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Breaking Free from Emotional Eating

Written by: Geneen Roth
Narrated by: Emily Durante
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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 fans 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 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 many more strategies to help you break the binge-diet cycle-forever.

©2004 Geneen Roth (P)2020 Tantor Mental Health Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Self-Esteem Health Heartfelt Habits Physical Exercise Self Help Emotional Eating Body Image
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As a dietitian working towards a Masters in psychotherapy, I came across this book, and knew nothing about the author, but noticed she wasn't a doctor, psychologist or dietitian, but I wanted to read the book to find out if this was an individual that had really good insights, even though she may not have the proper education to be sharing those insights as if they're coming from a licensed professional.

However, I've found that some professionals have no idea what they're talking about and some individuals have lived enough that their teachings can be very insightful.

I've since looked into information about the author and she is a speaker. An apparently well-known one. Regardless of that, this book is just band aid information and tips and tricks to counteract overeating. it mentions emotional eating quite a bit, almost as if trying to convince you that the information given is truly for emotional eaters. It does not give information on breaking free and glosses over what emotional eating is. It has plenty of stories, like a person talking to a friend, or going to a ted talk, but little else.

For instance, the author talks about ensuring that you are always sitting and not in a car when eating. sitting at a table when you're eating so that you're more aware of how much you're eating and you are present. (more the ideaology around mindful eating). She talks about eating when you're not distracted, so no phones, no cooking, no person talking ( again, more along the lines of mindful eating). However, this doesn't come close to why people emotionally eat, nor helps with them breaking free of it. I don't have to be emotionally eating to nibble as I'm preparing dinner or snacking as i'm talking to my teenage daughter while in the kitchen. These are signs of unconcious eating.

The author takes the premise of emotional eating and confuses it with overeating or unconscious eating. It comes across as if the author doesnt know the difference, so her information is more along the lines of what's worked for her, and what she's seen work for others in the past. But again, it doesn't wholeheartedly relate to emotional eating, or how to break free of it. Every bit of information seems to be geared towards bandaid ways to curb overeating, or how to stop unconsciously eating. This can be triggered by your emotions but it's not the whole story of emotional eating.

If you are an emotional eater and looking for ways to cope. This is NOT the book for you. If you find yourself constantly unconsciously eating or overeating and gaining weight as a result and you are looking for some common, not specific to you tips and tricks, this book gives some ideas.

The narrator wasn't right for this. I think a narrator that can differentiate between reading a novel and a self help book would have been better.

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