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No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all.

If you suffer about your relationship with food -- you eat too much or too little, think about what you will eat constantly or try not to think about it at all -- you can be free. Just look down at your plate. The answers are there. Don't run. Look. Because when we welcome what we most want to avoid, we contact the part of ourselves that is fresh and alive. We touch the life we truly want and evoke divinity itself.

Since adolescence, Geneen Roth has gained and lost more than a thousand pounds. She has been dangerously overweight and dangerously underweight. She has been plagued by feelings of shame and self-hatred and she has felt euphoric after losing a quick few pounds on a fad diet. Then one day, on the verge of suicide, she did something radical: She dropped the struggle, ended the war, stopped trying to fix, deprive and shame herself. She began trusting her body and questioning her beliefs.

It worked. And losing weight was only the beginning.

She wrote about her discoveries in When Food Is Love, her first New York Times bestseller. She gave huge numbers of women their first insights into compulsive eating and she changed huge numbers of lives for the better.

Now, after more than three decades of studying, teaching and writing about what drives our compul-sions with food, Geneen adds a profound new dimension to her work in Women, Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God. But it doesn't stop there. Geneen shows how going beyond both the food and feelings takes you deeper into realms of spirit and soul to the bright center of your own life.

With penetrating insight and irreverent humor, Roth traces food compulsions from subtle beginnings to unexpected ends. She teaches personal examination, showing readers how to use their relationship with food to discover the fulfillment they long for.

Your relationship with food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom, says Roth. What you most want to get rid of is itself the doorway to what you want most: the demystification of weight loss and the luminous presence that so many of us call "God."

Packed with revelations on every page, this book is a knock-your-socks-off ride to a deeply fulfilling relationship with food, your body...and almost everything else. Women, Food and God is, quite simply, a guide for life.

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"How We Eat is How We Live"--A Spiritual Perspective on Overeating

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Geneen Roth hits a home run with her latest book about overeating and so much more in "Women Food and God". The theme of the book is that the way we eat, the way we think about food and handle ourselves around it is the way we do everything. The author then shows us how and why this is the case. She describes the food retreats she runs and the women who attend them, and as a reader you will surely identify in some way with every single person--and with the lesson she illustrates from their lives. This is a more complex book than her earlier books because of the spiritual dimension; she sees problems with overeating as gateways to spiritual enlightenment. She convinced me (and will convince you as well) that instead of trying to get rid of or fix our eating problems, we need to use them to see within ourselves, to learn important spiritual life lessons from our feelings, and to grow and heal so that we will end up eating as a spiritual practice. And so that we'll have a permanent end to the misery of always struggling with our weight and self-image, and always striving to improve our relationship with food.

The book is so good that for me, just reading it was like a spiritual awakening in this area of my life. I found it motivational, inspirational, and scary in a good way--and the author makes the whole process doable with descriptions of practices that can be used on the food healing/awakening journey such as meditation, inquiry, and eating guidelines. These practices are all specific to the process and they are described in detail. This spiritual dimension is generic and does not require a particular religious belief, or even any religious belief. It would be compatible with any type of spirituality. The type of eating practiced is intuitive eating (listening to your body to discern what it wants), and no matter what your way of eating, you can apply an intuitive approach to it--this book is about a way of living and relating to food, not about a food plan.

If you have read the author's other books (as I have) you will find much new information here. Other key themes of the book include mindfulness, presence, and feeling your feelings. The author is brutal but honest in describing how destructive the dieting industry is to women. Again, this is definitely not a diet book or eating plan, but instead a way of experiencing life which allows you to be present and aware so that you are able to listen to your body and choose food based on nourishment and self-care.

Although it is a quick read (I read it in one evening), this book is so valuable that you will want to refer back to it, highlight it for future reference, take notes in the margins, and use parts for journal prompts. There is only one negative, and it is a biggy: the paper in this hardback book is similar to super cheap mass market paperback-type paper. I have never seen an actual book of any type with such paper, though! I tried to highlight sections and the highlighter not only would bleed through to the reverse side of the page, but sometimes onto the previous page! It is hard to describe how frustrating this was---a book that is a true keeper on throw-away paper. I highlighted anyway and my book is a mess, but I decided to rebuy it on Kindle when it comes out. I've never done this before, but it's that good of a book--worth months (or maybe years) of therapy. I also would buy it again if it is reprinted (and I'll bet it will be) with a paper that matches the quality of the book.

