Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About Treatments Thatwork™ -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Common Weight Loss Surgery Procedures -- Working With Your Therapist -- Chapter 2: Understanding Your Eating Behavior -- Goals -- Types of Overeating -- An Illustration of the Cognitive Behavioral Model of Overeating -- The Cognitive Behavioral Model of Overeating -- Your Life: Factors That Contributed to Overeating and Overweight -- The Effects of Overeating: Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral -- Gastric Bypass Surgery and the CBT Model -- Homework -- Chapter 3: Normalizing and Keeping Track of Your Eating -- Goals -- The Importance of a Regular Pattern of Eating -- For Teenagers -- Using Food Records -- For Teenagers -- Instructions for Use of Food Records -- Food Record -- Homework -- Chapter 4: Weighing-in -- Goals -- A Regular Pattern of Weighing -- The Risks of Weighing Too Frequently -- Avoiding the Scale -- Corrective Strategies: Weekly Weighing and Other Measurements -- How Your Clothes Fit -- How the Furniture Fits You -- Taking Measurements -- Changes in Body Composition: Percentages of Fat and Lean Body Mass -- Food Records -- Ease in Moving Around -- Compliments -- Appearance and Weight Compliments Log -- Homework -- Chapter 5: Pleasurable Alternative Activities -- Goals -- When Eating Has Been the "Pleasure of Choice" -- Why Does Eating Food Feel So Good? -- Physical Activities May Be Best -- Activities That Are Incompatible With Eating -- Getting Out of the House -- Realistic and Manageable Activities -- "Big Ticket" Activities -- Basic Self-Care -- Caring for Yourself in Addition to How You Eat -- Sleep -- Sleep Hygiene Strategies (or "Cleaning Up" Your Sleep) -- Physical Activity and Exercise -- Caffeine Intake -- Alcohol -- Illicit Drugs -- Socializing and Social Support -- For Teenagers.

Meaningful Activities and Role Competence -- For Teenagers -- Homework -- Chapter 6: Challenging Eating Situations: People, Places, and Foods -- Goals -- Stimulus Control: Eating in All the Right Places -- Social Influences: Eating With the Right People in the Right Places -- For Teenagers -- Questions and Comments Made to Dieters -- Managing Challenging and "Feared" Foods: Choosing the Right (and Wrong) Foods in Moderation -- Incorporating Feared Foods Exercise -- For Teenagers -- Homework -- Chapter 7: Problem Solving and Cognitive Restructuring -- Goals -- Modifying Problem Thoughts -- For Teenagers -- Homework -- Chapter 8: Body Image -- Goals -- For Teenagers -- Homework -- Chapter 9: Congratulations! You're on Your Way to the O.R. -- Goals -- Addressing Agenda Items -- Professional Consultations -- Follow Through With Recommendations -- An Introduction to Emotional and Interpersonal Readiness -- Exercises to Access and Clarify Your Feelings About Surgery -- Deservedness -- Ambivalence and Concern -- A Changed Relationship With Food and Eating -- Alternative Pleasures Not Linked to Food -- Handling "Coaches and Saboteurs": Yours and Others' -- When Surgery Goes Badly: Preparing for Unlikely Complications -- For Teenagers -- Chapter 10: What Happens After Surgery? -- Goals -- Managing Anxious Thoughts After Surgery -- For Teenagers -- Mind and Mood -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Problem Eating -- Binge Eating -- Cravings -- Alcohol and Drugs -- Options for Seeking Help -- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- CBT Self-Help Manuals -- Interpersonal Therapy -- Other Therapies -- Homework -- References -- About the Authors.