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No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. If you suffer about your relationship with food -- you eat too much or too little, think about what you will eat constantly or try not to think about it at all -- you can be free. Just look down at... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
- - Because all men are anorexic atheists, this guide is for everyone else.
- - Women eat too much or too little because they don't trust their body.
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The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God. But it doesn't stop there. Geneen shows how going beyond both the food and feelings... read more
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“Eighty hungry women are sitting in a circle with bowls of cold tomato vegetable soup; they are glowering at me, furious.”
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“Her food says, "Fuck you, Geneen, I don't have to play this ridiculous game. Watch me binge the second I get the chance."”
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To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act—and to what you do when things don’t go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat.
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Compulsive eating is an attempt to avoid the absence (of love, comfort, knowing what to do) when we find ourselves in the desert of a particular moment, feeling, situation.
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Women turn to food when they are not hungry because they are hungry for something they can’t name: a connection to what is beyond the concerns of daily life.
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When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart.
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The glitch here is that it’s not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.
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Obsessions are ways we leave before we are left because we believe that the pain of staying would kill us.
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compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can’t stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting—of leaving ourselves—hundreds of times a day.
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I tell them that if compulsive eating is anything, it’s a way we leave ourselves when life gets hard. When we don’t want to notice what is going on. Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.
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They can relate to the belief that if they keep themselves wounded and damaged, they will be loved.
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When you love something you wish it goodness; when you hate something, you wish to annihilate it. Change happens not by hatred but by love. Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.
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(Prologue) Eighty hungry women are sitting in a circle with bowls of cold tomato vegetable soup; they are glowering at me, furious. (Chapter 1) I turned to Hostess Sno Balls the same year I gave up on God.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: The World on Our Plates
Chapter One: About God
Chapter Two: Ending the War
Chapter Three: Never Underestimate the Inclination to Bolt
Chapter Four: It's Not About the Weight but It's Not Not About the Weight
Chapter Five: Beyond What's Broken
Chapter Six: Reteaching Loveliness
Chapter Seven: Tigers in the Mind
Chapter Eight: Married to Amazement
Chapter Nine: Breath by Breath
Chapter Ten: The GPS from the Twilight Zone
Chapter Eleven: Those Who Have
Chapter Twelve: If Love Could Speak
Chapter Thirteen: Being Hot Fudge Sundaes
Chapter Fourteen: The Oh Shit Mantra
Epilogue: Last Words
Acknowledgments
The Eating Guidelines
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Geneen Roth (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 2010
ISBN: 9781416543077
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Scribner
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 2010
ISBN: 9781416543077
Page Count: 224
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: RC552 .C65 R674 2010
- Dewey: 616.8526
Subjects edit
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Recovery › Drug Dependency
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Spiritual
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Motivational
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Eating Disorders
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Disorders & Diseases › Diabetes
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Mental Health › Eating Disorders
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Geneen Roth's website
- Women, Food, and God on Oprah.com
- Geneen Roth: Author's official website.
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