- 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. 53) Session 8: Forming Good Habits and Flexibility
- Chapter:
- (p. 53) Session 8: Forming Good Habits and Flexibility
- Author(s):
Evan M. Forman
and Meghan L. Butryn
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190232023.003.0009
This chapter presents Session 8, which focuses on gaining values clarity by exploring clients’ values in greater depth and identifying ways that values connect to eating, physical activity, and health. Strategies for forming good habits are presented, such as performing a behavior immediately after a specific cue (e.g., walking immediately after eating dinner). Strategies for breaking bad habits are also discussed in the context of the psychological skill of “flexibility.”
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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