The Food War Within Professional Companion Guide (PDF)

A ready-to-run 8-session program with between-session practices.

Open the guide, prepare in minutes, and lead a complete 8-session program without building anything from scratch.

Binge eating is rarely about willpower. Nutritional vulnerability, emotional relief, learned cues, automatic routines, and all or nothing thinking can keep clients caught in the same cycle. This guide turns The Food War Within workbook into a structured program you can lead one on one or in a group. It helps clients understand their pattern, find an entry point before the urge builds, and practice a different response, all while protecting access to nourishment.

Inside, you will find:

• 8 sessions, each with an overview, individual facilitation, and a full group program
• Specific questions, sample supportive responses, and adaptations for each session
• Timed group plans for 75 minute sessions, with scenarios and processing questions
• The Voltage Loop in real time and how to teach the Five Step Plan
• Guidance for responding after an episode without shame
• Environmental support without food policing, and behavioral experiment planning
• Common roadblocks, progress monitoring, and care coordination
• Client practice tools, ready to print
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The 8 sessions: Understand the Experience · Reduce the Pressure Before the Urge · Find an Entry Point in the Loop · Use the In the Moment Plan · Change the Next Response · Rehearse Before the Hard Moment · Test a Prediction with Support · Return to What Works

Best for: Registered Dietitians, therapists, counselors, and other professionals supporting adults with binge eating, loss of control eating, and the restrict and binge cycle.

Professional use license: Print the pages labeled Client Practice Tool for your own current clients, including groups you lead. Each participant needs their own copy of the client workbook.

Written by Dr. Dre Szebeni, PsyD, RD, a Registered Dietitian with a Doctorate in Health Psychology and more than 15 years of clinical experience.

What you get: An instant PDF download (58 pages). The Food War Within workbook is sold separately.

This guide supports, and does not replace, your clinical judgment and scope of practice.