Chocolate Is My Kryptonite: Feeding Your Feelings How to Survive the Forces of Food

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Summary: A program that FINALLY works!
Review: I came across this book when I was truly "sick and tired" of being sick and tired regarding my inability to control my overeating. I think this book's focus is THE key. Treat it as you would any other addiction. I have been on the Menu for Life from the book for three weeks and I have lost 8 pounds. I am amazed at the sheer AMOUNT of food I can eat, am never hungry, AND, more importantly, just as the author said, the cravings and desires for my binge foods are GONE! This process is truly "one day at a time" but the advice and plan in this book sure have made this a pleasure. I am so much happier now that I control the food and the food does not control me!

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Summary: A program that FINALLY works!
Review: I came across this book when I was truly "sick and tired" of being sick and tired regarding my inability to control my overeating. I think this book's focus is THE key. Treat it as you would any other addiction. I have been on the Menu for Life from the book for three weeks and I have lost 8 pounds. I am amazed at the sheer AMOUNT of food I can eat, am never hungry, AND, more importantly, just as the author said, the cravings and desires for my binge foods are GONE! This process is truly "one day at a time" but the advice and plan in this book sure have made this a pleasure. I am so much happier now that I control the food and the food does not control me!

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Summary: Great book to add to your collection
Review: I found the book, "Chocolate is My Kryptonite" to be very informative and easy to read. Keene discusses the all-too-often left out emotional aspect of compulsive overeating. I am in a 12-step program, and this literature is a welcome addition. The book is a fast read, containing a lot of information to digest (no pun intended!). I would encourage all who are thinking of buying this book to do so. A note of caution: if you are or think you might be a compulsive overeater, please look for a variety of materials. Keene's discussion of this disease seems somewhat brief. Think of this as supplemental reading. Good luck!

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Summary: Great help for carb junkies!
Review: I liked the title of this book, and so started it predisposed to liking it. I thought perhaps it would have some humorous insight into the serious subject of obsessive eating. Instead, what I found was that I was talked down to and insulted on almost every page. Rather than explaining the chemistry he refers to, this author uses analogies he must think are cute but which struck me as insultingly simplified, for the most part. As the book goes on, the author gets increasingly obsessive about the plan of abstinence he proposes. At the end of the book, he includes a height/bone structure chart that purports to tell readers their "ideal" weight. Both this chart and the suggested lists of foods he provides strike me as sexist. He hasn't updated his chart to show what nutritionists now recommend as a range of healthy weights, and he thinks that men can weigh 20 pounds more at the same height. His food lists specify things like "half a cup of cereal for women, one cup for men." Anyone obsessed with food will be setting themselves up for disaster if they take this book seriously. It will promote dieting and then regaining in most cases. Try Anne Katherine's much more respectful book on obsessive eating instead.

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Summary: I found the writing style insultingly condesceding
Review: If you can plow through the disgustingly cutesy-poo writing style and boring background, you'll find that Keene (who is a psychiatrist, NOT an MD) has two actual statements: Prozac is the best treatment for stubborn food addiction, and before resorting to Prozac, you should subject yourself to his extremely restrictive diet plan and never eat foods containing flour or any other processed ingredients again for the rest of your life. (Personally, I'd rather be fat than go without cookies for the rest of my life.) The book does seem well researched, but I only recommend it for those planning to strictly adhere to the diet plan -- and even then, you should skip to the relevant chapter and avoid as much of the text as possible. Someone hire this guy a ghostwriter!

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Summary: Great help for carb junkies!
Review: This book was informative. I learned alot about depression and eating habits and hormones! He wrote the book as if he was sitting across from you and actually talking to you. He covers alot of scientific material in a way that doesn't bog you down. Great job!

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Summary: Food is a Drug
Review: Well written and not full of a lot of medical terms. This book talks to the everday human dealing with a serious problem and tells you how to deal with it. I really enjoyed it and that is rare for a self help book! Entertaining and informative, a first for me! If you think you have this problem read this book!