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Breaking Free from Emotional Eating »

Authors: Geneen Roth
ISBN-13: 9780452284913, ISBN-10: 0452284910
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Geneen Roth

Book Synopsis

There is an end to the anguish of emotional eating -- and this book explains how to achieve it. Geneen Roth, whose Feeding the Hungry Heart and When Food Is Love have brought understanding and acceptance to tens of thousands of readers over the last two decades, here outlines her proven program for resolving the conflicts at the root of overeating. Using simple techniques developed in her highly successful seminars, she offers reassuring, practical advice.

	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