Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating by Karen R. Koenig & paige o’mahoney

Author:Karen R. Koenig & paige o’mahoney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Brain food for patients: Which of the above life skills are you missing or do you perform barely adequately? Do you have a better understanding now of how lacking effective life skills has made it difficult for you to take better consistent care of yourself? What steps can you take to improve them?

Providers, try . . .

1.Changing your conversation with patients from a weight to a health focus.

2.Getting a sense of what patients believe about food, eating, weight, and their appearance.

3.Gently pointing out how having healthier (i.e., rational) beliefs will help them eat more healthfully and take more consistent care of their bodies.

4.Fostering the healthy or realistic beliefs of your patients (which may well mean understanding and changing your own belief system on eating, fitness, and weight).

5.Eschewing use of “good” and “bad” when talking about food and replacing these words with “more and less nutritious,” taking the focus off morality and putting it where it belongs, on health.

6.Gently encouraging patients to speak kindly and compassionately about their bodies no matter what their size.

7.Helping patients focus on improving the life skills they lack.

8.Helping patients identify mixed feelings about consistently eating better, getting fit, and improving health care habits.

9.Identifying eating disorder therapists in your community who understand internal conflicts that your patients may have about food and the scale and referring your patients to them.

Patients, try . . .

1.Listing your beliefs about eating, food, weight, and appearance and determining which are rational and irrational. Use The Rules of “Normal” Eating to reframe beliefs from irrational to rational.

2.Feeling proud that you’re trying to change beliefs rather than feeling ashamed of what you’ve believed.

3.Exploring and reframing your unhealthy beliefs, improving your life skills, and resolving your mixed feelings about food and your body with a psychotherapist or coach.

4.Digging deeply within yourself and identifying what your mixed feelings are about food, weight, eating, and appearance, and reading Starting Monday to resolve them.

5.Instead of feeling ashamed that you have mixed feelings, life skill deficits, or unhealthy beliefs, feeling proud that you’re trying hard to improve in these areas.

6.Letting your doctor or health care provider know that you’re aware of conflicting feelings around food and weight and that you’re working to resolve them.

7.Using the self-assessment in Outsmarting Overeating by Karen R. Koenig to identify which life skills would help you have a better relationship with food and your body.

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