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Title: Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever
ISBN: 0470044853
Author:
Roger Gould
Publicate Date: 2007-04-27
Publish: 2007-04-27
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: End Emotional Eating
When you're ready to really do the work to end your emotional eating, this book will be a godsend. You can't just read it - you actually have to do all the journaling exercises and actually work the program, but if you do that this book will work for you. I highly recommend joining the online program in conjunction with the book. This is not a diet, but a program that deals with the emotional aspect of overeating and binge eating.
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2: I'm free!
I've had this book sitting on my nightstand for quite some time. I've started it, then got busy, so I had to start again, and on and on. After being at my highest weight EVER and having three weeks of bingeing on sweets, I finally sat down and decided to read it. I only wish I'd read it when I got it.
I've read and heard others say this, but after starting the parts where the real work begins my cravings stopped. I literally stopped craving sweets. I thought it was a gimmick when people mentioned that, how could I ever NOT crave sweets? For the past three weeks I could think about nothing but donuts, Milk Duds, chocolate everything, pie, etc. and would go out of my way to get them. Today I thought some sweets would be yummy, but I couldn't even tempt myself to eat some chocolate that was right in front of me. It was like a switch had been flipped and I saw food as nourishment and not a comforting friend.
I highly recommend reading this. If you're on the road to being obese like I am, this could literally save your life.
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3: gets to the core of your issues
[[ASIN:0470275375 Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever]I'm currently reading this book and i am reading it very slowly, allowing his statements to digest! the author is an MD psychiatrist and bases a lot of the examples on his patients, i'm sure. i've read many diet and emotional eating books, but this one is one of the better ones out there. the words relate to overeating, but these principles could apply to other disorders (bad relationships, substance abuse, procrastination).
because of his vast experience with actual cases, Gould hits it at the points where you can relate. i've been to a therapist for some other issues, and whenever she'd ask me "why do you feel/do/need this?" and i honestly couldn't answer her for the longest time. Gould's book is helpful in that he provides a concise list of what could be bugging you underneath causing you to overeat.
i'm in ch. 5, and already i have lost 3 pounds. you don't have to go thru a lengthy process (as in Martha Beck's book or Judith Beck's book) to start succeeding.
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4: THIS IS THE ONE!
ANYONE WHO HAS EVER STRUGGLED, WHO HAS FIFTY MILLION DIET BOOKS ON THEIR BOOKSHELF - LOOK NO FURTHER..this book is the one!!! I have 21 diet books, have read them all, tried them all...but this one struck a chord somehow. It explained things in a way that I haven't found before..both my girlfriend and I are reading it and we have already found drastic improvements in the first week. We no longer binge, we stop - we realise no "goal" we make in regards to our weight can control our desire to eat. We have learnt to not lose weight for our husbands, for a dress size, for a weight on the scales - we are no longer thinking of a number to attain - we are just so excited to have found a solution that we can work with. The book is TREMENDOUS - we are in Australia and will be ordering more copies. THANK YOU ROGER!!!!! YOU ARE A GENIUS - THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE THERAPISTS SECRETS - you have saved us heaps of money and lots of emotional pain. Kind regards from two aussie gals happy and well on our way!!
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5: This review refers to the Summary....
I noticed that the lower reviews came from persons who felt that the book didn't cover specifics on what to do to loose the weight. What I felt the author is offering is the "tool" to help you recognize WHY you're overweight and the steps you can take to correct the WHY, which is emotional eating. Now everyone's emotional reasons are different, hence it would be a very lengthy book to read, and it would be too general if "tools" where given. When reading the summary version of this book I was shaking my head in amazed agreement of how relevant and on-point the book was for me. I agreed with the material presented and recognized that if put into practice, I can begin to turn my current situation around emotionally, physically and spiritually. When I purchase the book I will come back to amend my rating.
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