The Psychology of Weight Loss: Ditch the Diet for Long-Term Success
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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Ditch the Diet for Long-Term Success

Losing weight and successfully maintaining it over the long term is less about what you put in your stomach and more about what happens in the brain. In this innovative session, you will get a deep understanding of the diet mentality, why it’s harmful and how to help your clients ditch it. You’ll take home proven strategies to get them off the diet rollercoaster and achieve and maintain a healthy weight and relationship with food for good.

Eliza Kingsford, MA, LPC, NCC

Eliza Kingsford is a licensed psychotherapist who helps clients struggling with food addiction, body image and emotional eating. Eliza is the author of the best-selling book Brain-Powered Weight Loss and her work has been featured on Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, NBC Health, CNN Health, Health Magazine, MindBodyGreen and many more. She has been a member of scientific advisory boards in the field of obesity with the best research minds in the field, and she has trained hundreds of clinicians to work with food and body image issues. She is turning the diet industry on its head by combining the science of nutrition with the psychology of eating to create lasting results for her clients. Eliza has been in the fitness industry since 1999 and has taught thousands of fitness classes as a group fitness instructor.
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Learning Objectives


1. Identify multiple areas of correlation between obesity and other medical complications.2. List at least three different ways the brain is affected by processed foods and sugar.3. Explain the main reason that diets “fail.”4. Describe the “diet mentality.”5. Describe how to evaluate whether a client is struggling with a “diet mentality.”6. Explain how to develop a plan to help clients stop dieting.

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Course Content

  • The Psychology of Weight Loss: Ditch the Diet for Long-Term Success
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