50 More Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food

by Susan Albers

In this much-anticipated follow-up to Fifty Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, renowned nutrition expert and New York Times best-selling author of Eat Q, Susan Albers delivers fifty more highly effective ways to help you soothe yourself without eating—leading to a healthier, happier life!

If you’re an emotional overeater, you may turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring a sense of comfort. But, over time, overeating can cause weight gain, heart disease, diabetes, and many other health problems. In Fifty More Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, you’ll find fifty more mindful and healthy activities to help you replace your need to overeat.

Based in popular mindfulness practices, this book will show you how to slow down and be present during mealtime so that you end up making healthier choices. In addition, the activities in the book—such as yoga, aromatherapy, and breathing exercises—will help you gain a greater overall sense of well-being and appreciation for your body.

If you’re ready to stop using food as an emotional crutch, and start feeling healthy, happy, and truly fulfilled, this book offers fifty more ways!

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Health, Audiobook, Food, Psychology, Mental Health

336 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2015

About the author

Dr. Susan Albers is a psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic and the author of nine books. Her work has been quoted in O, the Oprah Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Self Magazine and Natural Health. She provides mindful eating lectures at women's groups, organizations and colleges. Dr. Albers has been a guest on NPR and Dr. OZ T.V. show. www.eatingmindfully.com. Be a facebook fan https://www.facebook.com/eatdrinkmindful or INSTAGRAM: @DrSusanAlbers

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Reviews

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a sequel to "50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food", which I'm afraid I didn't read, so I came into this book not really knowing what to expect. I will openly admit that I am an emotional eater, and I'm fully aware that I can use food as a crutch. I'm always open to exploring anything that helps me move away from this, and I found some of the techniques and thoughts in this book interesting and helpful. A lot of it was stuff I already know or have already thought of as this is something I've been dealing with since I was a teenager.

It is well written in a warm and helpful manner - not at all judgemental, and most of the tips are things that anyone could do at home. I definitely think that a lot of my eating problems can be solved not by lectures on eating healthy - because I already know what's good for me nutritionally - but on getting myself to a place mentally where I feel strong enough to break my bad habits.

There were definitely some tips that didn't seem helpful to me - and overall it took me around a month to read this book as I found it better to tackle in small bite-sized chunks. I don't think it's a miracle cure by any stretch, it's not a replacement for eating well, exercising and keeping healthy - but I did find it contained some interesting ideas for helping myself cope mentally, and I hope that if I can put some of these in action, next time I'm stressed, I may not immediately run for a chocolate fix. Definitely worth the read.

[Dawnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book at pointing out where the problem with soothing yourself with food lies and how you can avoid it yourself.
The tips are easy and mostly just something that you have to train yourself to do, instead of having to spend money on. Because lets me honest, if you are someone that needs food to feel better and want to change that, you don't want to spend a lot of money, but just start doing it! This book offers just that!

I personal am just someone that needs food to soothe myself after a actual tragedy -such as a family death for example as i have sadly learned- this book gave me lots of great tips on how to avoid another trip of needing food to feel better.

I also love that this book doesn't just focus on people that need soothing because of tragic events, but also because of things that you "do" to yourself, as putting yourself on a diet. Because that is most likely when people will fall back into needing the food that they really shouldn't eat.

What i also really enjoyed about this book is that it is not trying to say that food is bad, or that you are horrible for needing comfort food. it is not putting you down if you are someone that has this problem, but rather is written in a tone that feels very much as if the author herself experienced this problem and just shares her knowledge of fighting against it. Which i think is very important in self-help books, that you don't feel that the author is putting your problem down, or doesn't take it seriously or makes it out to be something small and insignificant. This does not happen here!

All in all this book has fantastic tips on how to stop yourself from feeling like you need food when you really are not hungry and how to stop yourself from eating if you don't need to.

If you are someone - or know someone!- that has the need to eat food to comfort yourself, get this book! I am sure that you will find at least one way in it that will help you!

[Kathryn Strain · Rating 5 out of 5]

I could not wait to read this book and it did not disappoint. In contrast to typical diet books, this book asks you to be 'mindful', which had been a foreign concept to me. The goal is to make you stop and consider why you want to eat. If you don't really need to eat, then it gives you 50 suggestions of ways to occupy your mind and/or body. Not all of the suggestions suit me, but there were plenty to use and make my own personal list just for me. I now feel more empowered and more aware. Can't wait to try it out!

[Mandy Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book goes beyond a simple list of 50 ways to soothe yourself without food. It delves into the heart of what causes us to use food as a soother in the first place and gives techniques to combat and overcome this habit. Written in accessible language with a tone of knowledge and caring, this book is a must read for overeaters and binge eaters alike.

[Daisy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was hoping for some self-care and non-food treat ideas. This was just a lot of food stigma, diet culture nonsense.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great one!

This one further builds upon the concepts established in the first book. :)

Happy Reading, everybody!

[GONZA · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book a lot, there are a lot of ways to soothe oneself and mostly they are easy to accomplish. Plus there are many strategies to get to know why we need soothing, which are the thoughts that are not so useful and how to go back to be mindful about us.

