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- From: Theresa Jarosz Alberti <sapphire@wings.micro.umn.edu>
- Subject: Re: When Food Is Love
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:54:02 GMT
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- In article <63620079@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> Laurie Roberts,
- robertsl@hpcc01.corp.hp.com writes:
- >I'm curious if anyone out there has read Geneen Roth's book "When Food
-
- >Is Love"? This book really touched me. It's about breaking free from
- >compulsive eating by amoung other things, listening to your body and
- eating
- >whatever you want until you are satisfied. The hard part is knowing if
- you
- >are satisfied. She was recently on "Oprah" and discussed how she had
- lost
- >and gained over 1000 lbs over her lifetime, had been on a diet since
- about 12
- >(I can relate), and had starved herself to get down to 80 something lbs,
- only
- >to gain back another 80 in something like 2 months. Finally, she said
- to h*ll
- >with this, and decided to eat whatever she wanted. At first she gained
- >weight, but then she felt so free - she had let go of the diet thing -
- that
- >she started losing weight, and today is a very slender woman. She runs
-
- >workshops on this very thing. Anyways, she made a point on Oprah that
- really
- >got me... she said very few of us (compulsive eaters) enjoy eating
- because we
- >feel so guilty, and we use food to stuff our feelings down instead of
- feeling
- >our pain. Once we stop eating compulsively, we will feel a lot of our
- pain,
- >but what's wrong with that? If we feel it, we can release it, instead
- of
- >stuffing it down with food. I think it made a lot of sense.
- >
- >She suggested that we really enjoy eating
- >Eat in a calm place without distractions
- >Eat anything you want
- >Eat until satisfied
- >
- >Any comments?
- >
- >-Laurie
- >
-