Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating

This book offers a new paradigm for doctors and health care providers treating patients with eating and weight concerns that replaces a failed, moralistic focus on weight and weight-loss with one of fostering health, well-being, self-efficacy, and effective self-care.

Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is a psychotherapist, eating coach, blogger, educator, and international author of six previous books on eating, weight and body image. An expert on the psychology of eating, she has been in practice for over 30 years. Her books are popular with overeaters, chronic dieters, and binge-eaters who want to end the diet-binge cycle and make peace with food. She practices out of Sarasota, Florida and her website is www.karenrkoenig.com. Paige O'Mahoney, MD, is a physician, health and wellness coach, certified Intuitive Eating counselor, and founder of Deliberate Life Wellness, LLC, a collaborative coaching and medical education initiative whose mission is to promote compassionate care, highlight resources and experts, and change the conversation about weight and wellness among patients, clinicians, and policy makers. Paige is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd). In addition to her coaching practice, Paige conducts group workshops, develops curricular and continuing medical and health education training materials, and speaks to both professional and lay audiences on topics related to healing overeating and creating a deliberate, satisfying life. Her website is www.deliberatelifewellness.com.

Foreword Preface Introduction 1: Why Doctors Are Frustrated 2: Why Patients with Eating and Weight Concerns Are Frustrated 3: How Diets Kill Motivation And Make People Fatter 4: Introducing The Dysregulated Eater 5: How Dysregulated Eaters Become "Normal" Eaters 6: Why Don't Patients Listen To Me About Eating Better? 7: Strategies to Help Patients Achieve their Eating and Health Goals 8: Supporting Patients and Providers In Attaining and Maintaining Success Our Stories Resources