Emocje na głodzie Naucz się je kontrolować i jeść w zdrowy sposób

by Lindsey Smith

Książka otrzymała nagrodę „Living Now Book" 2018

Jesteś szczęśliwy? A może potrzebujesz pocieszenia? Nosi cię z głodu? Dopadło cię zmęczenie? Wszystko cię nudzi? Wypróbuj 100 przepisów na nudę, lęk i stres, dokuczliwy głód i smutny nastrój.

Każdy ma czasem ochotę zamknąć się w pokoju z pudełkiem lodów. Jeśli doskwierają ci smutek, stres, wyczerpanie, irytacja czy nuda, nic nie stoi na przeszkodzie, by szukać pocieszenia w jedzeniu, na które akurat masz ochotę. Zamiast jednak sięgać po przetworzone składniki, możesz wybrać to, co ci poprawi nastrój, a przy okazji dostarczy twojemu organizmowi niezbędnych składników odżywczych. Lindsey Smith pokazuje, że to możliwe. I że smakuje wyśmienicie.

Autorka, samozwańcza „dietetyczka emocjonalna”, proponuje lekką i pełną humoru książkę o diecie. Masz ochotę na brownie? Czemu nie! Ostatecznie lepiej zjeść jeden kawałek ciasta niż pięć przypadkowych przekąsek „w zamian”. Smith podpowiada, jak zmienić styl życia, aby dobierać posiłki odpowiednio do nastroju i zaspokajać swoje kulinarne zachcianki. Oprócz zagadnień psychologicznych, opisujących burzliwy związek emocji i jedzenia, dietetyczka serwuje solidną dawkę wiedzy na temat warzyw, owoców, ziół i innych produktów. Nie walczy z zachciankami, za to proponuje na przykład:
- ciasteczkową kontrabandę,
- smoothie wspomagające powrót na ziemię,
- kokosowe curry na kiepski humor,
- lody na złamane serce,
- hummus (a do tego kilka nachosów).

Po przeczytaniu tej książki zobaczysz, jak szybko i łatwo w zdrowy sposób można zaspokoić pragnienia, które pojawiają się w stanach poruszenia emocjonalnego. W takich sytuacjach Lindsey Smith nie mówi: „nie jedz”, tylko proponuje przepisy na to, na co wszyscy mamy wtedy ochotę: coś chrupiącego, coś kremowego, coś słodkiego i coś słonego.

Genres: Nonfiction, Health, Self Help, Food, Cooking, Cookbooks, Reference

280 pages, Paperback

Published September 27, 2019

About the author

LINDSEY SMITH is a nationally recognized author, health coach, speaker, wellness icon, and the blogger behind Food Mood Girl. Best known for her books Junk Foods & Junk Moods and Food Guilt No More, Lindsey has reached thousands of people looking to enhance their mood, decrease their anxiety and learn to love themselves just a little more. When not helping others, Lindsey is typically spending time in her hometown with her husband and dog, Winnie Cooper. Her new book, Eat Your Feelings, launches January 2018 with Wednesday Books.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pretty disappointed in this book. It’s quite a mixed bag. There are some good recommendations and some recipes that look tasty (though not necessarily healthy). Then there are some wacky and unfortunately trendy ideas, like the idea that eating chicken makes you anxious (?!) and a recipe for charcoal ice cream. There’s a heavy emphasis on allegedly good-for-you ingredients like coconut oil, maple syrup, activated charcoal, and turmeric, while the latter is the only one I know to have evidence supporting its benefits. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone seeking solidly healthy recipes and evidence-based advice.

[LeTresa Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ms. Smith has definitely done her research. This is a great and informative read... I just learned why I crave salty foods so much. I'd definitely recommend this book to others. Give it a try!

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great recipes and ideas for eating healthy! This would be a great book for someone who is just learning about healthy eating and healthy lifestyles in general.

[Hallie]

I eat chocolate and drink lattes when I’m sad, mad, happy, and bored so I was intrigued by this cookbook from a food mood eater. Eat Your Feelings: The Food Mood Girl’s Guide to Transforming Your Emotional Eating with Recipes was full of interesting tidbits about eating based on your emotions, easy recipes, and positivity.

