Crumbs: Compulsive Emotional Overeating (Paperback) Review

I feel like hugging the author of this book!It's so helpful to know I'm not alone in this struggle, and she's offered ideas that will be easy to apply to everyday life.I am done with dieting, this has helped me realize that.

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Protein diets. Fads. Surgery. Yo-yo dieting. Pills. Liquid meals. You lose some weight, and then you gain it back along with more. You drive by your favorite fast food restaurant, and that little voice inside your head urges you to stop and buy something. You've eaten a full meal, but you feel like you deserve to indulge. You take comfort in knowing that food is your best friend, yet sometimes, you wish you were free from its rule.Does this struggle sound familiar? You may overeat when you are bored, stressed, anxious, depressed, lonely - or even when you are happy. You relate your emotions to food. You use food as a coping mechanism, or a way to avoid your emotions, and you may be overweight and unhappy as a result of overeating. In Crumbs, Becky Reed shares her struggle with binge eating and the slices of her life that, after much self examination, made her realize that there was no reason to continue the years of self-abuse. She learns self-love and acceptance,while gaining the strength to walk away from a toxic, codependent relationship with a man who struggles with his own addictions and insecurities.From this book, learn ways to develop alternative coping strategies and achieve balance between being out of control and total abstinence. Be free of guilt and rebuild self esteem. Understand that you don't have to deprive yourself of foods that you love, but you don't need to hold on to those foods for contentment.

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The End of Diets: Healing Emotional Hunger [Paperback] Review

Finally I have found the answers I have been searching for. I feel as if I have read every book on dieting and not dieting and most of them will tell you what to eat, what not to eat or that you are eating for all the wrong reasons. OK, great, I know that...so HOW DO I STOP? This book guides you through the process of recognizing the emotions that lead to overeating and guides you through the process of sitting with the emotions instead of eating through them. The author is so right on with the thought process and behaviors of emotional eaters (such as describing how we may come home and we are tired and instead of getting rest, we have a need to reconnect or unwind and tend to start eating at that point...I certainly can relate to that!), yet she takes it to the next level and beyond by giving tools to deal with feelings and emotions that don't involve food for coping. She doesn't suggest eating celery or lettuce or 15 gallons of water. This is not about temporary distractions, but permanent healing. I have a circle of friends that have recently purchased this book and we can't wait to have everyone go through it and start a discussion group!

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For most Americans weight = quality of life.We all have a compelling desire:
a) To feel vital and energetic
b) To feel attractive and desirable
c) To be able to participate in whatever activities we want
d) To feel secure that our physical profile is healthy
Yet despite the fact that 52 million Americans are on a diet, they invest $40 billion/year in diet products, and run up a $110 billion annual tab in health related costs, 2 out of 3 Americans are considered overweight. The End of Diets offers:
#1 An analysis of why, for an emotional eater, traditional weight loss approaches, such as exercise, diets, external motivation, and will power, are conclusively ineffective. This analysis explains why only 3% of anyone that attempts a traditional weight loss approach is successful in keeping the weight off long-term.
#2 - A thorough explanation of how an emotional eater uses food to deal with the ups and downs of life.
#3 - Insight into how emotions are process in the body.
#4 - An explanation of the top emotions that lead to overeating.
#5 - Explanations of how emotional eaters must first learn to be with their emotions instead of eating through them, before they can be successful in losing weight permanently.
#6 - Useful tools for emotional eaters to stop using food to cope with the ups and downs of life:
a) Understand how food is used as a repression mechanism to avoid our emotions
b) How to develop the body awareness to recognize the emotional hunger
c) Recognize the body sensations behind the emotional hunger.
d) Learn how to be with the feeling until they dissipate and stop manifesting as emotional hunger.
#7 - A long-term plan to be successful in loosing the weight once and for all.

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Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss [Paperback] Review

Ms. Ehrlich (who has no credentials I have been able to discover) begins by promising that her program is not a diet, and that you can still eat anything you want. She goes on to essentially equate bread with dessert, and forbid sandwiches outright, along with anything else eaten with the hands. There does not seem to be any recognition that different people have a problem with different types of food or eating situations. Despite her claim that this is not a diet, much of the book is taken up by her meal plans.

With revolting illustrations and such recommendations as wearing tight clothes and tightening the belt before eating, she takes an aversive approach to food and eating in general. There is also a lot of focus on weight. "If you really want to weigh ___ pounds" is repeated as a mantra. Ehrlich prescribes an obsessive habit of twice-daily weighing, going so far as to insist that if the reader were serious about weight loss, he or she would pack a bathroom scale on trips. A person with a compulsive eating problem probably already has plenty of self-loathing, and it seems like some of these strategies could really backfire.

There IS some good advice in here--like the importance of recognizing small successes rather than focusing on failures--but not nearly enough attention to the behavioral aspects of compulsive eating.

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Conquer Your Food Addiction is not a diet book.
But if you're committed to losing weight, it's the right book for you!
Nobody can cajole, trick, or provoke you into shedding those excess pounds. But if you are genuinely ready to go for it, Caryl Ehrlich is here to lead the way with her 8-step program for permanent weight loss. The perfect solution for people who are overweight -- many of whom are compulsive eaters -- Ehrlich's is a behavioral approach to weight loss that teaches you how to change habits in order to overcome food addiction. As she observes, no deprivation diet will work for food addicts, because they use food the way other addicts use drugs or alcohol: not to satisfy physical hunger but to distract oneself from painful feelings -- loneliness, anger, boredom, sadness -- with a never-ending conveyor belt of food.
A former compulsive eater herself, Ehrlich developed this easy-to-understand program for herself more than twenty-five years ago and has taught it to others, with astounding results, for more than two decades. With the help of Conquer Your Food Addiction you will:

- Learn how to distinguish physical hunger from emotional hunger
- Become aware of your unconscious, ritualized eating habits
- Develop the skills necessary to approach food differently
- Change your behavior in order to change your body
- Awaken to an improved, realistic relationship with food
Using original concepts and easy assignments, Ehrlich's proven 8-step program retrains your thought process so that you can begin to see food in a new and healthy way. Once you do, you'll be amazed at how the pounds come off!

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