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Making Peace With Food: Freeing Yourself from the Diet/Weight Obsession

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I had a serious eating disorder and this book was a turning point for me in my recovery. One of the other reviewers said this book would only be appropriate for fat people who wanted to feel good about themselves. This was not the case for me. I had a serious problem and was very thin. The exercises were so helpful in this book. I believe that one cannot really recover until they deal with their attitudes regarding weight and self-acceptance. This book helps you to do that.

After years of learning negative behaviors around food, and years of an unhealthy relationship with food, I found a book that challenged my ideas about food and weight. I read a review on this book that mentioned how upset they were about this book telling you that it is ok to gain weight. Well, what this book really says is that we all come in different shapes and sizes and that is ok. Maybe it is not healthy to be the weight that we desire? I loved this book because it helped me to learn that food is no longer my God or my enemy. It taught me that it is ok to eat.

This book was of great help in pinpointing my feelings that accompanied my food, attitude, and lifestyle choices and situations. The author writes from the heart, and puts her personal experiences into the book in order to be of more help. It really helped me to figure out some of the issues I'd been going through, but didn't know. Self tests help readers pinpoint feelings, choices, and issues. A great book to read over periodically to check how far one has gotten with food and body image.

Making Peace with Food is so good because you can't read it as a passive audience. The exercises that allow you to internalize the messages of the book are invaluable to anyone who is tired of being preached to by someone who doesn't understand ED. The themes of the book include learning how to stop objectifying yourself by constantly focusing on your body. Also, it shows how to appreciate all kinds of bodies, including your own. It made me think twice about who I was starving myself for. I finally found someone who understood my situation and my feelings instead of just telling me to relax and eat. It is so good. I wish I could give a copy to every woman in America. By the way, it is clearly written for young women, I am 19 and found it quite relevant.

I struggled with weight and body image for years, and eventually developed an eating disorder. This book helped me recover, and develop healthy attitudes towards food and my body. When therapy and medication had failed, this book succeeded.

This is an excellent book. I am a Holistic Cardiologist and I use it as a workbook for a 10-week Weight Loss Workshop For Women that I conduct twice a year.

This is an excellent book/workbook. Even though there are places for the reader to write, the workbook parts are very helpful and there is still a lot of content in the book. I really enjoyed reading about obesity myths, because it made me question health "facts" pertaining to weight, meaning, that being overweight is not as unhealthy as it is portrayed in society. I also really enjoyed the section on weight set-points, which made me question a lot of classic assumptions, including: everyone is able to be thin if only they diet and "fat" people eat more than "thin" people. The whole book promotes a life free of diets, and body- and self-acceptance, which is very comforting and reassuring. Anyone who is sick of dieting and putting themselves and their bodies through torture should definitely read this book!

This is not a bad book, but it tries to come off as a book which pretends to help people struggeling with an eating disorder. It is not. It is a book about fat acceptance, which is certainly an honorable subject, but will scare off those who are in need for more information on how to overcome an eating problem. There are a lot of self-love exercises in this book, which are valuable. But the "You might get fat if you overcome your eating disorder - deal with it and love yourself as you are or will be!" attitude is *not* helpful for people trying to break the ED cycle (besides that, most people *won't* become fat because they get better, see below). "Eat what you want whenever you want it, work out but only if you feel like it etc..." No! This is not the right way to go about it!

This book would be great for someone who is overweight and wants to (re)learn how to respect her- or himself. But for those struggeling with an eating disorder, this book is a disaster. For those struggeling with an eating disoder, I highly recommend: "Overcoming Binge Eating" by Christopher Fairburn (Paperback - May 1995). He gives real graphs and comparisons of people who have undergone treatment and shows you that getting healthy again does not make you get fat!