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Never Binge Again(tm): Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person(tm). Stop Overeating and Binge Eating and Stick to the Food Plan of Your Choice!
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(beginning with allowing themselves to use food as a way of supporting rather than punishing themselves)
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
If I fix myself so that I am no longer myself, then everything will be fine. My feelings will be manageable.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
The obsession will end because you care enough about yourself to stop damaging yourself with food.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Instead of using food to avoid discomfort, they are going to learn how to tolerate what they believe is intolerable.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
unmet feelings obscure our ability to know ourselves.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
The moment you distinguish between acting out the impulse to move away from the present moment by starving or stuffing and the awareness of the impulse to move away, you are no longer captive to your past.