Eat by Choice, Not by Habit: Practical Skills for Creating a Healthy Relationship With Your Body and Food

by Sylvia E. Haskvitz

Combining sound dietary information with the techniques of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process, this booklet shifts the focus from simple weight loss to changing the ways readers relate to food and their food choices. Eating is a need, but for those caught in cycles of over-consumption and dieting, it's often a poor attempt to meet other needs, such as emotional fulfillment. When reconnected to actual needs, however, consumption habits turn into nutritional choices, signaling greater freedom.

Find practical strategies to break out of unhealthy eating cycles by becoming aware of your needs. Rather than a proscriptive fad diet, readers learn to dig deeper to the emotional consciousness that underlies our eating patterns. Learn to enjoy the tastes, smells and sensations of healthful eating once again.

Genres: Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2005

Reviews

[Private Account · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think this book was written in a week and not seriously edited. It's a mess. It's unfocused. It doesn't know what its point is. It could have been brilliant and life-changing, but instead it's... sad. It's like the author wanted to write an NVC book about food but didn't know how. This is essentially a rough draft, a draft of ideas, the draft where you cross out 75% of the stuff and realize what you want to focus on.

I expected lot more--I love NVC! I love rewriting my internal dialogue with NVC. I wanted to know how to talk NVC about food to my son but the NVC communication in this book was super short, almost non-existent. This book is just a bunch of useless chapters, one on transfat and soda that goes into almost no detail, the same tips I have read everywhere else about making wise choices in restaurants, the same dumb substitutions, tiny summaries of the things everyone already knows.

UGHHHHHHH.

[Fabiola · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thought it was a book about intuitive eating... or at least close to it. But no. The same diet talk and restrictions you've heard you're while live. Emotionally manipulates you (and in one chapter parents in particular) to make "better choices" which only means what the author think is best...

[Pepi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have already read Marshall B. Rosenberg’s “Nonviolent Communication” and the thought of combining healthy eating with compassion seemed ingenious to me. And it really was! 🧠
We must show empathy towards everyone and everything, and this book reveals that food demands our empathy, too.
As a person, who has always struggled with eating too much sugar, I truly believe that this book represented the first few steps on my path away from sugar. And I think that’s the perfect book for people who want to begin this process!
Thank you, Sylvia E. Haskvitz! For me this was life changing! 💕

[India · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so good. It really focuses on listening to your body about eating. Learning to listen to my body in general is something I am just learning, so this goes along perfectly with that.