Synopses & Reviews
When we constantly feel hungry and overeat, sometimes it’s not about the food. In this important book, a weight management expert presents the proven-effective Anchor Weight Management System to help people finally end their struggles with emotional eating and weight gain.
For over fifty years, nutritional and medical scientists have dissected the problem of obesity. The result of this half-century of investigation has been a series of recommendations about what and how much to eat, and an unintended consequence is that we’ve been deprived of the joy of eating. From low-fat diets to the no-carb craze, the market has been continually flooded with one assortment of fad products and diets after another. So, when does it end?
If you’re struggling with emotional overeating and are trying to lose weight, you should know that you don’t need to deny yourself certain foods. In The Emotional Eating Workbook, you'll learn about the real psychological needs that underlie your food cravings, how to meet those needs in positive ways, be mindful of your body, and find the deep satisfaction many overeaters seek in food.
It’s not about food. It’s about how food is used to self-soothe, numb ourselves against the pain of living, or self-medicate in coping with stress and unresolved emotions. The Anchor Program™ approach detailed in this book is not about dieting. It’s about being anchored to your true, authentic self. When you find your unique anchor, you will relate better to your body, you'll know intuitively how to feed your body, and you'll reach the weight that’s right for you.
Review
"Dr. Carolyn Ross’s workbook is a breath of fresh air! Jam-packed with cutting edge information, The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook helps readers find freedom and health in our weight-obsessed culture. By shedding light on the truth about recovering from binge-eating disorder and compulsive overeating, this book promises to make a real difference in people’s lives."
—Jenni Schaefer, author of Life Without Ed and Goodbye Ed, Hello Me
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"Dr. Ross’s holistic explanation of binge eating and obesity can change our views of dieting forever. She has lectured to medical and professional audiences about changing our country’s dieting mentality. Her wisdom about healing the relationship with food, weight, and body image is presented in a way that finally makes sense. This book can make a difference that can last a lifetime."
—Rebecca Cooper, MA, CCH, CEDS, author of Diets Don’t Work and founder of Rebecca’s House Eating Disorder Treatment Programs
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"This is the best practical information I’ve seen on managing eating disorders. Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross’s sound advice can help the many people trapped in destructive relationships to food regain control of their lives and health."
—Andrew Weil, MD, integrative medicine pioneer and author of Eight Weeks to Optimum Health and Healthy Aging
Synopsis
All of us know the psychological power of comfort foods-simple recipes and snacks that remind us of positive emotions, familiar places, and times past. For people with binge eating disorder (BED), the comforting power of food is strong enough to temporarily quell serious spiritual, emotional, and psychological issues that seem impossible to face. And as overeating spirals out of control, so do shame, self-loathing, and the emotional issues the sufferer was trying to avoid in the first place. The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook presents an integrated body, mind, and spirit approach to getting at the root of disordered eating and developing a healthy relationship to food. The book offers proven-effective complementary, alternative, and allopathic techniques for correcting nutritional deficiencies, stopping bingeing, and learning healthy approaches to eating. Readers also learn mindfulness strategies for coping with stress, sadness, and anger, and determine whether or not they have co-occurring behaviors such as depression and substance abuse that may also be linked to their overeating. People with BED and other overeating disorders can use this workbook to assess their BED triggers and symptoms, family health history, physical activity levels, and current diet, and develop personalized New Me / Healthy Me plans for the future. The book offers a healthy eating plan designed to meet the needs of binge eaters who are undernourished due to their unhealthy diets. Readers are also provided with up-to-date information on medication, behavioral therapies, and alternative remedies.
Synopsis
This workbook presents an integrated body, mind, and spirit approach to getting at the root of disordered eating and developing a healthy relationship to food. The book offers a healthy eating plan designed to help those who are undernourished due to unhealthy diets.
Synopsis
Some people use food to calm themselves when they feel overwhelmed. Others find it difficult to discern between eating out of hunger and eating out of habit. There are nearly as many reasons why people overeat as there are reasons to stop. While overeating can often bring comfort in the short term, it can lead to feelings of guilt later on. If you feel like you're caught in a cycle of unhealthy eating that you can't stop, this workbook can help you overcome it.
In The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook, you'll learn skills and nutrition guidelines recommended by doctors and therapists for healthy eating and how to quell the often overpowering urge to overeat. Using a variety of practices drawn from complementary and alternative medicine, you'll replace unhealthy habits with nourishing rewards and relaxation practices. This potent combination of therapies will help you end your dependence on overeating as a way to cope with unpleasant feelings and shows you how to develop new strategies for a healthier lifestyle.
This workbook will help you:
- Identify the trigger foods and feelings that spur you to binge or overeat
- Determine how stress, depression, and anxiety may be affecting your eating
- Calm yourself in stressful times with nourishing self-care practices
- Learn to appreciate and accept your body
Synopsis
The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook offers a comprehensive recovery program for people with binge eating disorder and other overeating disorders. Readers will learn to use proven complementary and alternative medicine therapies to develop a healthy relationship to food and eating.
Synopsis
When we constantly feel hungry and overeat, sometimes it’s not about the food. In this important book, a weight management expert presents the proven effective Anchor Weight Management System to help people finally end their struggles with emotional eating and weight gain. Readers will learn about the real needs that underlie their cravings, how to meet those needs in positive ways, how to be mindful of their body, and find the deep satisfaction many overeaters seek in food.
About the Author
Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, is a physician, author, and nationally recognized speaker. Ross is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, and an alumna of Andrew Weil’s integrative medicine program at the University of Arizona. She is board-certified in addiction medicine. She is former chief of the eating disorders program at Sierra Tucson, an addiction treatment center in Tucson, AZ. She is currently in private practice in Denver, CO, and is a consultant for eating disorder and chemical dependency treatment centers nationally. She is author of The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Healing the Body
Chapter 1 What Are Binge Eating and Compulsive Eating?
Chapter 2 Your Body's Response to Too Much of a Good Thing
Chapter 3 Understanding Nutrition Basics
written with Alicia Trocker, MS, RD
Chapter 4 Nourishing Your Body
written with Alicia Trocker, MS, RD
Part 2: Healing the Mind
Chapter 5 Overview of Traditional Approaches to BED/CO
Chapter 6 What's Food Got to Do with BED/CO?
Chapter 7 Mirror, Mirror
written with Isabelle Tierney, MA, LMFT, BHSP
Chapter 8 Challenging Your Core Beliefs
Chapter 9 Co-occurring Diagnoses
written with Andrew Stropko, Ph.D.
Part 3: Healing the Spirit
Chapter 10 Coping with Stress
Chapter 11 Tools to Manage Stress
Chapter 12 Nourishing Your Spirit
Conclusion: Five Steps to Healing from Eating Disorders
Resources
References