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Written in easy-to-understand, everyday language, The Rules of "Normal" Eating lays out the four basic rules that "normal" eaters follow instinctively — eating when they're hungry, choosing foods that satisfy them, eating with awareness and enjoyment, and stopping when they're full or satisfied. Along with specific skills and techniques that help promote change, the book presents a proven cognitive-behavioral model of transformation that targets beliefs, feelings, and behaviors about food and eating and points the way toward genuine physical and emotional fulfillment. Readers learn how to reprogram their dysfunctional beliefs, manage uncomfortable feelings without turning to food, and establish new eating habits that tune their bodies into natural sensations of hunger, pleasure, satisfaction, and satiation. Filled with humorous insights, compassion, and practical wisdom, the book outlines balanced attitudes and patterns that benefit all types of eaters.
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Sensible, Comprehensive and Grounded
I bought this book because I was tired of wasting my time thinking, worrying and feeling bad about what I was eating and what I weighed. I tend to overeat, feel bad about what I weigh and how I look, get excited about dieting, lose the weight and then start the cycle all over again!
The author has an excellent style of writing: she is thoughtful and intelligent, without making any wild statements or proclamations. One could say she is practicing the rational thinking that she preaches.
If you are looking for a book to help you lose weight, you may need to look elsewhere. But, this book provides you with much, much more than that: how to have a healthy relationship with food and eating. As an added plus, you will learn how to examine your beliefs (about anything) and choose ones that will leave you happier and healthier. What more could you ask for from a book?
The author has an excellent style of writing: she is thoughtful and intelligent, without making any wild statements or proclamations. One could say she is practicing the rational thinking that she preaches.
If you are looking for a book to help you lose weight, you may need to look elsewhere. But, this book provides you with much, much more than that: how to have a healthy relationship with food and eating. As an added plus, you will learn how to examine your beliefs (about anything) and choose ones that will leave you happier and healthier. What more could you ask for from a book?
Sometimes you just have to face the pain
"The Rules of 'Normal' Eating" is a touching,hopeful, helpful. loving and validating book written in everyday language with great humor and wide appeal. Karen Koenig hits on so many dysfunctional eating beliefs, behaviors and feelings that disordered eaters cannot help but see themselves. This book should not just be read by individuals on their journey of recovery,but by the therapists who wish to guide and support them as well. The American culture has become pleasure-seeking and pain-avoidant to the extent that we will often do anything to avoid experiencing emotional discomfort. This book is a reminder that only good can come out of an exploration of what drives us so that we can learn to endure,understand and resolve our emotional pain. This book is the light at the end of the tunnel that replaces the light at the back of the fridge. Nina Martin,BSN,LCSW,former director of an inpatient eating disorder program at a community hospital in Suffern, N.Y. and current director of the mental health clinic at the same hospital.
your search for the perfect book on eating disorders is over!
Karen is spot on with this book. Well organized and well written, Karen gets right down to the point that anyone with a eating disorder can relate to. It's easy to refer back to over and over again and great to keep in your tote bag in case of the need for emergancy support. Though she makes the process of normal eating seem like a walk in the park, she reminds the reader that it takes time and effort. But everything she says makes so much sense.
I am a psychotherapist who specializes in food and body image disorders and I was absolutely thrilled when this book came out. I recommend The Rules of Normal Eating to all my clients who struggle with emotional and compulsive eating and I have used the book as an adjunct to my groups. I have seen first hand what a difference this book makes in people's lives.
First, the book is very accessible. It's easy to read and to understand. Karen's writing style is comfortable and engaging and she has a great sense of humor. She also speaks from personal experience which makes the reader feel like she's not just some authority on the topic, but someone who knows exactly what you're going through.
Second, Karen offers practical tools that if followed can help readers fundamentally change their relationship to food. She shows readers how to examine and challenge their beliefs about food, their body's and themselves. Readers discover healthy new ways of thinking. She offers practical and effective strategies for listening to and trusting the body, working through uncomfortable feelings and caring for the self.
Karen does not pretend that doing this work is easy. She has great empathy for how difficult it is to honestly examine one's relationship to food and one's deeply held beliefs and make necessary changes. But she stays with the reader every step of the way, giving amazing suggestions, support and compassion. FIVE STARS!
