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Summary: Get at peace with yourself---and the pounds will adjust!
Review: Dr. Dorie brings a lot of personal experience,drive and enthusiasm in her approach to diet and health concerns.
She repeats the title of the book "How Much Does Your Soul Weigh?" often throughout the book. Maybe too often, I thought at first, but she is making a point.
We should get off these guilt trips about our weight and eating habits, and get inside ourselves --to our soul as it were.
Develop confidence and a sense of peace and you will eat better, and not out of stress. (I go for one or more pieces of chocolate almost every time I am stressed, and that's not always easy when one lives in a small town in the Arctic)
If it is late in the day, and anxiety is setting in, you can decide not to go to the refrigerator. Maybe call a friend instead. (Make sure the friends usually stay up late)
Sometimes now, I pet the dog, or take her for a walk, rather than raiding the fridge.
Get the picture? There are so many weight-related books, it is hard to plow into yet another one.
But you might try this one. It is fresh, and seems to have a chance to work. I'll try and let you all know in about a year.
Peace!
earl
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Summary: Rewarding reading!
Review: How much of your life have you thrown away on dieting, calorie charts, trying-always trying to be thin/good enough? Dr. Mcubbrey showed me how weight obesessed I was with striking examples that were dead-on. It made me cry.I bought this book when I realized that at 43, I was about to embark on my 33rd effort to lose the holiday pounds, get with the program and keep the weight off for good, this time. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Well, I am a perfect example. I am a lifetime dieter. I run marathons to keep in shape. Yet, my journals from High school through adulthood are filled with daily calorie counts. I have 2 sizes of clothes in my closet. When I am wearing the smaller size, I fret about how long it will last before I fail again. When I wear the large size, I fret about when the weight gain will stop, and when I will gather enough courage to lose the weight again. As the author would say, my soul was carrying a huge burden with this issue. The book contains no nutritional information or diet plans. It shows you how much your weight obesession has cost you emotionally. It challenges you to get out of the sickness by focusing inward, learning to trust your self, your soul, instead of being ping-ponged about by the media ideas of beauty.
There are daily exercises that help you refocus your thoughts. I have done most of them and look forward to the rest. I have read all the diets,done all the diets and now I am brave enough to focus on the inside rather than the outside. Read this book. It will shake you up and wake you up!
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Summary: A Real Winner
Review: I cannot say enough about this book. It changed my life. After years and years of Anorexic tendencies, as well as binge eating, and bouts of being overweight, I feel as though I have finally "got it". Being a therapist myself, I have come to recommend this book to many of my clients, who have come back to me, and said how much it impacted them as well. Dr. Dorie is awesome!
Instead of doing the same 'ole exercise routine at the gym all the time, I now ask myself, "what is my soul hungry for"? Running? Biking? Walking? Weight lifting? I don't weigh myself anymore, and it is the most freeing feeling. Read this book!
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Summary: Rewarding reading!
Review: I got this book one day after Geneen Roth's "When Food is Love", disappointed by the latter's selfcentered and impossible to read (unless you are interested in the author) autobiographical style. McCubbrey's book is so different! It does contain elements of autobiography but only as illustration of certain problems. This is the kind of book that rely heavily on personal experience and is so much more valuable for that, but doesn't take advantage of the reader's attention to solve the author's own problems. McCubbrey talks about her childhood gracefully, without resorting to the all-purpose idea of "abuse" (in whatever guise). She doesn't blame anybody for her failures and in my eyes it makes her more trustworthy. Many of us come from loving families and the idea of "abuse" never really sounds right as an explanation for all the troubles in our grown-up lives. Allergic as I am to all sort of motivational, "belive-in-yourself" blather, I was afraid that I will reject this book only because of its language. I was surprised how elegantly it was written! "Believe in yourself" is of course its main philosophy, but McCubbrey doesn't overwhelm you with the flow of motivational slogans. Even the stories about her parrot and a cat, which could sound corny in other hands, were beautifully and touchingly presented and illustrated her point brilliantly. There is so much substance to this book that one easily finds answers to some of the most troubling questions. There are also some "recipies" for success, little exercises that help you understand certain mechanisms of weight loss mentality. There are no diets, no restrictions, no fitness programs.
I don't know yet if McCubbrey's philosophy will work for me - it is too early to say, but her book was certainly wonderful to read, with lots of sound advice. I certainly will try to apply her wisdom to my everyday struggle with food and other issues and maybe report my progress sometime in another review.
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Summary: Not a diet book....
Review: I went to the library and I found this book like Dorie i was struggling with my weight all my life, doing diet all my life and gaining back the weight and more, i am overweight but now thanks to her, i feel connected with my soul, really this is a great book, not Atkins, South Beach....you have to go deep into yourself and you can see that you are the only one who understand your body and what kind of foods you needed it.
Overall, it's a great feel-good type of book. Just like my new beverage of choice called s o y f e e. It's made from soybeans that you brew just like coffee. Caffeine-free, you'll find it at www. S oycoffee.com. Now I am going to buy it..and keep it into my emergency kit.....Thanks Dorie.
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Summary: Finally an author who gets to the heart/soul of the matter
Review: I've struggled for years with dieting/binging. I have every book on "not dieting" and know that diets don't work but even the "Diets Don't Work" books missed the point for me. This book makes the point. It gets to the heart and soul of the matter. I'm very happy to see someone finally have the guts to write a book like this. Thanks, Dorie! I will gratefully recommend this book for years to come.
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Summary: Has some good advise if you can get past the touchy-feely
Review: This book gave a lot of godo advise. As someone who is and has struggled with a ED (both bulimia and anorexia), this book started to get me to look past my ED and ask myself why? However, I felt like some of the messages were a little too touchy feely for me. Especially the way she asked a question to ask yourself at the end of each section. It got a little too twelve step-like... which wasn't exactly what I was looking for. Still I recommend this book over the similarly fashioned book "When you eat at the refridgerator, pull up a chair" that one wasn't bad... but this one is better.
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