Weight Loss Surgery

Weight Loss Surgery
alters how much food a person can eat.
But, Weight Loss Surgery does not address the
underlying emotional issues that
drive emotional eating.

Are You An Emotional Eater?

"Mood, Food, and
Weight Loss Surgery"
An 8-Week Emotional Skills Group

Pre and Post-Weight Loss Surgery,
or as an Alternative to Weight Loss Surgery,
We Offer this *8-Week Class
and Individual Coaching:

Offered In-Person and By Telephone

• Learn about the fundamental connection between
  mood regulation and your use of food
  

• Identify the moods and events that trigger your
  desire to eat
  

• Explore your past, present, and future relationship
  with food
  Learn new skills for mood regulation
  Discuss your expectations as your body changes
       Will people treat you differently?
       What if your body doesn't change as much as
       you hoped? Develop new "Self-Care" skills
  

• Start living an emotionally and physically healthier
  lifestyle
  

(Note...This is an educational/skills group.
It is not a therapy group.)

Next Emotional Skills Telephone Group:

We start a new group everytime we have six people signed up

Participation in this class requires a long distance phone call. This call will show up on your next phone bill, billed at your usual long distance phone rate. (So, if your long distance rate is 5 cents a minute, the call will cost you 5 cents X 60 minutes = a $3.00 charge on your phone bill.)

Facilitator: Ellen Shuman, Director/Life Coach

Fee: $320.00 (1 hour a week format)

Next In-Person Emotional Skills Group:
(In Cincinnati)

We start a new group every time we have six people signed on

Location:
Hyde Park Wellness Center, 3444 Aultwoods Lane, Cincinnati

Facilitator: Ellen Shuman, Director/Life Coach

Fee: $400.00 (1 1/2 hour a week format)

Also Available:

Individual Coaching Services*
Conducted by telephone. Appropriateness for Coaching Services determined through a telephone assessment

Individual Psychotherapy Services
For Emotional Eating, Binge Eating Disorder and Depression (available in-person in Cincinnati only)

*We reserve the right to refer a person for psychotherapy services if we determine that our Coaching Services, which are educational not therapeutic, cannot adequately address's level of need.*

A Weigh Out staff members are all
degreed professionals.

A Weigh Out's Position on Weight Loss Surgery

We fully understand and appreciate the desperate feelings that lead people to consider weight loss surgery. Typically, when people consider having surgery, they feel they have tried every diet known to man (and woman), and they feel like they have failed at everything. They feel they have already explored all possible alternatives to weight loss surgery. But all too often, in our experience, people who are emotional eaters and are considering weight loss surgery have not had adequate support and opportunity to work on the emotional eating habits/issues that drive their emotional overeating.

Not everyone who seeks weight loss surgery is an emotional eater. But if someone is morbidly obese as a consequence of factors that include emotional eating, we believe the emotional eating must be addressed...either as an alternative to surgery...or before or after surgery. If emotional eating is a factor, then it is an illusion to think that, over the long haul, surgery alone will fix emotional issues that drive compulsive eating. Work must be done on the stressors in one's life that lead to overeating and/or to any other compulsive behaviors that a person uses to tolerate uncomfortable feeling or situations. We recommend pre and post surgery work around developing healthier strategies for living an emotionally, physically, nutritionally, and spiritually healthy life.

For more information, to inquire about Individual Coaching,
or to register for a group call (513) 321-4242
or email A WEIGH OUT.


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