First, the book is very accessible. It's easy to read and to understand. Karen's writing style is comfortable and engaging and she has a great sense of humor. She also speaks from personal experience which makes the reader feel like she's not just some authority on the topic, but someone who knows exactly what you're going through.
Second, Karen offers practical tools that if followed can help readers fundamentally change their relationship to food. She shows readers how to examine and challenge their beliefs about food, their body's and themselves. Readers discover healthy new ways of thinking. She offers practical and effective strategies for listening to and trusting the body, working through uncomfortable feelings and caring for the self.
Karen does not pretend that doing this work is easy. She has great empathy for how difficult it is to honestly examine one's relationship to food and one's deeply held beliefs and make necessary changes. But she stays with the reader every step of the way, giving amazing suggestions, support and compassion. FIVE STARS!
Finally, a book that makes sense!
I have been an emotional and binge eater with a history of related eating disorders. I have tried most diets out there, own most books on healthy eating that have come out since the 70s, and have exercised both moderately and to excess. I have never been able to find whatever it is to keep me at a healthy weight -- until now.
It has always maddened me that people (such as DH) are able to eat normally and never worry about calories or food groups or weight. This book has helped me understand why they can do it and I can't. It also contains exercises to help me understand the relationship that my beliefs, feelings, and actions have on my life, and exercises to help me replace some of my unhealthy beliefs, feelings, and actions with healthier ones. I highly recommend this book to anyone who had struggled with weight and food issues.
I also recommend her workbook, The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health which takes the ideas in this book a step further and is filled with information and exercises to help continue the self-work it takes to finally become a more normal eater.
I have been practicing the principles in this book and have begun working in the workbook. A month later (after ditching all diet books and ideas) I have lost a few pounds (normally the absence of a diet would mean an incredible weight gain) and am more relaxed around food. The best things this has given me is the ability to focus on other things in my life and not have every waking thought revolve around what I just ate, what I am eating, and what I am going to eat next and when.
Is this process easy? No, not really. Is it worth it? You bet!!!
It has always maddened me that people (such as DH) are able to eat normally and never worry about calories or food groups or weight. This book has helped me understand why they can do it and I can't. It also contains exercises to help me understand the relationship that my beliefs, feelings, and actions have on my life, and exercises to help me replace some of my unhealthy beliefs, feelings, and actions with healthier ones. I highly recommend this book to anyone who had struggled with weight and food issues.
I also recommend her workbook, The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health which takes the ideas in this book a step further and is filled with information and exercises to help continue the self-work it takes to finally become a more normal eater.
I have been practicing the principles in this book and have begun working in the workbook. A month later (after ditching all diet books and ideas) I have lost a few pounds (normally the absence of a diet would mean an incredible weight gain) and am more relaxed around food. The best things this has given me is the ability to focus on other things in my life and not have every waking thought revolve around what I just ate, what I am eating, and what I am going to eat next and when.
Is this process easy? No, not really. Is it worth it? You bet!!!
Straighforward, practicle guide to CBT
The book lures you in with a somewhat over-simple promise that appeals to all sorts of disfunctional eaters, that rules can set you free. Actually you have to do some work to apply the ideas, but it's worth it. This book walks you through a cognitive behavioral therapy approach (the standard method eating disorders are attacked by most programs) without too much psycho-babble or psudo-science. It took me a few tried to really want to read it all, because she seems to beat simple points to death, but eventually I realized it was for a reason -- you need to go through the process.
I own a women's gym here in New Jersey. We do weight loss workshops. This book is packed full of enlightening information on how to become a normal eater. I've shared much of what I've learned and I carry this book for resale so that others have the opportunity to grow as I have.
One of a kind treasure~! Betty Anne Read, Mgr. [..]
One of a kind treasure~! Betty Anne Read, Mgr. [..]
Common Sense Approach to Healthy Eating
I found this book at the library, and almost immediately knew it was one I would want to buy and reread over and over.
I really appreciate the author's logical, common sense philosophy on eating: eat when you are hungry; eat something that will satisfy your hunger; stop when you are satisfied. Although these are very simple concepts, for someone with disordered eating patterns, it is not very easy to do. I feel confident that with the tools provided by this book, I can retrain myself to eat normally.
