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EAT I N GAN D LO V EYO U R FO O D
A Five-Point Plan for Success
Arlene B. Englander
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Lanham • Boulder • New York • London
This book is written as a source of information only. The information
contained in this book should by no means be considered a substitute for the
advice of a qualified medical professional, who should always be consulted
before beginning any new diet, exercise, or other health program. All efforts
have been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this
book as of the date published. The author and the publisher expressly
disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects arising from the use or
application of the information contained herein. The case studies included
herein are based upon hundreds of actual persons. Their names, settings, in
some cases events, and identifying factors have been changed to protect
identities. Where gender has been indicated this is done with the
understanding that gender may be changed for each character in each case
study. The author has made every effort to render the individuals
anonymous.
Love Your Food® is a registered trademark of Arlene B. Englander, P.A.,
and may not be used without written permission.
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Copyright © 2018 by Arlene B. Englander
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Names: Englander, Arlene B., author.
Title: Let go of emotional overeating and love your food : a five-point plan
for success / Arlene B.
Englander.
Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018001633 (print) | LCCN 2017060903 (ebook) | ISBN
9781538111192
(cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781538111208 (electronic)
Subjects: LCSH: Compulsive eating. | Food habits—Psychological aspects.
Classification: LCC RC552.C65 E54 2018 (ebook) | LCC RC552.C65
(print) | DDC 616.85/26—
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To my loving husband; my darling daughter; and my
parents, two of the kindest people I have ever known.
CONTENTS
Introduction
ix
1 “Love My Food?!”
1
2 Diets Do Work—To Cause Compulsive Overeating and
Bingeing!
3 Point #1: Stress—Learn from It to Lessen It
27
4 Point #2: Exercise—Learn to Love It
51
5 Point #3: Love Your Food—Hands-on Techniques
71
6 Point #4: Fluids and Healthy Foods—Learn to Love Them
87
7 Point #5: Evening Eating—“Are You A ‘Light’ Eater?”
103
8 Love Your Food with Friends and Family
119
9 Love Your Food at Parties and on Vacation
133
10 Love Your Food for a Lifetime
143
Resources: Eating Disorder Organizations
153
Notes
155
Index
161
About the Author
169
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INTRODUCTION
Is this book for you? Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food:
A Five-Point Plan for Success is for you if you feel entrapped by emotional
eating. It’s for you if you ever leave a table feeling stuffed both physically
with food and psychologically with self-hate. It’s for you if you’re drawn to
food when stressed, depressed, or anxious and sense
there’s a better way to self-soothe, “but what?” It’s for you if you’ve yo-yo
dieted for decades—fantasizing about forbidden foods until a diet-
ending binge replaces pounds that were lost and adds more.
This book is for you if you’d like to find new freedom. It’s for you if
you’d like to be able to eat whatever you like, savor your food, and stop just
at the point of satisfaction without feeling full. It’s for you if you’d like to
feel in control of life’s stress instead of controlled by it. It’s for you if you’d
like to enjoy your days and evenings to the utmost, instead of abusing or
obsessing about food.
It’s hard to gauge to how many of us this applies, but if weight alone
is any indication, the numbers are high. Most Americans need to lose
weight and know the only way to do so is by eating less and moving
more. There’s only one problem: they can do neither. For many, com-
pulsive overeating is the issue that keeps them from getting to a healthy
weight and staying there.
How did we arrive at this dangerous health epidemic? As early as
1999, American Demographics published the article “Getting Bigger All the
Time”—a title that certainly proved prophetic (!), reporting that
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