Journey to the Shape of You [Paperback]

Marian Willingham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2000

"Journey to the Shape of You" is a 7 week journal workbook designed to help people discover and recover their ideal weight through the process of journaling. Marian Willingham has labeled the 7 common stumbling blocks that lead to emotional eating. Acknowledging and healing these areas of your life will give you empowerment over compulsive overeating. Lose weight and keep it off forever by learning; it is not what you are eating, but what is eating at you.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This book is for all those people who finally want to heal a disordered emotional relationship with food. -- Michelle Sager MD child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Discovering and recovering my ideal weight through the 7 weeks in Marian Willingham's book "Journey to the Shape of You"... -- Lyn Prince UK

Thanks to Marian Willingham and her approach to weight loss I am now down to my ideal weight... -- Kim Dennis Maryland

About the Author

Marian Willingham is a personal eating coach and author of "Journey to the Shape of You." Her practice includes clients in America, Canada and Europe. Marian has designed a sucessful and unique program to help clients heal their dysfunctional relationship with food. Clients stop eating from emotional reasons, lose weight and keep it off forever.

Product Details

• Paperback: 187 pages
• Publisher: Backwater Publishing (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970095406
• ISBN-13: 978-0970095404
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,909,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reconnecting to who we were meant to be . . ., July 26, 2000

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"haasevp" (Southern California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Journey to the Shape of You (Paperback)

Reading Marian's words causes thoughts to flow with new clarity. She has helped me to reconnect to who I was meant to be physically, spiritually and emotionally. I always look forward to writing about the thoughts she inspires. Getting to know myself has been a wonderful adventure. With her deep experience in coaching people through "The Shape of You", Marian has devoped the intuition and experience to help people, really help themselves. "Journey to the Shape of You" is about awareness and living. It is gentle, honest, and straight forward. The best part about working through this journey isn't even the fact that I don't have a weight problem that I struggle with anymore. It is being peaceful and being able to raise my children with awareness, with personal boundaries, with a strong and real sense of self so that they live in the light of awareness and won't fall into the same diet trap I did. I would (and often do) recommend "Journey to the Shape of You" to anyone that has struggled with their weight and wants weight to no longer be an issue in their lives.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's More Than About Your Weight, August 7, 2000

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Kimberly A. Cottrell (Maryland, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Journey to the Shape of You (Paperback)

This book goes so much more beyond just weight loss. It deals with the issues of what causes you to turn to food, or as in my case, what makes you have a dysfunctional relationship with food and with yourself. As a recovered anorexic, this book has helped me deal with so many of the issues in my life that I was never really ready to deal with. It has helped me learn to set boundaries with people, therefore enabling me to have healthier realationships with those in my life that I love. Most of all though, reading Marian's words has helped me to reach a level in my life where I am taking better care of myself than ever before. With this book and the self-exploration that it will teach you, will be able to change the things in your life that you want to change through your own thoughts and actions. Best of all for me now, I am able to "deal" with those things in my life that I never thought I could before, instead of turning to food, diet and weight pre-occupation. I feel like I have my life back! Thank you Marian!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensitive, easy to read, July 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Journey to the Shape of You (Paperback)

This book is excellent! I have lost over 20 lbs on this program without dieting. I loved the journal exercises and discovered a lot about why I was turning to food in the first place. Marian has a 'genius' when it comes to addressing the needs of the compulsive eater. I highly recommend this book to anyone struggling with their weight.