Conquer Your Cravings : Four Steps to Stopping the Struggle and Winning Your Inner Battle with Food [Paperback]

Suzanne Giesemann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998

For the person who is trying to stick to a healthy diet, getting a food craving can be a nightmare. Consumed with quieting the craving, one often gives in to it.

Conquer Your Cravings illustrates how to end food cravings--permanently. Readers learn how to use positive thinking, visualization, and personal empowerment to successfully fight their cravings through a remarkable four-step program.

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About the Author

A Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy, Suzanne Giesemann is a weight-loss and fitness consultant and the owner of Lighten Up! Enterprises.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809230127
• ISBN-13: 978-0809230129
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,125,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Suzanne Giesemann (www.SuzanneGiesemann.com) is an author, monthly magazine columnist, and motivational speaker focusing on personal excellence and spiritual growth. She is a former Navy Commander who served as a Commanding Officer and aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11. An avid sailor and U.S. Coast Guard licensed captain, Suzanne does much of her writing from the deck of her 46-foot sloop, Liberty, which she and her husband, Ty, sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and throughout the Mediterranean. In addition to speaking, sailing, and as of late, writing about mediumship, Suzanne has studied mediumship in Lily Dale, New York, and at The Arthur Findlay College in Stansted, England, and continues to develop her own mediumistic and healing abilities.

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78 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a book that can truly change your life around., March 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Conquer Your Cravings : Four Steps to Stopping the Struggle and Winning Your Inner Battle with Food (Paperback)

I was thrilled to hear that there was a place in which I could express to others how much this incredible book has truly helped me. Like anyone who may have a bad relationship with food, I have spent so many years stuggling with the overwhelming urges to eat when I am not hungry, have a day turn "bad" with binging or simply just obsessivly thinking about food! These actions literally controlled my life, how I would treat people, if I would go to work or social events and so many other things. These things were all determined on whether or not I felt I was having a "good" or "bad" day, I was so out of control with my actions and thoughts of food! I knew, being a person who was (or at least appreared to others to be) a pretty "normal" person in most other areas of my life, that there had to be some reason I was doing doing so lousy at this one, but I could not figure out why. I found Suzanne's book and instantly knew I had found something different, something that could really help me, by using my "inner guide" and intuition and finally getting to the root of the problem. And I have discovered that this problem is all in our thinking patterns and the habits that we have created. Conquer Your Cravings explains this idea, which I knew would be my only way to gain peace and freedom with food and myself. Suzanne has this process, which explains how we are literally able to STOP ourselves when the cravings and thoughts arise, and before any major destructive behavior can actually begin. This process has not only taught me how to acknowledge these negative thoughts and stop them, but it explains WHY they come about and what we can actually do to eliminate and control them. I will continue to work on the processes that are given to me in this book for the rest of my life, my "bad" days are getting less and less and I am utilizing the control that I now know I have by using these wonderful steps and ideas.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book has cured my, January 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Conquer Your Cravings : Four Steps to Stopping the Struggle and Winning Your Inner Battle with Food (Paperback)

I wish Amazon could make an exception to thier system and give Conquer your Cravings 7 stars. In short, this book changed my life. I have struggled with weight problems my whole life and in this time have read many books which promised a "quick-and-easy" fix. Conquer Your Cravings does not promise this;in fact, it warns you that conquering your cravings will be an uphill battle. However, it also gives you the armor to go into battle. First, it teaches you to "hear your thoughts" because often when you are craving cookies, beneath it all you are craving something greater: fullfillment in a relationships, perhaps. This book taught me to be true to myself and to listen to my intuition. With it, I got rid of my neagtive thoughts that have impeded my performance for my whole life (i.e. I can't do this.) and replaced them with affirmations. I am now more successful in my every day life and happier. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to lose weight and wants to lead a happier, more fulfilling life.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful, practical text for changing your eating habits, January 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Conquer Your Cravings : Four Steps to Stopping the Struggle and Winning Your Inner Battle with Food (Paperback)

I read this book after reading a newspaper interview with the author. It is everything she promises! The four step program is practical and workable for those of us rushing through life. Once learned, it simply enables us to stop and think before we take a bite of food that we neither need nor want. The best part of the program for me was the emphasis on intuition, which can be exercised and strengthened until it becomes a useful and meaningful "Inner Guide". I also resonated with the advice on how to be a "best freind" to yourself: the author asks, if we wouldn't tell a friend she was fat, why do we tell ourselves that. I recommend this book not only to those who have dropped out of Weight Watchers (like me) but to all who feel they cannot stop reaching for the cookies and candies and doughnuts they see all around them. Great book!