Dieting: A Dry Drunk (Paperback)

by Becky Lu Jackson (Author), Joseph Mortola (Author) "Understanding that an addictive disease has been the driving energy behind our eating/weight problems can bring a sense of astonishment..." (more)
Key Phrases: Dry Drunk, Becky Lu Jackson, Overeaters Anonymous (more...)

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Product Description
This book is for people with eating problems, weight problems, dieting problems. It's for those who have experienced obsessive and compulsive attempts to control their weight and eating. This is a book about how's-not whys- how to identify it, how to arrest it, and how to be free from "needing" it. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Publisher
Just as there are guidelines and information that help a newly dry alcoholic shift from the depression and resentment of a "dry drunk" to the acceptance and enjoyment of sobriety, this book will offer direction and insight to those problem eaters still suffering from a dieting mentality--their own brand of a dry drunk.

The same solutions and tools that are used in arresting alcoholism are presented as a "map" to facilitate the problem eater in moving from the depressing cycle of out-of-control eating, over-controlled eating, to the serenity and sanity of continuous abstinence from compulsive eating.

Whereas dieting can create a bondage to the insanity of a "dry drunk," abstinence from random, compulsive, overeating or undereating can offer "sobriety"--a sane and sound way to address and arrest addictive eating.

Just as alcoholics can now be offered the hope and promise of recovery, people with any and all expressions of eating disorders can also be invited to believe that they, too, can experience a full recovery.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Universal Publishers; 1 edition (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581127081
• ISBN-13: 978-1581127089
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #219,608 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book has been a life-saver!, September 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dieting: A Dry Drunk : A Dieting Recovery Handbook (Paperback)

This book contains a lot of wisdom and clarity about how eating disorders work, and how to arrest them, that isn't available in the vast dieting industry, and often not from the medical profession either. I have worked with Becky Jackson for several years concerning my own food and eating issues, and I have learned so much more than I did in any previous "diet" program. This book is NOT about dieting. Becky combines physical, emotional and spiritual recovery in her approach. My hope is that this book becomes more widely known, and that more people can benefit from Becky's experience and expertise, and from the stories of the recovery of others that are also in the book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Changed My Life, October 5, 2003

By A Customer

I got, and followed this book over 10 years ago, and have not had to live in the crazy up and down weight (mostly up) world since then. For over 10 years, I have followed the priciples of this book and been able to stay sane about eating and food through all kinds of difficult life situations - pregancy, death, divorce. It taught me how to live without using food to get through things, and how to live without being afraid of food, either. It was pretty hard the first 3 months or so, but SO worth it! I would recommend this book to anyone who is completely fed up with yo-yo dieting and the guilt and remorse that come from feeling out-of-control with food.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bless you, Becky Lu !!, May 10, 2009

By	Roary James (Brattleboro VT) - See all my reviews

This book has worked incredible magic in my life. (You could very well see yourself within these pages and draw consolation from the fact that you're not alone with this disease.) The clarity that has entered my life through reading this book is astounding. I am deeply grateful to the author for the healing that you've put out there through these pages for all of us so afflicted. The wisdom in the statement: "There is no excuse that justifies returning to an active disease" is so to the point that I'm completely humbled. I will never be the same again (just so much better) and for this, I thank you!!