Emotional Eating: What You Need to Know Before Starting Your Next Diet

by Edward Abramson

Overview

This revealing and useful book tells how emotions can cause bad eating habits and provides an effective antidote to radical crash diets. The author uses a cognitive-behavioral approach, and offers an encouraging alternative to current theories on the causes on overeating, such as psychopathology, addiction, or moral weakness. Emotional Eating shows how to identify individual patterns of emotional eating, and then tells readers how to respond to these patterns. Filled with tables charts, and self-assessment tests, Emotional Eating can help you learn self-control by identifying emotional triggers and developing alternative behaviors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787940478
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/16/1998
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.55(w) x 8.35(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

EDWARD ABRAMSON is a professor of psychology at California State University, Chico. He also maintains a private practice, specializing in eating disorders, anxiety disorders, and depression.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 The Connection Between Emotions and Eating 1

2 Are You an Emotional Eater? 14

3 Why Emotional Eating 32

4 Dieting and Emotions 45

5 Eating and Self-nurturance 58

6 Identifying Emotions 71

7 Depression and Eating 88

8 Anxiety and Eating 106

9 Boredom, Loneliness, and Eating 121

10 Anger and Eating 137

11 Sex, Marriage, and Weight 152

12 The Decision to Diet 168

Notes 182

Index 196

Editorial Reviews

"This pioneering book gives individuals the tools they need to takecharge of their emotions . . . and effectively manage their weight.Highly recommended." (John P. Foreyt, Ph.D., director, NutritionResearch Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine)

"Anyone who has struggled with eating and weight will feelempowered by Abramson's emphasis on self-determination. . . .Emotional Eating is a very important addition to the bibliotherapylibrary." (BrAnda L. Wolfe, Ph.D., director, Research/ClientRelations, Jenny Craig, Inc.)

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