Synopses & Reviews
Despite our best intentions, many of us find ourselves routinely overeating at meals, snacking mindlessly, or bingeing regularly. As emotional eaters, we turn to food for comfort, soothing, distraction, and excitement. Theres a disconnection fueling our eating, robbing years from our lives, and we know it. Were tired of restrictive diets that lead back to overeating, and were ready to try something different.
Therapist and life coach Julie Simon offers a new approach that addresses the true causes of overeating and weight gain: emotional and spiritual hunger and body imbalance. The Emotional Eaters Repair Manual presents five self-care skills, five body-balancing principles, and five soul-care practices that can end overeating and dieting forever. Youll learn to nurture yourself without turning to food, to correct body and brain imbalances that trigger overeating, and to address your souls hunger. Weight loss, more energy, improved health, and self-esteem will naturally follow.
Review
Reassuring and calm, informative and inspiring, this book is your lifeline to fixing your relationship with food and gaining the health you deserve.”
Neal D. Barnard, MD, president, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, DC, and author of Breaking the Food Seduction
A must-read for anyone who struggles with overeating. Julie Simon offers a beautifully written, compassion-filled guide for ending emotional eating, yo-yo dieting, and poor health....Practical and inspirational.”
Rory Freedman, coauthor of Skinny Bitch
Breaks new ground and offers a fresh, heartfelt approach to an age-old problem. Highly recommended!”
Hyla Cass, MD, author of 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health
By addressing all aspects of a womans inner and outer life from her brain chemistry to the robustness of her social and spiritual connectedness Julie Simons anti-diet approach gives women the tools they need to finally feel comfortable in their own skin.”
Sara Avant Stover, author of The Way of the Happy Woman
In this marvelous book, Julie Simon takes you on a journey of self-care and soul-care that will help you understand your emotional and spiritual hungers, heal your relationship with food, and bring balance and happiness into your life.”
John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America
The Emotional Eaters Repair Manual may well be the last weight loss book you will ever need to purchase. Julie Simon masterfully guides you off of the roller coaster of weight loss and emotional eating and into a positive, healthy relationship with food. With extraordinary insight and compassion, she walks you through a personal exploration that exposes the roots of your struggles with food and helps you to rebuild patterns of behavior that restore physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.”
— Brenda Davis, RD, registered dietitian and coauthor of Becoming Vegan
Synopsis
While 80 million Americans are dieters, obesity is on the rise. Anyone who eats less and exercises more can lose weight but 98 percent regain their weight within five years. This, shows Julie Simon, is because most of the overweight are emotional eaters, eating for comfort, distraction, fulfillment, and so on. Diet books and programs dont address this, instead applying external solutions to internal problems. Simon spent part of her life in a cycle of overeating and dieting. After years of study, therapy, and visits to healthcare practitioners, she created the solutions she outlines here. She became a therapist and trainer to help others and has been sharing what she learned for 20 years. Now, like her clients, readers learn to nurture themselves with whole foods and activities that correct body and brain imbalances and soothe their soul's hunger to be not just their ideal weight but also their best selves.
About the Author
Julie M. Simon, MA, MBA, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and life coach with more than twenty years of experience helping overeaters stop dieting, heal their relationships with themselves and their bodies, lose excess weight, and keep it off. A lifelong fitness enthusiast, she is also a certified personal trainer and the founder and director of the Los Angelesbased Twelve-Week Emotional Eating Recovery Program. She lives in Los Angeles.