When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession

by Jane R. Hirschmann

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"Will empower all women to stop believing that our bodies are the problems, dieting the solution."--Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger In this revolutionary new book, bestselling authors Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann explore the myriad reasons why women cling to diets despite overwhelming evidence that diets don't work. In fact, diets turn us into compulsive eaters obsessed with food and weight. Munter and Hirschmann call this syndrome "Bad Body Fever" and demonstrate how show more "bad body thoughts" are clues to our emotional lives. They explore the difficulties women encounter replacing dieting with demand feeding. And finally, they teach us how to think about our problems rather than eat about them--so that food can resume its proper place in our lives. "Many women will find in these pages exactly what they need: determined, optimistic, and resourceful coaches, pausing at the right moments to acknowledge the difficulty of change, then passionately urging them to press on."--Susan C. Wooley, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Codirector, Eating Disorder Center University of Cincinnati Medical Center show less

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Honestly, I wish I hadn't requested this book through Inter Library Loan. If I hadn't read anything else about the failure of diets and body image, this would have been okay. I've read better books so this just wasn't worth my time. I do feel bad about wasting library staff time (my library and the library the book came from).

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