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for people who have had
(or are considering)

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?


Often this critical piece is overlooked! If emotional eating is one of the factors that contributed to your decision to have Weight Loss Surgery, then it's important that it be considered and addressed. Your Weight Loss Surgery doctor may offer a nutrition and a weight loss surgery support group, but what if you need more?

Could you benefit from an opportunity to explore the following?

  • Your use of food to manage feelings (boredom, loneliness, stress, anxiety, anger, even excitement...)

  • After surgery, if you can no longer turn to food, how will you tolerate intense feelings?

  • Body Image-What will it be like as your body changes? Will you be treated differently by others? What if you're finding that you're not treated as differently as you hoped?

  • How do you begin to develop new self-care and mood regulation skills?

Neither Gastric Bypass, nor Roux en Y Surgery, nor Lap-Band Surgery alone will fix an emotional eating problem, or one's need to disconnect from feelings. If emotional eating continues, post weight loss surgery, it is bound to increase an already high complication risk. (Death rate is 1 in 200. Serious complication rate is 1 in 100.) Post weight loss surgery, if a person has not developed any alternatives to emotional eating, he or she is also likely to find ways to go back to emotional eating...which is likely to have impact on his or her health, weight loss and weight regain.

Would You Benefit From Developing New Skills
and Tools to Combat Emotional Eating?

"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 considering weight loss surgery have not had adequate opportunity and support to work on the emotional eating habits/issues that drive their emotional overeating.

Not everyone who seeks out weight loss surgery is an emotional eater. But, if someone morbidly obese as a consequence of factors that include eating, we believe eating must be addressed...either alternative to surgery...or before...or after surgery. part the sense desperation makes seek comes from it sometimes does, then illusion think that, over long haul, alone will eliminate source distress. There effort some additional work around developing healthier coping strategies. Whatever choice person makes, ultimately, he/she develop alternatives overeating, wants live emotionally, physically, 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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