Starting Monday

Starting Monday is based on the simple premise that when our behaviors don’t align with our expressed intentions, we’ve got a conflict going on, often outside of our awareness. The book helps readers dig deeply into their psyches to figure out what mistaken beliefs and needless fears are holding them back from achieving their health and fitness goals. The polarized feelings for disregulated eaters to identify and resolve fall within these 7 key areas: 1) create lasting change, 2) making conscious choices, 3) feel deserving, 4) how to comfort themselves, 5) know what's enough, 6) manage intimacy, and 7) developing a healthy identity.
Starting Monday first helps readers unearth their mixed feelings in these seven areas, then teaches them how to change their beliefs and behaviors to resolve them. Using humor, plain talk, examples from her clinical experience, reflection exercises, case studies, and homework, Koenig lets troubled eaters know that their yo-yo patterns of eating and self care are due to conflicts. She shies away from easy answers and, instead, provides hope and concrete actions to developing a permanent, positive relationship with food.

Starting Monday is based on the simple premise that when our behaviors don’t align with our expressed intentions, we’ve got a conflict going on, often outside of our awareness. The book helps readers dig deeply into their psyches to figure out what mistaken beliefs and needless fears are holding them back from achieving their health and fitness goals. The polarized feelings for disregulated eaters to identify and resolve fall within these 7 key areas: 1) create lasting change, 2) making conscious choices, 3) feel deserving, 4) how to comfort themselves, 5) know what's enough, 6) manage intimacy, and 7) developing a healthy identity.
Starting Monday first helps readers unearth their mixed feelings in these seven areas, then teaches them how to change their beliefs and behaviors to resolve them. Using humor, plain talk, examples from her clinical experience, reflection exercises, case studies, and homework, Koenig lets troubled eaters know that their yo-yo patterns of eating and self care are due to conflicts. She shies away from easy answers and, instead, provides hope and concrete actions to developing a permanent, positive relationship with food.

Introduction

Barriers to “Normal” Eating

1 - Why It’s Hard to Change Our Eating
(Help, My Mouth Has A Mind Of Its Own!)

2 - Reasons We Want to Eat “Normally”
(Stop Me When I Get To Infinity!)

3 - How Internal Conflicts Prevent Us From Eating “Normally”
(In This Corner We Have Me and In This Corner We Have—Me!)

The Seven Keys

4 - Create Lasting Change
(Can’t I Just Wish Upon A Star?)

5 - Make Conscious Choices
(How Come When I Lash Out, I Hit Me?)

6 - Feel Deserving
(When I’m Good I’m Very, Very Good and When I’m Bad I Head For The Fridge!)

7 - Comfort Yourself Effectively
(I’m Better At Licking The Bowl Than My Problems!)

8 - Know What’s Enough
(Is Enough Ever Really Enough?)

9 - Manage Intimacy
(Can’t I Be A Super Attractive Invisible Person?)

10 - Develop a Healthy Identity
(If I Say Goodbye To My Identity, Will It Miss Me?)

Conclusion

11 - Resolving Internal Conflicts for Good
(I’m Gonna Sit Here And Break Bread With Myself!)