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It's Not about Food: Change Your Mind; Change Your Life; End Your Obsession with Food and Weight

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Authors: Carol Emery Normandi, Laurelee Roark
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Media: Paperback
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7

ISBN: 0399525025
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8526
EAN: 9780399525025

Publication Date: May 1, 1999
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Editorial Reviews:

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"Women who read this book will be inspired to throw away their diets and scales and pick up on the nurturing, caring voice presented in these pages." --Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter, authors of Overcoming Overeating.

Carol Emery Normandi and Laurelee Roark founded the nonprofit organization Beyond Hunger, Inc. because they had each struggled for years with eating disorders--and discovered that most of the programs available couldn't provide true, permanent recovery. To achieve that, they found they had to address the physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds that lay at the core of their unhealthy eating behavior--to go beyond the hunger of their physical bodies and meet the hunger that resided in their very souls. The techniques used in the Beyond Hunger workshops have helped many women change their minds about food and weight--and change their lives in the process. This compassionate, supportive book shows how it can be done--and offers to help women put an end to the rollercoaster of dieting and bingeing once and for all.

* Includes a foreword by the authors of the bestseller Overcoming Overeating

* "Normandi and Roark are like patient coaches detaching women from their obsessions with food, deprogramming societal and family messages about acceptable weight, offering tools and excercises to transform destructive behaviors into opportunities for self-reflection."--San Jose Mercury News

"It's Not About Food is an important part of the growing movement to return women's bodies to their rightful owners." --Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth

Customer Reviews:

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Sorry but, for me, it IS mostly about the food. February 19, 2010
bubblezz78
4 out of 7 found this review helpful

I think this book would be very helpful for anorexics, however I am not one. All I was looking for was a way to break free of gorging on refined carbohydrates (I call pasta "my crack"). I'm about 30 lbs overweight, and have been at least a little overweight virtually all my life. I have diabetes in my family, and other health conditions, so I know my overweight is a real problem but I haven't been successful in getting to a healthy weight and staying there. I have lost and regained weight a few times. I've been successful in losing weight, only to eventually slide back, resuming eating large quantities of carbohydrates again (there was always a "good reason", like family get togethers, special occasions, etc). It eventually dawned on me that I may have something of an addiction to carbohydrates. This book didn't address that and after searching through the book for the information I wanted, I eventually just put it down and didn't finish it. I didn't finish it because 1) Yes, self-love is a problem for those who eat a lot but I have dealt with the majority of my self-esteem and self-love issues over the years, and yet I still find it hard to control my intake of carbohydrates, I know I use them to self-medicate even though overall I have healthy self-esteem 2) The concept of size acceptance, which is part of the core of this book (the very term size acceptance is dubious in my opinion, but that's a whole other story), can be misconstrued to lead people to believe that being overweight is not a health problem. I have a medical condition that REQUIRES me to lose weight, so accepting that I'm meant to be at the weight I'm at? That's not an option for me, unless I want to let myself become diabetic and let my other weight-related health conditions run amok.

Yes, for those women who can't stop themselves from the anorexic downward spiral, this book would probably be great for them. For 100 lb women who look at themselves in the mirror and believe they just need to lose a little more weight, this book would be good for them. Me, I'm not one of those people. I just need to be a healthier weight (I'd be totally happy with about 140-150 lbs). I was just looking for a way to break free of my carb fixation. I've come across other books that address that (Food Addiction: the Body Knows seems more targeted for what I'm after) and will be arming myself with information on how food addiction works, and how to get away from it.

5 out of 5 stars

Best book I've ever read for eating disorders May 26, 2009
Dutch Girl (Iowa, USA)
I've struggles with my weight and eating since I was 13. A once anorexic turned into compulsive exerciser and binge eater. This book helps you understand your E.D. and help you relate to other stories. I've tried reading other books before to help but nothing comes close to this book. It covers the anorexic, the bulimic, the compulsive eater, and compulsive exerciser. It was a relief to know that other people suffer from the same troubles as me. I highly recommend this book!!!

5 out of 5 stars

AMAZING! September 21, 2008
K. Adkins (st. louis, mo)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a must for anyone struggling with food addictions. This book was recommended by a counselor and it was the best way I found to help me understand the deeper issues I was facing, and ignoring. After reading this book, I find myself ready to take on the deeper issues that have been gnawing away at my self esteem and self image for YEARS. I never realized how much damage I was subconsciously doing to myself simply because I was unaware of the things I was hiding from or didn't know how to handle on my own. Food was always an easy way to comfort myself when I felt overwhelmed. Thanks to this book, I'm now aware of why I do what I do and can actually help myself without always turning to food. It's a journey, not a destination. This book has helped me on my journey to be free of "diets" and start living with awareness, self-love, and the confidence to know how to help myself without relying on extrinsic comforts like food. This book has some very deep messages if you are open and honest with yourself. I took the book one chapter and one step at a time. It is a resource I will always carry with me.

5 out of 5 stars

Helpful, thought provoking October 2, 2007
Still rocking (California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book relates the personal journeys of two women, Carol and Laurelee, with their struggles to overcome obsession with food, dieting and negative body image. In the course of telling their stories and the stories of many women they have worked with, a very powerful set of lessons unfolds. I read the book over a period of months, reading, re-reading, putting it down and then picking it up. There are meditations and exercises in the book that are very helpful. For example, they have an exercise in the book about sending loving thoughts to parts of your body that you dislike. What a concept! The basic message is that an eating disorder is a way of coping with life and by looking deeply at your relationship with food you can learn what it is you really need in life, pursue that, and food will get back into a normal perspective. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has issues with food or loves someone who has issues with food. That includes just about everyone I think!

5 out of 5 stars

End Your Obsessions November 17, 2006
Tina B. (Buffalo, NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

While the authors specialize in dealing with people who have issues with Overeating, I felt that the book was very useful in helping me address my issues with anorexia. The book challenges you to dig into the issues behind why you're involved in a practice of eating (for me, restricting) and to understand how you're using food to substitute for other methods of dealing with your problems. I would highly recommend this book to anyone on the road to recovery from and Eating Disorder.

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