Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life 978-0-786-72180-1, 0786721804

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Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life
 978-0-786-72180-1, 0786721804

Table of contents :
Content: Praise
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Introduction to the 1988 Edition
1 --
Curing Compulsive Eating
The Compulsive Eater Identified
The Compulsive Eater-A New Perspective
The Cure-The Hunger/Food Connection
The Plan
2 --
The Diet/Binge Cycle
The Fight-Back Response
The Urge to Diet
The Diet
The Binge
3 --
Signing Up for a New Life
One More Time
Change Your Shape and Change Your Life
Rule No. 1: Fat Is Bad
Rule No. 2: Fat People Eat Too Much
Rule No. 3: Thin Is Beautiful
Rule No. 4: Eating Requires Control. Rule No. 5: Criticism Leads to Change4 --
Rethinking the Problem
The Rebellion of Eating
Beyond Rebellion
The Linguistics of Eating
Food Feels Good, and That Ain't Bad
Eating Your Way Out of an Eating Problem
THE PLAN: PHASE 1 --
Freeing Yourself
5 --
I Am What I Am
The If-Only Syndrome
A Fantasy
"How Can I Accept Myself When I Really Hate Myself?"
Moving Toward Acceptance
6 --
Living in the Present
Purchasing a Mirror
Tossing the Scale
Cleaning a Closet
7 --
Dumping the Diet
Giddiness
Terror
Sadness
Relief
8 --
Living Free in a World of Food
Carrot Sticks versus Carrot Cake. Legalizing FoodTo Market, To Market . . .
Home Again, Home Again . . .
The Cupboards
Legal Costs
THE PLAN: PHASE 2 --
Feeding Yourself
9 --
Food on Demand
The Urge to Eat
The Ledger
The Hunger Connection
Demand Feeding-For Adults
Recognizing Stomach Hunger
Responding to Stomach Hunger
The Binge
10 --
When to Eat
When Do I Eat?
The Meaninglessness of Meals
An Eating Exercise
The Food Bag
Humans, the Grazing Animals
11 --
What to Eat
The Nutrition Question
Matchmaking in Theory
Is There Life After Chocolate?
A Weighty Issue
Matchmaking in Action
Some Complications
Remember. 12 --
How Much to EatHow Much Is Enough?
Becoming the Boss of Your Own Eating
It's So Hard to Say Good-bye
Feeling Satisfied with Less
Sweet Farewells
Fine-Tuning When, What, and How Much
13 --
Everyday Life as a Demand Feeder
THE PLAN: PHASE 3 --
Finding Yourself
14 --
The Compulsive Reach for Food
Fat Thoughts
Reaching Out for Food
The Implications of Making Food into Magic
15 --
The Obsession
What Is All the Yelling About?
I'm Bad . . .
Breaking the Circuit
16 --
When You Try to Break the Circuit
17 --
Fat, Skinny, and In-Between
The Reality of Weight Loss. When the Weight Begins to Go-Theme and VariationsThe Food/Fat Connection
Friendly Fat Fantasies
The Fear of Thinness
The Function of the Fantasy
Afterword
Supplemental Reading
Questionnaires
Index
Copyright Page.

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