Questo libro mi é piaciuto parecchio, ci sono tante modalitá per prendersi cura di se e riguadagnare un certo stato di tranquillitá che si possono attuare molto facilmente. Inoltre ci sono anche strategie per capire come mai in quel momento cercheremmo rifugio nel cibo, perché ci agitiamo e quali sono i pensieri che proprio non ci sono utili.

THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND NEW HARBINGER PUBLICATIONS, INC. FOR THE PREVIEW!

[Janice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great coping resource.

[Marina · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked this one better than the first book of this series (50 ways to soothe yourself without food), which is surprising considering that 100 is a lot of ways to notice and talk about! Still, the second half of those 100 plans I think suited me more.
I also think it might have been the writing that I found more engaging, or the stories being shared.
A big chunk of the book included how to do things that were recommended such as meditation or yoga, and that took up so much space, which took away from the reading experience for somebody not looking to learn more on the subject through this avenue (I have avenues for it already).

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was curious to see what this book had to offer. It gives a great many things to ponder and do instead of eating, which people can dabble with and perhaps come away with a few that resonate and help. I can see how many of these ideas can be used to curb almost any unwanted behavior, say, chronic leg-bouncing while sitting, etc. At the least it leads us to be more aware of the whys and hows of all of our own various behavior foibles.

I admit I didn't realize this was a sequel until after I started reading it, but was fine as a stand alone book.

[Cassie W · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of these methods are just different versions of the same thing. I didn’t read the original 50 ways, so I can’t compare it to that, but as a stand alone, I didn’t find too many great advices. However, parts of the book still resonated with me and I took a lot of it to heart.

[Jennifer · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't know what I was looking for but this was not it. the mudras didn't even come with pictures! Anyone reading this should try the Keto diet.

[Esther Keller · Rating 4 out of 5]

It gave me lots of ideas and food for thought. No pun intended.

[Bethany Stewart · Rating 2 out of 5]

No new information for me on ways to sooth yourself.

[Kjersti · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was good! Didn’t get a chance to get through the whole thing before returning to library. But felt the suggestions were more thoughtful than a lot of the generic suggestions I see online etc.

[M Aghazarian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful! A little like hippie 101--yoga, herbs, breath work, etc. Would probably read better in print when you get to the actual recommendations/practices

[Erika McKee · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was good for awareness.

[Beth E · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought that this was a good book. I made a list of ideas that I thought would work best for myself.

[Sheena LaPratt · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were some nuggets, but a lot of it was yoga based, which I’m fine with, I just don’t need every single yoga pose explained in detail. So much of the book was the author detailing yoga poses rather than talking about emotional eating strategies.

[Odette Cortés · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this book from netgalley.
50 More Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, although the title suggests this is a sequel it can be read without knowing the first part. That is what happened to me, nonetheless, Susan Albers starts, once again, from the beginning.
This book will guide you through the reason why people can start binge eating: "Why we do it?", "What does food do for you?", "Why we crave it?" and it helps you break the cycle of eating, feeling guilty and then eating some more.
I think this book is very understandable, the language and the explanations are very approachable and easy to comprehend. The book will help you identify the reason why you over eat and help you out with ways to break the cycle.
I'm looking forward to applying some one those tips.

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

With a great deal of good points and suggestions, 50 More Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food is a great tool to have. A helpful read, I highly recommend this book.

I was given this book and the review is my own.

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I won this book as Goodreads Giveway.

In 50 more ways Albers provides a clear and easy to follow guide to reduce emotional overeating and increase well-being. The section on mindfulness is particularly well done, I can't wait to share!

[Greg]

This book is easy to understand because the writing style is engaging. I also learned a lot of ideas from this book.

[Bookerina Lovington · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book. It had a lot of good points and made a lot of helpful suggestions. This is not my normal type of reading, but I still thought it was good.

[Claire Burlap · Rating 2 out of 5]

Apparently this book didn't solve my emotional eating problems since the first thing I did after therapy today was go and get Arby's...

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a wealth of fantastic ideas!

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this was a good read. I think it could easily be generalized for just 50 ways to soothe yourself. I learned quite a few new techniques I am going to try with anxiety.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was interesting but it really wasn't anything I didn't know... it's the application of it that needs work...

[Ellen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually reading this but Goodreads won't accept there is book edition. LOL. Good stuff! I am a big fan of mindfulness and that is where I am at in the book. :)

[Taylor Lee · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I'm rating this a 2.5... MAYBE a 3..

Okay, so I liked the beginning of this book and was very helpful that I even put tabs on pages (I never do this). After around 100 pages though it's more of the spiritual ways you can soothe yourself without food.. Don't get me wrong that's perfectly fine if you can do that it's just not for me and just had to skim through some of those chapters because again just something not for me.

So yes I did get a few good tips for me but a lot of it for me was either common sense that I already do or suggestions that just don't work for me. It's a good book to flip through when you really need it but I had to skim through a lot of because I just wasn't into it too much.