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The Body Love Manual: How to Love the Body You Have As You Create the Body You Want Paperback – October 3, 2012

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The Body Love Manual is a revolutionary book that offers a proven approach to losing weight, naturally and pleasurably, without dieting or deprivation. In this multiple award winning book, you will learn how to eat in harmony with your physical appetites rather than your emotional appetites (i.e. stress, depression, overwhelmed) for gradual and sustainable weight loss. It is a "mindful" eating path to weight loss, which has been researched and recommended by the most recognized and respected obesity think tanks worldwide. Ready to enjoy eating again, guilt free? Ready to make peace with food? Ready to free yourself from yo yo dieting and the frustration that comes with regaining the weight after suffering through yet another restrictive program? Then this is the book for you. In The Body Love Manual you'll learn that you don’t have to give up your favorite foods to achieve your natural weight. Rather you will learn the skill of managing the intense emotions that instigate the "binge" eating patterns that lead to excess weight. This book is based on 20 years of independent research by the author who suffered from and overcame her own battle with 65 pounds of excess weight and a 13 year eating disorder. She has kept that weight off for over 25 years, with ease, through this joyful approach to food. Now she teaches others how to do the same through worldwide lectures, one on one coaching and her groundbreaking online program, The Mindful Eating Method.The Body Love Manual teaches you how to overcome the negative and stress inducing voice of your 'inner critic" that creates upsetting emotional states that lure you into toxic overeating habits. Once the 'negative voice' is silenced, weight loss becomes much easier and more enjoyable. With compassion and firsthand experience, the author teaches you how to heal the wounds that have disconnected you from your body and yourself for good. This book is set to disrupt the diet industry which has contributed to the obesity pandemic and tragically led millions of innocent people into self destructive eating habits.

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October 3, 2012
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6 x 0.87 x 9 inches
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0981938809
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978-0981938806
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Hills, a life coach and self-empowerment workshop leader, shares her philosophy in this ode to mindful eating and cultivating a healthy body image. Hills encourages readers to come to terms with their bodies and engage in some serious self-love via affirmations, meditation, and other introspective exercises. She also urges readers to examine their relationships with food, long-held beliefs about eating, and practices like binging out of fear or avoidance and dieting to lose weight and feel more attractive. Hills's admission that she was once a yo-yo dieter obsessed with body image, along with pertinent statistics, gives her credibility, while her calm, reassuring tone should help readers tackle tough issues (though some, like the lingering effects of sexual abuse, are deftly sidestepped). While Hills's messages—examine why you eat, develop healthy eating habits, and accept your body for what it is instead of what it isn't—aren't particularly new, they aren't particularly harmful either, those interested in cultivating healthier habits through introspection will find this a helpful workbook.
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Are you tired of worrying about your weight? Are you ready to give up dieting forever? Are you open to creating a healthy relationship with your body? Then this book is for you! After conquering her own decade-long compulsive relationship with food and learning how to love and appreciate her own body wholeheartedly, Elizabeth "Lily" Hills now wants to share her insights with you! In The Body Love Manual she offers you the keys to achieving your natural and healthiest weight without dieting or denying yourself any of your favorite foods! The answer lies in connecting with the most intelligent instrument on the planet...your body. In this book, you will discover *Why diets don't work and how they can create an unnatural obsession with food *The Ten keys you need to achieve your natural and ideal weight without dieting *What is driving you to eat when you are not really hungry *Tools and techniques for handling day-to-day life challenges without turning to food *How to love your body as you tap into its incredible wisdom and allow it to guide you to your natural weight As an added bonus it includes a 30 day partnership program to give you a powerful kick-start to your new relationship with your body!

From the Back Cover

The Body Love Manual How to Love the Body You Have As You Create the Body You Want is a revolutionary book that offers a non-diet approach to releasing excess weight by learning to tap into the wisdom of your own brilliant body.Written by a woman who has herself overcome a compulsive relationship with food, the book offers 10 keys to achieving your natural and ideal weight, permanently, without denying yourself any of your favorite foods, taking appetite suppressants, counting calories or exercising obsessively. It guides the reader to understand how body judgment, and self judgment fuel the emotional appetites that drive you to eat when you are not truly hungry and how body appreciation supports you in taking better care of your body.It also offers powerful tools to support the reader in transcending the urge to binge as well as stress reduction tools to handle the day to day challenges of life.It is the only book on the market which offers a thirty day partnership program specifically designed to help the reader(s) make the shift from compulsive/habitual eating to developing the skill of eating in alliance with their bodies by practicing as a team rather than going the more challenging route of shifting ingrained behaviors all alone.If you practice the keys offered in the book, it won't be a question of if you are going to lose weight, rather it is a question of when.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Elizabeth Lily Hills is the President and Founder of Peaceful Planet Publishing Inc., an inspirational / motivational speaker, a women's empowerment workshop facilitator and the co-host of The Goddess to Goddess Empower Hour - Inspirational Information and the Divine Dudes that Love Them. She is also a life coach and the Founder of the Body Love Center, a coaching service designed to assist women and men in developing connected and accepting relationships with their bodies as they heal food addictions and achieve their natural; and healthiest weight. Her book - The Body Love Manual is a result of her personal recovery from compulsive overeating and body obsession. Ms. Hills graduated from The Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business. She is currently living life to the fullest in Carmel, California.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peaceful Planet Publishing; first edition (October 3, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 345 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0981938809
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0981938806
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.87 x 9 inches

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AnnB

Do unto yourself as you do unto others

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2011

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Yes, the quote is usually "Treat others as well as you treat yourself." OK, but what if you are treating others better/accepting others when you don't even do this much for yourself? That is the crux of overeating, undereating, obsession with food when not hungry.

