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Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating
 
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This is how Geneen Roth remembers her time as an emotional overeater and self-starver. After years of struggle, Roth finally broke free from the destructive cycle of bingeing and purging. In the two decades since her triumph, she has gone on to help tens of thousands of others do the same through her lectures, workshops, and retreats. Those she has met during this time have shared stories that are both heartrending and inspiring, which Roth has gathered for this unique book.

Twenty years after its original publication, Feeding the Hungry Heart continues to inspire women and men, helping them win the battle against a hunger that goes deeper than a need for food.

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In Response to the person who said it's a waste of money
 
Review Date: January 3, 2001
Reviewer: Mrs. Arizona US 2000, Phoenix, Arizona United States
I am sorry you thought this book was a waste of money. This is not the book to read if you are looking for a diet. "Where are the answers?" you say...

Well, the answers are in the stories of these women who have struggled with the agony of a shameful addiction.

This book is so totally anti-diet. Anti-depriving yourself. It's about being good to yourself, maybe for the first time ever.

It's about figuring out WHY, so you can then work toward healing.

The author was not whining. She was simply telling her story, her truth. She tells her story about food, weight, shame, dieting, and the torment of being teased by other kids, in a touching, yet humorous manner.

Maybe you have not suffered the pain of addiction, possibly? I don't know.

I am in a position to give some advice because I identified with many of the women in this book. I suffered for years with food problems and I am finally free. My heart aches for people who are still struggling. This book has helped me in my battle to start being good to myself.

Do yourself a favor, forget about dieting. Eat what you want when you are truly hungry for food. Don't listen to people who tell you you are too fat. Make exercise fun. Enjoy your food, enjoy moving your body. Enjoy life.

Be good to you.

There's you answer.

I read this book over 20 times
 
Review Date: January 6, 2000
Reviewer: ,
I have struggled with my weight for most of my 31 years. I bought this book a few years ago and it showed me that I am not crazy - other women have had the same thoughts and actions that I have...Thank God! Whenever I start to feel overwieght or even THINK about going on another diet, I read this book and it puts me right back on track. I loved this book. LOVED it. It has significantly affected the way I view my body and the way I treat myself now.
To the person from Mendocino - you're lucky.
 
Review Date: May 3, 2000
Reviewer: ,
Because I doubt if Ms. Roth's early years with an abusive mother, emotionally absent father were fiction. Ms. Roth's first book was truly a brave recounting of her conflict with food and you can clearly understand that her childhood had a lot to do with that (as it does for many of us). I also appreciated the writings from other women who've been through the same battles. It really never ends. You have to constantly be vigilant. I would recommend this to anyone who uses food for comfort, anesthesia, etc. The book makes sense.
Dear Ms./Mr. Mendocino
 
Review Date: October 26, 1999
Reviewer: Sue DeSalvatore, Bandon-by-the-Sea, OR
How tragic that you are frustrated by the information presented by Ms. Roth. In fact, the mere issues you raise (no plans, no diets, etc.) are the issues Ms. Roth explains are unnecessary for success in the envelopment of this book. I have personally lowered my cholesterol by 50 points, and my weight by 35 pounds in four months by reading this book. In synopsis, I eat when I am hungry, eat what I want when I determine what that might be, and the rest goes on by itself. Perhaps I might suggest you read this book for sheer entertainment, and not the "answer" as we have all (women in America, and other bathingsuit consious societies...hahaha.) and maybe some of it will resonate with you. Obviously, you are a women of great integrity and intelligence, or you would not have taken the time to respond to Amazon.com, and I encourage you to step beyond the failures we have taken as being our "lifestyle", and give it another try. My life is so undeniably improved since my discoveries of Ms. Roth's candid approach to the masses. Please, give it a try.
Stop punishing yourself! Learn to love yourself
 
Review Date: August 14, 2004
Reviewer: Judy Miller, New Orleans area, Louisiana United States
It has been said frequently that this is not a diet book. It is in a healing book. It takes the die out of diets. Many people as children or in some part of their lives have experienced having food deprivation as some part of a punishment system. Others have been deprived because of selfish parents. Others have been deprived of food when they are hungry due to some other emotional assault on their sense of self. This is an empowering book. It teaches us to listen to our inner being. We learn to approach food and eating differently. We learn why we want to eat. And we learn to nourish our inner and outer self so we can eat to truly care for ourselves in a healthy way, not a way that simply damages our emotional and physical selves. This book can help heal our emotional damage and lead to a more healthy self inside and outside.
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