I really appreciate the author's logical, common sense philosophy on eating: eat when you are hungry; eat something that will satisfy your hunger; stop when you are satisfied. Although these are very simple concepts, for someone with disordered eating patterns, it is not very easy to do. I feel confident that with the tools provided by this book, I can retrain myself to eat normally.
I am a Registered Dietitian who works at an inpatient and outpatient eating disorder clinic. I picked up this book to supplement what I already believe to be true about forming a "normal," "healthy" relationship with food. I supported every word I read. The book gave me new insight and new perspectives on this topic. I have already used many of Karen's ideas with my own clients and will continue to implement her book as a useful tool in my practice. I highly recommend this book to anyone struggling with food issues and to any clinicians working with this population.
I Recommend This Book to My Clients.
This is an excellent book that helps to rid the incessant "diet police" chatter in your thought process. The "Feelings and Feeding" chapter is particularly helpful.
A Rulebook with humor and common sense
This little book captivates the reader with just the right combination of heart and mind. Koenig speaks in the first person, making a firm connection with the reader and offering hope. She reaches out to eating sufferers of all types providing sound prescriptions for recovery from one of the most prevalent disorders of our time. (Statistics tell us that 63% of Americans are overweight and 25% are obese). And she does so with compassion and with a sense of humor.
Koenig's conceptual framework is cognitive-behavioral. She has devised clear bulleted lists for many common, and not so common, dysfunctional thoughts, thoughts that propel people to compulsively overeat or to restrict or to binge and purge. Along side these she has proposed healthy options for how to think about your relationship with food.
As an eating disorders specialist myself, I have prescribed the book as an adjunct to therapy for all of my clients with concerns about food, people who sorely need replacement literature for the diet industry's propaganda. It is an eye-opener for the average person worried about taking off a few pounds and who has experimented with diets. It dispels myths about dieting and counters with rules that work about how to develop a normal relationship with food, a relationship most of us had as youngsters.
Koenig's conceptual framework is cognitive-behavioral. She has devised clear bulleted lists for many common, and not so common, dysfunctional thoughts, thoughts that propel people to compulsively overeat or to restrict or to binge and purge. Along side these she has proposed healthy options for how to think about your relationship with food.
As an eating disorders specialist myself, I have prescribed the book as an adjunct to therapy for all of my clients with concerns about food, people who sorely need replacement literature for the diet industry's propaganda. It is an eye-opener for the average person worried about taking off a few pounds and who has experimented with diets. It dispels myths about dieting and counters with rules that work about how to develop a normal relationship with food, a relationship most of us had as youngsters.
A Life Changing, Wonderful Book
After dealing with eating issues most of my life, this book has opened my eyes and given me hope that I can find recovery.
Her common-sense, friendly approach is comforting even as it's presenting you with life changing concepts. This is not a "follow my rules to succeed" book because that all-or-nothing, perfectionist thinking is what got most people with eating disorders into the predicament they're in! This is all about trusting and honoring your body, allowing yourself to feel and process your emotions, and ridding yourself of the dieting thoughts that have distorted our beliefs about food and our bodies.
I highly recommend this book and consider it one of the best out there for anyone dealing with food issues. It will change your life.
Her common-sense, friendly approach is comforting even as it's presenting you with life changing concepts. This is not a "follow my rules to succeed" book because that all-or-nothing, perfectionist thinking is what got most people with eating disorders into the predicament they're in! This is all about trusting and honoring your body, allowing yourself to feel and process your emotions, and ridding yourself of the dieting thoughts that have distorted our beliefs about food and our bodies.
I highly recommend this book and consider it one of the best out there for anyone dealing with food issues. It will change your life.
Invaluable resource for intuitive eating
I highly recommend this book to anyone who struggles with "normal" eating.
My relationship with food has changed forever, though I'm still working through the process. This is not a quick fix, and it's NOT another diet. If you're ready to stop dieting, and learn to deal rationally with your food issues, then buy this book. It's worth every penny.
My relationship with food has changed forever, though I'm still working through the process. This is not a quick fix, and it's NOT another diet. If you're ready to stop dieting, and learn to deal rationally with your food issues, then buy this book. It's worth every penny.
This book gets to the heart of why we overeat.
Anyone who has struggled with a weight problem can tell you-it's not about diet and excercise!!Most of us (I definitely include myself here) have been on more diets than we care to think about and understanding how to combine(or eliminate) our carbs and proteins, track our points,read our labels etc.is not the issue. The issue is WHY do we eat when we aren't hungry and WHY do we keep eating when we are satisfied???
