Psychology of Eating

Duration: 10 sessions (17 academic hours)
Teachers: medical doctor–dietitian, psychotherapist
Level: Basic

Skills you will gain after completing the course:

• Support clients using both nutrition and psychological approaches
• Understand how emotions shape eating habits
• Explain the connection between emotional state and body weight
• Gain conscious control over appetite
• Improve self-esteem
• Influence weight through mindset and awareness
• Stop emotional overeating
• Give up unnecessary food without inner struggle
• Make conscious food choices based on real bodily needs

Lesson 1. Psychology — food — habits.
Lesson 2. Stress, anxiety, and eating behavior.
Lesson 3. The chemistry of emotions: what emotions do to our body and how to protect ourselves from them.
Lesson 4. Self-acceptance. Working with self-worth.
Lesson 5. Working with paradoxes.
Lesson 6. The art of being happy.
Lesson 7. Change your brain — and your weight will change.
Lesson 8. Adaptive intelligence.
Lesson 9. Adaptive intelligence — Part 2.
Lesson 10. How to control appetite — and more.