So, I'm not sure if I'm the target audience this book is aimed at. I'm the type of eater that goes from restricting quite heavily (calories and types of foods) and then sometimes binging on foods, but healthy foods like fruits, nuts, ect. Then feeling quilt, exercising lots and restricting calories again, in this terrible cycle to "make up" for it. I have the added problems of IBS, so when I eat healthy foods, I bloat and it messes with my mind as I look pregnant after an apple, even if I'm not overdoing calories. And restrictions from FODMAP's, fiber's, ect (if you have IBS, SIBO, you know the drill) I binge on healthy foods, because that's what I'd rather be eating and out of pure frustration. But of course it leaves me feeling awful afterwards, mentally, physically.

I am already aware of all of the reasons given for emotional eating and the repercussions and was hoping for something more complex or mind changing than the information given in this book. I felt no revelations or enlightenment. In other words, the material did not seem to strike deep enough to stir any motivation in me that I have not already found in myself from my own learned knowledge of health, sugars, addiction, etc. Let me tell you something: I did quit smoking 13 years ago with Allen Carr’s easy way. Awsome book I can’t recommend enough. Carr argues that the mindset surrounding emotional eating is similar to the deceptive allure of smoking. Just as smokers associate cigarettes with stress relief or relaxation, emotional eaters link certain foods with comfort and satisfaction. However, the book highlights the illusory nature of these connections, emphasizing that the relief provided by the consumption of comfort foods is transient and ultimately leads to further emotional distress. In yet another desperate search to find something that will help me conquer my sugar and food addiction I just happened to stumble across this book. It's good. I mean, in some ways there was nothing new in there but in other ways it seemed to say the kinds of things I need to hear in just the right way. Things like, " THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO GOODNESS WHATSOEVER IN REFINED SUGARS."This book could possibly be a helpful stepping off point for someone who has never thought about their emotional eating and never before considered that they have a problem until now. I would only be able to recommend this title to someone with basically no knowledge of nutrition, physical or mental health because otherwise the information and arguments just felt repetitive and condescending. Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores the true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. Der Ansatz des Buchs ist ganz klar: ermitteln warum man immer wieder zu Junkfood greift, damit aufhören und sich andere schöne Dinge gönnen. In Kapiteln wird erklärt, warum man so isst wie man isst, und wie man Angewohnheiten ändern kann. Ich konnte einige gute Beispiele lesen, sehr gute Überlegungen, nachvollziehbare Gedanken. Mir hat das Buch bis zur Mitte sehr gut gefallen und mich auch animiert, meine Essgewohnheiten zu überdenken. Danach bin ich mit eingen Überlegungen nicht einverstanden, die ich ich aus Spoilergründe nicht nennen kann. Emotional eating is defined as using food to relieve negative emotions, rather than to relieve hunger. It leads to a complex and unhappy relationship with food, a tendency to overeat and put on weight, accompanied by feelings of helplessness, sluggishness and self-loathing. You may have tried and failed to control your eating by dieting or just willing yourself to stop. What you need is a method that truly understands the multiple psychological, rather than the physical, causes and effects of emotional eating and how to untangle them.

Unfortunately, this title did not speak to me at all. He repeats himself quite often and wastes far too many words on trying to convince you what his “method” will do for you while using sensational words such as “brainwashed” which made me think of a snake oil salesman. I just kept wondering where the method was. With caffeine it started with 1 35p energy drink a day from about age 15-16 then 2 35p energy drinks a day then 1 69p energy drink (500ml) then a 69p and a 35p then 2 monsters then 2 monsters and some coffee later. I wouldn’t even engage with anyone until I’d had my two monsters which I’d down one after the other.

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This seems's like it's targeted mainly at people that eat junk food. Which is probably most people. But I guess you can apply this to any situation. It's not a terribly well written book and it seems to go on forever and ever, without getting to the point. It's a simple message and I think it's more about changing your mindset more than anything. Maybe even that age old saying "Fake it till you make it." Strangely I do feel like I got something out of it, but it could have been condensed into a much smaller book. So it's not been a wasted read. I think it's worth taking a look at, even if it read's like an 80's infomercial. I guess one of the highlights is to really think about the food we eat - instead of devouring mindlessly, eat things savouring the moment, analyzing the flavour and texture properly, and also feeling deeply how one feels after a meal - comparing junk vs non-junk food - in a sense that's mindfully eating - and getting to the point where one realizes junk food doesn't really bring any comfort. This book is astonishingly good. It, and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (TLCMoTU), are the only two self-help publications I've ever read that had me nodding "yes" throughout, because everything made sense. Both of them are very positive and practical in their approach. There's no shaming, no platitudes, no vague instructions that are impossible to follow. Unlike Kondo's very repetitive* book (and most of the self-help genre), Carr's is quite concise: I never felt that I was reading the same thing over and over. Repetition, where it was used, clearly served to deepen and reinforce what was being taught -- it was not just a filler to cover up the fact that the authors had nothing much to say. Wer sich gerne Gedanken über sein Essverhalten machen möchte, einige Wahrheiten über Junkfood erfahren möchte, ist dieses Buch hier sicher wertvoll. For anyone wondering on where I was before I was smoking 40 cigarettes a day (a lot for my age I think)