completed with individual sessions or small groups. How to Eat is the only program of its kind in Central New York to address the issue of chronic dieting. Unlike other programs promoting healthy weight, How to Eat actually helps participants develop the eating skills they need to break the cycle of dieting and weight gain. Before beginning, you will have thorough evaluation of your eating issues and weight history to help you decide whether the program is for you. Although weight is monitored, weight loss is not the primary focus of the program. “How to Eat” is for people who experience struggles with their eating, such as:
1. Compulsive eating; binge eating
2. Self starvation to maintain body weight
3. Preoccupation and anxiety about eating and body weight
4. Chronic weight gain or loss
5. Repeated failed reducing attempts
6. Drastic and potentially harmful reducing attempts
7. Family struggles about eating and weight
HOW TO EAT
This method teaches normal eating to the person who is caught in the cycle of dieting and repeated weight gain. For individuals with eating disorders, it should be used in conjunction with psychotherapy to treat distorted eating. The program uses focused eating exercises and relaxation to develop internally directed eating skills.
BENEFITS
1. Learn to eat in a positive and structured manner
2. Learn to detect and trust hunger, appetite and satiety
3. Decrease tension and anxiety about eating and weight
4. Develop a consistent and comfortable exercise pattern
5. Evaluate body weight response to eating and exercise changes
6. Learn to eat from your internal cues rather than from external rules
7. Reclaim a sense of wonder and joy over food and eating
8. Move away from body shame towards acceptance
EATING SPECIALIST
Michelle P. Gallant is a certified graduate of Ellyn Satter’s Treating the Dieting Casualty intensive training in Madison, Wisconsin. She specializes in the How to Eat method of eating management.
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