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Your Diet Is Driving Me Crazy: When Food Conflicts Get in the Way of Your Love Life [Paperback]

Cynthia Sass (Author), Denise Maher (Author)
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April 22, 2004
Whether they have been together for two weeks or twenty years, many couples struggle with subtle—and sometimes serious—eating tensions. These issues almost inevitably simmer, eventually becoming an emotional drain and leading to intimacy problems and dysfunctional eating. Now, in, nationally recognized nutrition expert Cynthia Sass—an official spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association—identifies and addresses nearly twenty food-conflict situations and shares her secrets to ending food fights and finding ways of eating better together. Readers will closely identify with the book's real-life scenarios—when one partner has picky eating habits, or encourages another to overeat, or gets irritable when hungry, or when a partner begins a new diet (or, worse, a radical new diet). And they will embrace Sass's original, creative strategies and suggestions—advice that is deeply rooted in her decade of working with thousands of couples in a wide variety of settings. Your Diet is Driving Me Crazy is the first book to acknowledge the problem of relationship-driven food conflicts and to offer comprehensive, sensible strategies and solutions for resolving them.


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Although its title implies that this book will address the conflicts that arise when one half of a couple goes on a diet like Atkins or The Zone, dietician and nutrition expert Sass and freelance writer Maher instead explore how one person's unhealthy relationship with food can ruin his or her love life. Sass differentiates between food pet peeves, such as eating with the television on or leaving the milk out, and more serious food conflicts: e.g., when one person becomes a "food cop" who monitors every morsel going into the other's mouth, when a couple can't find time to eat together, when a vegetarian and omnivore become romantically involved, when an individual needs to change his or her diet for health reasons, when one partner unconsciously makes the other overeat or when one person has an eating disorder. To help couples facing any of these critical problems, the authors present the SANITY model, an acronym for "See the problem"; "Ask your partner to understand the problem"; "Negotiate a compromise"; "Imagine creative solutions"; "Take advantage of outside resources"; and "Yuck it up... to dissolve tension." This hard-to-remember acronym may be too vague to be of any use, but the charts, quizzes, role-playing scenarios and direct advice dotted throughout the book are useful. If readers can see past the misleading title, they'll find a wealth of information to help them laugh all the way from the kitchen to the bedroom.
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An eye-opening read about...the divisive role food can play in a relationship. Heart-healthy advice, in more ways than one! -- John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Finally, a book that encourages couples to understand the vital role food plays in their relationship. -- Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief, Self magazine

In a publishing world that regularly unleashes a flood of diet books...this volume...comes as a welcome surprise. -- The New York Times

Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press (April 22, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 156924474X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1569244746
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,978,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cynthia Sass, MPh, RD, is a registered dietitian, the nutrition consultant to the Tampa Bay Rays, and the nutritionist behind and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Flat Belly Diet! Her "Weight Loss Coach" column appears each month in Shape magazine, and she appears regularly on television programs including The Today Show, Good Morning America, and The Early Show.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Your Diet is Driving Me Crazy, January 26, 2005
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I work as a nutrition counselor. Let me tell you, everything contained in Your Diet is Driving Me Crazy was right on target. The advice provided by Sass demonstrates she has years of experience working with food issues helping clients overcome them. Her expertise is useful for practitioners and for the layperson whose partner has wacky food issues. I highly recommend this book.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Practical Guide for Resolving Food Conflicts, June 2, 2004
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Martin Herman (Washington, D.C. USA) - See all my reviews
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A practical guide for resolving food conflicts and more. This easy to read book gave us a few good tips on how to deal with our different food preferences. However, many of the conflict resolution techniques are applicable to resolving other family issues. A must read for those who want to live happier lives.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars We've been waiting for a book like this!, May 7, 2004
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Finally! My husband and I have been wrestling with the food issues tackled in this book since we first moved in together more than three years ago. "Your Diet is Driving Me Crazy" gets it exactly right. My husband can eat anything he wants (and does!), while I have struggled with my weight for years. After reading this book, we are now armed with real, practical and sane solutions to the food problems that often threaten to overwhelm our relationship. Authors Sass and Maher clearly know their stuff and realize that food is, for many couples, a highly complex subject touching on family histories, self-esteem and other emotional issues.

Bravo to the authors of this book for creating a terrific guide for the millions of couples out there who are not in sync when it comes to their diets and who struggle to build a home where food issues don't sabotage their lives. Anyone in a relationship will benefit from the sound advice offered in this excellent guide.

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