Again, I’m no stranger to eating for comfort or celebration and I loved that this book encouraged you to embrace your feelings. The first half of this cookbook focuses on learning why you crave certain foods when you feel sad or happy. It includes helpful charts with common cravings and what your body is really looking for. It also goes into the emotional reasons we crave brownies or french fries. Smith really encourages you to give into your cravings when you need to. Denying yourself what you really want will often make you overeat or feel empty. This book wants us to become food-mood-etarians and embrace the cravings our bodies have because it means that we need something. The first half of this book provides you with a basis of understanding your the emotional, hormonal, or other reasons that you want to eat certain foods.

While this book encourages you to love and treat yourself to what you really want, it also strikes a balance and offers healthy recipes for those common cravings. The recipes that Smith includes aren’t “swap cookies for kale” but instead use actual chocolate chips in healthier recipes. The recipes are broken up based on moods and provide a list of foods that will help you feel better. Within the mood categories, recipes are broken down further by salty, sweet, crunchy, creamy, and drink recipes. It’s super easy to find a recipe that you’re in the mood for. The overall layout of the book is well organized and appealing with inset boxes, little illustrations, and charts.

The cookbook also provides a complete guide to mood-boosting foods. It’s helpfully organized by type of produce, emotions, and cooking preparation. Smith also included a helpful primer lesson on cooking, chopping, and preparing food. These additions make this a great beginner guide for anyone who is new to cooking. Smith’s recipes are also beginner friendly and if there’s anything you don’t know how to do, you can use her guide within the book to learn.

This book is perfect for anyone who wants to improve their eating and moods but doesn’t want to give up the food that makes them happy. Eat Your Feelings is a food-positive cookbook about preparing food that you will boost you!

[Robin Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received an ARC [Advanced Reader’s (Uncorrected) Copy] of this book from the author’s publisher and the following is my honest opinion.

Having worked in city hospitals for only 33 years, especially the last seven years under a particular director I found myself carving certain foods so I could feel relatively comfortable and work better. While I usually didn’t have any breakfast, some mornings I couldn’t start unless I had my BLT on a toasted roll with mayo and a 20-oz. bottle of Pepsi [diet]; days it had been the coffee shop off the hospital’s lobby on some with regular bacon, on others it would be the store across the street which used turkey bacon only since its owners sold no ham or pork products.

Each day my lunch consisted of an item off my list of meals I craved depending how I felt when it became time to eat. While on some days my lunch had been something relatively healthy many day it wasn’t; four chicken wings with pork fried rice and extra onions, a footlong meatball marinara from Subway’s with provolone cheese and extra sauce, or two slices of pizza, each with a bottle of some soda, had been the rule of the day.

I never knew why I would crave certain foods on certain days and not on others, and although my dear OH and I never had any children, I felt like the stereotypical pregnant woman craving some weird food or combination of foods in the middle of the night.

This is why I found this book by Lindsey Smith, The Food Mood Girl, an extremely educational and enlightening reading experience.

The author tells her readers how to acknowledge the cravings you’ve got and to digress from those cravings and to use more sensible substitute ingredients instead. This book had written out of her intense desire for those she comes into contact to be in good physical and mental health, and presented in an entertaining, enjoyable manner not usually found in your standard diet book.

As it is in all cases where people want to transform some part of their existence; so, when it comes to food cravings it’s vital to listen to them since they hold the key to your own distinctive situation and body. Just like those Chinese herbalists who know what combination of herbs would make their clients feel better, this book gets its readers to consider ways to eat healthier and at the same time satisfying the cravings their bodies is yearning to have, and gives numerous recipes which can aid in this endeavor; recipes which are heathier than the foods who’ve once had craved.

For wanting readers like myself to end the cravings which are essentially killing us more each, and to substitute heathier ones instead, I’m happy to give Ms. Smith and her book 5 STARS.

[Amy A · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well intentioned I’m sure, but the food advice from this "nutrition coach" is questionable (e.g. don’t eat factory farmed chicken because they’re anxious and therefore you will be too). Included within the text are several charts of food+mood suggestions that aren't backed up by any facts, only author opinion (craving sweet and you’re sad: eat berries, “hangry” (a term she coined, she says): eat a pear or raisins, bored: clementines, dates, pecans) — charts like this that will never be referenced for behavior modification seem silly to me, sorry. And the recipes...we have “cookie dough contraband” (nut butter, honey, almond flour + chocolate chips...not exactly normal, healthy eating in my book), and things that are at best snack ideas, not recipes: raspberries with chocolate chip stuffed inside (why ruin a good raspberry is what I'm thinking), banana slices with nut butter.

