Re: Geneen Roth's Women, Food and God

[Guest guest]

Great, and fascinating, review Sue!

Thank you! I can't wait to read it!

Abby

 

" Women, Food and God " summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her previous book " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " explains the guidelines to intuitive eating, " Women, Food and God " describes how people resist using those guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves and resolve eating problems.

I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective: I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's concepts of God, religion and spirituality.

As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food.

I especially liked the chapter entitled " Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't " . Geneen observed from her students that " roughly half of them had never been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least, consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with family. "

Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries. Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control.

That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer " Thin Within " , " 7 Secrets of Slim People " and even Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " , because those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing between permitting and resticting, but " both are subtypes of compulsive eating which is the metadefense. "

In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was " It's Not about the Weight and It's not NOT about the Weight " . There Geneen says:

" Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not stop.'

" The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes too uncomfortable. "

" Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I overeat because I like food.'

(Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something, you pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture. Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love; that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. "

I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who has read Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " but still eats emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food to improve their lives, health and well-being.

SUE

[Guest guest]

Great, and fascinating, review Sue!

Thank you! I can't wait to read it!

Abby

 

" Women, Food and God " summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her previous book " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " explains the guidelines to intuitive eating, " Women, Food and God " describes how people resist using those guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves and resolve eating problems.

I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective: I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's concepts of God, religion and spirituality.

As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food.

I especially liked the chapter entitled " Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't " . Geneen observed from her students that " roughly half of them had never been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least, consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with family. "

Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries. Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control.

That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer " Thin Within " , " 7 Secrets of Slim People " and even Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " , because those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing between permitting and resticting, but " both are subtypes of compulsive eating which is the metadefense. "

In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was " It's Not about the Weight and It's not NOT about the Weight " . There Geneen says:

" Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not stop.'

" The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes too uncomfortable. "

" Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I overeat because I like food.'

(Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something, you pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture. Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love; that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. "

I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who has read Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " but still eats emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food to improve their lives, health and well-being.

SUE

[Guest guest]

Yes Sue thank you so much for posting that Review you are a really good book reviewer Eva

I loved this review, Sue - thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain all of this. This will be a must-read for me after your great synopsis.Blessings,

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:55 AM, sue <penguineahotmail> wrote:

"Women, Food and God" summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her previous book "Breaking Free from Emotional Eating" explains the guidelines to intuitive eating, "Women, Food and God" describes how people resist using those guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves and resolve eating problems. I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective: I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's concepts of God, religion and spirituality.As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food. I especially liked the chapter entitled "Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't". Geneen observed from her students that "roughly half of them had never been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least, consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with family."Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries. Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control. That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer "Thin Within", "7 Secrets of Slim People" and even Geneen Roth's "Breaking Free from Emotional Eating", because those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing between permitting and resticting, but "both are subtypes of compulsive eating which is the metadefense." In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was "It's Not about the Weight and It's not NOT about the Weight". There Geneen says: "Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not stop.'"The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes too uncomfortable.""Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I overeat because I like food.'(Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) "When you like something, you pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture. Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love; that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it."I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who has read Geneen Roth's "Breaking Free from Emotional Eating" but still eats emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food to improve their lives, health and well-being.SUE

[Guest guest]

Yes Sue thank you so much for posting that Review you are a really good book reviewer Eva

I loved this review, Sue - thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain all of this. This will be a must-read for me after your great synopsis.Blessings,

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:55 AM, sue <penguineahotmail> wrote:

"Women, Food and God" summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her previous book "Breaking Free from Emotional Eating" explains the guidelines to intuitive eating, "Women, Food and God" describes how people resist using those guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves and resolve eating problems. I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective: I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's concepts of God, religion and spirituality.As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food. I especially liked the chapter entitled "Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't". Geneen observed from her students that "roughly half of them had never been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least, consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with family."Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries. Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control. That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer "Thin Within", "7 Secrets of Slim People" and even Geneen Roth's "Breaking Free from Emotional Eating", because those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing between permitting and resticting, but "both are subtypes of compulsive eating which is the metadefense." In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was "It's Not about the Weight and It's not NOT about the Weight". There Geneen says: "Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not stop.'"The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes too uncomfortable.""Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I overeat because I like food.'(Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) "When you like something, you pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture. Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love; that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it."I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who has read Geneen Roth's "Breaking Free from Emotional Eating" but still eats emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food to improve their lives, health and well-being.SUE

[Guest guest]

Yes Sue thank you so much for posting that Review you are a really good book reviewer Eva

I loved this review, Sue - thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain all of this. This will be a must-read for me after your great synopsis.Blessings,

