Good book

This was a great book! I used it in a book club with some of my Weight watchers members. It really helped us talk about and address some of the reasons we struggle with emotional eating. It provided many strategies to help us cope and build a better foundation for our weight loss journey. Personally, it helped me not only with my weight loss thoughts and feelings but also about my struggles with my anxiety as well as my thoughts and feelings as I work on being a better leader. This is definitely a book that I will be re-reading over again!

Well researched and well written. I have been more mindful of my eating since reading this wonderful book. One caveat, however~ when the author talked about how important human touch and contact is, and to find someone to hug, I had to stop myself from crying. I am a widow and I live in a house with two teenage girls who resist hugs. I can go days, and even weeks, without a touch or a hug, and I'm only 57 years old. I bet my widowed mother went even longer. This advice is not realistic for some of us, and unfortunately, it made me feel even more alone. I crave hugs. I miss holding my husband's hand and hugging him. But I can't just ask a stranger for that. I hope someday I have it again, but that section of the book was NOT helpful for someone in my situation.

Keeping this one to reread. It has some really good coping/teaching methods.

Wow! Ms. Spangle hit the nail on the head over and over. I felt like she had been living in my head all my adult life. She knew all my triggers. I’ve started implementing some of her suggestions but need to read the book again and take time to do the exercises to really embrace all the lessons in the book. Anyone who deals with eating issues, whether or not you think they are emotionally based, should read this book. This book has helped me more than any of the hundreds of diet books I’ve read over my lifetime.

So far I'm loving it. I don't think I'm an "emotional eater"--I just like the taste of yummy food and would like to keep on tasting it. But I heard some glowing reviews of the book and thought it would be an interesting read. It totally is, so far. I'm about halfway through. Some of her theories that I think are fascinating is that kind of foods you are craving can be used to decode what you are worrying about/feeling. For example, a specific food that you suddenly crave, especially one with crunchy or chewy texture (like candy bars or chips), is more likely due to stress, deadlines, anger, resentment type of thoughts. Whereas a craving for something, but you're just not sure what, especially with soft texture (like mac & cheese, breads or ice cream), is more related to feelings of loneliness, boredom, depression, hurt, etc. In the book she then talks about a more healthy way of dealing with these emotions besides eating.

I'm in the chapter about rebuilding self-esteem (she says lack of self-esteem is at the core of emotional eating). It's great. I'm buying my own copy because I keep wanting to dog ear pages and underline stuff. Plus it's overdue at the library.

I was worried this book would be a "Food as Fuel" book, which I don't want to live like that. But it's very sensible and moderate, and overall the book is filled with great tips and advice and making better choices about eating. I'm liking this book, hopefully it will help me to be a more aware eater and help others, especially my kids, to be healthy and aware with great self esteem.

The best book I've ever read on weightloss. This book isn't about dieting, it's about finding yourself. Learning new ways to do things,new ways to think. If your thinking of dieting you NEED to read this book. It will change everything.

I thought this was an insightful book on emotional eating.

Parts of this book were interesting, but I don't find myself going back to it. I'd say this is just average.

I have to admit - I didn't finish it...I didn't make the time before it was due back at the library. HOWEVER, I read about half and it was very interesting and applicable! It really helped me open my eyes about how much of my eating is emotional. When I'm really ready to do something about it I may come back to this book for ideas.

Some good stuff, but mostly gibberish. This book is geared towards people with 0 discipline, 0 accountability and 100 excuses.

Some good information in this book.