| View Larger Image | The Appetite Awareness Workbook: How to Listen to Your Body And Overcome Bingeing, Overeating, & Obsession With Food | Paperbackby Linda W. Craighead (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | New Harbinger Publications | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 189 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 01, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 142,538nd |
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Product Description
People with normal eating patterns eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. But people struggling with binge eating relate very differently to this most basic need, often risking depression, gastrointestinal problems, and even death because of their problems with food. This book offers an eight-week, cognitively based program to help you learn to pay attention to hunger cues, keep track of your feelings about food, and develop an eating schedule that discourages binge eating. In a series of easy exercises, the book guides you toward taking control of eating habits. First, gradual changes help you eat only when hungry or when a mealtime is scheduled. Then, awareness exercises help you stop eating when moderately full. Finally, by using cognitive techniques to control the tendency to eat for emotional reasons and journaling exercises to stay motivated and on track, you’ll learn how to retrain yourself to maintain normal and healthy eating habits for life. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 17 reviews)
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Book Review by Christine Ekstrom  5 Stars
June 29, 2009
I received "The Appetite Awareness Workbook" in a very timely manner. It was in excellent condition and the techniques in the book are very helpful.
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A Different Approach that Really Worked by H. Zhang (Los Angeles, California United States) 5 Stars
June 14, 2009
I purchased the book for treatment of my clients. Based on my own impression after reading the book and my client' feedback, this book is very reader friendly, and it provided practical advice that help people form good eating habbits naturally. It might be a bit frustrating in the beginning when you try to attend to your internal signal. However, if you keep practicing, especially if you can have a coach or a therapist that guide you through the process in a reasonable pace, good progress is likely made.
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A great system of guide posts by Susan Stuart 5 Stars
May 14, 2009
Dr. Craighead has set up a system that you can tailor to your own individual needs based on your own disordered eating. We don't all eat the same way and we do not all share the same concerns about eating. Not all overeaters are bingers. Not all people who obsess over food overeat.
A forewarning: this is not a book you sit down and work through week by week. She tells you in the beginning of the book which chapters to address based on your individual concerns with food. It will require a little extra work on your part in that matter, but it'd be impossible to create a linear workbook that would work for all of us, so there's no getting around it.
Her techniques and advice are stellar. It's not easy and she acknowledges it's not going to happen overnight. But overeating and bingeing patterns don't develop overnight and correcting them won't happen overnight either.
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Life-changer by A customer (USA) 5 Stars
May 05, 2009
This book is slowly changing my life. It is helping me un-obsess about food and eating and how much, etc.. I even feel better about myself and how I look!
The book is a bit hard to read. but chock-full of useful info that really relates to someone who has binge eating disorder (like I did). With this book, at week 3, my binges went from 12 a month to 4. I have also started to lose weight---4 pounds in 2 weeks, just by taking the advice in the workbook and working with each form for however long it takes for me to learn the lesson. I guess one could even say that the eating disorder is just about a thing in my past for me. I wish I had run to this book first!
Give this book a chance, and take as much time as you need to learn each task in the forms provided.
Highly recommended for anyone who ever went, or wants to go, on a diet, or who has an eating disorder
and would like this along with therapy.
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Perfect antidote to the diet hysteria. by F. Terwilliger (Vermont) 5 Stars
November 03, 2008
Like most of you considering this book, I've tried many, many diets and have always been able to lose weight. Unfortunately, my problem is eating to feed my psyche and not my stomach. What really appealed to me about this workbook is that it discourages you from writing down everything you eat. I have tried that and found I became obsessed with every morsel going into my mouth when my real problem was feeding an empty soul.
Linda Craighead takes a different approach, brilliant in its simplicity. It forced me to focus on my stomach and my feelings rather than on what was entering my mouth. She asks us to log the time we eat and to rate our hunger before and after eating. It may seem odd to some, but many of us do not even know if we are hungry. By eliminating "grazing", you begin to learn when you are really hungry for food and when you are hungry for something else. It may be frustrating at first, but hang in there. As I've stuck with the program it's become easier and easier for me to begin to read my hunger cues. Now I'm beginning to search for patterns to help me determine if my overeating is caused by lack of sleep, boredom or something else.
For less than [...] I think it's well worth the investment to better self-awareness at the very least, and perhaps weight loss and increased self-esteem at best.
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