That flaw aside, I'm so glad I bought this book. I have read many, many books on overeating, diet and nutrition, self-help, styles of eating, and more, and this book stands apart from the crowd. The message is an important one for any woman who wants to handle her relationship with food, her weight, and her spirituality in a healthy way, and to become whole. If that is you, you will not be disappointed, I promise.

Highest recommendation.
*****

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

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great read for those with food issues

I wasn't too sure what to expect, but this book offers some useful tips and activities for those dealing with food issues. I've had issues food for most of my life, and this book has helped to delve into the unconscious issues behind my relationship with food. Although I do not agree with the authors 'eat whatever you want, when you want it' mantra; I feel that she suggests trying this in order to zap the power that we give to some forbidden foods.

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Was Surprisingly Helpful, I am Grateful for this Book

I knew I had food issues, and was looking to read a book on the topic. I bought this one on a whim, based on the good reviews, but I did not have very high expectations. However, this book is EXACTLY what I needed and I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who finds themselves repeatedly binge eating.

The author, Geneen, is wonderful. She has dealt with binge eating her whole life so she has so much understanding and sympathy. She also has so many suggestions and helpful advice. It was so nice to realize that she understands what I have been going through. She really enabled me to understand what I was doing, why I was doing it, and how to help me begin to break free from the cycle I have been stuck in.

If you have been living as a binge eater in secret, please read this book, and journal your way through it. It will greatly help you for the rest of your life.

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real good insight

Geneen Roth is so honest and practical. She doesn't waste time on platitudes but gives positive and effective suggestions.

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Excellent Read

My nutritionist recommend this book to me and while I had my views the book turned out to be just what I needed to read. It speaks on the exact issues I was dealing with and Roth gives amazing tips to help and they really work.

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Food has the power to temporarily alleviate stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring us comfort when we need it most. It's no wonder experts estimate that 75 percent of overeating is triggered by our emotions, not physical hunger. The good news is you can instead soothe yourself through dozens of mindful activities that are healthy for both body and mind.

Susan Albers, author of Eating Mindfully, offers this collection of 50 mindfulness skills and practices for relaxing the body in times of stress and ending your dependence on eating as a means of coping with difficult emotions. You'll not only discover easy ways to soothe urges to overeat, you'll also learn how to differentiate emotion-driven hunger from healthy hunger. Reach for this book instead of the refrigerator next time you feel the urge to snack-these alternatives are just as satisfying!

A thoughtful volume filled with practical solutions for emotional eaters everywhere.
-Madelyn H. Fernstrom, Ph.D., CNS, founding director of UPMC Weight Management Center, professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Albers's soup-to-nuts list of creative, accessible, self-soothing tips will undoubtedly help anyone who has struggled with dieting, food, or body image. Beyond that, her exercises in mindfulness, deep breathing, and journaling are top-notch tools for finding balance in life overall.
-Leslie Goldman, author of Locker Room Diaries

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A Book for Stress Eaters

I saw this book in the Washington Post. A few days later I actually hear the author on the radio. She seemed to make a lot of sense. I was surprised at how much this book described my stress eating to a tee. I can identify with many of the stories. I keep the book in the kitchen and read it when I'm tempted to eat because I'm nervous or stressed out (which is often!). It's helped me a lot.

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WORDY

This turned out to be more "dense" than I expected.
It was just OK.

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Excellent Helpful Suggestions!

I am writing my from our family Amazon account. I am a fan of Dr. Albers' first book, Eating Mindfully, so I bought this one. This book is ideal for stress and boredom eaters. I am a mom who has a lot of stress and a zillon things to do. I don't have much time to take care of myself. I found that this is the perfect book for me. It is filled with easy, quick and inexpensive things to do when I am having a donut craving. These techniques really helped me.


