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Breaking free from emotional eating, by Geneen Roth

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non fiction

Breaking free from emotional eating

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by Geneen Roth

Roth outlines her proven program for resolving the conflicts at the root of overeating using simple techniques developed in her highly successful seminars

1. Being hungry is like being in love; if you don't know, you're probably not -- 2. Deciding what you want to eat: having your cake and eating it, too -- 3. Distracted eating: it doesn't count if you're not sitting down -- 4. Knowing when to stop eating: when enough is enough -- 5. Bingeing: when enough isn't enough -- 6. Family eating: the sins of the parents -- 7. Social eating at restaurants, parties, and during holidays -- 8. About exercise and scales -- 9. On wanting: if you don't let yourself have it, you can't lose it -- 10. On having -- 11. On judgment and awareness: birds don't sing in caves -- 12. On trust -- 13. On courting and befriending and forgiving yourself -- 14. On pain: "life is hard, then you die." -- 15. On sexuality: "men use sex the way women use food." -- 16. On compulsion -- 17. Conclusion: through thick and thin