Participants are encouraged to consider the events, feelings, and situations occurring before, during, and after eating. The first step is to discover patterns in eating behaviors and disrupting those patterns.
Many people have situations, times, or activities that stimulate eating.
These events become paired repeatedly with eating so that the event can make you feel hungry. For example, if you sit in your chair, watch TV, or read the morning paper while eating every day, you will feel like eating during these activities whether you are physically hungry or not. So, eating should be separated from activities. And not only does eating become paired with these activities, but they become a distraction from eating, so you get all the calories, but only part of the pleasure. These are calories wasted, not tasted.