The Appetite Awareness Workbook: How to Listen to Your Body and Overcome Bingeing, Overeating, and Obsession with Food

by Linda W. Craighead

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. The Appetite Awareness Workbook 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Food

200 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has changed my life!

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Sammy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent book that falls under the umbrella of real intuitive and mindful eating. Very scientific this one, and used by researchers to conduct studies on normal eating in overweight, underweight, and normal weight individuals.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked it so much I actually bought it.