Emotional eating is by far the most common cause of weight gain. As
you'll learn in Shrink Yourself, all the diets, exercise regimens, and
surgical procedures in the world will not free you from this vicious
cycle. Why? Because they don't address your reasons for overeating.
Shrink Yourself, a supportive, unique, and ground-breaking guide written
by a world-renowned therapist who has helped thousands of people lose
weight and keep it off, gets to the heart of the problem. Shrink
Yourself gives you the equivalent of eight expensive sessions with the
best weight-loss therapist in the world for the price of a single book.
Yo-yo dieting is an endless cycle. You diet and lose weight. Then you
eat "comfort food"-that piece of cake, huge bowl of ice cream, or
enormous bag of potato chips you devour to smother your feelings of
fear, anxiety, stress, anger, boredom, loneliness, frustration, or so
many other feelings. The comfort doesn't last long. Soon you feel guilty
for breaking your diet, so you displace the guilt with another helping.
Before long, you're unpacking your fat clothes again and berating
yourself for your lack of willpower. Then, warily, you contemplate the
next diet. With Shrink Yourself, renowned psychiatrist and emotional
eating expert Dr. Roger Gould offers the first step-by-step analysis of
the connection between eating and emotion. Dr. Gould explains why the
connection is so powerful and shows you how to break the emotional
eating cycle, shed all your excess pounds, and keep them off for good.
Based on Dr. Gould's unique method and his work involving more than
twenty thousand people, this revolutionary eight-session program reveals
that your uncontrollable hunger is connected to feelings of
powerlessness in your life. You'll discover the five layers of
powerlessness and you'll learn how to recognize and cope with each of
them by: Conquering the feeling phobia Waking up from the food trance
Challenging your self-doubts Defeating your defeatism Creating real
safety Dealing positively with anger And more Food may be a relatively
inexpensive "over-the-counter tranquilizer," but its side effects can be
devastating. So before you rush to try the next fad diet or start binge
eating after a stressful day, ask yourself, "Is this the way I want to
live?" Then read Shrink Yourself and learn how to take control of your
emotions to slim down permanently? without ever counting calories again.
You can truly shrink yourself.
