The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook: An Eight-Week Individualized Program to Overcome Compulsive Eating and Make Peace with Food

by Gia Marson EdD, Danielle Keenan-Miller, Carolyn Costin (Foreword)

An innovative and customizable 8-week plan to help you take control of your eating habits—once and for all. Do you feel like your eating gets out of control? When it comes to food, does it feel like your life is controlled by cycles of deprivation and bingeing? Whether or not you’ve been formally diagnosed with a binge-eating disorder, you know that something needs to change. But like many disorders, what helps one person may not help another. That’s why The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook offers a wide range of evidence-based tools to help you take charge of your eating habits.Using the eight-week protocol in this workbook, you’ll learn how to recognize your triggers, cope with difficult emotions, improve relationships, and make healthy food choices that will ultimately improve how you feel. You’ll learn to understand the underlying causes of your binge eating, how to recognize binge-inducing environmental factors, why dieting just doesn’t work, and mindfulness techniques to help you stay present when the urge to binge takes hold.If you’re ready to break the shame-filled cycle of binge eating, this workbook has everything you need to get started today.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Health, Psychology

257 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 1, 2020

Reviews

[Natalie all_books_great_and_small · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

The binge eating prevention workbook is a fantastic guide to help curb binge eating and help you recognise where you are falling into it, why and how to stop. This is a great book which takes you on an 8 week study and guide to help you stop binge eating and falling back into this pattern.

I haven't started the plan yet but I will definitely be giving it a go as it all makes very good sense to me, seems very easy to follow and doable and I love the pages you can fill in as you go along week by week.

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have been on many diets during my life and none of them have stuck although most have been temporarily successful. This book is very user friendly. I have read other books about BED ( Binge eating disorder) and this one is by far the most readable and not too clinical, while citing many studies. The main message is that dieting is harmful and actually creates binge-eating. Hunger in people deliberately trying to go without food creates feelings of deprivation; so by having 3 meals a day plus 3 snacks a day is the best way to go. What we shouldn’t do is try to ‘save up our calories’ into one or two meals but space them out. I found this book very interesting and I do intend to try the 8 week programme. Many thanks to Netgalley for an arc of this book.

[Marie Geisel · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is extremely difficult to change habits in the fast-paced world that I live & operate in.....Catch a meal on the run/skip a meal/carbo load; no attention required!
And, then ‘It’ happened. An unforeseen event forced me to examine my lifestyle. It was obvious that ‘business as usual’ was no longer satisfactory if I was to address & turn around my significant health deficiencies. It was not easy to sincerely address the concerns of ‘was I eating enough, was I getting the right nutrients’? It was obvious the answer was ‘No’.
After coming to terms with my conscience, I sought input from friends, colleagues, & the internet. In my search for modeling & professional expertise, I was fortunate in finding “The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook”.....and, now, I am on my way. It will not be an overnight success for me as I have a history to remedy. But I am ready, willing & able to re-charge so that I am a healthy, vital, & vibrant person once again.
Thank you to the authors, G. Marson & D. Keenan-Miller, for their expertise & insight in designing a remarkable & easy to implement eating plan to good health.

[Jennifer Jank · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't want to wait eight weeks to give the feedback, so I must confess that I haven't been through the whole program although I have started it. The information is very helpful, and I like that they're backed by scientific research. So many books about eating right don't have that backup.

The two issues I have with it are that the Kindle formatting is really, really bad. In one chapter the book discusses setting up a weekly plan for eating, but because of the formatting you can't tell where the meals are supposed to go. I think the information could have been organized a bit better as well. But it's still a solid plan to help people with whatever issues they're having with this particular problem.

[Danielle Kelmar,LCSW & Certified TEAM-CBT Therapist · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a Psychotherapist that specializes in working with individuals who are struggling with eating disorders I couldn't wait for this workbook to be released. It takes the individual through a week by week guided and comprehensive program on how to face Diet Culture, tools to unwrap their individual Compulsive Eating Cycle and define specific explanations as to what may have brought one to where they are. The individual tools that are created with the reader are beautifully designed and the stories that are shared bring life to this empowering Prevention Workbook. I use it and my patients find it helpful and they love working alone at their own speed on it as well. This is the only workbook I will be recommending to my patients who are looking to “Make Peace with Food.”

[Sherri · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very thorough guide to helping you stop the cycle of binge eating. It is an 8-week program, and all of the information is backed by science, which I liked. It covered things like mindful eating, body image, emotional eating, triggers for binge eating and how to avoid or work around those, and how to make attainable goals. It is all laid out in an easy to understand format, with lots of quizzes and exercises to help you work through those issues.

[AMPCW · Rating 5 out of 5]

This can be a truely life-changing book if misbehavior around food is one of your issues. It covers so much about your emotional landscape and helps pinpoint where your issues with food may stem from, while helping you see that you can adjust your coping mechanisms for a better relationship with eating.

I completed the workbook in the timeline suggested and found so many helpful exercises. Some didn't seem as applicable to my issues, so I did skip some but not many. The changes I've been implementing into my life are visible to others around me who know about my struggle with eating behaviors. I plan on going through the workbook again, this time focusing on a chapter each month so that I can internalize what I've learned even more.

I'm very thankful to have discovered this book and would recommend it to others, with the caveat that you don't have to specifically struggle with binge eating to learn from it. I would replace the term of "binge eating" with "food-related misbehavior" as that's more applicable to me and my personal food issues.

[Romi Sigma · Rating 5 out of 5]

The binge eating prevention workbook is an easy read that will definitely help any person suffering from binge eating disorder in their road to recovery. I already practice some of the exercises and I've come far in my fight against BED. As others have already stated, I wish that I'd had a book like this one back when I felt like a prisoner of my eating disorder.

I recommend this book to anyone dealing with disordered eating and anyone who loves a person caught in disordered eating patterns. This is not only for BED sufferers.

With thanks to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for the digital ARC.

[Diana Puckett · Rating 4 out of 5]

. Executed very well. This guide takes a holistic approach to addresses internal and external factors related to binge eating. It isn't written like a dry textbook. The content is engaging and directs the reader through an eight week program. The "work" of the program is exciting and challenging. Scientifically and behaviorally based guidance. I enjoyed reviewing this information and recommend it to anyone struggling in their relationship with food

[Cozy Book Spot · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is interesting and it's like a journal where you can write things as you read. It's like a self help and you can engage the whole time. It might help people that are struggling with binge eating though. It's not really my kind of book because I don't like writing things on my books. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone who has suffered from stress driven binge eating a lot, this book is an invaluable tool that effectively helped me to change my mindset and lifestyle and decrease these episodes. This book is very well written and understandable and can be a super effective tool to help you let go of binging!

[Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish I had found this book earlier. I have read a number of books on binge eating after being diagnosed but found that they were never quite right. This book however seem to make the penny drop and the plan and guidance offered was one that I could relate to
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and author for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

[Alexandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Spaces to write/chart to fill out during the eight-week program. Information, stories, and Q+A with doctors merged to help the reader.

[Benevbooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel some of these were obvious facts, but maybe that just goes to show that most of the time, the most helpful pieces of advice that truly work are the most obvious and cliché ones.

[Owen Cantrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't usually like workbooks, but this one was helpful and had manageable steps.

[Soumya · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have a habit on binge eating whenever I am stressed or upset. Therefore, I picked up this book so as to gain some insight in order to break this habit. I loved how easy this book was to read.
I have tried to follow the eight week programme and I actually found it really helpful.. While some of the guidelines may seem as obvious facts, I found the book helpful when it came to sticking to a pattern.
The editing and formatting could have been better.

I would like to thank the publisher for providing an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.