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:55 AM, sue <penguineahotmail> wrote:

"Women, Food and God" summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her previous book "Breaking Free from Emotional Eating" explains the guidelines to intuitive eating, "Women, Food and God" describes how people resist using those guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves and resolve eating problems. I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective: I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's concepts of God, religion and spirituality.As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food. I especially liked the chapter entitled "Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't". Geneen observed from her students that "roughly half of them had never been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least, consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with family."Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries. Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control. That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer "Thin Within", "7 Secrets of Slim People" and even Geneen Roth's "Breaking Free from Emotional Eating", because those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing between permitting and resticting, but "both are subtypes of compulsive eating which is the metadefense." In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was "It's Not about the Weight and It's not NOT about the Weight". There Geneen says: "Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not stop.'"The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes too uncomfortable.""Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I overeat because I like food.'(Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) "When you like something, you pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture. Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love; that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it."I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who has read Geneen Roth's "Breaking Free from Emotional Eating" but still eats emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food to improve their lives, health and well-being.SUE

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Abby. Despite proofreading, I noticed a couple of typo's. In the

paragraph that begins: " The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150

pounds " the rest of that sentence should read " is that when you eat when you are

not hungry, YOU are using food as a drug ... " In the paragraph that begins

" (Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something ... " ,

the third and fourth sentences should read: " Overeating does not lead to

rapture. It leads to burping and FARTING and being so sick that you can't think

of anything but how full you are. " Maybe that second typo was a euphemistic

attempt to avoid the flatulence word. However, as someone who suffers from

gastrointestinal diseases and infections, I'm very familiar with that term and

phenomenon. LOL

SUE

>

> Great, and fascinating, review Sue!

>

> Thank you! I can't wait to read it!

>

> Abby

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Abby. Despite proofreading, I noticed a couple of typo's. In the

paragraph that begins: " The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150

pounds " the rest of that sentence should read " is that when you eat when you are

not hungry, YOU are using food as a drug ... " In the paragraph that begins

" (Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something ... " ,

the third and fourth sentences should read: " Overeating does not lead to

rapture. It leads to burping and FARTING and being so sick that you can't think

of anything but how full you are. " Maybe that second typo was a euphemistic

attempt to avoid the flatulence word. However, as someone who suffers from

gastrointestinal diseases and infections, I'm very familiar with that term and

phenomenon. LOL

SUE

>

> Great, and fascinating, review Sue!

>

> Thank you! I can't wait to read it!

>

> Abby

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Abby. Despite proofreading, I noticed a couple of typo's. In the

paragraph that begins: " The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150

pounds " the rest of that sentence should read " is that when you eat when you are

not hungry, YOU are using food as a drug ... " In the paragraph that begins

" (Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something ... " ,

the third and fourth sentences should read: " Overeating does not lead to

rapture. It leads to burping and FARTING and being so sick that you can't think

of anything but how full you are. " Maybe that second typo was a euphemistic

attempt to avoid the flatulence word. However, as someone who suffers from

gastrointestinal diseases and infections, I'm very familiar with that term and

phenomenon. LOL

SUE

>

> Great, and fascinating, review Sue!

>

> Thank you! I can't wait to read it!

>

> Abby

[Guest guest]

I loved this review, Sue - thank you!  I really appreciate you taking the time to explain all of this.  This will be a must-read for me after your great synopsis.Blessings,

 

" Women, Food and God " summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her previous book " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " explains the guidelines to intuitive eating, " Women, Food and God " describes how people resist using those guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves and resolve eating problems.

I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective: I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's concepts of God, religion and spirituality.

As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food.

I especially liked the chapter entitled " Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't " . Geneen observed from her students that " roughly half of them had never been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least, consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with family. "

Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries. Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control.

That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer " Thin Within " , " 7 Secrets of Slim People " and even Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " , because those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing between permitting and resticting, but " both are subtypes of compulsive eating which is the metadefense. "

In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was " It's Not about the Weight and It's not NOT about the Weight " . There Geneen says:

" Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not stop.'

" The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes too uncomfortable. "

" Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I overeat because I like food.'

(Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something, you pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture. Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love; that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. "

I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who has read Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " but still eats emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food to improve their lives, health and well-being.

SUE

[Guest guest]

I loved this review, Sue - thank you!  I really appreciate you taking the time to explain all of this.  This will be a must-read for me after your great synopsis.Blessings,

 

" Women, Food and God " summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her previous book " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " explains the guidelines to intuitive eating, " Women, Food and God " describes how people resist using those guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves and resolve eating problems.

I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective: I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's concepts of God, religion and spirituality.

As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food.

