This revealing and useful book tells how emotions can cause bad eating habits and provides an effective antidote to radical crash diets. The author uses a cognitive-behavioral approach, and offers an encouraging alternative to current theories on the causes on overeating, such as psychopathology, addiction, or moral weakness. Emotional Eating shows how to identify individual patterns of emotional eating, and then tells readers how to respond to these patterns. Filled with tables charts, and self-assessment tests, Emotional Eating can help you learn self-control by identifying emotional triggers and developing alternative behaviors.
In addition to my professional interest in obesity I have a personal interest since both my mother and brother died from weight-related causes. As a child I was overweight and wore "husky" clothes. As an adult I've been at least 15 lbs. heavier than I am now. It would have been easier to have prevented the weight gain in childhood than it was to lose it as an adult. My new book, "It's NOT Just Baby Fat!" shows parents how to help their child avoid getting fat.
Although I've never been a jock, and was very inactive as a young adult I currently work out at a local gym at least twice a week and try to walk whenever I can. Initially it was hard to get started with an exercise routine but I've been doing it long enough so that I feel badly if I miss too many days. I know I couldn't have maintained my weight in the normal range by dieting. Instead, I am very aware of what I eat and why I'm eating it. I use many of the techniques described in my earlier book, "Body Intelligence" to control my weight. I enjoy giving workshops to help others develop healthy eating and exercise habits for themselves and their kids.
