How to Survive Your Diet and Conquer Your Food Issues Forever [Paperback] Review

I waited a little over a year to write my review; I wanted to offer solid evidence in favor of this book and approach to losing my disordered eating (binge eating/compulsive overeating in my case). I read this book about 11 months ago and quit dieting after having gained 20 more pounds on my diet last winter (bingeing my way through it). I have been implementing normal eating ever since to the best of my ability.What changes have taken place in my less than perfect attempts to eat normally?

-- I am losing weight.
-- My blood pressure is perfect when it was high (140/90) a year ago before non-dieting/normal eating.
-- My cholesterol is normal (I suspect it too was high).
-- I am exercising everyday without hating it.
-- I am eating foods I love with no fear of calories, carbs, or fat grams.
-- I am enjoying life again, no longer in a pit of despair asking myself all day long, "what can I do to quit eating and lose weight?"

Linda's book gave me perhaps the most important tool in my life (and in my eating struggles): the ability to think in shades of grey. I have always been a perfectionistic, all or nothing, black and white sort of person. No more-- I am free from dieting prison and all other prisons. Now my eating matches up with my other philosophical and personal leanings toward free thought and focused action. I urge you to read this book, and if you need more support, come on over to dietsurvivors' yahoo group, Linda Moran's group.Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Linda.

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Are you a Diet Survivor? Maybe your whole life seems to revolve around diets and weight focus. Perhaps even attempts at intuitive eating failed. This book will help you find your own inner wisdom, and a path to normal eating.
Binge eating, emotional eating, stress eating, and just plain overeating are often made worse by dieting, not cured by it. External changes just aren't enough. That's why even intuitive eating can backfire.
Unlike willpower, the work lies instead in changing how you think about food, stress, and emotions. And happily, you can stay in the present day. No need to delve into childhood memories or deep emotions.
Using principles of cognitive therapy, you will learn to adjust the self-talk that accompanies dysfunctional eating. Self-talk such as "I must drink this diet soda in order to get thin," "my children must not have junk in the house," "my emotional eating will never end," and "I canÂ't tolerate stress," have little basis in reality and lead to failure.
After some work at replacing your beliefs with facts, you will start to find your own food wisdom again. Maybe you havenÂ't had this wisdom since you were a baby, but itÂ's still inside you. And you will learn to think in shades of gray, instead of the black and white thinking that is typical of folks with dysfunctional eating.
Learn how to know when you are hungry and full, and how to be a picky eater, perhaps for the first time in your life. With practice, you will find that small, perfect, delicious portions do satisfy. Just as importantly, learn how you can cope with stress and emotions without running to the refrigerator. Learn to apply your mind to rational thought.
No longer will you feel that your body has betrayed you. You will once again be able to trust your body and mind to lead you to your ideal weight. You will never again have to bow to a diet as if it were some kind of god. Instead, any diet you choose will be your slave, not your master. In fact, as you finally free yourself from your attachment to food and dieting, your body will seek its ideal weight with no formal diet at all.
Regardless of whether or not you are overweight, if you have any kind of food issues such as emotional eating, stress eating, eating in secret, exercise addiction, using food for control, night eating, diet addiction, scale addiction, or binge eating disorder, this book is for you. Eating issues are more hidden than people realize, and are not always evidenced in oneÂ's appearance. Indeed, eating issues reside in our hearts and minds, not our stomachs.
This book is a fun, easy read that could change your life. Join the growing club of Diet Survivors.

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Lunch Buddies [Paperback] Review

Lunch Buddies

Want to have some fun and get healthier, too?Turn your best friend into your lunch buddy and both of you will benefit from these new styles of lunches.Leave behind the fast food counter with all its fattening foods.You think it's boring to fix a brown bag lunch for yourself every day?Try using this book for ideas so you cook only every other day, with your partner cooking on the alternate days. Othersin the lunch room will watch you two laughing and enjoying your beautifully arranged meal while the enticing aroma fills the room.Soon you will see an improvement not only in your mental attitude butbetter results from your blood tests.

This brilliantly written book is anything but boring. Why? A bit of humor is threaded throughout the book.The authors share some of their personal experiences.Pictures of them in authentic costumes accentuate the various periods of food history.Facts and folklore of many foods from past centuries have been turned into delicious recipes for well balanced lunches.

Information regarding the nutrition has been well organized.The tasteful recipes are easily followed so fixing them is simple. The index makes locating what you're looking for very accessible.

Just one word of warning,if you prepare one of these dishes for your husband, don't expect him to praise you for it.Better have some hamburgershandy- just in case he is reluctant to try new foods.

