Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food
eBook - ePub

Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food

A Five-Point Plan for Success

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eBook - ePub

Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food

A Five-Point Plan for Success

About this book

Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food is for anyone who would like to eat whatever they like, yet stop just at the point of satisfaction without overeating.

Written by a Columbia University trained psychotherapist and former emotional overeater, Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food offers psychologically sound techniques for recognizing the symptoms of emotional overeating and methods for addressing it in ways that are both effective and enjoyable.

Readers will learn how to become aware of the difference between eating in a healthy way and eating emotionally – neither to satisfy hunger, nor for enjoyment, but in a desperate attempt to distract oneself from painful thoughts and feelings. Diets don't work for people who eat through their emotions. Instead, learning to recognize the stressors that lead to emotional eating and to address those tensions through other methods besides eating is the goal. When we handle stress well away from the table, we're free to relax and really savor our food when we choose to eat. Proven techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) are presented in an innovative, easy-to-remember way. Learning to eat mindfully, for health and enjoyment, becomes the goal, and Arlene Englander walks readers through table techniques designed to make mindful eating easier, habitual, and ultimately second-nature.

Allowing for both fun foods and healthy foods, Englander's approach emphasizes eating healthfully and being aware of best practices and the behavioral objectives of coping with stress, exercising regularly, mindful eating, good nutrition and hydration, and controlling overeating situations. She addresses late-night eating, parties, vacation, and other situations where overindulging may be a risk. She concludes with a prescription that is meant to last so that readers can love their food for a lifetime.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. “Love My Food?!”
  4. Diets Do Work—To Cause Compulsive Overeating and Bingeing!
  5. Point #1: Stress—Learn from It to Lessen It
  6. Point #2: Exercise—Learn to Love It
  7. Point #3: Love Your Food—Hands-on Techniques
  8. Point #4: Fluids and Healthy Foods—Learn to Love Them
  9. Point #5: Evening Eating—“Are You A ‘Light’ Eater?”
  10. Love Your Food with Friends and Family
  11. Love Your Food at Parties and on Vacation
  12. Love Your Food for a Lifetime
  13. Resources
  14. Index
  15. About the Author