WEIGHT LOSS 

Dr. Giaquinto has successfully helped many clients lose weight and improve their physical health.  He assists people not only with losing weight but in developing a proper exercise program.

Dr. Giaquinto teaches his clients to:

• Overcome reluctance, resistance, and rebellion
• Motivate themselves daily
• Deal effectively with hunger and craving
• Eliminate emotional eating
• Respond to feelings of unfairness, disappointment, discouragement, and         deprivation
• Recover right away from a dieting mistake
• Follow their plan, even when they don't feel like it
• Handle stressful situations and special occasions
• Set realistic and achievable goals

CBT can help a person to lose weight by:

         Assist in changing the faulty thoughts about: losing weight, dieting, self- image, effort, exercise and ability to be disciplined

• Helping a person control their diet
• Helping to increase motivation to do exercise
• Provide coping skills to handle any lapses in diet that the person will experience
• Provide long term weight maintenance skills
• Changing a person’s body image and their expectation of body image
• Improving a person’s self esteem
• Helping with stress management (a major reason for ‘comfort eating’)
• Helping set reasonable goals for both weight loss and maintenance.