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When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies (Paperback)

by Jane Hirschmann (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Fawcett Books (1 Aug 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 044991058X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0449910580
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 146,458 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Warns about the dangers associated with ineffective diet plans and bodily image obsessions, and encourages women to seek out the issues that underlie poor self-images.

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59 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Scary but very true: Body acceptance=No overeating, 3 Feb 2001
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The premise of the book is that you must love or at least unconditionally accept your body if you are ever going to stop compulsive eating. The writers recommend many steps which will sound scary in the beginning (like ensuring that there is always a stock of your fave foods and treats in your house!). I know that many women fear that if they love their bodies, they will not have an incentive for getting fitter. Experience taught me that this is simply not true. I, too, was scared. In fact, after reading the first 10 pages, I was ready to toss the book. Thank God, I did not. It made me think. It made me realise. And it made me move on to recovery from food obsession. It does not matter very much to me any more, but FYI I have lost and continue losing weight almost effortlessly. The reason I gave this book 4 stars rather than 5 is that I found it tedious at some points. But the good parts are definitely worth 5 stars. It may change your life. I would also recommend Marilyn Migliore's "The Hunger Within". It is more practical and places emphasis on different issues, but it is a very good complementary book to this one. Geneen Roth's books (especially "Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating") are also very helpful.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars the best book on eating disorders ever written, 11 Mar 1997
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Read this book if you are serious about recovering from your eating disorder. This book changed my life. It is the most comprehensive book on eating disorders for people who have them dealing with how to love and take care of yourself without shame or guilt and how to love yourself no matter what your size or relationship with food. It speaks out why diets are just a form of control that will not really change the things in your life that are making you eat or not eat.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book will change your life! Really! Trust me!, 27 Aug 1997
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This book was recommended to me by my dearest friend. Like many women, we've both spent years dieting like crazy and/or exercising obsessively -- and then giving it all up, eating obsessively, hating ourselves, hating our bodies...you know the cycle. If this sounds familiar, maybe you're ready to try a completely different approach. Yes? Then read this book. It's about creating a world in which your body size *does not matter* -- only your happiness, peacefulness, and well being are important. That society is not the society we live in, but it *was* the one our foremothers belonged to, and if enough of us are willing to change our attitudes, maybe someday it will be the one our daughters or granddaughters inhabit. If we want to create that world, we have to make some big changes. Learning to let go of your obsessions, focusing on your body's true rhythms and needs, accepting and *liking* what you see in the mirror today, this very minute -- that's hard. It's harder than any diet. But the rewards are far beyond what you get from losing 10 or 15 pounds (only to gain it back again and hate yourself in the long run). The rewards of learning to love yourself just as you are, to nurture yourself as lovingly as you nurture others -- that's beyond measure. It's something that, if you can do it, will be with you forever. No one will be able to take away your self-love, except yourself. Interested? Then please read this book. Join the growing number of women who no longer accept the unrealistic ideal of female perfection that is thrown at us daily. Become an instrument of change -- both for yourself and for the twisted, diet-crazed, unhealthy society we're presently a part of. Think ahead to the peace you can create -- both for others and especially for yourself.
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