Title: Calm Eating
Description: In this companion book to 'If Not Dieting then What?', Dr Rick Kausman gives essential tips to not only achieve and maintain a healthy, comfortable weight, but also on how to relax and enjoy food.'I am no longer a prisoner to food. I now take food and slowly have my evil way with it.'What is calm eating? Anyone who's ever felt out of control around food will recognise that to relax and enjoy food without guilt is a difficult goal. Calm eating describes a gradual change of attitude to achieve this. It's having a healthy and happy relationship with food. And it's about achieving long-term change by succeeding at small steps along the way. This gorgeously presented little book, with beautiful line drawings on every page, is perfect for that quick injection of inspiration, motivation and willpower.Divided into eleven themes such as 'All Food is Morally Neutral', 'Eating with Awareness', and 'Diets don't work', this invaluable book of tips, advice and quotes can be quickly and conveniently referred to. Difficult moments in this process of re-learning to be positive and relaxed around food can occur anywhere, and dipping into 'The Book of Calm Eating' may help you keep on track.Drawing on fifteen years of professional experience in issues of weight management, Dr Rick Kausman uses warm, witty, wise and realistic advice to help you focus on taking care of yourself and your needs. There are inspirational quotes from some of his clients who are personally dealing with issues of weight management and from other writers who share Dr Kausman's philosophy of discarding the diet mentality and, instead, learning to look at food and yourself in an ongoing positive and nurturing light.In a world of worry about fat, food, size and shape-'The Book of Calm Eating' is a breath of fresh air.'Going off focus is normal in the process of change.''Dieting is like driving with your foot on the brake. Sooner or later, the tyres wear down and we skid out of control. If diets were faulty cars, we would be suing the manufacturer. Instead, we let them blame us.'
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Nonfiction, Regulations, Nutrition, Body weight, Inspiration, Nutrition and dietetics, Health, Food and drink