Words to Eat By

<p>This book will teach you how to use word power rather than willpower to increase your motivation and overcome your struggles with eating and body care. It explains how self-talk ties thought to action or inaction and how what we say to ourselves is shaped-for better or worse-by our families culture and personal history. It illustrates how unconscious unhealthy self-talk leads to poor decision-making around eating fitness and general self-care and how conscious healthy self-talk promotes a positive relationship with food body and mind.<p> <p><I>Words to Eat By</I> details key elements of constructive smart self-talk. You'll learn how to distinguish trash thoughts from treasure thoughts why external motivators don't work long-term and which internal motivators will fast track you to success. It includes hundreds of examples of exactly what to say and not say to yourself in challenging food situations-eating alone with family friends dates and mates at parties restaurants and buffets-and how to get and keep your body moving. Reflective questions help you zero in on which self-talk you want to change while case studies illustrate how other troubled eaters have transformed their self-talk and their lives.</p> <p>Written by a national expert award-winning international author and seasoned clinician who is also half-a-lifetime recovered from weight-loss dieting and binge-eating this book introduces you to the nitty gritty of your eating and self-care problems and teaches you how to speak to yourself with the love compassion encouragement and hope needed to jump start or sustain your recovery.</p>