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A choice pick for self-help collections

Comfort food is a common fall back in rough times. "50 Ways to Sooth Yourself Without Food" is a guide for those who want to stop looking towards food for their security blanket when times get tough for them. With tips on how to fight the temptation of stress eating and how to find an alternative that works, Susan Albers presents plenty of non-food based activities. "50 Ways to Sooth Yourself Without Food" is a choice pick for self-help collections.

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A great resource to help stop mindless eating

As a psychologist, I'm frequently on the lookout for books that can help the people I work with. Dr. Albers's book is an excellent resource for people who are struggling with eating issues. As many people struggle with eating mindlessly (when they're not hungry or are upset, for example), it is important to learn other ways to cope with difficult emotions. She gives an overview of mindfulness and then details 50 exercises focusing on different ways to redirect the impulse towards self-destructive behavior. Many of the exercises in this book would work well for people dealing with other problems too, such as substance abuse.

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We've all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But the problem is not you, it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped you from listening to your body.

Written by two prominent nutritionists, Intuitive Eating focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss, and helps you find the weight you were meant to be.

Learn:
*How to reject diet mentality forever
*How our three Eating Personalities define our eating difficulties
*How to feel your feelings without using food
*How to honor hunger and feel fullness
*How to follow the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, step-by-step
*How to achieve a new and safe relationship with food and, ultimately, your body

With much more compassionate, thoughtful advice on satisfying, healthy living, this newly revised edition also includes a chapter on how the Intuitive Eating philosophy can be a safe and effective model on the path to recovery from an eating disorder.

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Sounds good... in theory

The concept of intuitive eating is rather simple on the surface. You eat when you're hungry, you stop when you're full. However, when it comes to bringing this concept in to practice for anyone who has struggled with weight, it is anything but simple.
If you are overweight, you KNOW you need to lose weight. I don't know anyone who is overweight and is happy to be so. There may be people like that, I just don't know any. When the authors of this book go on and on about how we need to stop dieting and then reveal that many people who followed their plan had in fact lost weight... well, that's a bit of a contradiction. The only way one can lose weight is if he or she takes in fewer calories that he or she uses. Well, that's pretty much one of the basic definitions of a diet, isn't it? The problem is, that whereas a traditional diet has a set of rules, guidelines, do's and don'ts, whatever you want to call them, this "plan" is all based on changing your thinking and relationship with food. In other words, you don't have a very clear way of doing what the authors are telling you to do.
Changing one's thinking is not as simple a task as the authors will have you believe. If you give someone an apple and you tell them they can't think of it as an apple, but they must think of it as an orange, short of brainwashing them there is no way in hell, that someone will truly believe that it is an orange. So when the authors go on and on about how you can't think this and you must think that. How the hell is one supposed to go about changing the beliefs they held for years and years? If I KNOW I need to lose weight, and I KNOW the only way to do it is a diet, how exactly am I supposed to reject the diet mentality? Feels an awful lot like what they are asking me to do is to give up on ever losing weight. You see my point, don't you?
Though this "plan" attempts to reject all diets, if you are going to try using its "principles" to lose weight, well doesn't it make it a diet? Just not a very well defined, a sort of wishy-washy diet that wants to be something life changing, but ends up being confusing and disappointing.
If there is one good thing I got from this book, is that I have learned to not be so hard on myself. I already knew before I read this book that extreme diets, the one's promising quick results, don't turn out the way you may have hoped. This book reinforced the idea. But aside from that, if you are looking for some help in your weight loss, look elsewhere. Get this book from a library if you want to learn how to give yourself a break, but don't waste your money otherwise.


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Trust the process...

I have never written a book review on Amazon. Ever. Until now. I hit rock bottom when I saw that I lasted less and less time with each new diet I tried. Why couldn't I just figure this out already? Was I destined to spend the next 20 years battling weight? I have been doing this process for just over a year and was is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. But it works. My weight gain stopped and it has slowly decreased over the last year to about 1 pound a month over the course of one year - it doesn't sound like a lot, but I have yet to see those pounds return.

