It Was Food vs. Me ... and I Won

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Summary: Wonderful Book!
Review: Nancy has the most wonderful writing style. I felt as if a good friend were telling me things.
It wasn't easy, I'm sure, to bare herself in this way, and I really give her credit for her honesty, bravery, and attempt to help others.
One of the themes of the book, "Deprivation leads to binges" was really (forgive me!) food for thought. I realized that this is a stumbling block for me, and to understand it really helped me. Other hints helped me as well.
She well addresses the emotional side of overeating, or of bingeing. And again, brought up some things to really think about. I almost felt the lightbulb switching on, above my head a couple of times.
This is a great book for anyone who has food issues.

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Summary: It's Good To The Bone
Review: Thanks Nancy!I stayed up all night to read this book cover to cover.This is the most inspiring book of it's kind. Nancy writes with a funny,chatty,candid style that speaks directly to the heart.With every turn of the page I found a ah-ha, yes that's how I feel.Her positive enthusiasm, and warmth is very inspiring.Showing us how to deal with real life situations and using her tools of how to make daily food choices and journaling to find the real issues behind the food is so helpful and very doable. This approach to working with and for yourself is really the key to being free from the distraction of food as a way to hide yourself.You will love the feeling when you read that you are not WEAK of WILL or ALONE.When you read this book you will laugh, cry, and at the end wish you could meet this remarkable woman to say hi and give her a hug of THANKS.

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Summary: Feelings matter
Review: There, I have told you what this book is about. You can save your money. Ok, I have read every single diet book out there and still have my extra pounds. So I read the great reviews and thought, I'll try this one. Well, what she has to say is that feelings matter. Yes, I knew this. She writes this book from her journals during therapy (I am guessing) and connects her eating to her emotions, and tells us all the details of her emotions, and therapy. Very very little on how she loses her 15 pounds. Some very iffy advice, including the advice that dairy causes cancer. Twice the recipe for a baked apple with low sugar maple syrup (nutrasweet if the iffy one in my opinion). Yep, 15. She was abandoned, she was molested - she has some real issues, but they were of no help to me on my journey. If you are seriously interested in connecting (and dealing with) feelings with weight loss try "The Solution" by Laurel Mellen - another good tip is "I Wish I Were Fat, I Wish I Were Thin" by Michele Joy Levine. If you are interested in what goes on in therapy read Irvin Yalom's latest book, or "Inside Therapy". This was a total waste of time.

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Summary: This book CHANGED MY LIFE!
Review: What a book!! I couldn't put it down. I bought it because I figured that it could help me with my need to lose weight. I had no idea that buried in the pages of this book would be a reality that I have never faced. I have been struggling with "eating issues" for the better part of my life and Nancy's honesty, humor and poignant story has helped me to realize that I am not alone. Nancy's strategy of separating the food and emotions was quite a "reality check". I always thought that my weight problem was only due to my lack of self control. It wasn't until after I took some of the suggestions that Nancy made and applied them in my own life did I realize that there was more to it. I found that my obsessions, which were not only limited to food and weight, stemmed from much deeper issues. I wanted to shout it from the rooftops that this woman has "hit the nail on the head!" There is more to the obsessions, it is different for everyone, but there is so much more. I know that I have a long road ahead of me; but with the help and the inspiration of Nancy's story, and my awareness of the need for help, I believe that my life is on a better path. I highly recommend this book to anyone struggling with obsessions of any kind. It is that moving, that inspirational and that life changing!

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Summary: Feelings matter
Review: WHAT AN HONEST, no frills, DIFFERENT kind of BOOK! Thank God that someone finally had the guts to write about the true ups and downs of dieting and food obsession. No "sugar coating" for the sake of the reader! Nancy Goodman makes us face ourselves head on and tells us to "sit with our feelings" instead of covering them with food. This book isn't only about food, though. Anyone with any kind of addiction or obsession MUST READ THIS BOOK. If anything, you will come away feeling like you aren't so wierd or alone after all. I loved this book and you will too.

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Summary: lung- to -tongue honesty
Review: WHAT AN HONEST, no frills, DIFFERENT kind of BOOK! Thank God that someone finally had the guts to write about the true ups and downs of dieting and food obsession. No "sugar coating" for the sake of the reader! Nancy Goodman makes us face ourselves head on and tells us to "sit with our feelings" instead of covering them with food. This book isn't only about food, though. Anyone with any kind of addiction or obsession MUST READ THIS BOOK. If anything, you will come away feeling like you aren't so wierd or alone after all. I loved this book and you will too.