Question

Ellen works afternoons and evenings at the neighborhood grocery store. She has dinner from the store deli during her break and gets off work at 9:30. For dinner she usually has a sandwich, chips, and a soda. Sometimes she has soup and crackers.At the end of the day the employees can buy the leftover bakery items at half price so she usually gets something sweet like donuts, cookies, or brownies to take home. Ellen eats a few as she watches TV at night to relax. Ellen has gained a little weight in the past year and wants to change her habits.

Question is Suggest a plan for Ellen to change her behavior. Refer to the behavior modification techniques and what you know about the eating environment when making your plan.

Answer 1

Ellen can be helped from a binge eating habit by the aid of operant conditioning, wherein a feedback loop can be created to help her realise the essence of healthy eating habits.

She can be given a choice to have a night out, each time she does not eat the doughnuts from her workplace after closing hours, this could incentisvise the fact that she could meet someone, as there is antiral propensity for an individual to seek companionship. An once tive to go out, would be to meet new people, which would automatically curb her eating for the reason to go out.

By the aid of CBT, she can be acquainted with her problem of binge eating which might have stemmed from boredom, which is one of the lost common links to obesity and binge eating.