Our Objectives
At Capo Eating Disorder By The Sea our objectives are to:
• Reduce obsessive thoughts of food, weight, diet and body image
• Connect with internal self, knowing what we need
• Be able to calm and center our self
• Be able to communicate our needs in an assertive, compassionate manner
• Understand the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger
• Learn the effects of different foods on our body and emotions
• Become aware of our own individual food triggers
• Eat when hungry, make healthy food choices and stop when full
• Determine healthy portion sizes
• Identify emotional eating and find individual appropriate alternatives
We do not force clients. Our goal is to help clients get in touch with them-selves, be true to themselves, and care for themselves in healthy ways. We avoid using measures such as weight or waist measurements to determine how our clients are progressing. These external measurements can be part of the problem.
Instead our measurements are that clients:
• Become more self-aware of their body and their feelings
• Use food for physical nourishment
• Abstain from addictive behaviors
• Deal with emotions without using food
• Become more engaged in the outside world
• Become more honest with themselves and others
• Focus on internal indicators of well-being rather than external ones
