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Product Description A revised and updated edition of the longstanding guide that has helped thousands struggling with emotional eating disorders.
Based on the techniques used successfully by Beyond Hunger, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people overcome emotional eating disorders, It?s Not About Food gives readers the practical advice and inspirational push they need to take care of their bodies, minds, and hearts and put an end to the roller coaster of dieting and binging.
This new edition includes updated statistics, a new section on the challenges of obesity, and a range of new personal accounts from eating disorder survivors and advice from the authors? recent Beyond Hunger workshops.
AMAZING! September 21, 2008 This is a must for anyone struggling with food addictions. This book was recommended by a counselor and it was the best way I found to help me understand the deeper issues I was facing, and ignoring. After reading this book, I find myself ready to take on the deeper issues that have been gnawing away at my self esteem and self image for YEARS. I never realized how much damage I was subconsciously doing to myself simply because I was unaware of the things I was hiding from or didn't know how to handle on my own. Food was always an easy way to comfort myself when I felt overwhelmed. Thanks to this book, I'm now aware of why I do what I do and can actually help myself without always turning to food. It's a journey, not a destination. This book has helped me on my journey to be free of "diets" and start living with awareness, self-love, and the confidence to know how to help myself without relying on extrinsic comforts like food. This book has some very deep messages if you are open and honest with yourself. I took the book one chapter and one step at a time. It is a resource I will always carry with me.
Helpful, thought provoking October 2, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book relates the personal journeys of two women, Carol and Laurelee, with their struggles to overcome obsession with food, dieting and negative body image. In the course of telling their stories and the stories of many women they have worked with, a very powerful set of lessons unfolds. I read the book over a period of months, reading, re-reading, putting it down and then picking it up. There are meditations and exercises in the book that are very helpful. For example, they have an exercise in the book about sending loving thoughts to parts of your body that you dislike. What a concept! The basic message is that an eating disorder is a way of coping with life and by looking deeply at your relationship with food you can learn what it is you really need in life, pursue that, and food will get back into a normal perspective. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has issues with food or loves someone who has issues with food. That includes just about everyone I think!
End Your Obsessions November 17, 2006 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While the authors specialize in dealing with people who have issues with Overeating, I felt that the book was very useful in helping me address my issues with anorexia. The book challenges you to dig into the issues behind why you're involved in a practice of eating (for me, restricting) and to understand how you're using food to substitute for other methods of dealing with your problems. I would highly recommend this book to anyone on the road to recovery from and Eating Disorder.
The Book is Good November 16, 2006 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was a gift given to me by a friend years ago. I own and have read about twelve books on the topic. Out of all of them, this has been by far the best. It's the kind of book that takes you on a journey inside yourself. If you have any eating issues then this book is a worthwhile read.
Does not help at all October 21, 2006 39 out of 45 found this review helpful
I actually returned this book because it had very little , if anything, to do with WHY you actually compulsively eat. it did not go into or even explained the psychological factors that influence C.O. all this book talk about is how women's self-image is polluted with diet ads etc, etc. it does not deal at all with how to actually stop, in an effective way.
same thing as Overcoming Overeating. the whole point of the book is to stop dieting and to stop having a dieting mentality. also it doe snot deal with the actual cause of you overeating ( which is not dieting)
if you really want to overcome overeating and end your obsession with food, you need to know why you are physiologically addicted to food. why you find so much pleasure in it. and for that you have to read books with substantial research, not just a feminist sound-off.
read : the pleasure trap, LIfe is hard- food is easy , to name a few good ones.
but this one and her other one won't help you at all.
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