I read the five reviews and realized, "I think this author gets it; I don't need another diet book or program that centers around manipulating food, I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO LOVE MYSELF, treat myself with love." I've read other books that tell me that I need to love myself, accept my body...but how?

And when this book arrived today, that is exactly what the first pages have been about. She asks the right questions for getting in touch with me to understand me, to give myself the benefit of the doubt (being human) to be able to live life, cope without using food as a soother when I miss the mark of perfection. She guides us to the HOW to love ourselves.

Like really, who is perfect and why do I/any of us think anyone else is living a perfect life?
We all make mistakes, do/say things we regret. We learn until we no longer breathe and life is just plain messy.

I can't wait to keep reading and answering the little questions along the way to help me gain perspective, understand my thinking, get to know me and what I really want to do with the rest of my life. And as a result, to finally be free of the love/hate obsession with food. To eat when I'm hungry and then be free of food thoughts until I'm hungry again.

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dreaming of the sun

Good book

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2014

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Good book, would be best for young girls and young women. But I still liked it and thought it was a great read.

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Kristen C.

Finally!

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2009

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Finally, a book that gets to the root of the issue! This is an amazing new perspective on weight loss. Its not about the diet!! Its about learning to accept yourself. It seems so simple now that I have read the book. This is the PERFECT book for people who continue to gain and lose the same weight and think their life would be better if they just lost those "X" number of pounds. Lily shares her very personal story and her journey to Body Love. Congratulations, Lily!

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Karen Elaine Wells

This is a must read.....

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2013

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For anyone who wants to learn how to love and accept themselves while achieving their natural weight. It will help one learn to stop being critical of their body and to deeply appreciate themselves. The 10 keys to eating in alliance with your body will help you release weight almost effortlessly, all without dieting. I loved it so much, I purchased four copies for friends and family!

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Solarzar

The Body Love Manual and so much more!

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2009

My wife and I had the privilege of meeting Elizabeth 'Lily' Hills through an interview on our radio show, Good Vibrations Radio: Tools for Transformation. We read the book and spoke with Lily about her personal journey, her lessons and her creation of The Body Love Manual.

The Body Love Manual is exactly what it states, a Love Manual of exploration. Lily asks the reader to identify the surface motives and the underlying motives that created the body they don't love. With that knowledge Lily takes the reader through a series of steps to retrain and reframe their throughts, their habits, their beliefs.

Nothing in this manual is about denial or dieting. Nothing in this manual is about judgment or rules. This is a loving journey of self to come to understand yourself, who you truly are, and revere, respect and love this wonderful creation called the human body.

The manual is playful, instructful, thoughtful and fun. Your journey is self-paced. Sometimes you move faster. Sometimes you don't move. Through it all Lily shows the reader how to reach their destination with a new-found image of themselves as a loving, healthy, vibrant human being.

If you are interested in being the best you can be, without judgment, counting calories, denial or dieting, then make The Body Love Manual your roadmap. The only question is: Are You Ready to Take the Journey.

(Solarzar & Kyralani are hosts of Good Vibrations Radio, every Saturday evening from 6-9 PM on AM 540 KRXA, Monterey, CA ([...]))

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Hal Zina Bennett

Wisdom, Love and "That Weight Thing"

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2009

There's something almost disarmingly simple, down-to-earth, yet profound about this book. Lily puts together key elements of wisdom--yes, wisdom--around our relationships to food, weight and love. She takes us to the "real" issues around body image and self-love, for example, not like a psychotherapist but like a person who's really been there, done the work herself, and refined a plan for lasting change that is joyful more than arduous, comforting rather than confrontational... But I don't want to give the impression that it's a self-help psychology approach either, because it's not. The lessons are as practical as paying attention to what you're trying to satisfy with food, to keeping a meaningful journal of your progress. It's interesting that, as I write this, I'm increasingly appreciative of how the author has covered so much, in such a sincere, grounded, simple and practical way. The knowledge and practicality of what she presents here obviously comes from a lifetime of first-hand experience--which, incidentally, she shares as she takes us through the program. Her stories of self-disclosure are as instructive as they are entertaining, often humorous. There's nothing clinical or hyperbolic in what she offers here. Just really good stuff that one can integrate permanently into life!

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Adele Cirillo

Body Love Manual

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2021

This is a really easy to digest book with a fun and relatable tone. Readers with a history of food or body image trauma may find it useful in more ways than one. The book goes beyond talking about the basics and delves into the REAL reasons people develop and continue to suffer through eating disorders. The author has successfully turned her own journey into inspiration and the general feeling I personally had throughout was that, you are not alone. Recommend reading , would have really enjoyed this on Audible if it were available!

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