Breaking Free from Emotional Eating

by Geneen Roth

Overview

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Geneen Roth, an exploration of the link between dieting, compulsive eating, and emotion, complete with life-changing advice on how to break the binge-diet cycle forever.
 
There is an end to the anguish of emotional eating—and Geneen Roth has made it her life’s work to help people heal their relationship with food through an understanding of the deeply personal and spiritual issues at the root of compulsive eating.
 
In this edition of Breaking Free From Emotional Eating, updated with a new introduction, Roth outlines her proven program for resolving the conflicts at the heart of overeating using simple techniques developed in her highly successful seminars to offer reassuring, practical advice on:
 
• Learning to recognize the signals of physical hunger
• Eating without distraction
• Knowing when to stop
• Kicking the scale-watching habit
• Withstanding social and family pressures
 
And more!
 
By not only explaining the cause of emotional binge eating but also providing actionable techniques for readers to implement in their own lives, Breaking Free continues to help people end the binge-diet-cycle once and for all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101043790
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/06/2003
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	549,157
File size:	879 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Geneen Roth is a writer and a teacher who has gained international prominence through her work in the field of eating disorders. She is the founder of the Breaking Free workshops, which she has conducted nationwide since 1979. She is also the author of Feeding the Hungry Heart, Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, and When Food is Love. A frequent guest on television and radio programs, she has written for and been featured in Tie, Ms., New Woman, Family Circle, and Cosmopolitan. Her poetry and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies. Born in New York City, she now lives in northern California.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	1
1.	Being Hungry Is Like Being in Love: If You Don't Know, You're Probably Not	3
2.	Deciding What You Want to Eat: Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too	17
3.	Distracted Eating: It Doesn't Count If You're Not Sitting Down	36
4.	Knowing When to Stop Eating: When Enough Is Enough	52
5.	Bingeing: When Enough Isn't Enough	67
6.	Family Eating: The Sins of the Parents	79
7.	Social Eating at Restaurants, Parties, and during Holidays	96
8.	About Exercise and Scales	108
9.	On Wanting: If You Don't Let Yourself Have It, You Can't Lose It	116
10.	On Having	123
11.	On Judgment and Awareness: Birds Don't Sing in Caves	134
12.	On Trust	147
13.	On Courting and Befriending and Forgiving Yourself	156
14.	On Pain: "Life Is Hard. Then You Die."	179
15.	On Sexuality: "Men Use Sex the Way Women Use Food."	188
16.	On Compulsion	199
17.	Conclusion: Through Thick and Thin	207
	Index	209

Editorial Reviews

"Informative, liberating, and glowing with warmth and personality, Breaking Free from Emotional Eating is even more relevant today than it ever has been." —Uma Naidoo, MD, Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist and author of This is Your Brain On Food


Praise for When Food is Love

"A life-changing book."—Oprah

“A rare and special book that touches our inner selves with extraordinary courage, authenticity, and beauty. I have seen very few books with this kind of clarity and human depth. It will move you to tears and to joy. It will entertain and delight you, and it will make you a deeper and more compassionate human being.”—John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America

“SPECTACULAR! I laughed and I cried. . . a tender and daring book that you’ll never forget.”—Laura Davis, co-author of The Courage to Heal

“I SEE MIRACLES IN MY LIFE EVERY DAY, AND ROTH IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED MAKE THAT HAPPEN.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott in Mademoiselle

“When Food is Love is Roth’s seminal work. This is a big, beautiful, and important book. I cannot say enough about it. I hope everyone reads it.”—Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones

“She tells of her own experiences with a non-blink frankness cushioned by the gracefulness of her prose.”—Chicago Tribune

“This book is A) good enough to eat, B) nourishing to the heart.”—Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher, co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

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