Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal [Paperback]

Golda Poretsky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 4, 2010

Sick of dieting? Ready to quit? Then Stop Dieting Now! is a must-read. In this book, author Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. of Body Love Wellness (http://www.bodylovewellness.com), leading authority on Health At Every Size and body acceptance, shows you why dieting does more harm than good and how you can heal from a weight-obsessed culture.

Editorial Reviews

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She's a hero for all of us, all sizes of us, who want to live happily, healthfully, at home in our very own bodies. Golda's writing offers great insights into genuinely enjoying happy embodiment as your birthright. --Marilyn Wann, author of FAT!SO?

"Golda is a wonderful spokesperson for Health At Every Size.  Her writing is always a great combination of impassioned persuasion and practical advice and inspiration." --Linda Bacon, PhD, author of Health At Every Size

"If we all took her advice, we'd stop measuring our worth in pounds and inches, and make peace with the bodies we actually have..." --Bill Fabrey, NAAFA Founder

"Her ability to connect with people and communicate to them the skills they need to learn to start loving themselves--mind, body and all--is effective, honed and nothing short of awe-inspiring."

--Jay Solomon, MoreOfMeToLove.com

"[Golda's work] injects a much needed antidote of healthy self-esteem and body image into an ever increasingly disordered culture." --Rachel Richards, The F-Word Blog

From the Back Cover

From an early age, our culture tells us that losing weight and dieting is the key to having it all.  Whether it's better health, a better body, or a better lover, we all learn that dieting will get us what we want faster than anything else.

Though we all want this to be true, if you're like most dieters, then you know that dieting does not equal happiness.  Not only that, dieting can result in lots of unintended effects, like weight gain, disordered eating, and low self esteem, just to name a few.

But there is a way out.  In this breakthrough book, Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. shows you why diets don't work and how you can break free from dieting patterns that are holding you back from happiness. --Back Cover Copy

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Product Details

• Paperback: 94 pages
• Publisher: Body Love Wellness; 1st edition (June 4, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0578057913
• ISBN-13: 978-0578057910
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,412,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

After spending almost her entire life dieting, Golda decided in 2007 to stop dieting and start listening to her body. In 2008, she founded Body Love Wellness (www.bodylovewellness.com), incorporating her knowledge of holistic health with her belief that health and body love and acceptance are possible at every size.

She now counsels women and men on how to get off the dieting roller coaster, give their bodies what they really crave, and love their bodies and themselves.

In addition to counseling, Golda teaches workshops and teleclasses on healthy eating without dieting, intuitive eating, and radical body love. Her counseling and activism work have been featured on CBS' "The Early Show," ABC's "Nightline," Time Out New York and The Huffington Post.

Golda has a degree in health counseling and integrative nutrition from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, as well as B.A. in history from New York University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read! July 27, 2010

By Heather Stoll

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

If you haven't been following Golda Poretsky's podcasts/blog, webinars, and on Twitter...girl, you're missing out! Golda is a certified holistic health counselor who is made of pure awesome. This book is a practical guide/workbook to health at any size, loving your body as it is, and healing from the damaging unhealthy thought processes that keep us from being healthy and happy. The information on reasons to stop is thoughtfully laid out and well researched. The ways to heal are practical and simple, but definitely not easy and very thought-provoking. Buy the book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Golda can help you get off the diet roller coaster! May 11, 2012

By Cija Black

Format:Kindle Edition

I had an opportunity to read this awesome book. It is short, but it really gets to the point in an easy to read style. Golda gets to the heart of what dieting is really about. It goes so far beyond the calorie counting and magic diet systems. I have always felt like weight and dieting (or really the failure at dieting) in my own life has had very little to do with the food and lack of self control. For me, what is at the root of all of my body woe, is my relationship to food, how I judge myself and my body and even the food (good or bad). If I don't get that sorted, all the diets in the world won't make any sort of difference. I want to be happy with my body and my self regardless of my size. Stop Dieting Now! really puts that whole messed up cycle into perspective and gives you practical tips for how to get out of that mess. I highly encourage anyone who is going through diet struggles to buy the book and stop blaming yourself. As she said in the book, and I just love this quote!:

"Happiness is not a destination, nor is it a dress size. You have the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit (and attainment) of happiness right here and now. What are you going to do with it, darling?" - From Stop Dieting Now! by Golda Poretsky

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Stop Dieting Now August 6, 2012

By The Niblet

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I was pleased with this book. I have read several on the subject, this one struck home with me. I didn't necessarily agree with everything in the book but I didn't have to. There was enough to keep me interested, enough that resonated quite strongly with me.

I have incorporated much of the thoughts and practices in this book into my daily life with success. Diets definitely no longer worked for me and I needed to stop torturing myself for preceiving myself as a failure. This book finally convinced me that not only am I not a failure but I'm a pretty wonderful person. I am able to let food just be food now. Is my life perfect now? Have I lost 100 pounds of weight? Absolutely not. But I am able to live life without making food an issue around everything that is happening and slowly but surely, I am starting to see some weight-loss results. And I'm not panicked and obsessed about it, I can just let it be.