The Love-Powered Diet: Eating for Freedom, Health, and Joy [Paperback]

Victoria Moran (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2009

This can be the last weight-loss book you ever read.

Finally, make peace with food and have a body you're proud of by drawing on the wisdom and grace already inside you. Replace cravings with calmness. Relate to food as a loving friend, not a feared enemy.

In her own quest for freedom from compulsive eating and yo-yo dieting, Moran once the chubby child of a diet doctor discovered the power of combining the principles of the Twelve Step Program with the gentle way of eating espoused by yogis and mystics, and now supported by cutting-edge nutritional research. The result: falling in love with yourself, your life, and The Love-Powered Diet!

Editorial Reviews

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This book will feed your soul, nourish your body, and leave you happier, healthier, and more in love with yourself than ever before. --Rory Freedman, co-author of Skinny Bitch

In order to change self-destructive behaviors, we need to go deeper, to what underlies our behavior. Victoria Moran shows us how. --Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease

This beautiful book takes us way beyond weight loss to a new appreciation of total health, inner and outer beauty, and a loving truce with food. --John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America

About the Author

Victoria Moran is the author of ten books, an international speaker on wellness and personal growth, and specializes in spiritual life coaching. Victoria's latest book is Fat, Broke, and Lonely No More, and her titles include the bestseller Creating a Charmed Life. She has written for and been profiled in publications including O, Self, and The New York Times. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Lantern Books (May 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590561171
• ISBN-13: 978-1590561171
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write life-enhancing books. "Self-help" is the genre and one of my passions to make self-help literature, too. In addition, I do keynote speaking (if your organization books speakers, please have a look at the "My Speaking" page on www.victoriamoran.com (http://www.victoriamoran.com/), and I am a certified life coach, with in-person clients in New York City and telephone clients from all over.
I host an Internet radio show, "Your Charmed Life," on www.HealthyLife.net, and I do a daily blog on Beliefnet.com: http://blog.beliefnet.com/yourcharmedlife. I've also been a guest on Oprah! twice --- with my books Shelter for the Spirit and Lit from Within. My best-selling book to date is Creating a Charmed Life---it's in 29 languages and quoted on boxes of Celestial Seasonings teas---and it has a brand new sequel, Living a Charmed Life: Your Guide to Finding Magic in Every Moment of Every Day. For the first thirty years of my life, I struggled with overeating and dieting; I overcame that (from the inside out) and share what I know in my books Fit from Within and, newly revised and updated: The Love-Powered Diet: Eating for Freedom, Health, and Joy. You can keep in touch by subscribing to my newsletter, The Charmed Monday Minute (www.victoriamoran.com); follow me on Twitter (www.twitter.com/charmedlifelady)or join my Facebook Fan Page (http://bit.ly/CT9Ir).

Customer Reviews

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Anyone who Eats Compulsively or Impulsively, May 20, 2009

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Susan Schenck "award-winng author of two books" (Cuenca, Ecuador) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Love-Powered Diet: Eating for Freedom, Health, and Joy (Paperback)

As a researcher & writer, I have read many books on how to get past an eating disorder, and I have to say this is the best. Packed with tools and tips, as well as a great deal of empathetic anecdotes of her own eating disorder past, Victoria has made this a must-read book for those struggling with eating issues.

How I wish I had had this book 36 years ago when I had bulimia, which was 7 years of pure hell. I found it quite humorous when Victoria described fishing some cake out of a trash can during an eating binge, until I suddenly recalled the disgust and self-loathing of having done it myself as a young woman struggling with this food demon.

This is not a diet book in the sense that it prescribes a meal plan, food restrictions, calorie counting or carb/fat/protein ratios. In fact, there are not even any recipes! The diet to be given is LOVE (for yourself) and Victoria tells you how.

Victoria's solutions for low self esteem, which so often leads to binging, range from spirituality with no particular religion (in fact, there is even a list of prayers from a wide variety of philosophies/religions), 12 Steps, journaling, tips on how to get to the self-love consciousness of what she calls "zero point," and proven insights such as blatant honesty. Meditation is also a strong tool, and Victoria shares her own daily ritual which is loosely called meditation, but is more like self-reflection. (For people who get bored chanting mantras, her routine would be perfect!)

Though the book doesn't prescribe a specific diet (except for love!)Victoria nonetheless strongly recommends her own way of eating, which is vegetarian. In fact, I was delightfully surprised to find she went on to become a raw vegan! She writes, "I myself have taken to the high-raw lifestyle in the past year and although I don't care to make it a religion or go a hundred percent raw, I must say that I feel younger, lighter, and more alive than I have in years." As another recovering food addict, I am happy to hear that, since the raw diet did so much to heal my own eating disorder.

This book will also educate you on the pitfalls of the SAD (standard America diet) way of eating, benefits of organic, sprouts, and other factors of health besides diet. Every chapter is filled with sidebars with all kinds of fascinating information.

Highly recommended for anyone who uses food for a substitute for love.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Improve Your Relationship With Food, May 30, 2009

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Ryan D. Andrews (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Love-Powered Diet: Eating for Freedom, Health, and Joy (Paperback)

I'm a dietitian who works with many people struggling to attain a healthy body weight. I will consider this book "required reading" from now on.

Two of my favorite excerpts:
--"The body is a reflection of what's going on inside: emotionally, intellectually and spiritually."

--"When you change your diet, not with a specific goal weight in mind but because your life and world will be better when you do, your body will take it from there."

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovingly Written, August 12, 2009

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Monica (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Love-Powered Diet: Eating for Freedom, Health, and Joy (Paperback)

Victoria Moran's latest book is a beautiful portrait of overcoming overeating through a nurturing spiritual, emotional, and vegetarian practice. I love that this book has Ms. Moran's personal story of overcoming obesity along with using the 12 Step program and practical insights. Anyone who is looking for the real deal and not some fad diet should read this book!