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Julia Buckroyd
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1 Aug 2011 0335241972 978-0335241972
"To understand your eating, you first have to understand yourself. This easily-read book helps you to step back and discover what influences your eating habits."
Dr Ian Campbell - Founder of the National Obesity Forum and medical consultant on ITV’s The Biggest Loser and Fat Chance

"This valuable book makes sense of how food and eating may be misused and become entangled with emotions as a way of dealing with them."
Dr Helena Fox - Clinical Psychiatrist for Channel 4’s Supersize vs Superskinny and for the eating disorders unit at Capio Nightingale Hospital

"I have never read such an interesting and thought provoking book on eating disorders such as this. For practitioners reading this publication, I feel it illustrates successfully the clinical significance of the biopsychosocial aspects of eating disorders such as the role of the mother or caregiver (s), the environment of the patient's upbringing and how their self identity is later affected and challenged through self medicating with food or using food or lack of as punishment for their self perceived worthlessness."
Dr H L E Garrod MBPsS, BA (Hons), MA, MSc, P Grad.Dip, D CounsPsych Chartered Counselling Psychologist

"Highly recommended for anyone who is interested in understanding why diets do not work and how to move on from the pattern of emotional eating."
Professor John McLeod - Professor of Counselling at the University of Abertay Dundee

Are you eating more than you should? Trapped in a constant cycle of dieting? Perpetually anxious about your weight, shape and size? Many of us fight an ongoing battle with food.

Understanding Your Eating can help you if the way you use food bothers you and you feel it is beyond your control. Author Julia Buckroyd uses the term disordered eating rather than eating disorders, to reach out to everyone who is distressed and miserable about food.

Understanding Your Eating will help you become more aware of your feelings towards food, understand your emotional eating, and explore the reasons behind your challenges, so that you can find other ways of managing your day-to-day experiences.


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  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Open University Press (1 Aug 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0335241972
  • ISBN-13: 978-0335241972
  • Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 1.3 x 20 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 75,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the Author

Julia Buckroyd is a registered psychotherapist and has been working in the field of disordered eating for nearly 30 years.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Move on from the burden of disordered eating 11 Oct 2011
By Lynsey
Format:Paperback
As a psychotherapist and recovered `emotional over-eater' myself I know from professional and first -hand experience that behaviour change in the form of diets and other quick fixes without searching for deeper insight means that any changes (for example weight-loss or a change of eating habits) are unlikely to be sustained in the longer term. Insight and self-knowledge, in my experience, is fundamental to promoting lasting change.
This book is not a quick fix (and disordered eaters should be wary of anything that claims to be a quick fix!) but should be taken as part of a lasting commitment to change as an act of self love. Those who use food to cope with their problems can find it hard, or near impossible to believe they are worth the effort but I would urge readers to try and act `as if'; as if you loved yourself already. This book could play an important part in that process for those who want to move on from the burden of disordered eating (and the self-loathing which often accompanies it) and lead a more nourishing life in all respects. As a recovered disordered eater, I can assure you life is richer on the other side.
Readers will take a lot of comfort from the stories of other disordered eaters contained within this book as well as helping suffers to locate within the pages their version of their own story and their personal relationship with food. Particularly helpful are the `light-bulb moments' and as the previous reviewer stated; it is important for the reader to take time over these questions to reflect and digest new insights; perhaps sharing what emerges with trusted others, such as friends, family or therapist.
Julia Buckroyd writes with an authoritative tone of someone who knows the subject exceptionally well through years of research and experience yet she manages to convey her knowledge in a very accessible and human way. Immensely readable, people will feel they are being guided by a knowledgeable and kind therapist towards their own understanding which is ultimately a personal journey for everyone. For those who wish to undertake that journey, or are on the road already I highly recommend this book.
It would also be of much use to those in the caring professions who work with disordered eaters, and for the families who are confused and distressed about a loved one's problem eating.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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This is a must-read book for anyone who has issues with food - and how many people, especially women, don't have issues with food?! Most women I know could benefit from reading Julia's book, not only those with specific, serious diagnoses but also those who are on the constant-diet treadmill, perpetually anxious about their weight.

You need to take your time with this book, not because it is difficult to read (quite the opposite, the writing is straightforward and informal) but because it will make you think. Read it slowly and thoroughly, and sometimes reread sections with particular relevance for you. The various sections cover a number of possible explanations as to why eating becomes disordered, and how your feelings become involved with what you do or do not eat. Take your time over the "lightbulb moments", and you will be amazed at what emerges - not necessarily when or what you would expect ...

I strongly recommend that you buy this book because you will discover that recovery really is possible!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great insight to how my why I am the way I am 3 Jan 2013
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I was recommended this book by a therapist I'm seeing about my weight and it has definitely helped me think about my childhood and lots of pieces seem to fit into what she says.

This is not a book about what you can't eat. It's about learning to like yourself.
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