Weight Watchers Stop Stuffing Yourself: 7 Steps To Conquering Overeating (Hardcover)

by Weight Watchers (Author) "It's a familiar complaint: "All my life I just wanted to eat 'normally," says Brenda T., 39, a public relations copywriter from the Midwest and..." (more)
Key Phrases: emotional eater, emotional eating, Weight Watchers, New York

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Why is one cookie never enough? Why does a bad day at the office seem to scream for a quart of rocky road? If you think the answer is a lack of self-control, you might be misunderstanding the reasons behind overeating.

Trust Weight Watchers, the leading name in safe and sensible weight control, to address food issues that go beyond what to eat. If cutting calories or regular exercise hasn't been enough, the next step is understanding why you overeat. Stop Stuffing Yourself contains the latest information on the hottest topic in weight control, emotional overeating. Full of hands-on advice and reassuring coping techniques for winning the battle with food, Stop Stuffing Yourself covers issues ranging from stress and anger to boredom and loneliness, explaining how anyone can identify the causes of overeating and succeed at losing weight.

Real-life stories of trial and triumph color each chapter, providing motivation, support and encouragement to anyone who ever thought she was alone in her struggle with food. Stop Stuffing Yourself is the must-have book for chronic dieters, the food-obsessed, and anybody who's ready to gain control over food and lose weight.

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Stop Stuffing Yourself When the bills pile up, do you pile on the pasta? Once you've managed to get the kids snuggled into bed, do you snuggle up with a pint of chocolate chocolate chip? Are you tormented by not being able to eat like a "normal" person? If you think your problem is a lack of self-control, you might be misunderstanding the reasons behind overeating. Emotional overeating has officially hit the mainstream, and Weight Watchers is here to help. Weight Watchers Stop Stuffing Yourself examines all the factors that can drive you to overeat—from stress and anger to boredom and loneliness—and explains how you can identify the causes of overeating and succeed at losing weight. Whether it was a family reunion, work pressures, an argument with your spouse, or a case of the blues, you can teach yourself how to offset the situations that once drove you to the chocolate layer cake. Throughout, you'll find thought-provoking quizzes to help you determine your eating profile and identify your food triggers. This comprehensive guide also helps you explore and investigate the situations that can lead to overeating. In addition, you'll learn how to handle and counter those stressful events with smart, yet simple, solutions. Real life stories of trial and triumph color each chapter, providing motivation, support, and encouragement to anyone who ever thought she was alone in her struggle with food. Weight Watchers Stop Stuffing Yourself is the must-have book for chronic dieters, the food-obsessed, and anybody who's ready to gain control over food and lose weight.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 196 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 29, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028627598
• ISBN-13: 978-0028627595
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #378,837 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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120 of 120 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!, May 1, 2000

By A Customer

I have stuggled with my weight for nearly twenty years. Most of that time, I've been aware that emotions were at the root of my overeating, but I could never translate that knowledge into any kind of solution.

The greatest selling point of this book is the comprehensive quizzes that help you pinpoint exactly where your trouble areas are. The book also provides very concrete suggestions on how to address those underlying needs and move onto a healthier physical and emotional way of life.

96 of 99 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The proven techniques to Weight loss, June 7, 2001

By	K. Corn "reviewer" (Indianapolis,, IN United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

Weight Watchers, bless their point-counting souls, recognizes that losing weight is more than a matter of willpower or deprivation (and no one should feel starved when dieting). Truly health weight loss is part of a total lifestyle change. For each dieter, the reasons for overeating will be a little bit different but Stop Stuffing Yourself is an excellent tool to help udnerstand and get in control of overeating. If the Weight Watchers point system is used along with this book and if a little exercise is added to daily activities, then weight loss success is likely. I've tried every diet out there and nothing works like the Weight Watchers program. It isn't a rigid diet but allows for real life situations, including eating at Fast Food restaurants and saving up food choices for special occasions. Stop stuffing Yourself proves that it is possible to eat well and feel comfortable without feeling too full OR feeling starved. Moderation does rule, when it comes to the weight loss game, at least for long-term, lasting results.

50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps The Only Book Like This You Need, April 2, 2003

By A Customer

I'm sorry about the first, very negative review of this book because it just isn't so. This book is not annoying psychobabble or anything of that kind, or I wouldn't have read it. There's no attribution for authorship, but with the number of bad books on weight loss, whoever wrote this should be proud of it. It's thoughtful but straightforward and describes eating problems and their possible emotional causes in very simple, practical, unsentimental terms. Because it's a Weight Watchers book, it also offers solutions -- sensible, flexible, positive ones that so importantly suggest that control is possible if certain reasonable steps are taken. In fact, I'm persuaded that this oldest of weight loss programs really does have the best answers, both the practical and, based on this book, also the more profound insight needed to grasp this complex problem, but with a real working understanding, not New Age gobbledygook. The best insights are often the most simply put, and that's what we have here. Filling your shelves with books on this subject, instead of taking the necessary action, is often just another form of avoidance behavior. Taking the necessary action, combined with good, supportive information, is the best answer for a lot of people. This book is full of real information and may turn out to be the only one you'll ever need.