The ABC’s of Weight Control - Part 1
Carolyn Classick-Kohn,MS,RD

At some point in their lives, people who are overweight learned some eating behaviors that caused weight gain. For some, it was in childhood, when they were told to finish their plate (regardless of how full they were), or were punished or rewarded by food. For others, food became a way of dealing with stress, of avoiding or putting off difficult tasks or dealing with difficult people, or a way of comforting themselves in good and bad times.

If you accept that your habits or behaviors have contributed to weight gain, then it makes sense to use an approach that goes beyond just reducing calories to lose weight. To make permanent changes in your body weight, you must change the behaviors that caused the problem in the first place. Behavior modification is Eating Habitsan approach that has been used very successfully to change life habits like smoking, overeating, stress management, and exercise. Over the past 35 years, much has been learned about how to apply behavior modification more successfully and it is now accepted as a very important part of a good weight control program.

The Basics of Changing Behaviors

Eating is a behavior, not a part of your personality. Many of you have identified yourselves as “emotional eaters”.
Instead, think of...

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