Coaching for Emotional Eaters
& Food Addiction
Motivation for Lifestyle Change
Most people know what they need to do to lose weight. Usually they come to me because even in the face of heroic attempts and significant pressure to change their eating behaviors, they are unable to.
There are many reasons for this. For each patient the combination of factors varies, but should be addressed. Whatever the reason, it is important to sort these issues out in a safe environment, free of criticism, judgement, and pressure.
The coaching is done by Dr. Marquina, in private sessions. Coaching can be done by phone or in the office setting. Specific interventions are recommended, and meetings can be arranged in weekly or monthly intervals, as needed to ensure adequate support and progress.
Patients are excited by the control they gain over their eating circumstances after completeing a course with Dr. Marquina.
This is not a medical program, and is open to all people need support with staying motivated to change their health and lifestyle, strategies to resolve emotional eating, food addiction, or binge eating.
Individual program components vary.
If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.
Like any other new thing you are learning, it takes practice to make it part of your life. First there is a lot of concentration, and some of us choose to make this "hard work." I don't like to think of it as hard work, but rather as something new to learn.
The process of learning is always the same no matter what the subject. First, we fumble and bumble, but with practice, it gets easier and easier
-Louise Hay.
The only journey is the journey within..
-Rainer Maria
Rilke
What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to you.
-Meister Eckhart
The angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
-GK Chesterton
Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say.
-Keith Ellis
Create mental, physical, and emotional wellness for yourself through techniques I utilize.
Choose counselors who will see you as a whole being and who will consider all the experiences that have contriubted to your current circumstance.
"Everyone sees how you appear, few touch what you are."
-Machiavelli
