Summary of Geneen Roth's Breaking Free from Emotional Eating

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The most natural way to eat, when we are hungry, sounds like just another fad to many people. They have been handed so many contrasting pieces of information about food that they can’t distinguish the ones that make sense from the ones that don’t.
#2 When we are not dieting, we feel so deprived from ignoring our hunger that we try to make up for it by eating so much we don’t allow ourselves to get hungry.
#3 When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own voice. Our ability to make decisions about what to eat and when. Our belief in ourselves.
#4 The fear of hunger, like the fear of loneliness, is connected with emptiness, echoes, and endless wanting. The experience of hunger is immediate, and it is sound and sensation. You begin eating when you are hungry by letting yourself get hungry.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Nutrition

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 28 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669372820
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Geneen Roth's Breaking Free from Emotional Eating
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The most natural way to eat, when we are hungry, sounds like just another fad to many people. They have been handed so many contrasting pieces of information about food that they can’t distinguish the ones that make sense from the ones that don’t.

#2

When we are not dieting, we feel so deprived from ignoring our hunger that we try to make up for it by eating so much we don’t allow ourselves to get hungry.

#3

When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own voice. Our ability to make decisions about what to eat and when. Our belief in ourselves.

#4

The fear of hunger, like the fear of loneliness, is connected with emptiness, echoes, and endless wanting. The experience of hunger is immediate, and it is sound and sensation. You begin eating when you are hungry by letting yourself get hungry.

#5

When you start to get hungry, rate your hunger on a scale of 1 to 10. The lower end of the scale can be used to signify ravenous, very hungry, and the higher end of the scale can be used to signify just a little hungry. When you hit 10, you’re up to your neck in food.

#6

We have been brainwashed into believing that the body we see in the media is the ideal body, and we have begun to believe that our bodies are ultimately within our control. But the truth is that our bodies betray us, and we have to trust them.

#7

When you are not hungry, you are using food to glue your life together between hungers. It’s fine to do that if you are aware of what you are doing, but you have to be willing to accept having a larger-than-ideal body.

#8

When you are not hungry and good food is around, you miss the chance to take care of yourself and see that the world won’t end if you don’t eat the cheesecake.

#9

When you don’t allow yourself hunger, you don’t allow yourself satisfaction. When you don’t allow yourself satisfaction, you don’t allow yourself fulfillment.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I had allowed myself to eat cookies without guilt five years ago, and visions of chocolate chip cookies appeared. I had binged on cookies several times, and when I was too full to eat any more, I would eat the cookie dough.

#2

I was able to eat whatever I wanted for two weeks without feeling guilty, and I gained weight. I had promised myself to eat what I wanted, and I was willing to find out if my body’s natural wisdom would surface.

#3

You can’t trust your desire to eat something if you want something else. You must examine where the desire to eat is coming from. Is it because you are hungry, or because you want something else. If it’s the latter, you must ask yourself where the desire for this particular food is coming from.