Therapist Materials for Regular Eating

Chapter 5 is a supplementary session designed for clients who are not receiving frequent, adjunctive treatment focused directly on eating regularly (such as meetings with a dietitian/nutrition counselor, residential treatment, or daily food coaching). Some clients may not require extensive attention to regular eating because they eat regularly already and have other issues. It is important to log eating and to monitor and discuss connections between eating, symptoms, and emotions. In addition to reviewing food logs, this chapter instructs clients on regular eating and helps clients to identify obstacles to regular eating and to develop specific plans to address those obstacles. Clients also learn to identify strategies to delay automatic compulsive eating between regular eating episodes.