This book has helped me to start really exploring these questions- I am highlighting constantly- the insights I am gaining are simply profound. I recommend this book 100% to anyone who struggles with their weight.It's helping me to recognize the beliefs behind my behaviors and offering hope of true change.
This book has helped me to start really exploring these questions- I am highlighting constantly- the insights I am gaining are simply profound. I recommend this book 100% to anyone who struggles with their weight.It's helping me to recognize the beliefs behind my behaviors and offering hope of true change.
CBT approach to eating difficulties
my ED group leader recommended this book to me and i'm so pleased she did. i was already familiar with CBT therapy, but not with how to apply it to my ED. this book made so much sense and was very down to earth. you should know, however, that this is not a simple cure-all, diet book. as the author states numerous times, this method takes time and work on your part. i'd highly recommend this book to anyone with an eating difficulty.
Koenig goes beyond the simple rules of intuitive eating into the heart of the issue
This book is an excellent read for those dealing with emotional eating. I'm not finished with this book. Yet, every time I read it, I learn something new. Her voice is compassionate and assertive. And, she explores the emotional issues that drive us to eat rather than feel. Plus, Koenig doesn't overwhelm the reader with a lot of psycho-babble. She's firmly rooted in cognitive-behavioral therapy, which empowers emotional eaters to deal with their issues head on.
Koenig also states that, like alcoholism, emotional eaters will never be cured, but will be a work in progress. It taught me to stop, think, and listen to my heart and body. I highly recommend it!
Koenig also states that, like alcoholism, emotional eaters will never be cured, but will be a work in progress. It taught me to stop, think, and listen to my heart and body. I highly recommend it!
Probably the most complete, step by step book ever written for those dealing with dysfunctional eating. Karen gets directly to the core issues and beliefs and thus setting the stage for the reader to create a pathway to freedom. Feelings are survivable, although so many of us will do anything not to feel them. When you are staring at the kitchen cupboard looking for food when you are not hungry, there were thoughts, feelings and beliefs that brought you there. This book, coupled with her "Food and Feelings Workbook" truly provide the way out of the labarynth.
How to get rid of your Inner Diet Police that make your life a misery but still have a healthy lifestyle.
Hope for Those Wanting to be a Normal Eating
I found this book to be extremely helpful in the process of overcoming a long term eating disorder. Having been both anorexic and overweight, this book has offered me hope in teaching me to read my bodie's clues and to begin to trust them. I appreciate that while the author is honest in saying that becoming a normal eater requires hard work, she also impart's hope to both those who have totally learned to ignore their body's clues that they are full and those who have have learned to ignore physcial hunger and have lived under the tyranny of food diaries and counting calories and fat grams.
This is the book that helped me!
Finally after many years of struggle and reading many, many books on the subject I found one I could really use and follow successfully. It's obvious that the author not only knows her subject but that she has applied these same "rules" herself and resolved her own eating issues. There is so much confusing and conflicting information out there nowadays. It was refreshing to find such an easy approach to follow. This is one of those-- just do it books-- and I did! I made many changes right away and am now working on the "stickier" behaviors. The author writes with humor about a very serious subject. Thank you Karen Koenig!
This is a wonderful book. It was recommended to me by my nutritionist (shout out to Ginger!) and it has been so enlightening in many ways. It touches on many things I already knew about eating but has much much more that is new for me. Most important for me is it's simple yet in-depth approach and guidelines for looking at and understanding my relationship and irrational good versus bad moral judgments about foods. I initially rejected that I had a moral viewpoint about food until I opened my mind and read, thought about, and reread this book. I particularly like this book as it can be picked up and put down and then returned to. It isn't necessary to read it cover to cover. In fact that was not working for me at all. I needed to read and reflect to be really receptive to all the author was saying and then I could apply it to me and my life. This is one of those books that will always be part of my life's little reference library - a TOP 10. Am I a normal eater? Not yet. However I am moving there and most importantly I believe I can be a normal eater and now I know normal eating when I see it. The author makes no promises that it is easy or that one will become a normal eater or when that will happen. However a lot of help and direction and hope is provided in this easy to read and easy to understand book.
