APPETITE AWARENESS TRAINING

Course overview

This is an evidence-based model for working with patients who are overweight and want to deal with the issues associated with failures at weight maintenance or weight loss. This is not a weight loss program but rather a lifestyle approach to healthy eating that has implications for compulsive overeaters, and as an adjunct intervention with anorexic, and bulimic patients. The course includes an overview of the basic principles of Appetite Awareness Training (AAT) including the four eating pathways, and the seven points of intervention. The methods and techniques for implementing the model as well as common problems are discussed. For individuals whose goal is weight loss the course also includes a discussion of how AAT is used in food planning. Finally the course discusses the transition to self-coaching.