Love to Eat, Hate to Eat: Breaking the Bondage of Destructive Eating Habits (Paperback)

by Elyse Fitzpatrick (Author)
Key Phrases: disciplined eating, Holy Spirit, God's Word, Needed Growth (more...)

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Product Description

More than 80 percent of all Americans have been on a diet at some point in their lives. Low fat, low carb, high protein—you name it—they’ve tried it. Isn’t there a better way to break the cycle in the battle of the bulge?

After years of futile dieting, readers know there’s more to weight control than what they eat. Having discovered the power that food has over their lives, counselor Elyse Fitzpatrick, author of Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Anxiety, helps them:

• identify destructive eating habits
• break the vicious cycle of emotional eating
• develop a flexible plan suited to unique situations

God knows everything about us...where we’ve been and where we’re going. Because He knows us so well, He can deeply transform us, giving us the contentment we long for.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (August 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736914382
• ISBN-13: 978-0736914383
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #99,194 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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68 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Christian perspective to refocus your approach to eating., July 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Love to Eat, Hate to Eat (Paperback)

The author writes warmly with a clear,thorough approach to eating and food, covering eating disorders as well as everyday struggles with diets. Her use of Scripture guides you to refocus your thinking. If I had not read it myself, I would not have believed what an impact it could make. Wonderful book! Christians will be particularly inspired! Not a recipe in it...just sound professional advice.

73 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST READ for all Christian women struggling food, March 31, 2001

By	"[e-mail]" (NM) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love to Eat, Hate to Eat (Paperback)

This book will help any person that is struggling with food. Eating disorder or not! Not an ounce on condemnation in this book if you read it with an open heart. Elyse Fitzpatrick constantly reminds her readers how much God loves them......they are His children, how could He not love them? He would never hurt them on purpose, but He is also a perfect, holy, and just God who cannot sin and hates sin. The person from Corona, CA (below) is right when he/she said: 'But the fact is that the individuals embroiled in this cannot help themselves.' We cannot help ourselves, but God can help us! That is why we need to look to God's word for advice. 'All scripture is give by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.' 2nd Tim. 3:16-17 (NKJV) How can we place our faith in man (a therapist) to help us change? ESPECIALLY if that therapist's beliefs are not built upon a Christian foundation? Looking within is not the answer, looking to Jesus is. Jesus can take away all the past hurt and pain from our lives. That is why He died for all of us! Jesus Himself tells us to DENY OURSELVES, to take up our cross DAILY, and to follow Him. I don't know about you, but I want to follow Him with all my heart. Elyse Fitzpatrick is pointing us in the right direction by showing us just how we can deny ourselves, take up our cross daily and follow Him. She herself lived through the pain of disordered eating and is sharing how God has set her free. You can be set free too, if you will allow yourself realize disordered eating is focusing on yourself and that that thinking needs to change. If the SON sets you free......you will be free indeed! I recommend this book highly if you are seeking true freedom from the bondage of an dieting or disordered eating. A+++++++++ book!

36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Biblical Fpundation, November 26, 2000

By	Karen Whelan (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love to Eat, Hate to Eat (Paperback)

The forte of this writing was the abundant amount of scripture offered by the author. It was also a good wake up call for getting right with God and letting the results and benefits come as a result of seeking God and not the approval of others. It does not minimize ones struggle with weight but points out it may be a symptom of our need to address our relationship to God first as well as God's will for our use of food.