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Book Description:
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 phobia
• Waking up from the food trance
• Challenging your self-doubts
• Defeating your defeatism
• Creating real safety
• Dealing positively with anger
• And more

Food 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.

Customer Reviews

Life-changing information by BC’s mom
This book is incredible. I saw something of myself in almost every single page. Dr. Gould might have been writing directly to me. Reading it was not an easy experience, as it can be hard to see such bold truths about yourself and to realize all the work there is to be done, but I am very glad I made the effort to read it through to the end. There is a great deal here to think about, chew on, and learn from, and though the process may be difficult I think at the end it can change many people’s lives for the better. I can’t recommend this book highly enough.

Awesome! by Cla Cla
I think this book is a “manual” for all emotional eaters out there. I was able to understand my dysfunctional eating behavior and the reasons why I’ve been yo-yo dieting all my life. It’s a great tool for self-awareness and self-discovery.

Not impressed by Dee K. Lindsay
I was not impressed with this book. It did not give any tools that you might need to help the stress eating.

Disappointed by a reader
Sorry but I couldn’t disagree more with most of these reviews. While very good at nailing the problem (I definitely saw myself in it!), it falls short with a solution. Just more behavior modification. Nothing I haven’t heard before. Cheaper than a shrink and about as effective.

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