Buy this book and try these novel recipes and suggestions with your lunch buddy for healthy, nourishing, fun lunches.

Caution:once you start reading this book,you may find it hard to put down.



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Want to cash in on the movement back to the brown bag lunch? Are memories of soggy sandwiches and salty chips holding you back? We will teach you how to turn the old "brown bag" lunch into dining at its finest in the comfort of your office breakroom ... saving you money, time, and calories in the process. Inside the cover of this fascinating book filled with amusing anecdotes and historical tales about the world's healthiest foods, you will find more than 90 delicious recipes which easily can be adapted to the brown bag. This book, as no other does, will teach you how to rely on friendship to achieve a better diet, while lowering your food costs and saving time. For years fitness experts have recommended exercising with a buddy as a way to retain our interest and motivation. If you've ever tried it, you know it works. Now it's time to apply that principle to lunch, and this book is just the tool to help you do it.

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The 3-Week Family Fat Cure: You Don't Have to Be Overweight Just Because Your Parents Are (Paperback) Review

Some people go through life never realizing their potential, nor the impact they may have on others.This author has yet, once again displayed his chosen gift for reaching out, embracing and healing us from the inside out. I read this book from cover to cover and felt his sincerity as well as his passion for life with the turn of every page.The "somewhat" humorous approach he takes within his writings give you the incentive to keep reading, even if it's only to see what he will say next. This book is filled with simplicity, encouragement and wisdom.Things in which we all need to become better parents and families. If this author lives his life by the standards he speaks of in this book they are a VERY lucky family!!!!
Thank you Dr. John, for not only being inspirational but for your devotion and persistence to the well being of "our children."
You are wonderfully talented! Thank you again Dr John........

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Many families struggle with weight. Dr. John Mayer's was one of them. He was a fat child, raised by fat parents within a culture of fat people. But he broke free, refusing to let his children suffer the way he did. You, too, can break this vicious cycle - and it's easier than you think! The 3-Week Family Fat Cure shows you how to incorporate healthy habits into your family's lifestyle, making it simple to drop extra pounds, improve your health, and even improve your kids' grades. With quick meal plans, easy exercise ideas, and an extra helping of motivation, this book is all you need to stop the cycle of obesity for good.
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Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life: Total Health Rejuvenation [Paperback] Review

A well written, motivating book. Dr. Taub takes the food,diet, and exercise corporations to the mat. Dr. Taub educates us on the corporate grooming of our nutritional needs.This is a scientific, truthful look at the myths surrounding how and what we eat. You will never look at milk the same way again. Good education on why and how our bodies function. Excellent suggestions for creating healthy habits.Easy to read, tough to put down.I've been following his suggestions for three weeks and felt better about my health in one.This is a book for life.

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In this powerful and life-giving book, Edward A.Taub, M.D., makes total health rejuvenation -- a revolutionary approach to nutrition, exercise, and well-being -- a very reachable and rewarding goal for anyone, at any stage of life. Shattering the food myths that perpetuate poor health and obesity, Dr. Taub introduces the world of wholesome, natural foods -- foods that literally revitalize our lives -- and reaches us how to

Understand the human "Cycle of Life" -- the key to lifelong wellness
end food cravings and break bad eating habits by discovering their origins
resolve stress now
create your own Personal Wellness Retreat
prepare a wealth of delicious, savory foods from the cookbook within the book
follow and accessible fitness regime of "Wellness Yoga Stretching," strength training, and walking
improve body tone and image
use properly balanced vitamin and mineral supplements most effectively
practice "Preventive Theology" -- the powerful link to total mind/body health.

Discover Dr. Taub's revolutionary Food Energy Ladder, take control of your health destiny with his strategies, and begin today to Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life.

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Step Forward: A Christian 12-Step Program to Lose Weight and Keep It Off, Participant's Workbooks, Unit 1 [Paperback] Review

Step Forward is not for anyone who wants a quick fix without working for it.This is an excellent book (and series) and is the only one I know of that approaches the emotional issues that cause us to overeat, as well as the physical and the spiritual.This book can stand alone for a 12 week study or can be used in the series for a year long study.I have completed this series several times and have kept my weight off.I have tried many weight loss programs and this one is the best.

