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The End of Diets: Healing Emotional Hunger

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Finally I have found the answers I have been searching for. I feel as if I have read every book on dieting and not dieting and most of them will tell you what to eat, what not to eat or that you are eating for all the wrong reasons. OK, great, I know that...so HOW DO I STOP? This book guides you through the process of recognizing the emotions that lead to overeating and guides you through the process of sitting with the emotions instead of eating through them. The author is so right on with the thought process and behaviors of emotional eaters (such as describing how we may come home and we are tired and instead of getting rest, we have a need to reconnect or unwind and tend to start eating at that point...I certainly can relate to that!), yet she takes it to the next level and beyond by giving tools to deal with feelings and emotions that don't involve food for coping. She doesn't suggest eating celery or lettuce or 15 gallons of water. This is not about temporary distractions, but permanent healing. I have a circle of friends that have recently purchased this book and we can't wait to have everyone go through it and start a discussion group!

I can't believe that I spent over 30 years trying to find the right eating program when eating was never the real problem.

Dilia de la Altagracia really teaches you to get to the why of the problem and to be with your emotions until your hunger subsides.

If you eat out of control, binge eat or just can't stop eating when things go wrong, you should be reading this book.

Len
Denver, Colorado

I receive 30 books per week, sometimes more, from authors that want to be on my radio show. I give each book 5 minutes and if I don't resonate with it, forget it! Life is too short to read more hype. I have to tell you, this book, The End of Diets: Healing Emotional Hunger was a storm of fresh air. After all the psychobabble, after all the 'what to eat, what not to eat, white-knuckle will-power' - frankly all of the stuff that we finally know doesn't work - this book is truly insightful, different, and powerful stuff about how to get to know ourselves and profoundly understand the correlation between our feelings and our overeating behavior."

This book truly spoke to me and my life long frustration of why eating and food is a daily struggle and addiction in my life. I never could figure out, why I simply didn't have the will-power to eat less, to reduce my calorie intake and to become thin. Like the author, I am a strong willed and determined woman in my professional life, but certainly not when it comes to food...
Over the past 15 years of my life, I've been between a size 4 and a size 16 and currently I am approaching my 30s with a size 14 - I had enough!! I don't want to continue being fat and living throughout my thirties, unhappy, unfulfilled and with an addiction that causes serious health risks.
Anyone out there, who goes through the same struggles and emotions, should read this book. Its message is that will-power won't cure your food addiction, it is about self-love and acceptance. It is from an author, who has been there, knows what you've been through and found a solution that worked. Currently, I am on my journey to self-love and acceptance and it is a long and hard journey but the outcome will hopefully be amazing ;-)

I felt like parts of this book were written for me. It was refreshing to get simple real life tools to use immediately. This book addresses the whole person not just the eating. I've done years of other programs on and off. This book helped me in ways no other program even addressed.

I've never written a review before, but I feel very strongly about this book because it's changed my life. One of the author's central premises is that you need to deal with your emotions instead of eating to make them go away. Once I understood it; something clicked. In the past two weeks, I've lost 4 pounds without dieting; the difference is that I haven't pigged out when I get upset. I feel a million times better about myself and know that I can change my life.

A welcome relief from the 'calories in vs. calories burned' school of diets. The End of Diets addresses the issues I have always suspected played a part in weight management, but have yet to see described elsewhere. This book approaches weight loss from the whole person perspective, taking into account the many psychological/spiritual challenges we all face. A great read . . . in fact, a MUST read!

in the last ten years I have tried diets from Atkins to weight watchers and everything in between. All the diets worked in helping lose ten or more pounds. Soon after I went back to my "real" way of eating, the weight came back in addition to a couple of pounds.

After reading "THE END OF DIETS" I finally understand that no diet is ever going to really work. The way to loose way and to keep it off is to understand why I eat, or what the underling emotions that makes food my main pacifier.

This new years for the first time in my adult life I did not resolve to loose ten pounds, instead I have resolved to understand the reasons I run to food. I read the book right before Christmas and to my surprise the holistic techniques suggested helped me not gain weight during one of the most stressful and food driven times of the year, "THE END OF DIETS" actually helped me to loose three pounds in the last two weeks!!!

Since reading "THE END OF DIETS" I have been applying the simple, realistic approaches suggested and to my surprise I am beginning to understand why am eating, where am eating and how unconscious I have been when consuming most of the food I usually ate.

For the first time in a long time I feel as though I have a chance at loosing the unwanted pounds I have been carrying around for the last ten years. I think "THE END OF DIETS" is a sane doable approach to taking the weight off and keeping it off for good.

This book is highly recommended for anyone struggling with any type of eating disorder, whether it be anorexia, bulimia, compulsive eating or whatever. I read this book and re-read it again because it was so wonderful. There are no 'magic cures' offered in the book. Instead, it offers hope for those of us who are emotional eaters. Reason why we 'emotionally eat' are discussed, as are many different types of dealing with emotional hunger. There are a lot of books available that discuss eating disorders and emotional eating, but this is one of the best. I cannot recommend this book enough!

I got a lot from de la Altagracia's heartfelt guide to healing emotional eating, both as a professional counselor and on a personal level. It is a shame that this book suffers from a lack of editing with grammatical errors and awkward phrasing throughout.
Some of the author's suggestions are familiar and one could dismiss this book as nothing new, however de la Altagracia brings a deeply felt commitment to her process of healing the pattern of "eating through emotions". She succeeds in engaging the reader on a personal, not just intellectual level.
I appreciate the integration of body-awareness and body work into the book's program. The author's approach synthesizes cognitive, emotional, and body-centered methods into a multi-modal strategy. She also provides a simplified explanation of the myriad of diet options currently vying for attention.
De la Altagracia emphasizes the life-long nature of the healing journey, instilling hope and realism.