Patient handout on regular eating

Table 6.1 from Fairburn CG, Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders, Guilford Press, New York, 2008.

Patient handout on “Regular Eating”

Pattern of eating

• Breakfast
•  (Mid-morning snack)
• Lunch
• Afternoon snack
• Evening meal
• Evening snack

“Regular Eating”

• Points to note
• Eat these meals and snacks, but do not eat between them
• Do not skip any meals or snacks
• Do not go more than four hours without eating
• Eat what you like in the meals and snacks, so long as you do not vomit or take laxatives to compensate
• Always know when (and roughly what) you are next going to eat

Published on Apr 13 2016