How To Survive Your Diet And Conquer Your Food Issues Forever

In this science-based book, registered dietitian Abby Langer tackles head-on the negative effects of diet culture and offers advice to help you enjoy food and lose weight without guilt or shame. There are so many diets out there, but what if you want to eat well and lose weight without dieting, counting, or restricting? What if you want to love your body, not punish it? Registered dietitian Abby Langer is here to help. In her first-ever book, Abby takes on our obsession with being thin and the diets that are sucking the life, sometimes literally, out of us. For the past twenty years, she has worked with clients from all walks of life to free them from restrictive diets and help them heal their relationship with food. Because all food is good for us—yes, even carbs and fats. All diets are bad. Diets are like Band-Aids for what’s really bothering us: Although we might lose weight, they prey on our insecurities, rob us of time and money, and often leave us with the same negative views of food and our bodies that we’ve always had. When the weight comes back, we still haven’t solved the real issues behind our eating habits—our “why.” This book is different. Chapter by chapter, Abby helps readers uncover the “why” behind their desire to lose weight and their relationship with food, and make lasting, meaningful change to the way they see food, nutrition, themselves, and the world around them. In this book, you’ll learn how guilt and shame affect your food choices, how fullness and satisfaction aren’t the same feeling, why it’s important to quiet your “diet voice” and enjoy food, and what the best way to eat is according to science. Empowering, inclusive, smart, and a must-have, Good Food, Bad Diet will give you the tools to reject diets, repair your relationship with food, and lose weight so you can move on with your life.

Nutritional consultants and documentary filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch have teamed up with the world’s leading experts in nutrition and natural medicine to create Hungry for Change—a groundbreaking documentary film and a practical, prescriptive companion volume to help you transform your eating habits and change your life. A “How-to Guide for Breaking Free from the Diet Trap,” Hungry for Change is based on the indisputable premise that “Food Matters,” as it exposes the truth about the diet industries and the dangers of food addictions, and enables you to take charge of your health and strengthen your mind and body.

Do you knowthat low-fat yogurt, bagels, oranges, bananas, and pasta can make you fat? Do you know that swearing off the chocolate you love can make you put on pounds? Do you know that you don't need willpower to diet? What you "do need is a program that is medically safe, nutritionally sound, and promises astonishing results by taking away your urge to overeat. It's The 5-Day Miracle Diet. When East Coast CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, actors, socialites, and famous sports figures need to lose weight, chances are their doctors refer them to Adele Puhn. She has helped "thousands of men and women in the past eighteen years. Her lucky clients not only lose weight more easily than they ever dreamed possible, but they keep the weight off forever. The reason for their success is Adele Puhn's revolutionary eating program, which is based on cutting-edge biochemical research and years of experience. Seventy-five percent of The 5-Day Miracle Diet is biochemistry. Glucose is the fuel your body needs to keep going, but when unbalanced eating drops blood glucose levels below a certain point, your body responds with an uncontrollable food craving--usually for a carbo-laden, sugary treat like chocolate, ice cream, cookies, even alcohol--that will give your body an instant hit. The problem is that the overdose of glucose starts insulin flowing so profusely that the rug is pulled out from under you. You are left in a state of low blood sugar with a need to eat "more. With Adele Puhn's program, you will learn to eat certain foods at certain times "to regulate your blood sugar and keep it stable all day long . When you're in "good blood sugar," your cravings disappear--aprocess that takes just five days! And not only will you lose your cravings, you'll steadily melt away pounds while feeling more energized, mentally focused, and healthier than ever before. The other twenty-five percent of her program tackles the "fathead mentality that most of us share: the emotional reasons that make us overeat. Adele Puhn gives you powerful strategies for fighting the "fathead's sabotaging ways, whether you overeat in response to your feelings, family issues, or old habits that are hard to let go. So toss our your food pyramids, low-fat cookies, and carbo-packed meals. And throw away words like "willpower, motivation , and "urges . Adele Puhn's program works with your body, not against it, to bring you fabulous results--the weight loss you've always wanted, easier than you ever dreamed possible.

"Sensational advice for anyone who's ever been on a diet. Practical, inspirational and easy to use. Free yourself from food and weight issues forever!" -Dr. Linda Bacon, University of California–Davis If you're one of the nearly 116 million Americans trying to lose weight, only to find out that every diet you've tried has failed you, you are a diet survivor. You can step off the destructive diet bandwagon and reclaim your self-esteem, positive body image and a happy, healthy life. These 60 inspiring lessons will give you the tools you need to change your relationship with food, your body and yourself. Dieting is hazardous to your health. Diets don't work and they won't work, and yo-yo dieting will make you fatter. This book can show you how to: --Never diet again and allow your weight to stabilize --Stop feeling guilty about eating the foods you love --Free up all that mental energy to be more productive and have more fun in life --Get in touch with physical hunger and learn to love your body "Full of insightful tips and perspectives for anyone dealing with weight...straightforward and practical advice that goes beyond the simplistic notion of dieting. This is a must have if you are serious about tackling these issues." -Dr. Dean Edell, syndicated radio host

What to do when food is NOT your best friend. According to a recent Self Magazine, 65% of all women have an unhealthy relationship with food. Often they use food to numb feelings and become binge eaters or overeaters. Food becomes their primary means for coping with everyday stress, anxiety, and other difficult feelings. Drawing on her experience of working with compulsive overeaters and binge eaters for over twenty years, Meryl Beck has developed a revolutionary approach for rewiring your brain that incorporates spiritual, physical and emotional tools for getting healthy. This 21 day plan brings together tools from psychotherapy, the 12 Steps, personal growth, work, and energy healing. Stop Eating Your Heart Out offers a way to rewire the brain to respond differently to the impulses and feelings that create bingeing. Beck, a therapist, and former binge takes an approach to recovery from emotional eating that incorporates spiritual, emotional, and energy work.

Teaches not just how to fight cravings but also how to get rid of them for good.

"This book will completely change the way people think about food, giving them much-needed tools for successfully losing weight." - Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series