Telephone Seminars About
Emotional Eating
and Binge Eating

At some point in their lives, emotional eaters begin to use food and food thoughts to distract from thoughts, feelings, situations they’d rather not tolerate. Food provides a convenient and effective vehicle for achieving “mindlessness” whenever a person has difficulty tolerating how bored or angry, lonely, stressed, or overwhelmed they feel. We’ve learned that the way out of this painful behavior is not to be found in any diet plan. Relief comes when a person learns new, practical Emotional Regulation and Distress Tolerance Skills…and becomes confident and competent that he or she can better handle the thoughts, feelings, and situations that used to trigger overeating.

Participating in an Emotional Eating Seminar, by telephone, may seem like an unusual way to learn about how to conquer this frustrating problem. Actually, it's a great way to share new research and understanding with people who wish to change old emotional or compulsive eating habits.

"Conquering Emotional Eating" will address:

• How to stop the exhausting cycle,
  "I'm either eating out-of-control or I'm dieting!"

• Where do you fall on the Emotional Eating Continuum?

• Why can't you stop emotional eating, even though you hate the consequences of the behavior?

• Can a person learn to self-soothe and not use food?

• How does a person begin to change?

• What will change look like?

• Practical strategies for overcoming compulsive
  and binge eating

• Where do people find resources for change?

(Free materials will also be emailed after the seminar to all who participate .)

Facilitator:
Ellen Shuman; Founder and Director
A Weigh Out Life Coaching

Note to Health and Fitness Professionals...This informational telephone seminar is designed specifically for people who are struggling with emotional eating. We ask that all Therapists, Coaches, and other professionals in the health and wellness field, intersted in learning more about A Weigh Out's approach, contact Ellen Shuman directly at (513) 321-4242, to discuss your professional interest.

No Class Fee
(To get to the class, you dial a "212" area code-the phone number will be emailed to you upon registration.)

 An 8-Week Telephone Group
(1-hour per week)

A Weigh Out’s
"Overcoming Emotional Eating" Program:
For People Who Want To Understand
and Begin to Change Self-Defeating Eating Patterns

Facilitator
Ellen Shuman, Executive Director, A Weigh Out
A Weigh Out Instructor

Participants Will Have Opportunity To:

• Determine if they are using food to self-soothe and to regulate mood.

• Examine their past, present, and future relationship
  with food

• Explore their current body image and identify if it plays a role in keeping them stuck

• Through awareness and new insight, develop new ways (other than compulsive overeating) to deal with intense feelings and life's stressors

• Explore dieting alternatives

• Design new goals for healthy eating and improved fitness

• Develop new skills and action plans for following through with new goals

Group Description
This program is designed to help participants determine whether they are using food to self-soothe and to regulate mood.

Through awareness and new insight, clients will begin to develop new ways (other than eating) to deal with intense feelings and life's stressors. Clients will begin to learn how to replace self-defeating behaviors with healthier ones. As the need to "use" food decreases...participants learn to make healthier choices around food and exercise.

Class Fee
$450.

Tele-Group Schedule
8-week TeleGroup (1-hour a week)
Mondays, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (Eastern Time)
New Class Starts Every Time We Have 6 People Sign Up

*Note...This Tele-Group is not a therapy group or eating disorder treatment. It's a series of informational classes. A Weigh Out will do a telephone assessment to determine appropriateness. We reserve the right to refer people to more appropriate resources. If you have been diagnosed as having an eating disorder, and are looking for outpatient treatment in the Greater Cincinnati area, see Treatment Options. If you live outside Cincinnati, see Resources.

1. Call our office at (513) 321-4242, weekdays, between 9am and 5pm (ET) for a Free telephone assessment to determine appropriateness for participation and to register for this Tele-Group. You may choose a payment procedure at that time. (We accept checks, Visa and Mastercard.)

2. Our Tele-Group Contract may be printed by clicking on
Tele-Group Contracts. Contract and group fee may be mailed to our Center, A Weigh Out, 3414 Edwards Rd, Cincinnati, OH, 45208

3. Once you have Registered/Paid for the Tele-Group, we will email you the Tele-Bridge phone number and our Telephone Seminar/Tele-Group Instructions. (Client is responsible for long distance phone call.)

4. If you would like more information, or would like to receive announcements of upcoming Telephone Seminar and/or Tele-Groups please register below.

Open to anyone who has completed the
8-Week Overcoming Emotional Emotional Eating Tele-Group,
the Living In Integrity Group, or has participated in
Individual Coaching for a minimum of 3-months.

A Weigh Out's Level II programming provides much needed ongoing Education and Support to people who are learning how to replace old out-of-control eating habits or compulsive overeating with new healthier coping strategies.

Education Component
A Weigh Out Saturday Seminars (see topics below)
First, Saturday of Each Month
9am-10am (EST)

Support Component
Once a Month Discussion Group
2^nd Thursday of Each Month
7:30-8:30pm (EST)

Next Round of Saturday Seminar Topics Include:

• Diet Indoctrination
  Why do we get hooked? Current fads and media hype related to weight loss. Dieting Alternatives

• Riding the Emotional Wave
  Tips for how to avoid, step down and/or manage emotional eating, or compulsive overeating, or a binge eating episode

• Body Image Through A Lifetime
  Explore your feelings about your own Body Image. This is an opportunity to take a look at how you and others have defined you, labeled you, based on your body size and your "perception" of your body size

• What's Your Definition of Wellness
  How to reclaim your sense of emotional, physical and spiritual well-being

Telephone Seminar
Email Announcements
To receive future Telephone Seminar schedules, please click here.  (We respect the privacy of every individual so we do not redistribute email addresses.)