Body Image & Overeating

• Are you unhappy with how your body looks?
• Are you convinced your life would be happier if you could just lose a certain number of pounds?
• Are you tired of thinking, worrying, obsessing about food and/or your weight?

We'd like to help you develop new skills and a new mindset so you can make peace with how you look and be proud of how you eat. Obesity is at epidemic proportions in this country. Study after study links obesity with many serious, chronic health problems that effect our quality of life. Every day there is a new product or new diet that promises to help you lose weight and attain good health. Yet, as a country, we get bigger and bigger...

Obesity is linked with many negative stereotypes. Obese children are often the target of bullying. Paradoxically, the pressure on women and, increasingly, men to attain an ideal body size contributes to the obesity epidemic. Obsession with body image only increases anxiety and often leads to periods of strict dieting, followed by the inevitable relapse and binge. In others, it leads to other eating disorders such as anorexia or bulemia.