Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever

Emotional eating is by far the most common cause of weight gain. As youll learn in Shrink Yourself, all the diets, exercise regimens, and surgical procedures in the world will not free you from this vicious cycle. Why? Because they dont address your reasons for overeating. Shrink Yourself, a supportive, unique, and ground-breaking guide written by a world-renowned therapist who has helped thousands of people lose weight and keep it off, gets to the heart of the problem. Shrink Yourself gives you the equivalent of eight expensive sessions with the best weight-loss therapist in the world for the price of a single book. Yo-yo dieting is an endless cycle. You diet and lose weight. Then you eat comfort food - that piece of cake, huge bowl of ice cream, or enormous bag of potato chips you devour to smother your feelings of fear, anxiety, stress, anger, boredom, loneliness, frustration, or so many other feelings. The comfort doesnt last long. Soon you feel guilty for breaking your diet, so you displace the guilt with another helping. Before long, youre unpacking your fat clothes again and berating yourself for your lack of willpower. Then, warily, you contemplate the next diet. With Shrink Yourself, renowned psychiatrist and emotional eating expert Dr. Roger Gould offers the first step-by-step analysis of the connection between eating and emotion. Dr. Gould explains why the connection is so powerful and shows you how to break the emotional eating cycle, shed all your excess pounds, and keep them off for good. Based on Dr. Goulds unique method and his work involving more than twenty thousand people, this revolutionary eight-session program reveals that youruncontrollable hunger is connected to feelings of powerlessness in your life. Youll discover the five layers of powerlessness and youll learn how to recognize and cope with each of them by: Conquering the feeling phobia Waking up from the food trance Challenging your self-doubts Defeating your defeatism Creating real safety Dealing positively with anger And more Food may be a relatively inexpensive over-the-counter tranquilizer, but its side effects can be devastating. So before you rush to try the next fad diet or start binge eating after a stressful day, ask yourself, Is this the way I want to live? Then read Shrink Yourself and learn how to take control of your emotions to slim down permanently? without ever counting calories again. You can truly shrink yourself.

Author: Roger Gould

Language: English

Edition: 1

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 288

Publisher: Wiley

Publication Date: 2008-04-01