The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook: An Integrated Approach to Overcoming Disordered Eating (The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series) [Paperback]

Carolyn Ross (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1572245913 | ISBN-13: 978-1572245914 | Publication Date: July 1, 2009

Some people use food to calm themselves when they feel overwhelmed. Others find it difficult to discern between eating out of hunger and eating out of habit. There are nearly as many reasons why people overeat as there are reasons to stop. While overeating can often bring comfort in the short term, it can lead to feelings of guilt later on. If you feel like you're caught in a cycle of unhealthy eating that you can't stop, this workbook can help you overcome it.

In The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook, you'll learn skills and nutrition guidelines recommended by doctors and therapists for healthy eating and how to quell the often overpowering urge to overeat. Using a variety of practices drawn from complementary and alternative medicine, you'll replace unhealthy habits with nourishing rewards and relaxation practices. This potent combination of therapies will help you end your dependence on overeating as a way to cope with unpleasant feelings and shows you how to develop new strategies for a healthier lifestyle.

This workbook will help you:
• Identify the trigger foods and feelings that spur you to binge or overeat
• Determine how stress, depression, and anxiety may be affecting your eating
• Calm yourself in stressful times with nourishing self-care practices
• Learn to appreciate and accept your body

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Dr. Carolyn Ross’s workbook is a breath of fresh air! Jam-packed with cutting edge information, The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook helps readers find freedom and health in our weight-obsessed culture. By shedding light on the truth about recovering from binge-eating disorder and compulsive overeating, this book promises to make a real difference in people’s lives."
—Jenni Schaefer, author of Life Without Ed and Goodbye Ed, Hello Me

"Dr. Ross’s holistic explanation of binge eating and obesity can change our views of dieting forever. She has lectured to medical and professional audiences about changing our country’s dieting mentality. Her wisdom about healing the relationship with food, weight, and body image is presented in a way that finally makes sense. This book can make a difference that can last a lifetime."
—Rebecca Cooper, MA, CCH, CEDS, author of Diets Don’t Work and founder of Rebecca’s House Eating Disorder Treatment Programs

"This is the best practical information I’ve seen on managing eating disorders. Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross’s sound advice can help the many people trapped in destructive relationships to food regain control of their lives and health."
—Andrew Weil, MD, integrative medicine pioneer and author of Eight Weeks to Optimum Health and Healthy Aging

From the Publisher

The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook offers a comprehensive recovery program for people with binge eating disorder and other overeating disorders. Readers will learn to use proven complementary and alternative medicine therapies to develop a healthy relationship to food and eating.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications (July 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572245913
• ISBN-13: 978-1572245914
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Recovery > Drug Dependency
  • #28 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Mental Health > Eating Disorders

More About the Author

About Dr. Carolyn Ross
Born in Houston, Texas, Dr. Carolyn Ross spent her childhood in San Antonio where as the oldest of five children, she comes from a long line of physicians and healers. Her mother's father was a well-known physician in Bryan, Texas who opened his own hospital and nursing school. His mother, Betty Love, was a Cherokee medicine woman.

She wanted to be a doctor since she was nine years old and has worked many summers and vacations in her grandfather's office, going with him on house calls, helping him deliver babies and learning how to dispense medications in his office pharmacy.

Dr. Ross completed her undergraduate degree in Modern Foreign Languages at Purdue University and worked as a full-time mother of her two older sons before returning to school to complete her Pre-Med requirements. She then went to the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Ross's practice experience after medical school helped fuel her interest in understanding what makes people heal as she saw that most of her patients' medical problems were related to lifestyle habits and the stresses of modern living. In searching for a better way to address these issues, Dr. Ross began to explore complementary and alternative therapies and the use of herbs and supplements for her patients. She then completed a residency in Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University and then set up practice in San Diego, California where she eventually opened three womens' centers where she practiced primary care and office gynecology. Her womens' centers integrated the best of western medicine with complementary and alternative therapies such as yoga, acupuncture, chiropractic and nutrition counseling. She developed and ran a weight management program that offered a holistic approach to treating obesity. During that time, she also served as the medical director of The Rader Institute's inpatient eating disorder program.

Dr Ross's own personal health crisis and the diagnosis of her mother with Alzheimer's led her on a journey to healing in which her perspective about medicine changed and her desire to focus on integrative medicine led her to the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Ross completed a two-year fellowship in Integrative Medicine, studying with Dr. Andrew Weil. Her path then led her to work as the head of the Eating Disorders Program and the Integrative Medicine Department at world-renowned inpatient hospital, Sierra Tucson where she pioneered the Integrative Medicine approach to eating disorders. She currently works in private practice in Colorado and as a consultant for treatment centers across the country on eating disorders and integrative medicine.

Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross is a mother of three sons and has one granddaughter. She is also a nationally known author, speaker and expert in the field of Eating Disorders and Integrative Medicine. Her most recent book is "Healing Body, Mind and Spirit: an Integrative Medicine approach to the treatment of eating disorders." Her next book "The Overcoming Binge Eating Disorder and Compulsive Overeating Workbook" is due to be published in 2009. Dr. Ross has also developed a line of supplements as a result of her research, which is designed to support the recovery of patients with eating disorders and obesity.

For more information, please visit www.carolynrossmd.com.

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a gem..., September 2, 2009

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NSHuber "Leadership Coach" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook: An Integrated Approach to Overcoming Disordered Eating (The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series) (Paperback)

Carolyn Ross' book is exceptional in it's clarity and usefulness. For anyone who has habitually looked for outside help with eating disorders, this workbook is an important step in discovering the need to search within and the rewards from doing so!

Written in plain language, Dr. Ross' book takes the reader through a series of exercises intended to change unhealthy behavior and begin the healing process. The introduction defines binge eating disorder and compulsive overeating so that BED and CO are easy to recognize. The chapter on nutrition basics is a straightforward introduction to what each of us should know about the foods we choose to put in our body. Each succeeding chapter provides thoughtful activities intended to bring the reader along the path to better nutritional - and emotional - health. Then, the concluding chapter lays out the five steps to continue the path.

Well done.

29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It helps me so far, June 29, 2009

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This review is from: The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook: An Integrated Approach to Overcoming Disordered Eating (The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series) (Paperback)

I do have the problem of overeating. Especially late in the evening. So when I saw the books I thought that it might be something for me. So far I read about half to the book and I like it. I don't know how long I can keep it but since last Tuesday (five days) I stopped my late night eating. As a result I also sleep much better -- don't need to drink at night and get up a few times to go to the toiled. Last night I slept 7.5 hours without even waking up once. That might not be the authors purpose of writing the book but this is the positive side effect that resulted from my reading eat. The other book that also helped me with my problem is Can We Live 160. The author devotes one whole chapter to the bad habits that lead people to obesity.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In-depth help for Binge and Compulsive Eating, September 6, 2011

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This review is from: The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook: An Integrated Approach to Overcoming Disordered Eating (The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series) (Paperback)

This is a great workbook and very helpful for those struggling with binge eating or compulsive eating. The book really helps you get to the root of your issue with food and gives you steps to move forward.