Weight Loss & Weight Management:

No one is above the laws of biology and conditioning. You are not responsible for your genetic predisposition or your prior conditioning history, but now that you are an adult you are responsible for acting in accord with your interests and principles. Following a healthy lifestyle is certainly the responsible way to go, but making that happen requires more than simply deciding to do so (although making the decision is important), or following a diet, or participating in a weight loss program. As most people reading this page have discovered through personal experience, vows, diets and weight loss programs don't work.

Weight management is a far more impressive challenge than most people realize. Because they misjudge the nature of the challenge most overeaters are demoralized by their failure to achieve good long-term outcome. In most cases, attempting to fix the problem does more harm than good. In technical terms, the loss of control over eating is an iatrogenic consequence of poorly conceived the treatment strategies.

Successful weight management, requires that treatment strategies be matched to the individual. We offer a range of assessment and treatment services to our clients in Austin, Texas. For individuals who are well matched with our approach but are geographically distant we offer clinical tools, self-guided manuals and online courses.

• Programs for individuals with mild to moderate obesity [less than 100% overweight]: Our treatment approach focuses on developing the skills and faculties that enable the individual to be the effective agent of change, rather than delegate the responsibility for change to an external agent [e.g., diet, program, doctor]. . Throughout this web site you will find tools [most available at no charge], which invite you to manipulate experiential phenomena. If you find this to be a good approach for you, we would be happy to work with you in person or online at any level of intensity that matches your circumstance.
  
  
• Individuals who are more than 100% overweight tend to achieve best long-term outcome from bariatric surgery. We offer Pre-Surgical Bariatric Psychological Evaluation and Post-Surgical Relapse Prevention Services

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"If one remains as careful at the end as at the beginning, there would be no failure."