Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00008RUMQ |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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The perfect solution for compulsive eaters, it is a behavioral approach to weight loss that teaches you how to change habits to overcome food addiction. As Ehrlich observes, no deprivation diet will work for food addicts, because they use food the way other addicts use drugs or alcohol: not to satisfy physical hunger but to stuff down painful feelings -- loneliness, anger, boredom, sadness, and the like -- with a never-ending conveyor belt of food. The commitment has to come from within. The program explains the trickiness of addiction so that overeaters become aware of their unconscious, ritualized eating habits and awaken to a new, r
From Publishers Weekly This behavioral approach to losing weight is divided into eight weekly sessions in which participants work to overcome their addictive eating habits and strive to meet a personal weight-loss goal. Based on limiting the number of food types that can be consumed at each meal, this system, according to Ehrlich, will change ritualized compulsive eating into planned, healthy consumption. . The author, a self-described compulsive eater, is a counselor who designed this nutrition program and currently uses it with clients. Although Ehrlich asserts
Caryl Ehrlich has had an extraordinary record of success with the Ehrlich 8-step program, a behavioral approach to permanent weight loss for food addicts. It is one of the longest-running programs of its kind; Ehrlich has maintained it for over twenty years, supporting it as host of a radio program on WMCA in New York, and more recently with her current television show on Manhattan Cable
A book after my own heart. First of all, I didn't read this book in order to lose or maintain weight. I read it because of the title, "Conquer Your Food Addiction," which reflects my attitude toward food consumption and bodyweight, which is: If I'm eating more than I need to eat for proper nutrition AND enjoyment, and I am overweight but with no medical problem causing my excess weight, then I should pay attention to my eating habits and change them. The way I had lost weight and maintained that loss without feeling deprived of enjoyment, turns out to be basically the way the author of this boo. Atia said One of a kind - Get it!. Conquer Your Food Addiction is a one of a kind weight-loss book. Yet it's much more than that! As a behavioral approach to weight loss, it a manual for a new way of thinking, behaving, being and eating.The author's basic premise is that one need not change the foods one eats, but, instead, one's habits. It sounds so basic, until we try it. As creatures of habit, our diets revolve around deeply-ingrained habits and rituals derived from personal history, a contemporary super-size culture, and daily life-styles. The main idea/goal is that if one is overweight, barring so. This book made me think about what I eat Amalfi Coast Girl This review is written by a 44 year old woman that has struggled with losing weight for many years. The combination of too much work, and not enough sleep and exercise resulted in "excess storage tissue" as my darling husband likes to call it. If you have ever eaten something, even though you weren't hungry, this is an interesting book.This book is written for those that consume the standard American diet. As a new vegan I found it a little difficult to modify to fit that lifestyle since the diet advocates eggs and animal protein in the session on meal parameters. How