When I shared this process with some friends, they declared that they preferred something with more structure, something where they new exactly what to expect. They did not want to think. That's not the point with this method. You HAVE to think and think some more. You need to ask yourself some really tough questions. It's hard. You absolutley must reflect and take a good look at yourself and think about whether you are really hungry or just being peckish. You need to challenge yourself to really determine the cause of your craving - stress, boredom, etc? And when you are true to yourself and determine that you are not hungry but just____ (fill in the blank), it is difficult to no eat becuase that is what you have done before - eaten anyway. Once you do this over and over, it does become second nature and you will realize just how many calories you have wasted by eating "just because" or by eating what you think you "should have" and not what you really wanted. But be warned, don't let your guard down. If you don't do the mental work, this is not for you. If you want a method that does not require thinking or planning, save your money. If you want something sustainable for the rest of your life, this is for you.

The only reason I did not give this book all the stars is because to lose weight you do need to pay some attention to nutrition and exercise, which the book does a good job of explaining, but it focuses more on behavior. The difference is that you should excercise because you want to and your body deserves it. As for nutrition, over time you will get it becuase no one can eat junk 100% of the time and feel physically good about it. In the begining of this journey, it is more important to establish the intuitive eating mentality.

Another great book that provides just a little more structure and a lot of the same concepts is the No S Diet by Engels. Great book.


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Kindle version needs table of contents.

Not easy to find your way around this book with Kindle. Really needs a table of contents.

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An absolute godsend for even those struggling to overcome eating disorders

This book is an absolute godsend - they have it all right, and I am surprised this book was ritten by nutritionists and not eating disorder specialists!
I have been struggling with Anorexia and Bulimia since I was thirteen. I am now twenty, and just a bit less than a year ago I was ready to give up entirely, thinking there was no way I would ever make peace with food. Combined with the right therapy and doctor's supervision, this book has helped me discover that food does not have to be the ultimate enemy - and that not only is it possible for me to stop the restrict-binge-purge cycle once and fo all, it is also possible to EAT WHATEVER I WANT without become a big fat cow overnight. I am still in the eating whatever I want whenever I want phase, which right now means a LOT of chocolate since that was one of my biggest forbidden foods. But I am now content with a row of dark chocolate pieces, rather than the entire chocolate bar. So during this chocolate phase, I have begun to notice that I have started craving a lot of vegetables - proof that if I allow myself to eat my fear foods, I won't even WANT to eat them forever. I can stop when I am full now - although I am still learning to trust my hunger and fullness signals.
I would recommend this book to anyone struggling to overcome and eating disorder, and anyone who works in the field of eating disorders. Hurrah for intuitive eating!

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Kept the weight off for over 2 YEARS!

About 5 years ago a friend tried to explain to me how she lost weight and had kept it off for so long. She told me that the only reason I overeat is because I restricted that food. I sort of understood what she was saying, but not really. She told me to practice listening to my body: what do i want to eat? am i full yet? etc.

Well, it took a few years of pondering her words, then I found this book, and finally it clicked!! WOW!! What a relief! I lost about 17 pounds two years ago and I have been the same weight since then. I eat WHATEVER I want to eat. There's not one food that is off-limits.

Here's the essence of the book: pick whatever your most favorite food is and allow yourself to eat however much you want. For me, it was Oreos. I could eat an entire package in one sitting. So, imagine that you go to the grocery store, you buy one dozen packages of Oreos. Everyday after today you receive another dozen packages of Oreos on your front step. Basically, you have a neverending supply of Oreos. How many are you actually going to eat? Maybe the first day you eat three packages. Guaranteed, by the end of the first week or two, if you are still eating them, you'll be eating only a couple Oreos at a time because you literally don't want to eat anymore.

Another food that was hard for me was french fries. Why do I eat all of my fries even when I'm stuffed? I realized it was because I knew in the back of my mind that I was going to try to avoid eating fries in the future, so I knew I better eat them all right now while I can!

