(8 Keys to Mental Health)
by Howard Farkas (Author), Babette Rothschild (Foreword)
Bring an end to emotional eating by getting to the root of the problem.
Most
books about emotional eating tend to focus on how to strengthen
self-restraint or how to identify what triggers it. The former can make
the problem worse, while the latter may be different each time it
occurs. Both approaches fail to help emotional eaters understand why
they feel compelled to do something that they don’t want to do in the
first place. This understanding is the key to changing this behavior.
Howard
Farkas, who has more than two decades of professional and teaching
experience as a clinical psychologist specializing in emotional eating,
explains the underlying motive that drives the behavior: emotional
eating is not a passive failure of self-control, but an active impulse
to reject the control of dieting. This defiant need “to be bad” usually
leaves the person feeling guilty and anxious about their eating, and
recommitting to their diet until the cycle repeats, and the compulsive
eating recurs.
8 Keys to End Emotional Eating provides a
detailed plan for breaking this pattern. By explaining the root cause
that drives the desire to binge, Farkas offers practical skills to help
you learn to change your mindset about dieting and end the impulse to
binge. His road map for the future will help readers maintain healthy
eating habits for years to come.
