Stop Eating Your Emotions: How to Live Healthy and Eat Happy

by Isabelle Huot, Catherine Senecal

Do you sometimes catch yourself snacking when you’re not feeling hungry? Do you crave some foods more when you’re stressed, worried or unhappy? Do you feel you’ve lost control when you give in to a craving? Stop Eating Your Emotions will help you make peace with your body and transform your relationship with food to rediscover the pleasure of eating without guilt or anxiety. Equipped with vast experience supporting people who binge-eat or experience episodes of compulsive eating, Huot and Senécal have developed exercises, tips and tools that are sensible and practical, and that work! By rethinking your relationship to food, reconnecting with your body’s natural signals and modifying the thoughts that cause anxiety, you can break the compulsive-eating cycle and enjoy your life. With a foreword by Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Health, Self Help

256 pages, Paperback

Published December 31, 2018

Reviews

[Romy Schlegel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fallait un grand dimanche d’ennui pour lire ceci! La bonne nouvelle ; je ne suis pas assez émotive pour manger mes émotions, et bien trop flemme pour développer une obsession alimentaire ! La mauvaise : je ne comprends toujours pas les principes de base en nutrition, et mon aliment coupable est le saucissonfromage (il ne fait qu’un), que faire !!

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoy reading books on health, diet, exercise; and find it so interesting to find out new information in this field.

This is a basic, helpful book for those trying to get their eating habits under control. You will find out if you have an eating disorder or not, and whether or not you should seek more extensive counselling/help or go along with the guidelines provided. The book is written by two authors - both experienced in psychology with a special interest in eating disorders. For someone that wants to read a very quick, concise book that details when and where you should go for help, this is the book for you.

Personally, I found the book too basic; not enough details, and it felt somewhat choppy. I had to re-read sections several times because the choppiness caused me to forget what was written very easily. I do believe that many busy people would find this book very helpful though. There is a section at the back of the book that contains resources for Canadians in every province.

I learned a few helpful tips, but for me, a more detailed book written in a different style would have been my first choice.

[Les lectures de Grumpy Cath · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! On dirait que ça a été écrit pour moi. Très aidant!

[Rania B · Rating 1 out of 5]

Easy reading yes but all over the place from eating disorders to overeating - not what I thought it was about

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found it to be a little choppy but anyone who has had issues with overeating or using food to cope with emotions would find some helpful information in here. Helpful looking at the full picture and using holistic approaches like cbt to address eating issues. I found it had useful info for supporting others too.

[Julie Palmer Teets · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found some conflicting information in this book. In one hand it promoted intuitive eating, then it also promoted weight loss and getting rid of trigger foods. I was kinda confused. On the positive side it did have good techniques for overcoming compulsive eating. It just was not my kind of book.

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

A read it in one sitting. A lot of useful tips, and I really enjoyed the story's that people wrote in the book talking about their eating habits.

[Erin Williamson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always find books on healthier living and eating interesting with all the different approaches authors take. This was an easy read backed by research and simplified things just enough.

[Mrs. P. Christie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un excellent livre mêlant nutrition et psychologie, pleins de bons conseils d'astuces et d'explications pour mieux comprendre !

[Sproloqui Di Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un ottimo strumento che ti fornisce riflessioni ed esercizi per individuare che rapporto hai con il cibo.

[Irene Milloni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Libro utilissimo e interessante, lo consiglio a chi si interessa di questo argomento.

[♫ Erica ♫]

Honestly a great book if you want to start repairing your relationship with food

[Liquidambar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quando si inizia una lettura di questo tipo, di solito non si cerca il miracolo: io ho voluto approfondire il fenomeno della fame nervosa, ma non mi aspettavo di trovare un vero e proprio manuale di self-help.
Le scrittrici sono entrambe professioniste palesemente abituate ad avere a che fare quotidianamente con persone che soffrono tantissimo per riprendere il controllo della loro vita, e per questo motivo adottano un atteggiamento pratico e coerente, privo di fronzoli e di ideali estremisti, mirato ad identificare ed arginare una patologia che come tante altre è avvolta da strati e strati di pregiudizi. La competenza e la serietà con cui le autrici analizzano la scena prototipica "donna frustrata fa fuori una vaschetta intera di gelato", la comprensione e la speranza che infondono i capitoli sono elementi veramente più unici che rari in un libro che parla, essenzialmente, di dieta.

[Chicky Poo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Plusieurs points étaient intéressants, mais je n'étais finalement pas si concernée que ça (ce qui est rassurant quelque part). Je garde plusieurs conseils en mémoire cependant.