If you tell yourself (and you have to really mean it, too) that you will go back and get more fries in an hour, or ten minutes, if you really want to, then you will never overeat! Why would you make yourself uncomfortable? If you are making yourself uncomfortable, you are doing it because you think you won't get to buy more of it later (either because of a self-imposed restriction or because you think you need to get your money's worth). It took lots of practice, but now anytime I go out to eat, I hardly have to remind myself that I will come back and buy more later if I want to. It's a true habit to not get uncomfortably full.

For those of you who feel like you need to get your money's worth in food, just remember this: if it goes in the trash, it's wasted and if it goes in your body, it's wasted. No matter what you do, it's wasted food. Your body doesn't need it or want it.

My relationship with food is now peaceful and calm. I no longer have any kind of anxiety about going out to dinner or going to a party where there's going to be food. I used to think about what I was going to eat for lunch for hours before lunch and think about dinner as soon as lunch was over. Now, when it's dinner time, I start thinking about dinner. My mind is at peace. And I have Oreos in my pantry :)

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A unique new approach to treating eating disorders

Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge.

This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved "breaking up" with Ed

• Shares the points of view of both patient and therapist in this approach to treatment
• Helps people see the disease as a relationship from which they can distance themselves
• Techniques to defeat negative thoughts that plague eating disorder patients

Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, Life Without Ed shows readers how they too can overcome their eating disorders.

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Eating Disorder as a person --- WOW!

This book, written by both a woman working through her ED and her therapist, shows a fantastic way to look at eating disroders. Read on to find out. Again, a fantastic purchase for clients and people who love someone with an eating disorder...gives great insight.

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Wonderful!

I love this book! It is the only book that I have read that fully explains how eating disorder thinking is! I had my eating disorder for 7 years and have been in recovery for 4 years. I feel like this is well written and helpful. I am a therapist and this book also helps when working with those with eating disorders.

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Life Without ED

Well written and extremely helpful to those going through this and for those who love them and want to help them.

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Life Changin

Quite bluntly, this book changed my life. Jenni allowed me to see that life beyond what I was living was possible and told me the real stuff to do. She was not my therapist and never tried to be, this is not a book that is a stand alone answer to your eating disorder. She is very upfront about that. It is a book you should read while in therapy, but it is real and unlike many self-help books, manageable. It doesn't overwhelm you, and tells you what to do when you stumble, which is a very real part of recovery. Eating disorders are a unique illness, and only someone who has heard Ed, lived with Ed and thrown Ed out can really understand what she is saying. It is also a great book for family and friends who don't understand why just eating won't solve the problem. She gets the tricks and traps of the illness, the bizarre comfort of the illness and the terror of letting it go-even as it is slowly killing you. Jenni Schaeffer also has numerous other resources, including blogs, speaking engagements, and a follow up book that gives hope for a recovered life. When you feel you have tried everything and there is no way out, this book tells you something new to try. Her small steps, journal suggestions and personal stories really help-its like having another friend in a support group (the one you should be going to but might not be). One of the best parts of this book is that Jenni addresses the very real fears of an eating disorder and tells you how to seperate your fears from Ed's-those are very helpful for recovery. Her humor helps keep the book moving and keeps the very dreary day-today work of recovery from being as overwhelming as it is. For those of us who have been there, Jenni is the movie star of recovery.

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rcm-31

As a recovering bulimic anorexic, I think this book was a little superficial. I don't think the writer entered the really dark side of eating disorder. I understand that the book itself is not a therapy, but part of it, but the title was the first thing I had difficulty accepting, because in the world of eating disorders, "ANA" and "MIA" are our best friends and we see them as girls, not Ed, the "bad husband" (by the way, she never mentioned these expressions in the book. I would suggest the book to relatives and friends of a sick person, and maybe boys and girls starting with these diseases. But not to someone I was before. Overall, it was her story and I'm glad she shared in a book to help others. So many people, even celebrities have that disease but don't talk about it, afraid of compromising their fame. Tumbs up for Jenni!

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