Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever
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Emotional eating is by far the most common cause of weight gain. As you'll 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 don't 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 doesn't last long. Soon you feel guilty for breaking your diet, so you displace the guilt with another helping. Before long, you're 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. Gould's unique method and his work involving more than twenty thousand people, this revolutionary eight-session program reveals that your uncontrollable hunger is connected to feelings of powerlessness in your life. You'll discover the five layers of powerlessness and you'll learn how to recognize and cope with each of them by:Conquering the feeling phobiaWaking up from the food tranceChallenging your self-doubtsDefeating your defeatismCreating real safetyDealing positively with anger And moreFood 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.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1The Learning Sessions 9Emotional Eating 101 11Food, the Over-the-Counter Tranquilizer 25The Costs of Powerlessness 37Your Self-Doubt Layer 46Your Frustration/Reward Layer 61Your Safety Layer 93Your Rebellion Layer 109Your Emptiness Layer 126The Practice Sessions 139Recovering Your Power 141Session 1: Getting Started 147Session 2: Conquering the Feeling Phobia 170Session 3: Waking Up from the Food Trance 184Session 4: Challenging Your Self-Doubts 196Session 5: Defeat Your Defeatism 213Session 6: Creating Real Safety 233Session 7: Maturely Dealing with Anger 245Session 8: Fill Yourself Up 256Shrink Yourself Conclusion 264Index 266