I have read quite a few books covering intuitive eating and non-dieting issues but find Karen Koenig's book one of the most helpful books I have read. She is very realistic and never claims that there is a quick fix. Everything is explained very well and makes a lot of sense. I am reading it for the second time now, writing in my journal about it and highlighting parts that really 'speak' to me. I feel understood and it gives me hope that I can become a normal eater.
I just received this book and I can't put it down. It has the most reasonable, logical arguments to explain the irrationality of overeating. I find that it contradicts other books I have read;I have followed Weight Watcher's philosophy and Over-eater's Anonymous steps and they treat the person as out-of-control. While this book gives you credit for being rational and sane the whole time, just out of step. I look forward to following the rules and making progress on my goals.
Right Knowledge In This Book I Promise You
I have lost over 150 pounds and kept it off for over 35 years now. I am a psychotherapist by profession and have read tons of books on weight loss and addictions. I really only have two books currently I think hit the spot for folks who are interested in mastering the right knowledge when it comes to compulsive overeating, food addiction, obesity or whatever term you want to use in the matter. This book is one of them. The other one Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle Therefore, my unqualified recommendation is buy this book! You might also want to get the other one as well.
This book is an excellent companion to The Food and Feelings Workbook. It is well written, insightful, and helpful.
My first and favorite book about Intuitive Eating!
I got this book back in the Spring of 2009 and it was my first step in healing. I saw myself in every page with every worry that the Dieter and Disordered Eating patient has. I actually sought help bc of this book! Unfortunately my book is packed away after moving and I cannot find the box it was packed into. I love this book and it's really a fast read! If you are someone who has ever been on the Diet Rollercoaster, Had/has and ED, hates your body, the scale, or has a poor relationship with food including food labeling and policing- this is the book for you!
I literally bought about 25 books about IE, Body Accpetance, and Emotional Eating and this is my favorite. When compared to the titled book "Intuitive Eating" this for me, was a much better read. It's straight forward and to the point. Again I don't have my book next to me, but the chapters are neatly organized and each *Principle or "rule"* has it's own chapter- shorter chapters. The book is not hard to understand and you are not lost in the research stats. Now if you want the stats and medical journal quotes/studies, Intuitive Eating would be a better buy. I have to be honest that I made it half way through the book and became bored. Rules of Normal Eating was writen in a style as if she was talking to you directly- not at you! There are no diets or food guidelines to follow only know that there are no "good and bad" foods, only levels of nutrition. Both IE and Health at Every Size (another IE/BA/EmoEating book) start to talk about "how" you should strive to eat towards the end. When you follow a true IE lifestyle, you don't need to have someone telling you what to eat- that to me negates the whole *leaving the diet mentallity behind* kind of deal. Furthermore when you are eating for an IE lifestyle what your body needs as an individual will vary compared to the next person. Some people are more carb sensitive, others don't like a certain food group (vegans or even just those that acutally don't like fruit!). The point- When you truly live an IE lifestyle you don't need to follow someone else's idea of what is healthy, right, correct, or "should be". You eat the foods that make you body feel good, that give you energy. For some that will be a PB & J with chips at lunch, some will have a protein shake, and others will want a huge salad. None of them are wrong as long as it is what you as an individual wants and as long as it doesn't take away from feeling great- That's the idea of this book!
Develope a better relationship with yourself, leave the scale behind, deal with the emotions, and you'll start to eat in a way that honors your body, life, and likes without guilt or judgement. This is by far my favorite book on the subject!
I literally bought about 25 books about IE, Body Accpetance, and Emotional Eating and this is my favorite. When compared to the titled book "Intuitive Eating" this for me, was a much better read. It's straight forward and to the point. Again I don't have my book next to me, but the chapters are neatly organized and each *Principle or "rule"* has it's own chapter- shorter chapters. The book is not hard to understand and you are not lost in the research stats. Now if you want the stats and medical journal quotes/studies, Intuitive Eating would be a better buy. I have to be honest that I made it half way through the book and became bored. Rules of Normal Eating was writen in a style as if she was talking to you directly- not at you! There are no diets or food guidelines to follow only know that there are no "good and bad" foods, only levels of nutrition. Both IE and Health at Every Size (another IE/BA/EmoEating book) start to talk about "how" you should strive to eat towards the end. When you follow a true IE lifestyle, you don't need to have someone telling you what to eat- that to me negates the whole *leaving the diet mentallity behind* kind of deal. Furthermore when you are eating for an IE lifestyle what your body needs as an individual will vary compared to the next person. Some people are more carb sensitive, others don't like a certain food group (vegans or even just those that acutally don't like fruit!). The point- When you truly live an IE lifestyle you don't need to follow someone else's idea of what is healthy, right, correct, or "should be". You eat the foods that make you body feel good, that give you energy. For some that will be a PB & J with chips at lunch, some will have a protein shake, and others will want a huge salad. None of them are wrong as long as it is what you as an individual wants and as long as it doesn't take away from feeling great- That's the idea of this book!
