Can anyone recommend a good book on emotional or comfort eating, please?

[Italiangreyhound]

My sis thinks I have problems with food, and I agree. It is weird because I am very happy now and very fortunate to have a great hubby and lovely daughter, and a job I like, my Christian faith is very important to me, my family are close by and I am fit(ish) and well. But as a kid I was very shy and I've had anxiety in the past, and a touch of OCD! So maybe, just maybe I am eating for comfort, for acceptance, I am not sure for what!

Can anyone recommend a good book on emotional or comfort eating, please?

I purposely kept my post short, because it appears at the top of the page and maybe some other lovely people will write to me!

But here is a fuller story!

I have really enjoyed doing the Rosemary Conley classes for about 6 months (and previously also) and have got a real love for exercise now, which is fab, and which I was really keen to get out of the classes but I am afraid my eating problems are not great.

Loads of times I have lost weight and put it back on!

Anyway, I am going to try and get a book from the library, anyone heard of it these books:

Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time by Pavel Georgievich Somov?

Or Overcoming Overeating: It's Not What You Eat, It's What's Eating You! by Lisa Morrone?

Or Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter?

Or, finally, The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health by Karen R. Koenig?

Has anyone heard of any of the authors?

Which one is better?

Can anyone recommend a good book on emotional or comfort eating, please?

I'm now reading Overcoming Overeating: It's Not What You Eat, It's What's Eating You! by Lisa Morrone.

It is really brilliant.

Thanks RumpelstiltskinsHat that sounds interesting. Does it have a central message?

My book has asked me what being overweight has cost me and what problems I have from the past (not big problems just little things) that have contributed to me eating, I filled in the notebook in the bath. That's the only time I get to sit and think!

Hello, I like Eat, Drink and be Mindful - and the website [www.eatingmindfully.com] is useful too. It stems from Buddhist Mindfulness meditation originally but has some good science to back it up.

dammit, www.eatingmindfully.com

My recommendations are

Eating Less by Gillian Riley - very good practical method by addiction cessation specialist

The Gabriel Method by Jon Gabriel - insanely out there kooky stuff, has a theory that our bodies become fat as a safety mechanism and that we can deprogram them to lose weight. Comes with CD to listen to a bit like Paul McKenna but better imho, the funny thing is, it actually works.

Both worth a go I reckon.

Thanks, will look at these.

wildstrawberryplace like the look of the Gabriel Method but just too intrigued how he 'switched off his fat switch' or whatever.

There are just so many books out there about weight loss. Saw a hilarious review of one.

Feeling better about weight though.

I guess I do also want to get fit as well as slim, so a big ask!

Paul Mckenna I Can make You Thin (bad title) but he deals with ALL the problems you list and if you look at our thread on here and google him it is truly inspiring! And BTW it really works!!

Thanks ppeatfruit. Sounds interesting. How does he deal with food addition or emotional eating? Not sure I've got either! Just curious.

There are books and C.Ds that use hypnosis, acupressuring, self imaging etc. i would never have thought i could be hypnotised but the C.Ds are amazing.

If anyone wants to continue the debate about food and weight - I have started another thread on that topic

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1191480-Anyone-struggling-with-compulsive-ways-of-eating-Anyone-getting-any-answers?msgid=24820095#24820095

here

Any comments welcome.....please....

Im doing Paul McKenna too, and I cant believe the difference it has made to my comfort/emtional eating.

Are you able to explain how or why it works, please? Don't worry if you are not.

Hi guys, I've started a new thread about eating problems and posted some stuff. If you are interested, feel free to read it. It's mostly about impulsive eating.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1191480-Anyone-struggling-with-compulsive-ways-of-eating-Anyone-getting-any-answers?msgid=24845798#24845798

here

www.amazon.co.uk/Fat-Feminist-Issue-Susie-Orbach/dp/0099271540

Hi fishandlilacs - great name! What does it mean. Yes, I've heard of this book and my friend lost a lot of weight after reading it.

Did you find it helpful and do you have problems with food.

Feel free not to answer if it is too personal.

The beck diet solution is (slowly) really helping me. Based on cbt so you need to practice the techniques a fair bit but it's helped me with my issues - comfort binging and OCD around food. Quite empowering really

Well worth a read

Potatoes Not Prozac helped me a few years ago. Forum for support here.

Depends on what you're bingeing on though. This is for the sugar junkies among us, and is literally a recovery programme. My problem wasn't so much bingeing as relying on sugar to boost my mood, which then led to mood swings and struggling with depression.

As a side effect of following this I did lose weight, but fell off the wagon about 4 years ago and lo and behold re-gained weight. I've just started it again, and it's a slow process but I think it's more sustainable in the long run than a 'diet'.

Rainbowdropping, thanks for getting in touch.

Had a look about Beck Diet and it looks good.

But there were three books. Something like:
The Complete Beck Diet for Life: The Five-Stage Program for Permanent Weight Loss
and
The Beck Diet Solution
and
Beck Diet Solution Weight Loss Workbook: The 6-week Plan to Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person

Which one are you using and how has it been helpful, if you don't mind saying?

WhatsWrongWithYou thanks for this and all the very best with your attempts to get eating/weight under control.

For me I would not say it was sugar per se (not sure what per se means but sounds right!). I eat what I see, not just at a buffet table (like most people) but when I see someone eating something I want to eat that thing! I am very suggestible, an advertisers dream! I find it hard to say no and hard to stop at one! (or three!).

Now I have identified my problem areas I feel quite empowered so today I had a normal lunch, sandwich, crisps, fruit and yoghurt - not a dieters lunch or a binger-s lunch, and I hope a reasonably healthy one! I managed to have one roll not two and I did not feel I was depriving myself! I ate slowly and thought fully. Then later I was offered chocolate millionaires shortbread, so tiny it was NOT EVEN the size of a box of matches. I ate one! I didn't feel bad for eating one and I didn't feel I should eat more, even though they were inches from my arm! I feel so proud of myself! Just for eating normally! It is early days but I feel very happy and I managed to have a normal breakfast today and not weight myself! So slowly I want to just be normal, I will get weighed at my Rosemary Conley diet and fitness class in two weeks but until then I am going to avoid scales and also just try and eat as healthily as I can. The class gives me the chance to exercise so that is good but I have decided that I will not stick to the diet; I will try and work out a food plan that works for me.

Do let me know how you are getting on, if it helps. WhatsWrongWithYou and Rainbowdropping, and any others.

Thanks again SO MUCH for taking the time to reply.

hello Italian greyhound yes I have issues with food and yes I have read the book, it answered some questions and I have recently started slimming world being 11st overweight it was high time to make a start. Understanding the place my eating comes from has helped me get motivated.

Fishandlilacs is a quote from the vagina monologues :)

fishandlilacs thank you. I feel more motivated now I know where my eating is coming from.

All the best.