I especially liked the chapter entitled " Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't " . Geneen observed from her students that " roughly half of them had never been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least, consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with family. "

Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries. Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control.

That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer " Thin Within " , " 7 Secrets of Slim People " and even Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " , because those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing between permitting and resticting, but " both are subtypes of compulsive eating which is the metadefense. "

In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was " It's Not about the Weight and It's not NOT about the Weight " . There Geneen says:

" Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not stop.'

" The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes too uncomfortable. "

" Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I overeat because I like food.'

(Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something, you pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture. Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love; that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. "

I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who has read Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " but still eats emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food to improve their lives, health and well-being.

SUE

[Guest guest]

I loved this review, Sue - thank you!  I really appreciate you taking the time to explain all of this.  This will be a must-read for me after your great synopsis.Blessings,

 

" Women, Food and God " summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her previous book " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " explains the guidelines to intuitive eating, " Women, Food and God " describes how people resist using those guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves and resolve eating problems.

I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective: I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's concepts of God, religion and spirituality.

As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food.

I especially liked the chapter entitled " Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't " . Geneen observed from her students that " roughly half of them had never been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least, consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with family. "

Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries. Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control.

That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer " Thin Within " , " 7 Secrets of Slim People " and even Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " , because those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing between permitting and resticting, but " both are subtypes of compulsive eating which is the metadefense. "

In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was " It's Not about the Weight and It's not NOT about the Weight " . There Geneen says:

" Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not stop.'

" The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes too uncomfortable. "

" Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I overeat because I like food.'

(Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something, you pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture. Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love; that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. "

I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who has read Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " but still eats emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food to improve their lives, health and well-being.

SUE

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Eva and . I need to apologize for all my typos. I mistype much

more when I quote from books and don't thoroughly proofread before hitting

'send'. Fortunately most of my typos still convey the message I intended. I

intend to proofread more carefully in future reviews. Would anyone like to read

a review of McKenna's book " I Can Make You Thin " which includes a CD

relaxed visualization exercise?

SUE

>

> Yes Sue thank you so much for posting that Review you are a really good

> book reviewer Eva

>

>

> In a message dated 3/20/2010 6:09:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

> insco5@... writes:

>

>

>

>

> I loved this review, Sue - thank you! I really appreciate you taking the

> time to explain all of this. This will be a must-read for me after your

> great synopsis.

>

> Blessings,

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Eva and . I need to apologize for all my typos. I mistype much

more when I quote from books and don't thoroughly proofread before hitting

'send'. Fortunately most of my typos still convey the message I intended. I

intend to proofread more carefully in future reviews. Would anyone like to read

a review of McKenna's book " I Can Make You Thin " which includes a CD

relaxed visualization exercise?

SUE

>

> Yes Sue thank you so much for posting that Review you are a really good

> book reviewer Eva

>

>

> In a message dated 3/20/2010 6:09:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

> insco5@... writes:

>

>

>

>

> I loved this review, Sue - thank you! I really appreciate you taking the

> time to explain all of this. This will be a must-read for me after your

> great synopsis.

>

> Blessings,

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Eva and . I need to apologize for all my typos. I mistype much

more when I quote from books and don't thoroughly proofread before hitting

'send'. Fortunately most of my typos still convey the message I intended. I

intend to proofread more carefully in future reviews. Would anyone like to read

a review of McKenna's book " I Can Make You Thin " which includes a CD

relaxed visualization exercise?

SUE

>

> Yes Sue thank you so much for posting that Review you are a really good

> book reviewer Eva

>

>

> In a message dated 3/20/2010 6:09:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

> insco5@... writes:

>

>

>

>

> I loved this review, Sue - thank you! I really appreciate you taking the

> time to explain all of this. This will be a must-read for me after your

> great synopsis.

>

> Blessings,

>

>

[Guest guest]

A very intriguing review, indeed. Thank you for sharing!

I particularly relate to the " Restricters " part of this statement: " Restrictors

love rules and boundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control. "

--

>

> " Women, Food and God " summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop

participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of

workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her

previous book " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " explains the guidelines to

intuitive eating, " Women, Food and God " describes how people resist using those

guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves

and resolve eating problems.

>

> I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective:

I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of

writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to

improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's

concepts of God, religion and spirituality.

>

> As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that

relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people

often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love

and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God

offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food.

>

> I especially liked the chapter entitled " Those Who Have Fun and Those Who

Don't " . Geneen observed from her students that " roughly half of them had never

been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being

told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating

uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven

by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least,

consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with

family. "

>

> Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive

eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories

in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE

the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when

hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom

to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries.

Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries.

