Overcoming Disordered Eating - Part A: This information package is designed to provide you with some information about disordered eating - how it develops, how it is maintained, and strategies to start to change the problem behaviours associated with disordered eating.  This package is organised into modules that are designed to be worked through in sequence.  We recommend that you complete one module before going on to the next. Each module contains information, worksheets, and suggested exercises or activities.

Module 1: What is an Eating Disorder?

This module provides an overview of what eating disorders are, their impact, and the role of dieting and healthy weight.

Module 2: How Ready am I to Change?

This module explores preparedness to change disordered eating behaviours, and also outlines some of the treatment options for eating disorders.

Module 3: How Eating Disorders are Maintained

This module outlines some of the factors which maintain disordered eating and create a vicious cycle.

Module 4: Self-Monitoring

This module explains the importance of self-monitoring of eating behaviours, and provides a food log worksheet.

Module 5: Regular Eating and Weighing

This module provides a rationale for regular eating and weighing, along with guidelines and worksheets.

Module 6: Binge Eating, Purging and Driven Exercise

This module explains the role of binge eating, purging, and driven exercise, and how these behaviours maintain disordered eating in a vicious cycle.

Module 7: Moods and Disordered Eating

This module explores the way emotions and difficulty handling moods can affect disordered eating behaviours, along with strategies to manage moods.

Module 8: Dietary Rules

This module explores the role of dietary restriction and rules in maintaining disordered eating, along with guidelines for normal eating.

Module 9: Progress Review and Barriers to Change

This module helps you to review your progress through the modules so far and to identify any potential barriers to progress.

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Overcoming Disordered Eating - Part B: This information package follows on the Overcoming Disordered Eating - Part A, and provides some strategies and techniques to change the thinking patterns associated with disordered eating. This information package is organised into modules that are designed to be worked through in sequence.  We recommend that you complete one module before going on to the next.  Each module includes information, worksheets, and suggested exercises or activities.

Module 1: Overevaluation of Weight and Shape

In this module we will explore in more detail how people with eating disorders place an unusually high value on controlling their eating, weight and/or shape, and how they judge their self-worth accordingly. We will show how this leads to an over-evaluation of control over eating, weight and/or shape, and how this preoccupation and other factors keep the disordered eating going.

Module 2: Challenging Unhelpful Thinking

This module provides information and strategies to help you start changing the thoughts associated with your disordered eating and weight control habits.

Module 3: Challenging Dietary Rules

This module introduces a range of strategies for challenging dietary rules and restriction, and food avoidance.

Module 4: Body Checking / Avoidance and "Feeling Fat"

This module discusses some of the consequences of over-emphasising shape and weight.

Module 5: Low Self-Esteem

This module explores the role of low self-esteem in disordered eating and weight control habits.

Module 6: Improving Low Self-Esteem

This module offers strategies for improving self-esteem by developing new rules for living and new, more balanced beliefs about yourself.

Module 7: What are Mindsets?

This module describes the "eating disorder mindset," a set of distorted beliefs about eating, weight and shape.

Module 8: Changing Mindsets

This module provides more strategies for replacing the old "mindset" with new, more helpful messages.

Module 9: Relapse Prevention

This module helps you develop a plan for maintaining the goals you have achieved so far and another plan for preventing relapse into old disordered behaviours and thoughts related to eating, shape and weight.

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Change Process Balance Sheet

Tackling Avoided Foods

Self-Monitoring Form