The Appetite Awareness Workbook: How to Listen to Your Body And Overcome Bingeing, Overeating, & Obsession With Food

April 21st, 2008 Posted in Paperback

Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1572243988
Manufacturer: New Harbinger Publications
Average Customer Review: (From 10 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

Book Description:
People with normal eating patterns eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. But people struggling with binge eating relate very differently to this most basic need, often risking depression, gastrointestinal problems, and even death because of their problems with food. This book offers an eight-week, cognitively based program to help you learn to pay attention to hunger cues, keep track of your feelings about food, and develop an eating schedule that discourages binge eating.

In a series of easy exercises, the book guides you toward taking control of eating habits. First, gradual changes help you eat only when hungry or when a mealtime is scheduled. Then, awareness exercises help you stop eating when moderately full. Finally, by using cognitive techniques to control the tendency to eat for emotional reasons and journaling exercises to stay motivated and on track, you’ll learn how to retrain yourself to maintain normal and healthy eating habits for life.

Customer Reviews

must have for overeaters by Michelle L. Lockard
This is one of the best books I have ever read about changing eating and the way you think about food. It really teaches you to listen to your body and not all the fad diets out there today. I would recommend this book to anyone with a weight problem that stems from disorderly eating.

Helping people recover from disordered eating by S. Kanning
This book is not a diet plan as such. It is a training manual that helps people who have disordered eating habits (overeating, bingeing, as well as food restriction) learn to recognize their bodies’ hunger and satiety signals.

If you are expecting someone to tell you exactly what to eat and when to eat it, this book will probably disappoint. If you are hoping to develop healthier eating habits without having to measure the caloric content of each bite you take for the rest of your life, or perform other obsessive, time-consuming, deprivation-inducing behaviors, if you’d like to eat healthy foods in quantities that are right for your body and actually enjoy the food that you eat, this book might just be the ticket.

I’ve been working through the first week, and it’s a struggle, but I’m already learning a lot about myself and my eating habits. This book is what I was looking for.

The Appetite Awareness Workbook by Dr. Tami Brady
Newborn babies are the picture of perfection when it comes to eating. They eat until they are full and even when nursing to comfort themselves they never binge. If they do happen to consume a little too much, they bubble up the result.

Somewhere between that perfect eating start and now, some of us have gone a little astray. Often we eat not for sustenance but to calm difficult emotions, because others expect us to clean our plate, or something tastes good. We then make things even worse by stuffing ourselves.

The Appetite Awareness Workbook serves as a guide to understanding your own eating issues. Instead of looking at counting calories and other forms of self esteem harming deprivation, this book encourages the reader to learn his or her natural appetite signals. The reader can then easily change his or her eating routines and serving amounts to suit their own nutritional needs completely eliminating the need for counting calories, binging behaviours, and self deprivation.

Learn to recognize the body’s natural - and real - hunger cues by Midwest Book Review
From binge eating to obesity, Americans are more obsessed with weight than ever - yet diets and food logs often prove impossible to stick with. Try another approach with THE APPETITE AWARENESS WORKBOOK, promoting appetite awareness training as a solution to weight struggles. Learn to recognize the body’s natural - and real - hunger cues, and differentiate these from other non-hunger cues in a title which shows how to link emotional eating habits with more sensible routines. The workbook approach lends especially well to home use.

Diane C. Donovan

California Bookwatch

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