Dr Denise Ratcliffe is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has specialised in providing psychological therapy for people with emotional eating patterns and weight difficulties since 2007. She is the author of Living With Bariatric Surgery: Managing Your Mind and Your Weight. She worked in the NHS for 20 years and now works in private practice.

Introduction; SECTION 1 Understand; SECTION 1A Introducing the emotional eating map; 2 Constructing a map of your emotional eating - how and why did the automatic emotional eating route develop?; 3 Constructing a map of your emotional eating: Recognising your automatic and familiar emotional eating route; 3a Constructing your emotional eating map; SECTION 2 Learning the skills to recognise, re-route and navigate emotional eating: Starting to build alternative routes and find new destinations; 4 Exit 1: Responding to triggers by building in a pause and managing your reactions; 5 Exit 2: Understanding and managing emotions; 6 Exit 3: Managing and updating the emotional eating thought ladder; 7 Exit 4: Developing alternative behaviours - short-term and longer-term options to look after your mind and body; SECTION 3 Template; 8 Developing your emotional eating template