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The "Step Forward" series is designed for small groups. It is a 12-Step Bible study that focuses on losing weight by drawing closer to Christ. Each of the four 12-week units comes with a corresponding Participant's Handbook as well as a step-by-step Leader's Guide.
AA's 12 Steps have helped millions of people for over 50 years to draw closer to God so that He could help them to deal with their weaknesses.
AA has kindly given Step Forward permission to adapt their steps. Step Forward's 12 Steps are similar to AA's, with 2 big differences: Step Forward's 12 Steps refer to food as the primary problem, not alcohol and they do not refer to "God as we understand him." They refer to God by name: "God through Jesus Christ."
In Unit 1 you begin the exciting adventure to permanent weight loss by taking Steps 1 and 2. You will start the first lesson by taking turns listing ways that overeating has harmed you. How relieved you will be to finally find a group of people who understand where you're coming from! It's fun to talk about experiences that you have in common with your "ex-best friend" FOOD. Though it's no fun to look at the harm that overeating has done, you'll feel good because you're starting on your journey in recovery with supportive new friends who are coming along with you.
In the first unit you will begin to get to the roots of your food problem by discussing things like...
1. The role food played in your childhood.
2. How to break bad habits and vicious cycles
3. How to get rid of (fattening!) resentments.
4. How to deal with problems so you won't eat over them.
As you work on Step 2, you will learn more about God by discussing...
1. What the Bible says about what God is really like.
2. How to have life-changing 20-minute daily quiet times.
3. How to recognize and overcome misconceptions about God.
4. How to let go and let God have your problems.
In the "Physical Focus" part of each lesson, which always deals with weight-loss topics, you will learn things like...
1. How to choose "bargain foods"--ones low in calories and fat and high in taste and nutritional value.
2. How to read "shocking" food labels.
3. How to make progress instead of excuses.
Unit 1 can be used as a 12-Week Bible study, or if the group wants to continue, it can be the foundation for Units 2-4.
To start a group, leaders need to purchase a Unit 1 "Leader's Guide" and "Participant's Handbook" for themselves and a "Participant's Handbook" for each member. It is also very helpful for each member to have a copy of "Step Forward Diet," an easy-to-read overview of the program designed for individuals who are not part of a group or to help group members to work the program in a deeper way.

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Winning the Battle of the Bulge: It's Not Just about the Weight [Unabridged] (Paperback) Review

This book by Mary Murphy doesn't just try to change the behavior alone of a person in need of weight control.It goes right to the very heart of the problem ... the reader's heart.The battle starts in the heart and is won in the heart by applying the Word of God to the battle.

If you have tried to take off pounds before and failed, get this book and open your Bible and study how God can change your heart that will then change your habits and attitudes and desires.You will be the winner!

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Are you losing your war on weight? Get ready for victory! 'Winning the Battle of the Bulge' is a fresh approach to the war on weight and is unlike any book you have read on the subject. It is your

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Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight Based Discrimination [Paperback] Review

The quiet, measured, dignified prose style of the author, a sort of removed reportage, makes the horrors of discrimination in education, health-care, social life, employment, the world of entertainment, and so forth all the more starkly ugly, cruel, dangerous, and damaging.The damage, however, is not confined to those fat people who are so viciously discriminated against.It extends to almost everyone who is infected with fear and hatred of fat, everyone who would rather be blind or deaf or lose a limb than be fat, everyone who succombs to the blandishments of a greedy, fear-mongering, prejudice-supporing bariatric industry.In other words, we're all in this together and we've all got to get out of it together. And the legal considerations Solovay brings to our attention, the suggestions she makes about extending legal coverages against discrimination already in place, and the compassion she displays for victims make this book one of the important beginnings for recovery from anti-fat hysteria.Thank you for this book.

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"In recent years, there have been an increasing number of good books for big people on the subject of plus-size fashions, health, and self-esteem at any size, and how to survive as a larger person in our fatphobic culture.But not until now has anyone documented so well the legal and ethical factors that place drastic limitations on the lives of so many of our citizens every day - as well as some of the remedies."----William J. Fabrey, Director, Council on Size & Weight Discrimination
Weight is a hot topic.It arouses fear, disgust, and discrimination.This long-neglected area of legal concern affects the rights of a growing number of Americans on a daily basis.
What rights do fat people have?Are parents open to legal attack if their child is fat?Can employers discriminate?Should disability laws apply to fat people?Sondra Solovay documents cases of illegal hiring practices, workplace bias, harassment, unfair treatment, medical malpractice, and denial of public access resulting from weight-related prejudice.Telling the fascinating human stories behind precedent-setting cases and international headlines, she concludes with hopeful profiles of everyday people successfully fighting weight-based discrimination.
A landmark piece of research, TIPPING THE SCALES OF JUSTICE meets an urgent need for a text for libraries and college and graduate courses.It also provides a vital tool of legal scholarship regarding this important civil rights issue.Solovay argues that fighting weight-based discrimination is not just a concern for the courts or a problem for fat people, but a necessary goal of any just society.

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