Permitters numb. Restrictors control.

>

> That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different

intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming

Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer " Thin Within " , " 7 Secrets of Slim

People " and even Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " , because

those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes

cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing

between permitting and resticting, but " both are subtypes of compulsive eating

which is the metadefense. "

>

> In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was " It's Not about the Weight and

It's not NOT about the Weight " . There Geneen says:

>

> " Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach

that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be

license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not

stop.'

>

> " The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you

eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom

or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is

only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making

yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes

too uncomfortable. "

>

> " Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I

overeat because I like food.'

>

> (Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something, you

pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture.

Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being

so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love;

that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is

what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief

that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that

out without ever having to admit it. "

>

> I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still

struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but

resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who

has read Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " but still eats

emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food

to improve their lives, health and well-being.

>

> SUE

>

[Guest guest]

A very intriguing review, indeed. Thank you for sharing!

I particularly relate to the " Restricters " part of this statement: " Restrictors

love rules and boundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control. "

--

>

> " Women, Food and God " summarizes what Geneen Roth learned from her workshop

participants over the past 30 years. I enjoyed reading her descriptions of

workshop participants' reactions to her workshop exercises and ideas. While her

previous book " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " explains the guidelines to

intuitive eating, " Women, Food and God " describes how people resist using those

guidelines and how they can use their resistance to learn more about themselves

and resolve eating problems.

>

> I need to add that my impressions of this book are colored by my perspective:

I've read every book Geneen Roth wrote. So I love her ideas and style of

writing. I've eaten intuitively for 8 years.I am fairly thin, but want to

improve my health and well-being. I'm a Christian, but I'm open to other's

concepts of God, religion and spirituality.

>

> As a Christian I was confused about Geneen Roth's concept of God and how that

relates to food and eating. Eventually I understood her explanation that people

often begin to eat emotionally after they stop believing that they deserve love

and goodness in their life. They stop believing in what the concept of God

offers and begin to numb their desperation, fears and hopelessness with food.

>

> I especially liked the chapter entitled " Those Who Have Fun and Those Who

Don't " . Geneen observed from her students that " roughly half of them had never

been successful on a diet. They weren't interested in rules or order or being

told what to do. They told me about the nether world of glazy-dazy eating

uninterrupted by restriction ... It became clear that not all bingeing is dirven

by deprivation; in half of emotional eaters, bingeing (or, at the very least,

consistent overeating) is a way of life punctuated by sleep, work, time with

family. "

>

> Then Geneen goes on to differentiate the two most common types of compulsive

eaters: permitters and restricters. I'd heard previously about those categories

in GR workshop CD. However in this chapter Geneen explains why some people LOVE

the 'eat whatever you want' part of intuitive eating but resist 'eat when

hungry, mindfully savor each bite and stop when full', while others fear freedom

to eat anything but feel safer when they obey hunger, fullness boundaries.

Permitters hate rules and boundaries. Restrictors love rules and obundaries.

Permitters numb. Restrictors control.

>

> That difference helped me understand why people are drawn to different

intuitive eating approaches. Some may LOVE legalizing food ala Overcoming

Overeating and Intuitive EAting. Others prefer " Thin Within " , " 7 Secrets of Slim

People " and even Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " , because

those books emphasize the importance of obeying guidelines about hunger/fullnes

cues and eating mindfully. Nevertheless, Geneen emphasizes that we can swing

between permitting and resticting, but " both are subtypes of compulsive eating

which is the metadefense. "

>

> In my opinion the most eye-opening chapter was " It's Not about the Weight and

It's not NOT about the Weight " . There Geneen says:

>

> " Most people are so glad to read about, hear about and then begin any approach

that doesn't focus on weight loss as tits main agenda that they take it to be

license to eat without restraint. 'Aha!' they say, 'Let's eat. A lot. Let's not

stop.'

>

> " The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you

eat when ou are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom

or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is

only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making

yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problm when the orginal problem becomes

too uncomfortable. "

>

> " Sometimes people will say, 'But I just like the taste of the food ... I

overeat because I like food.'

>

> (Geneen responds to those comments by saying:) " When you like something, you

pay attention to it ... You want to be present for every second of the rapture.

Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and fateing and being

so sick that you can't think of anything but how full you are. That's not love;

that's suffering. Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is

what happens when you use food to flatten your life ... It's about your belief

that it's not possible to live any other way--and you're using food to act that

out without ever having to admit it. "

>

> I recommend this book to anyone who knows how to eat intuitively, but still

struggles with intuitive eating; to anyone who loves legalizing foods, but

resists waiting for hunger before eating and stopping when full; to anyone who

has read Geneen Roth's " Breaking Free from Emotional Eating " but still eats

emotionally; and especially to anyone who wants to use their struggles with food

to improve their lives, health and well-being.

