Overcoming Overeating How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life

by Hirschmann, Jane R.; Munter, Carol H.

• ISBN13: 9780738211176
• ISBN10: 0738211176
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-08
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Summary

From miracle shakes to crash diets, it seems everyone has a magic cure guaranteed to get you into your skinny jeans-for a price. Americans spend $55 billion on weight-loss products every year, a figure that doesn't account for the emotional cost of gaining back the weight you lost because of a quick-fix fad.

Author Biography

Jane R. Hirschmann, M.S.W., and Carol H. Munter, Licensed Psychoanalyst, are codirectors of the National Center for Overcoming Overeating in New York City. Jane R. Hirschmann, M.S.W., and Carol H. Munter, Licensed Psychoanalyst, are codirectors of the National Center for Overcoming Overeating in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction to the New Edition	p. 1
Introduction to the 1988 Edition	p. 9
Curing Compulsive Eating	p. 17
The Diet/Binge Cycle	p. 31
Signing Up for a New Life	p. 43
Rethinking the Problem	p. 62
The Plan: Phase 1 Freeing Yourself
I Am What I Am	p. 75
Living in the Present	p. 88
Dumping the Diet	p. 100
Living Free in a World of Food	p. 113
The Plan: Phase 2 Feeding Yourself
Food On Demand	p. 135
When to Eat	p. 155
What to Eat	p. 166
How Much to Eat	p. 179
Everyday Life as a Demand Feeder	p. 189
The Plan: Phase 3 Finding Yourself
The Compulsive Reach for Food	p. 211
The Obsession	p. 227
When You Try to Break the Circuit	p. 239
Fat, Skinny, and In-Between	p. 249
Afterword	p. 271
Supplemental Reading	p. 273
Questionnaires	p. 276
Index	p. 291
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