- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (16 Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312310137
- ISBN-13: 978-0312310134
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 680,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The authors' spot-on advice and rationale ring with truth and hope for any woman....
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Detroit Free Press, January 1, 2002
Losing weight is not a simple matter of fat blasting or low calories...It is a feminist and spiritual issue.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book presented a host of ideas on how to feel more comfortable with oneself, which can lead to weight loss or gain (as desired). Bringing in the Eastern thoughts and yoga makes the reader think 'outside the box'. However, I found it was too American with too many examples or problems which are typically American (and here I refer to the USA alone) and not enough of a world-wide view.
It has provided me with a number of new ideas to change my focus and complemented another book I bought (The Zen of Eating) very well.
It has provided me with a number of new ideas to change my focus and complemented another book I bought (The Zen of Eating) very well.
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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful
A real winner An eye opener
10 April 2004
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
'Accompanying this underlying sense of suffering is a feeling of emptiness. We feel something missing. Inside if us is a void, a longing deep within for some elusive satisfaction. This empty feeling is often experienced physically as gnawing hunger, as if we have a bottomless hole inside. If we fill this void, we must start by asking: what is the source of this feeling of emptiness? For so many women its a longing for spiritual fulfillment that leaves us always hungry and dissatisfied--- We define spirituality as a belief in that which goes beyond our material, corporeal existence, giving us faith that there's more to life than everyday experience. Spirituality is a faith in God, Nature, a higher consciousness, or any other power greater than our singular mortal existence --- When we've lost a spiritual connection in our lives, we may eat and eat in an attempt to fill our inner world. But satisfaction comes only when we're able to rediscover our connection to whatever holds deepest meaning for us'.
This part on page 5 is what grabbed my attention and was a light bulb moment. The only clarification I would make is where she writes 'Spirituality is a faith in God, Nature, a higher consciousness, or any other power greater than our singular mortal existence'. I would have noted any positive God, higher consciousness or power per se, since I think like has yin yang, sun moon, good bad equals or opposites.
I like how the author seeks to educate western women or American women on how and why women in other areas of the world do not have the obesity or eating disorder issues American women have. Like on page 7 'Traditional Western diets fail to resolve the food body conflict because they don't deal with the root cause'.
Page 13 'Growing up in Western society, we're programmed to believe that every problem has a quick and easy solution. Have a headache? Take an aspirin. Coughing? Take a cough suppressant. Feel over weight? Go on a diet. Problem solved.' Of course Americans want it 'now' They want throw away diapers, fast food, and a remote control that changes the channel before you even know what is on.
Beginning on page 101 she shares some easy to do yoga exercises that I have found really do help energize me as well as relax me. More relaxed and energized I am the less interested in between meal eating. I also like her section on page 154 on the importance on becoming still and thankful BEFORE one eats. Some call it saying grace, I call it simply giving thanks and reflecting on the hands that created and brought the food to my plate. I also like how the author reminds the reader that one eating schedule doesn't fit all. I have learned that five small meals per day are best for me, whereas a friend of mine finds two larger healthy meals with two snacks mid morning and mid afternoon work best. And as the author notes on page 158 'a balanced meal is one that fosters good health'.
And finally a reminder in Chapter Ten that 'You are a work in progress' so don't beat yourself up but when you fall, get back up, and keep going.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful
this is a good book...
25 Feb 2002
Format:Hardcover
...to get you thinking. The authors briefly share each of their previous eating issues and their recovery. They then carry you through the expirince of getting in touch with your deepest needs and desires, which begins with you identifying your "life purpose". You will then incorporate this purpose into the remanider of the exersizes in the book.
From a person who has battled body and food issues for some time, the authors present a new way of viewing my feelings and struggles. Take note that there are many exersizes (which they refer to as "practices") that are time consuming. In addition, to get the most out of this book, you have to be at a place where you are really ready to look at your food/body issues. It is not a diet book, it does not advocate weight loss. The goal, as I see it, is peace.
I personally have yet to follow all the exersizes but believe that when I am ready to truely confront my food/body deamons and take the time for the practices, this will be just what I need. (had i already done more of the exersizes I may have given the book 5 stars).
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
What Are You Hungry For? provides real solutions!
13 Feb 2002
Format:Hardcover
I am thrilled to finally have read a book that examines the root causes of women's food and body issues in terms that I recognize. Finally I feel that I've read a book about what's REALLY happening in my mind as I struggle with dieting and self-image. What Are You Hungry For? closely examines the thoughts and beliefs that shroud women's perceptions of themselves. But the best part is that the book also provides easy, sound, step-by-step exercises with which to alter those perceptions and actually change your behavior, and ultimately your life!
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