Develope a better relationship with yourself, leave the scale behind, deal with the emotions, and you'll start to eat in a way that honors your body, life, and likes without guilt or judgement. This is by far my favorite book on the subject!
I've read several books on compulsive eating and having trouble just saying "no." This book is the absolute BEST book written regarding eating behavior issues! I strongly recommend anyone who is having problems with food to read this book. This author really "hit the nail on the head." It was like she was talking to me and really knew what my issues were. Read this book and you'll get a lot of help and questions answered. It did help that she, herself, has had eating issues for several years of her life so she knows where we are all at.
Karen Koenig's work is an excellent addition to the Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size curriculum. I teach a seven-week Intuitive eating course and use lots of her concepts - especially the list of irrational beliefs. A definite read if you are looking to gain a sane perspective on food and your body.
This book has been a big help. The author Karen Koenig has made it easy to follow.The book has given me inspiration to continue my struggle with my weight issues. I recommend this book too all.
This book is extremely helpful.
I found this book to be extremely helpful and full of practical, easy-to-implement advice. The author, Ms. Koenig, has clearly "been there" herself, and her book speaks to the frustration, and downword spiral some of us have experienced. Her lightweight, often humorous touch is just what is needed for this serious subject. I recommend her book highly for those who have struggled with this issue, and I found it very very helpful.
Not worth the cash; check it out of your library
Before I got this book from my library I wondered how anyone could make a full-length manuscript out of an admittedly good idea. Now I know - they can't.
"The Rules of 'Normal' Eating" is an irritatingly unoriginal touchy-feely book for those who've never (and I mean NEVER) had any therapy. If you've had plenty of it you don't need this book, and it won't help you. The only really useful pages with any concrete ideas - the promise of its title - are pages 146-161. Check it out of your library, xerox the pages, and take the book back.
"The Rules of 'Normal' Eating" is an irritatingly unoriginal touchy-feely book for those who've never (and I mean NEVER) had any therapy. If you've had plenty of it you don't need this book, and it won't help you. The only really useful pages with any concrete ideas - the promise of its title - are pages 146-161. Check it out of your library, xerox the pages, and take the book back.
An essential guide for a wide audience
There are four 'rules' that 'normal' eaters follow instinctively: negative thinking and unhealthy habits follow from ignoring them: thus maintains psychotherapist and educator Karen Koenig, who has over 20 years experience on eating and body image issues to contribute to Rules Of 'normal' Eating: A Commonsense Approach For Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, And Everyone In Between! Chapters discuss and contrast rational and irrational beliefs, the impact of these beliefs and emotions on food choices and eating patterns, and how to develop better eating programs. An essential guide for a wide audience, from young adults and those newly on their own to caregivers and students alike.
Reading this book reminded me of being back in high school & being assigned a book I really didn't want to read. It was informative, but the author used no humor, personal stories, or "real-life" accounts of people who have problems or still struggle with food/eating. I have read almost all of Geneen Roth's books on eating, & I guess I'm "spoiled" now to good reading on this issue. Skip this author & get some of G. Roth's books, especially "Breaking Free from Emotional/Compulsive Eating".
i think this book is more for undereaters than emotional eaters. it did not tell me how to do with my feelings at all. this book is for people who dread coming to the dinner table which i dont. i love how at the end of the chapter how they want you to explain to your family and friend that you are trying to eat normally if they like it or not but this book does not help you unless you are anorexic.
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I own a Yahoo! group to help folks ditch their diets and become normal eaters. Of all the "non-dieting" books, Karen R. Koenig's is the one I most often recommend.