>

> SUE

>

[Guest guest]

Hi : You're welcome! BTW I'm also a restricter, who swings to the

'permitter' side when I occasionally binge. However, I especially liked

Geneen's comment in WFG that bingeing was not always the result of deprivation.

I can eat my former 'binge foods' moderately every day for 9 months, but still

binge on those same foods when I'm so emotionally distraught that I prefer to

binge than cope with my feelings. When I no longer believe I can control

anything and just want to go numb, I become a permitter for an hour or so. Many

years ago, during a previous, very abusive marriage (which immediately followed

my abusive childhood), I binged almost daily to cope with life and avoid facing

the truth about my marriage. Bingeing and then restricting to compensate for

bingeing was my way to avoid a reality I didn't want to face.

SUE

>

> A very intriguing review, indeed. Thank you for sharing!

> I particularly relate to the " Restricters " part of this statement:

" Restrictors love rules and boundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control. "

>

> --

[Guest guest]

Hi : You're welcome! BTW I'm also a restricter, who swings to the

'permitter' side when I occasionally binge. However, I especially liked

Geneen's comment in WFG that bingeing was not always the result of deprivation.

I can eat my former 'binge foods' moderately every day for 9 months, but still

binge on those same foods when I'm so emotionally distraught that I prefer to

binge than cope with my feelings. When I no longer believe I can control

anything and just want to go numb, I become a permitter for an hour or so. Many

years ago, during a previous, very abusive marriage (which immediately followed

my abusive childhood), I binged almost daily to cope with life and avoid facing

the truth about my marriage. Bingeing and then restricting to compensate for

bingeing was my way to avoid a reality I didn't want to face.

SUE

>

> A very intriguing review, indeed. Thank you for sharing!

> I particularly relate to the " Restricters " part of this statement:

" Restrictors love rules and boundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control. "

>

> --

[Guest guest]

What a fascinating and well-written summary, Sue! I'm going to have to check this book also! Thanks!

Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Sue, I would appreciate you doing a review on McKenna's book. No need to apologize for typos; it was the substance that counted.

All the best,

Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Didn't even notice the typos - my brain scanned right over them, LOL.  Would love to see your reviews - you did a great job.  I'm definitely planning on reading Women, Food and God.  Thanks again!

 

Thanks, Eva and . I need to apologize for all my typos. I mistype much more when I quote from books and don't thoroughly proofread before hitting 'send'. Fortunately most of my typos still convey the message I intended. I intend to proofread more carefully in future reviews. Would anyone like to read a review of McKenna's book " I Can Make You Thin " which includes a CD relaxed visualization exercise?

SUE

>

> Yes Sue thank you so much for posting that Review you are a really good

> book reviewer Eva

>

>

> In a message dated 3/20/2010 6:09:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

> insco5@... writes:

>

>

>

>

> I loved this review, Sue - thank you! I really appreciate you taking the

> time to explain all of this. This will be a must-read for me after your

> great synopsis.

>

> Blessings,

>

>

[Guest guest]

Didn't even notice the typos - my brain scanned right over them, LOL.  Would love to see your reviews - you did a great job.  I'm definitely planning on reading Women, Food and God.  Thanks again!

 

Thanks, Eva and . I need to apologize for all my typos. I mistype much more when I quote from books and don't thoroughly proofread before hitting 'send'. Fortunately most of my typos still convey the message I intended. I intend to proofread more carefully in future reviews. Would anyone like to read a review of McKenna's book " I Can Make You Thin " which includes a CD relaxed visualization exercise?

SUE

>

> Yes Sue thank you so much for posting that Review you are a really good

> book reviewer Eva

>

>

> In a message dated 3/20/2010 6:09:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

> insco5@... writes:

>

>

>

>

> I loved this review, Sue - thank you! I really appreciate you taking the

> time to explain all of this. This will be a must-read for me after your

> great synopsis.

>

> Blessings,

>

>

[Guest guest]

I also am reading this book and really finding it helpful and funny in my quest

to eat in the moment and relate to food in a positive way.

I am new to the group and have struggled with ups and downs (mostly ups) of my

size for the past 15 years. Now at age 50 my weight is beginning to affect my

health, so I hope to learn from all of you and pick up some new insights along

the way.

> > >

> > > A very intriguing review, indeed. Thank you for sharing!

> > > I particularly relate to the " Restricters " part of this statement:

" Restrictors love rules and boundaries. Permitters numb. Restrictors control. "

> > >

> > > --

> >

>