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A radical alternative to chronic dieting - a way to go beyond controlling a compulsive desire for food and start curing it.
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Do you feel compelled to eat when you're not hungry? Do you feel guilty and worthless after a binge? Would you like to: * Lose weight naturally? * Enjoy the food you most desire? * Forget your preoccupation with eating and weight? * Discover the freedom of no restraints? * Give up dieting forever? OVERCOMING OVEREATING makes all this possible, returning eating to its natural place in life, so that food becomes something to be enjoyed rather than feared. OVERCOMING OVEREATING will help you to break out of the lonely cycle of diet, binge, recrimination and self-loathing. Both pratical and reassuring, it offers realistic guidance on how to conquer an obession and restore your self-esteem. (19990921)
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65 of 65 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book over 15 years ago and found it the most useful book I have ever read. I was a compulsive eater all my childhood through to my twenties. This book is invaluable as it doesn't suggest yet another diet or willpower strategy, instead it works with the emotional side of why people comfort/compulsively eat. Occasionally when things get out of hand I start to eat too much but this book helps to work through relapses and breaks the cycle of overeating, berating yourself, feeling bad and eating even more. If you feel you eat too much, don't go out and buy yet another diet book, get this one and read it cover to cover (like the book says - don't skip bits that seem difficult to do). Unlike most diets, this book helps to realistically change your eating long term and shows you how the way you live your life has an impact on your eating habits and how to stop the negatives having such an impact.
108 of 109 people found the following review helpful
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I read this book 10 years ago, when I was a teenager with bad eating problems. It makes you realise that 'overweight' is not the problem - 'overeating' is. The authors go into why people overeat. The main reason is shown to be that we don't use food for what it is meant - hunger. Instead,lots of people eat for emotional/ social reasons. Also explains how restricting what you eat - dieting - causes more overeating. Is a fantastic book and I no longer have an eating disorder because of it - my weight now remains stable and there are no 'good' or 'bad' foods in my life -lettuce & chocolate are equal. If you can take on board what the authors tell you (and it is hard -as it goes against everything you've ever been told before!) your life will change forever.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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Hello,
If you're at all like me, on and off diets all the time, you will welcome this book with open arms, I promise you. I have been dieting since the age of 11 years old and I am now 27. I've tried them all, Weight Watchers, Slimming World, The 3 Day diet, Slim Fast, Atkins, The Soup Diet (all of them!!), Eating nothing etc etc...I only wish that I had come across this book earlier. I have so far lost over 4 stones within a year whilst being on a diet and to be honest, I am truly fed up. As soon as I come off the diet, my weight goes up, so I feel bad and go straight back on another diet. I am so releived that I found this book.
This book will allow you to see how diets truly do not work in the sense that, you will always have to be bound to a "diet" in order to "keep your weight down", hence, never "feeling free" or learning how to make your own decisions about what is good for you. This book will teach you how to do just that and live freely without the retraints of a diet. You will lose weight. You will learn to be in touch with your hunger once again instead of just eating from habit or boredom etc. You will learn that once you stop putting labels on certain foods - i.e. chocolate is a bad food, you will start to see all foods as equal and therefore crave less of the so called forbidden foods.
If you are truly ready to ditch the diets/binge cycles, I would strongly recommend that you invest in this book. Yes, I do understand that it may not be for everyone but unless you try, you wont know.
Enjoy :-)
If you're at all like me, on and off diets all the time, you will welcome this book with open arms, I promise you. I have been dieting since the age of 11 years old and I am now 27. I've tried them all, Weight Watchers, Slimming World, The 3 Day diet, Slim Fast, Atkins, The Soup Diet (all of them!!), Eating nothing etc etc...I only wish that I had come across this book earlier. I have so far lost over 4 stones within a year whilst being on a diet and to be honest, I am truly fed up. As soon as I come off the diet, my weight goes up, so I feel bad and go straight back on another diet. I am so releived that I found this book.
This book will allow you to see how diets truly do not work in the sense that, you will always have to be bound to a "diet" in order to "keep your weight down", hence, never "feeling free" or learning how to make your own decisions about what is good for you. This book will teach you how to do just that and live freely without the retraints of a diet. You will lose weight. You will learn to be in touch with your hunger once again instead of just eating from habit or boredom etc. You will learn that once you stop putting labels on certain foods - i.e. chocolate is a bad food, you will start to see all foods as equal and therefore crave less of the so called forbidden foods.
If you are truly ready to ditch the diets/binge cycles, I would strongly recommend that you invest in this book. Yes, I do understand that it may not be for everyone but unless you try, you wont know.
Enjoy :-)
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Overcoming Overeating
Y O U H A V E G O T T O B U Y T H I S B O O K if you regularly are preoccupied with thoughts of self loathing self hatred and feelings of helplessnes because of overeating. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Hope2012
if addiction is your problem and your not too overweight ...not a...
I started reading this book with an open mind however the writting style is abit too 'american enthusiastic' almost exagerated. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Haley
A word of warning...
I know a number of people who've quickly put on masses of weight after reading this book. Many people can't help but read the message as permission to start openly eating all the... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Acinom
Lightbulb Moment
This was a really insightful read, if you are struggling with overeating and yoyo dieting you will certainly recognise what they are talking about! Read more
Published 6 months ago by westmor
Excellent
Great informative book, with very strong guidence on how to help get over food obsession. it has been working for me and stopped the cravings. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Aud Bod
life changing
this book helped me to understand the natural way of eating and it also helped me with overcoming emotional eating. It thought me to respect myself and like myself as I am.
Published 9 months ago by schubertova
Hard going
Before I start, I have to say, this book is brilliant and makes so much sense....in theory. I found this very hard going. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Karen Blyton
Amazing book please give it a chance!!
I always was an overeater and I had been going through the motions of losing weight then putting it back on(mostly through fad diets & banning certain foods)but a few months after... Read more
Published 14 months ago by NCM
Gives a lot to think about.....
This book reads very easily. Anyone suffering from food issues will relate to most if not all of it and although I'm not saying it's an instant cure it definitely makes sense and... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Helen74
This book will change your way of thinking
I wish I'd read this book a long time ago, but glad I have come across it now, rather than in 10 years time! Read more
Published 16 months ago by G. A. Hammond
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