Perhaps an ok book for someone just beginning to sort out their emotional eating issues (because it will reassure that you are not alone), but I didn't find it helpful and regret spending money on it.

[Jody · Rating 2 out of 5]

Closer to 2.5 stars--some of the advice in here was a little new-agey for my taste (avoid eating meat from animals that were stressed because you will feel their anxiety). At the end, what the book was trying to encapsulate was eat a variety of healthy, nutrient-rich and unprocessed foods, take care of yourself, and you will feel fine, which could have been summed up in fewer pages.
The recipes, though, are the bomb.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic guide to food that is one part psychological and one part biological, and all around lighthearted. Offers insight into why we eat what we do at particular times, and how to change your approach to emotional eating without dieting. Smith illustrates why the craving we have cannot compensate for the deeper feeling that are the source of those impulses. Loved the recipe guides grouped by mood: what to eat when you are feeling sad, stressed, etc. The recipe for cookie dough contraband is awesome!

[Susan Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives a lot of insight in to emotional eating. I love all the recipes in it and am anxious to try some of them.

[Crystal · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF. Might go back and try again later, but i found myself getting increasingly aggravated by the book's content, as the author makes a lot of assumptions about food and how it affects the body.

[Teenreadsdotcom · Rating 5 out of 5]

EAT YOUR FEELINGS is the perfect mix of healthy recipes and tips on understanding your food moods. The first half of the book consists of explanations for different emotional eating and what healthy alternatives you can substitute. The second half is filled with fun and healthy recipes for people who want to make that lifestyle change.

I will be the first to admit that I am a food mood girl. I love snacking and I have an obsession with chocolate. I stress eat a lot as well as eat when I’m bored. I am also trying to diversify my reading and read from genres I normally shy away from. When I saw the description for this book I instantly knew I wanted to read it. I instantly connected to Lindsey Smith and the different food moods she outlined in the book and when I finished the first thing I wanted to do was try out one of the recipes.

I loved how aesthetically pleasing the book looks as well. The bright colors and fun illustrations made the book stunning to look at as I turned the pages. I also enjoyed how organized and easy to read it was. I do wish that each recipe had a picture of the final product for me to look at for reference, but for the most part there were a lot of pictures of the foods themselves. The charts in the book were also very helpful and helped me realize that often times I crave sweets because I am stressed, bored, or am missing nutrients in my body.

EAT YOUR FEELINGS also validated my winter and summer blues where I just want to stay in bed and do nothing. Lindsey Smith reminded readers that often times when productive and busy people find themselves with nothing to do, they fill that gap with snacks and unhealthy foods. If that’s not the definition of my life, then I don’t know what is. I also learned quite a bit on why I feel so hungry later in the day when I come home from school. Often I bring quick meals for lunch at school if I know I will be busy and so I am not getting the proper nutrients and calories I need. When I come home I then feel the need to eat and end up overeating because my meals are not balanced.

I definitely learned a lot from this book and cannot wait to try the various recipes that Lindsey Smith has created as healthy alternatives for food mood girls. It is always nice to know that your feelings are valid and I recommend this book to people who want to understand their emotional eating better and find out ways to combat it. As a person who does not fare well in the kitchen I still found EAT YOUR FEELINGS enlightening to read and I feel more educated about the reasons I reach for certain foods. The next time I catch myself craving a certain food, I know I will stop to think about the reasons behind my cravings and maybe take a look at my food mood guide at the healthy alternatives I could eat instead.

Reviewed by Ilona K., Teen Board Member

[Danni Green · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this a lot more than I expected to! I thought it would be silly, and indeed, a fair amount of it is, but it's not aversive, it completely avoids any sort of weight-loss talk or fat-shaming, and it doesn't push dieting or any specific diet over another. Thinking about food in terms of emotions feels like a good connection for me for where I'm at currently in my current physical and emotional wellbeing adventure at the moment, and this book makes it really easy to think about food that way even if it's not clear how scientifically valid the ideas are. I especially appreciated that there are many simple recipes in this book; I didn't actually try any of them yet but they sound really good, easy to make, and readily adaptable for a wide range of dietary needs.

[J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This common sense approach to emotional eating primarily focuses on vegetarian cooking. The first five chapters look at the how and why people eat what they do. Chapter 6 is divided into recipe sections for emotional eating, sad, stressed and anxious, exhausted and tired, hangry, and bored. Hangry is a compulsion to eat because of circumstances rather than hunger. The recipes are easy to follow. The photographs and illustration are eye-catching.

