- About Treatments That Work
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Information about Weight Loss and This Treatment Program
- Chapter 1 Session 1: Welcome
- Chapter 2 Session 2: Calorie-Cutting Keys
- Chapter 3 Session 3: Goal Setting; Weighing and Measuring
- Chapter 4 Session 4: Labels, Planning, and Calorie Accounting
- Chapter 5 Session 5: Control What You Can, Accept What You Can’t; The Home Food Environment
- Chapter 6 Session 6: Physical Activity and Willingness (Part 1)
- Chapter 7 Session 7: Willingness (Part 2) and Values
- Chapter 8 Session 8: Forming Good Habits and Flexibility
- Chapter 9 Session 9: Restaurant Eating; Handling Weekends and Special Occasions
- Chapter 10 Session 10: Barriers to Living a Valued Life
- Chapter 11 Session 11: Friends and Family
- Chapter 12 Session 12: Introduction to Defusion and Urge Surfing
- Chapter 13 Session 13: Strategies to Help Defuse and Increase Willingness
- Chapter 14 Session 14: Review of Dietary Principles, Mindless Eating (Part 1), and Portion Sizes
- Chapter 15 Session 15: Mindless Eating (Part 2) and Mindful Decision-Making
- Chapter 16 Session 16: Transitioning to Biweekly Meetings
- Chapter 17 Session 17: Maintaining Losses Over the Long Term
- Chapter 18 Session 18: Willingness and Reducing Barriers to Physical Activity
- Chapter 19 Session 19: Committed Action
- Chapter 20 Session 20: Overeating and Emotional Eating
- Chapter 21 Session 21: Lapse Versus Relapse and Reversing Small Weight Gains
- Chapter 22 Session 22: Revisiting Commitment and Transition to Monthly/Bimonthly Meetings
- Chapter 23 Session 23: Maintaining Motivation
- Chapter 24 Session 24: Looking Ahead
- Chapter 25 Session 25: Celebrating Accomplishments
- Appendix A Keeping Track Form
- Appendix B In-Session Weight Change Record
- Appendix C Home Weight Change Record
- Appendix D Weekly Review
- Appendix E Worksheets
(p. 37) Session 5: Control What You Can, Accept What You Can’t; The Home Food Environment
- Chapter:
- (p. 37) Session 5: Control What You Can, Accept What You Can’t; The Home Food Environment
- Author(s):
Evan M. Forman
and Meghan L. Butryn
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190232023.003.0006
This chapter presents Session 5, which concerns helping clients separate the various aspects of weight control into those that are controllable, such as one’s personal food environment and one’s behaviors, and those that are not controllable, such as internal thoughts and feelings, urges and cravings, the general food environment, and options to avoid physical activity. Clients are presented with the underlying rationale of the program of learning to modify the controllable aspects of one’s environment and learning to accept those aspects that are not controllable. Changing the type of food available in one’s home environment is discussed as one controllable aspect of weight control for clients to begin to practice.
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- About Treatments That Work
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Information about Weight Loss and This Treatment Program
- Chapter 1 Session 1: Welcome
- Chapter 2 Session 2: Calorie-Cutting Keys
- Chapter 3 Session 3: Goal Setting; Weighing and Measuring
- Chapter 4 Session 4: Labels, Planning, and Calorie Accounting
- Chapter 5 Session 5: Control What You Can, Accept What You Can’t; The Home Food Environment
- Chapter 6 Session 6: Physical Activity and Willingness (Part 1)
- Chapter 7 Session 7: Willingness (Part 2) and Values
- Chapter 8 Session 8: Forming Good Habits and Flexibility
- Chapter 9 Session 9: Restaurant Eating; Handling Weekends and Special Occasions
- Chapter 10 Session 10: Barriers to Living a Valued Life
- Chapter 11 Session 11: Friends and Family
- Chapter 12 Session 12: Introduction to Defusion and Urge Surfing
- Chapter 13 Session 13: Strategies to Help Defuse and Increase Willingness
- Chapter 14 Session 14: Review of Dietary Principles, Mindless Eating (Part 1), and Portion Sizes
- Chapter 15 Session 15: Mindless Eating (Part 2) and Mindful Decision-Making
- Chapter 16 Session 16: Transitioning to Biweekly Meetings
- Chapter 17 Session 17: Maintaining Losses Over the Long Term
- Chapter 18 Session 18: Willingness and Reducing Barriers to Physical Activity
- Chapter 19 Session 19: Committed Action
- Chapter 20 Session 20: Overeating and Emotional Eating
- Chapter 21 Session 21: Lapse Versus Relapse and Reversing Small Weight Gains
- Chapter 22 Session 22: Revisiting Commitment and Transition to Monthly/Bimonthly Meetings
- Chapter 23 Session 23: Maintaining Motivation
- Chapter 24 Session 24: Looking Ahead
- Chapter 25 Session 25: Celebrating Accomplishments
- Appendix A Keeping Track Form
- Appendix B In-Session Weight Change Record
- Appendix C Home Weight Change Record
- Appendix D Weekly Review
- Appendix E Worksheets