Breaking Free from Emotional Eating

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Penguin, 2003 M05 6 - 240 pages
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Geneen Roth, an exploration of the link between dieting, compulsive eating, and emotion, complete with life-changing advice on how to break the binge-diet cycle forever.
 
There is an end to the anguish of emotional eating—and Geneen Roth has made it her life’s work to help people heal their relationship with food through an understanding of the deeply personal and spiritual issues at the root of compulsive eating.
 
In this edition of Breaking Free From Emotional Eating, updated with a new introduction, Roth outlines her proven program for resolving the conflicts at the heart of overeating using simple techniques developed in her highly successful seminars to offer 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 more!
 
By not only explaining the cause of emotional binge eating but also providing actionable techniques for readers to implement in their own lives, Breaking Free continues to help people end the binge-diet-cycle once and for all.
 

Contents

Being Hungry Is Like Being in Love If You Dont Know Youre Probably Not
3
Deciding What You Want to Eat Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
17
Distracted Eating It Doesnt Count If Youre Not Sitting Down
36
Knowing When to Stop Eating When Enough Is Enough
52
Bingeing When Enough Isnt Enough
67
Family Eating The Sins of the Parents
79
Social Eating at Restaurants Parties and during Holidays
96
About Exercise and Scales
108
On Having
123
On Judgment and Awareness Birds Dont Sing in Caves
134
On Trust
147
On Courting and Befriending and Forgiving Yourself
156
On Pain Life Is Hard Then You Die
179
On Sexuality Men Use Sex the Way Women Use Food
188
On Compulsion
199
Conclusion Through Thick and Thin
207

On Wanting If You Dont Let Yourself Have It You Cant Lose It
116

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About the author (2003)

Geneen Roth is a writer and a teacher who has gained international prominence through her work in the field of eating disorders. She is the founder of the Breaking Free workshops, which she has conducted nationwide since 1979. She is also the author of Feeding the Hungry Heart, Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, and When Food is Love. A frequent guest on television and radio programs, she has written for and been featured in Tie, Ms., New Woman, Family Circle, and Cosmopolitan. Her poetry and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies. Born in New York City, she now lives in northern California.

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