I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway. Although encouraged, I was under no obligation to write a review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

[Lilia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book I loved, the author explains with a unique sense of humor that makes reading very enjoyable and motivates you to make changes in your routine. The recipes are very original and very tasty, as well as containing many practical tips, both for cooking and managing your emotions. Enjoy reading and using this book.

Este libro me encantó, la autora explica con un sentido del humor único que hace muy amena la lectura y te motiva ha realizar cambios en tu rutina. Las recetas son muy originales y muy sabrosas, además de contienen muchos tips prácticos, tanto para cocinar como para manejar tus emociones. Disfrute mucho leyendo y utilizando este libro.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

It has taken me nearly a year to get through reading this whole book!

Now, onward to trying the recipes!

Lindsey was so nice when I met her and the idea behind the book sounded intriguing. It took me this long to finish because the first third of the book is very fact based and fact filled. I struggle with books like this! That said, I’m glad I’ve finally pushed through and I can’t wait to try some of these snack recipes because hanger is real and sleep is a necessary part of life that doesn’t always get met!

If you are interested in food, eating healthy, or struggle with emotional eating, I’d highly recommend this one.

[Meghan · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I saw this book at Barnes and noble I knew I needed this book in my life. Weight has always been a huge issue for me and I have to admit I eat sometimes when I’m not really hungry but ALWAYS when I’m stressed and in this book, Lindsey Smith recommends spices and foods that reduce this cravings and feelings so that you can only eat when you are hungry and still feel satisfied with your life. 5 stars!

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is A LOT in this book and it's all fantastic information, has bright illustrations and intuitive organization, charts, and graphics, and still maintains a lovely voice from the author and cook Lindsey Smith.

As much as she discusses the emotional side of eating, there's tons about why PAGES of foods listed by category are good for one, recipes to try out specific ingredients based on feelings, and things to consider. It's all relevant and fun to skip around based on what you need.

[Kara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I remember one time I was really craving a chocolate brownie, I told myself "No, Lindsey you cannot have a chocolate brownie. That's bad." ... A bar of dark chocolate, two gluten free cookies, some cheese bread, and a failed 'healthy' hot chocolate later I still wanted that damn brownie. I then thought to myself, "What if I just allowed myself to eat the brownie I really wanted?'

Recipe: Dark Chocolate + Sea Salt Brownies
Ingredients: Almond meal, raw cacao, ...

[Sam Slaughter · Rating 5 out of 5]

A clear, easy way to approach food that isn't going to make you feel terrible after. In fact, it does the opposite. EYF helps understand how food and mood go together and what you can do in various situations. Smith knows what she's talking about when it comes to food and when that is coupled with bright imagery, it's both an incredibly fun and useful read.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book for teens and young women looking for healthy recipes and lifestyle choices that are customized to their body type and mood. The recipes are suitable for vegetarians, vegans, and other food choices or diets restricted due to allergies, etc.

[Catherine Peel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved this book. It’s half self help half cookbook. It talks about why we have food cravings and what to do when they come on. It discusses the different types of reasons that people have food cravings and what to eat when your feeling sad, happy mad exc. totally worth getting and reading

[Sandra Crane · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well written book that explains emotional eating. Why do we crave certain foods at certain times? I really enjoyed this book and recipes are included! Thank you Goodreads Giveaway for a very helpful book.

[Kris · Rating 4 out of 5]

There were a lot of great things to try in this book including some terrific simple recipes. The turmeric ice cream (frozen banana base), no-jitters java (a Tibetan coffee variation) and emoji chocolates were all good.

[Kirsteen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed most of the book - there were some ideas I didn't totally agree with and I wish it had gone more into the emotional side of things. But there are some yummy sounding recipes and a lot of good ideas/helps.

[Lindsay Westervelt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommend! Lindsey combines self help tips with nutritional facts, practical recipes, humor, and funny doodles throughout to make this a great resource. Definitely one to keep on your personal bookshelf.

[Sandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really found this book interesting and helpful well worth a look see.

[Faith 09 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is such a fun and informative read. I can't wait to actually buy it when it comes out because I can tell it's going to be a cute little bit.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thought invoking

Really enjoyed learning how moods and foods go hand in hand. As well as how to eat when in certain moods and why the foods benefit you.

[Suzanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this book quite a bit and trying some of the recipes.

[Anne C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super interesting! Good recipes!