Review: This was me!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2012
I'm so busted! I did see myself in the pages of this book, and it is such a relief to find that I'm not the only person I know of who eats when they are bored, eats when they are happy, or stressed, or when I've gained, or even LOST weight!If I felt thin and thought I looked good, I'd meet a nice guy, but if we started getting close, I'd start worrying about what he would think about my body when he saw me naked, and that would send me into such a tailspin of self loathing and anxiety, I'd find a way to avoid intimacy and eventually break up with him.This went on for years, and I thought that I simply had not found the right guy for me, and I kept blaming my body size and my weight. I kept on dieting, but also eating compulsively and bingeing at times, and my weight really fluctuated.I never realized that was my pattern until I read Food Addicts, and recognized that I had been putting all my shame onto myself, and blaming eating and food. It was all so mixed up in my psyche, I had to start unravelling the threads. It's been a long road toward recovery from my unhealthy relationship to my body, but at least I have stopped bingeing, and now recognize when I eat for emotional reasons. Also, I'm working on loving myself more.Ms. Garver's theory that you have to heal the emotional reasons you eat before you can eat only when you're hungry and not binge, are sound and right to the point. She even gives solid methods to begin to heal those reasons if you want to explore them further. I recommend this book to give hope and practical methods of recovery to someone who has been on every diet there is, and still is unhappy with their body.