How to Change the Game in Yo-Yo Dieting

If you’ve struggled with yo-yo dieting or have found it difficult to maintain a healthy weight, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for weight loss could be the game-changer you’ve been searching for. Quite often when we make a lifestyle change with the goal of losing weight, becoming healthier, or exercising more, we only focus on our behaviours like trying to walk more, investing in strength training 💪, or maybe we’re desperately trying to avoid eating certain foods 🤤.

CBT works to address the psychological and emotional factors that are contributing to weight gain and breaking down planned dieting attempts. The goal here isn’t a fad-diet. We want you to transform your relationship with food, develop healthier habits, and achieve sustainable weight loss (you know, if you want to).

Why CBT? For starters, CBT is a widely recognized and evidence-based treatment that focuses on changing negative thought patterns and behaviours. By identifying and challenging unhelpful beliefs, CBT helps you develop healthier coping strategies to make positive changes in your life (no matter the challenge you are facing!). When CBT is applied to weight loss, you can learn to recognize how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours are playing a critical role in your relationship with food and exercise.

Our CBT for weight loss therapist, Chelsea, will help you uncover the unique triggers that lead you to overeat and make unhealthy food choices. Chelsea will teach you to reframe your negative self-talk and challenge the way you view your body to support positive weight loss efforts.

The goal here is to help you establish realistic and achievable life change, especially when it comes to your relationship with your body. You will work to develop effective coping strategies to better manage emotional eating and stress, recognize unhelpful thinking patterns that interfere with your progress, and enhance your self awareness for long term weight management. Let’s feel healthy and strong, together.