ABSTRACT
Regardless of the reasons why your client eats compulsively, the first step in the process of ending her overeating requires direct intervention with her symptoms. Common to all human beings is our need to have a relationship with food. Eating is one of our most basic needs, from the moment we arrive in the world until the end of our lives. You may think about food consumption all the time, or you may rarely give it a thought. Regardless of how conscious or unconscious this process is for you, you make decisions about food on a daily basis. Although eating is a pleasurable experience for most people, it is really a physiological process that involves a need and satiation of that need. Consider the following questions:
• Do you know when you are hungry? • Do you eat when you are hungry? • Do you ask yourself what you are hungry for? • Do you do your best to get what you are hungry for? • Do you stop when you are full/satisfied?
