Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART ONE. The Learning Sessions. 1 Emotional Eating 101. 2 Food, the Over-the-Counter Tranquilizer. 3 The Costs of Powerlessness. 4 Your Self-Doubt Layer. 5 Your Frustration/Reward Layer. 6 Your Safety Layer. 7 Your Rebellion Layer. 8 Your Emptiness Layer. PART TWO. The Practice Sessions. 9 Recovering Your Power. 10 SESSION 1: Getting Started. 11 SESSION 2: Conquering the Feeling Phobia. 12 SESSION 3: Waking Up from the Food Trance. 13 SESSION 4: Challenging Your Self-Doubts. 14 SESSION 5: Defeat Your Defeatism. 15 SESSION 6: Creating Real Safety. 16 SESSION 7: Maturely Dealing with Anger. 17 SESSION 8: Fill Yourself Up. Shrink Yourself Conclusion. Index.
Roger Gould, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author, and former head of Community Psychiatry and Outpatient Psychiatry at UCLA who is one of the world's leading authorities on emotional eating and adult development. His Web site on emotional eating is .#{.
Praise for "Shrink Yourself" "In "Shrink Yourself", Dr. Gould
offers a simple but profound truth: hunger originates in your mind,
not your belly. This empowering book will allow you to lose weight
by recognizing the psychological stumbling blocks in your life that
contribute to your emotional eating. If you're fed up with yo-yo
diets that leave you feeling frustrated, confused, and powerless,
you owe it to yourself to read the wisdom in this book."
- Joseph J. Luciani, Ph.D., author of "Self-Coaching: The Powerful
Program to Beat Anxiety and Depression" "Some things in life we can
change; some things we can't. Our weight is definitely something we
can change and control if we follow Dr. Roger Gould's brilliant
method. Every time I'm tempted to reach for that extra sugar fix, I
think about what I learned in "Shrink Yourself" - and I just keep
on walking."
- Maud Adams, actress and model "Obesity is an epidemic in America,
and numerous experts have tried to identify its causes. Drawing on
his background in psychiatry, Roger Gould makes a major
contribution to our understanding of it by identifying the basic
emotions that give rise to unhealthy eating habits and offering a
manageable step-by-step program for readers to combat it."
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy "It's important for long-term weight
loss to change your eating habits to include healthy, whole,
natural foods in your diet, but in order to motivate yourself to
lose weight for the long term you need to change the way you think
about eatinga??and about yourself. "Shrink Yourself"gives you the
equivalent of eight therapy sessions with a brilliant psychiatrist
who coaches you step by step to stop emotional eating and start
feeling and looking great."
- Fred Pescatore, M.D., author of "The Hamptons Diet" and "The
Hamptons Diet Cookbook" "In this motivational, fascinating, and
practical new book, Roger Gould shows readers how to lose weight by
stopping and reversing the emotional eating habits they have
developed over a lifetime."
- Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas and author of "Quit Digging
Your Grave with a Knife and Fork" "This is a masterpiece: the only
serious and practical guide for anyone serious about losing
weight."
- Warren Bennis, University Professor at the University of Southern
California and author of "On Becoming a Leader"
Praise for Shrink Yourself "In Shrink Yourself, Dr. Gould offers a
simple but profound truth: hunger originates in your mind, not your
belly. This empowering book will allow you to lose weight by
recognizing the psychological stumbling blocks in your life that
contribute to your emotional eating. If you're fed up with yo-yo
diets that leave you feeling frustrated, confused, and powerless,
you owe it to yourself to read the wisdom in this book."
- Joseph J. Luciani, Ph.D., author of Self-Coaching: The Powerful
Program to Beat Anxiety and Depression "Some things in life we can
change; some things we can't. Our weight is definitely something we
can change and control if we follow Dr. Roger Gould's brilliant
method. Every time I'm tempted to reach for that extra sugar fix, I
think about what I learned in Shrink Yourself - and I just keep on
walking."
- Maud Adams, actress and model "Obesity is an epidemic in America,
and numerous experts have tried to identify its causes. Drawing on
his background in psychiatry, Roger Gould makes a major
contribution to our understanding of it by identifying the basic
emotions that give rise to unhealthy eating habits and offering a
manageable step-by-step program for readers to combat it."
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy "It's important for long-term weight
loss to change your eating habits to include healthy, whole,
natural foods in your diet, but in order to motivate yourself to
lose weight for the long term you need to change the way you think
about eatinga??and about yourself. Shrink Yourself gives you the
equivalent of eight therapy sessions with a brilliant psychiatrist
who coaches you step by step to stop emotional eating and start
feeling and looking great."
- Fred Pescatore, M.D., author of The Hamptons Diet and The
Hamptons Diet Cookbook "In this motivational, fascinating, and
practical new book, Roger Gould shows readers how to lose weight by
stopping and reversing the emotional eating habits they have
developed over a lifetime."
- Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas and author of Quit Digging
Your Grave with a Knife and Fork "This is a masterpiece: the only
serious and practical guide for anyone serious about losing
weight."
- Warren Bennis, University Professor at the University of Southern
California and author of On Becoming a Leader
Praise for "Shrink Yourself" "In "Shrink Yourself," Dr. Gould
offers a simple but profound truth: hunger originates in your mind,
not your belly. This empowering book will allow you to lose weight
by recognizing the psychological stumbling blocks in your life that
contribute to your emotional eating. If you're fed up with yo-yo
diets that leave you feeling frustrated, confused, and powerless,
you owe it to yourself to read the wisdom in this book."
- Joseph J. Luciani, Ph.D., author of "Self-Coaching: The Powerful
Program to Beat Anxiety and Depression" "Some things in life we can
change; some things we can't. Our weight is definitely something we
can change and control if we follow Dr. Roger Gould's brilliant
method. Every time I'm tempted to reach for that extra sugar fix, I
think about what I learned in "Shrink Yourself" - and I just keep
on walking."
- Maud Adams, actress and model "Obesity is an epidemic in America,
and numerous experts have tried to identify its causes. Drawing on
his background in psychiatry, Roger Gould makes a major
contribution to our understanding of it by identifying the basic
emotions that give rise to unhealthy eating habits and offering a
manageable step-by-step program for readers to combat it."
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy "It's important for long-term weight
loss to change your eating habits to include healthy, whole,
natural foods in your diet, but in order to motivate yourself to
lose weight for the long term you need to change the way you think
about eatinga??and about yourself. "Shrink Yourself" gives you the
equivalent of eight therapy sessions with a brilliant psychiatrist
who coaches you step by step to stop emotionaleating and start
feeling and looking great."
- Fred Pescatore, M.D., author of "The Hamptons Diet" and "The
Hamptons Diet Cookbook" "In this motivational, fascinating, and
practical new book, Roger Gould shows readers how to lose weight by
stopping and reversing the emotional eating habits they have
developed over a lifetime."
- Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas and author of "Quit Digging
Your Grave with a Knife and Fork" "This is a masterpiece: the only
serious and practical guide for anyone serious about losing
weight."
- Warren Bennis, University Professor at the University of Southern
California and author of "On Becoming a Leader"
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