>Are you a food addict?
Do you gain more weight than you lose after every diet?
Can one cookie destroy all your good intentions?
Do you eat when you are disappointed, tense or anxious?
Since its publication, Food Addiction has become a primary resource for food addicts and compulsive eaters. Now it is updated and presented in a revised and expanded edition, with a new chapter on relapse. For a food addict, relapse is an ever present danger which begins in the mind before reaching for that cupcake or other trigger food. Here food addiction is defined, trigger foods are identified and consequences of food addiction are revealed. A lifetime eating plan demonstrating how to stick with a healthful food plan for the long term is also provided. "For some people, foods can be as addictive as alcohol," Kay Sheppard explains. "Gummy bears and marshmallow chicks can be vicious killers whose effects can lead to depression, irritability and even suicide. The terrible truth is that for certain individuals, refined carbohydrates can trigger the addictive process. This book is an effort to help you understand and solve the problems of compulsive eating."
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 Everybody has to eat.. |
| Review Date: March 16, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jeffrey D. Murrah, Texas |
Although everyone has to eat, we do not have to develop or engage in food addictions. Kay Sheppard's book, Food Addiction addresses a problem many people have yet few want to acknowledge. Her book is a helpful guide to understand what food addiction is and ways to overcome those addictions. It contains self-test and practical information on the taking the steps to overcome this addiction. With all the sugars and other additive presently in the American diet it is not surprising that such addictions develop. Rather than suffer in silent desperation, taking the action steps in Food Addiction will help you overcome this behavior that influences your health, thinking and emotional well-being. Since the cost of the book is lower than a good meal, it is a bargain in terms of what it can do for you.
Jeffrey Murrah
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Eye-Opener
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| Review Date: March 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Tanya Potvin, fort kent, me |
| i have been struggling to loose weight my whole life and never finding an answer to why I fail everytime i try. One day when fighting with my fiance about losing weight, i told him when i try to cut back what i eat I feel like I am going with withdrawls, cranky, and my stomach hurts and get sleepy. He told me that it sounds like you have an addiction. thats when i started looking up food addictions. and found this book, I'm not done yet but its making me think about my behaviors and lifestyle. i want to attend overeaters oniamous, and to see if that helps me... |
Unrealistic and hypocritical
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| Review Date: February 18, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Sandy Prater, GA United States |
I love how the author of this book spends almost an entire chapter talking about how diets don't work...then finishes with a meal plan that's far more harsh than most of the diets she's criticizing. Except that her method of eating isn't a diet in that while it restricts the types of foods you eat, it's lifelong. Why do I feel this incredible urge to shout "ta-da" with a flourish at the end of that sentence?
Maybe because it all seems like an act.
While the extreme food makeover Sheppard proposes is my main critique of this book, there are others. First, the writing is just awful. Stories with little to no bearing on the paragraphs they're interjected into. A choppy format that makes for an unpleasant read. And dialogue that looks like someone cut and pasted from various medical journals. There IS information to be gleaned but it's surrounded by masses of irrevelvance and the tone of an impartial clinician. The pamphlets they give out at health centers and AA meetings are a better read.
And the food. Good grief, where do I start? Apparently the solution to food addiction is to make it so unpalatable that you dare not overeat. I think if it was legal for her to do so, Sheppard would suggest permanent IV drips as a solution. According to this book, for the rest of your life, you will never eat sugar again. Not just no adding sugar or not going overboard on sugar. Everything must be sugar free. No salad dressing with sugar. No luncheon meat with sugar anywhere on the label. Nada. Nothing. Oh, and no chocolate either. Ever. Not even if it's sugar free. No desserts of any kind. Oh, and did I mention no fat and no refined flour products. So you can cross off pasta, bread, cooking oils, and even soy sauce off the menu.
Maybe this book is great for those who binge eat from one type of food. I don't. I'm not that particularly fond of sweets but I don't want them crossed off forever either. Avoidance and punishing myself by leaving myself open to foods I can't stand is not the solution I was looking for. I want to change my behavior. Not put myself in a dietary prison and ostracize anyone who thinks differently (someone else this book actually mentions doing).
Bottom line: if you're a food addict in the strictest sense. If there is one type of food that is your downfall, similar to how an alcoholic may behave when they have a couple of drinks in them, then this book might be right for you. But I'll save you the 10 bucks and just tell you what they suggest: don't ever eat it again.
If you're an emotional eater with conflicting emotions and desires...maybe with food associations that you're trying to work out, then look in another book for the answers. Because this one just doesn't have any for you. |
Food Addiction book
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| Review Date: January 30, 2010 |
| Reviewer: M. Rega, |
| The book was listed as in good condition. It had some highlighting in it which was fine with me. I am very pleased with the book and the price. This book addresses a life long problem with good suggestions for success in losing weight for good. It also agrees with Overeaters Anonymous (OA) and gives suggestions for following a sensible eating plan. I would read other books by the same author. |
Confirms What My Body Has Said for Past 20 Years
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| Review Date: September 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: M.M. Billings, MA |
I have repeatedly lost weight by cutting out processed foods - especially sweets. Each time I was losing weight by this method I had no cravings. Each time I 'fell off the wagon' by having JUST ONE dessert. For a short time I would 'control' my dessert intake - having one dessert a week - then gradually lose more and more 'control', eat more and more sweets, and regain my weight.
Each time I have tried to quit sweets well meaning friends have encouraged me to just control my portions. I have tried repeatedly to do that and fail miserably. I am in a battle that leaves me frustrated, beaten, and hopeless - literally killing myself with food. I have always said, "One sweet is too many, and a thousand is not enough". Over time my consumption of sweets has taken over my life. Sweets have even taken the place of meals at times. I am living proof that this is a PROGRESSIVE disease.
I am done listening to well meaning friends (or sabatours), and am going to listen to what I have really known all these years; that when I eliminate these foods I 'naturally' lose weight, with no cravings, and that even ONE bite of those foods sets me on a downward, destructive course. Also, I need to deal with the greatest sabatour in my life - ME. I can no longer con myself that "I can have just one bite". After reading this book and having it confirm what I have experienced for so many years, now I know beyond a doubt that I have this DISEASE of FOOD ADDICTION - and from now on will eat with that in mind. It is more difficult to eat out socially and avoid all those foods, but now that I have it firmly in mind that this is a PROGRESSIVE FOOD ADDICTION... well having that firmly in mind really changes my mindset and ability to make the necessary changes.
Just like alchoholics need to change friends, I have started to avoid situations that are centered around food, and reducing contact with friends who 'push' food. Just as recovering alchoholics need a 'life-style' change, so do recovering food addicts. |
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