Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating: Set yourself free from binge-eating and comfort-eating (Allen Carr's Easyway, 29)

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Another fundamental part of it is to allow oneself to feel real hunger, and then satisfying that hunger, instead of eating for other reasons - letting body needs trigger the action and not other feelings or habit. If you regularly eat when you’re not truly hungry, choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond fullness, something is out of balance. That means your food intake should vary – it should not be the same when you have a slow office day compared to a day when you go out hiking etc. It applies the "Easyway" method which has already helped millions quit smoking and expands on it to uncover the psychological roots of our unhealthy impulses, freeing us to rediscover balanced eating habits.

Gastroparesis can be caused by high blood sugar – with food entering the stomach not being broken down, and sitting in the stomach for a long period of time – causing gas, bloating, indigestion and heartburn.

Then feeling quilt, exercising lots and restricting calories again, in this terrible cycle to "make up" for it. There’s no practical advice for overcoming your impulses or urges simply because the book says “when you realise you’ve been brainwashed, you won’t have any urges”. It has helped millions of smokers all over the world to quit and has since been used to treat other addictions such as drinking and gambling.

Our perceptions about foods are not based on fact and logic but are rather influenced by commercials and upbringing. Perhaps you reach for cookies, chips, or ice cream not because you're hungry, but for emotional comfort? The only way to achieve this permanently is to change the way you think about junk food, bad sugar, and bad carbs.It was almost like a tacky home decor of phrases all bundled into 237 pages — and with no editor in sight.

He explains that this is an illusion: that the very stresses, discomforts, and dissatisfaction we are attempting to alleviate are caused by the consumption of that same substance. Another honest and simple to follow self help manual from Alan Carr this time looking at emotional eating. With this understanding, I could finally set about defining what exactly made certain foods addictive. These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts like pandemics, resource constraints, and shrinking biodiversity—threaten our very existence on the planet.

I have seen first hand how much better I feel after even just a short period of time eliminating grains, sugars, and processed foods from my diet. If you're a restricted dieter like myself, due to gut damage, I would say it's the restriction causing most of the problems, which of course this book doesn't address.