About Compulsive Overeating

The Problem
Most compulsive overeaters struggle to sustain their recovery following completion of their primary treatment experience. In most cases, they are reentering, or are already in, the unchanged world they went to treatment from and now have the formidable task of responding differently to the same set of cues and triggers which they previously encountered. As a result, adapting to the “real world” is filled with situations that heighten a client’s vulnerability to relapse, making living a healthy life a monumental undertaking.

Recovery from compulsive overeating requires dedication to developing behaviors that lead to expanded consciousness of food use and misuse and requires a daily program of self care. EATSANE provides the continued care, support, monitoring and coaching for clients in recovery from compulsive overeating.

The Solution
While many who binge eat find that they do well in a controlled primary treatment setting, they also repeatedly struggle with the demands of everyday life after they leave treatment. Staying healthy requires a systemic program of self care that includes a willingness to make vital lifestyle changes. Research tells us that overeaters who seek treatment lose more weight than people who diet on their own because of their reinforced motivation coupled with a community that supports their healthy efforts. It also clearly indicates that sustained weight loss requires a willingness to alter eating and exercise habits each and every day. The key to sustaining a life of self care and wellness is a continuing care program that reinforces the lessons of primary treatment and helps address life’s challenges and the feelings of self deprivation that compulsive overeaters regularly experience.

The most essential issue for staying on the “road to recovery” is the compulsive overeater’s ability to change. EATSANE provides the aftercare program for this change to occur. It offers a set of “Lifestyle Intervention Strategies” and professionally formulated tools which compulsive overeaters use to enhance their recovery. These strategies and tools improve each client’s ability to experience a sense of control and confidence over their reactions to life’s events. EATSANE educates the compulsive overeater to identify high-risk situations and to respond in a healthy way. This reduces the compulsive overeater’s chance of engaging in old behavior patterns which have repeatedly led to pain, despair, and guilt which accompany relapse.
EATSANE is the result of the work of many leading professionals in the compulsive behavior and eating disorders field and utilizes professional principles and practices combined with innovation, newly evolving healthy support systems and the unique opportunity to get help with real life issues.