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The Appetite Awareness Workbook: How to Listen to Your Body And Overcome Bingeing, Overeating, Obsession With Food

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Author: Linda W. Craighead
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 189
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3

ISBN: 1572243988
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8526
EAN: 9781572243989
ASIN: 1572243988

Publication Date: February 2006
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
People with normal eating patterns eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. But people struggling with binge eating relate very differently to this most basic need, often risking depression, gastrointestinal problems, and even death because of their problems with food. This book offers an eight-week, cognitively based program to help you learn to pay attention to hunger cues, keep track of your feelings about food, and develop an eating schedule that discourages binge eating. PIn a series of easy exercises, the book guides you toward taking control of eating habits. First, gradual changes help you eat only when hungry or when a mealtime is scheduled. Then, awareness exercises help you stop eating when moderately full. Finally, by using cognitive techniques to control the tendency to eat for emotional reasons and journaling exercises to stay motivated and on track, youll learn how to retrain yourself to maintain normal and healthy eating habits for life.

Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Perfect antidote to the diet hysteria. November 3, 2008
Like most of you considering this book, I've tried many, many diets and have always been able to lose weight. Unfortunately, my problem is eating to feed my psyche and not my stomach. What really appealed to me about this workbook is that it discourages you from writing down everything you eat. I have tried that and found I became obsessed with every morsel going into my mouth when my real problem was feeding an empty soul.br /br /Linda Craighead takes a different approach, brilliant in its simplicity. It forced me to focus on my stomach and my feelings rather than on what was entering my mouth. She asks us to log the time we eat and to rate our hunger before and after eating. It may seem odd to some, but many of us do not even know if we are hungry. By eliminating "grazing", you begin to learn when you are really hungry for food and when you are hungry for something else. It may be frustrating at first, but hang in there. As I've stuck with the program it's become easier and easier for me to begin to read my hunger cues. Now I'm beginning to search for patterns to help me determine if my overeating is caused by lack of sleep, boredom or something else.br /br /For less than [...] I think it's well worth the investment to better self-awareness at the very least, and perhaps weight loss and increased self-esteem at best.

4 out of 5 stars

AAT Workbook November 2, 2008
I originally purchased this book by the recommendation of my therapist. However, since then I had the Gastric Bypass done and this book doesn't really apply to me anymore..well at the stage I'm at. I do have a friend that I will be sending this book to. From what I read in it though, it seems to be a very good book and seems like it would have helped me prior to surgery.

5 out of 5 stars

Innovative, Compassionate, Field-Tested, Clinically-Proven Program - Pure Substance! September 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Linda Craighead's Appetite Awareness Workbook - in my opinion - is an absolute must for anyone struggling with binge-eating and overeating. Dr. Craighead offers a compassionate yet no-nonsense innovative clinically-proven treatment program. br /br /Moreover, in the opinion of this reviewer, Dr. Craighead offers the Best Opening Paragraph of a self-help-for-overeating book that I have so far come across. Unlike most self-help books, Dr. Craighead's intro offers no cheer-leading feel-good fireworks - but it offers a sobering truth, a truth that a psychological Do-It-Yourselfer cannot afford to be without.br /br /More about it below, but, first, who is Linda W. Craighead? br /br /Dr. Craighead is a professor of psychology and a director of clinical training at the U. of Colorado in Boulder, CO, and a clinical director at La Luna, an outpatient eating disorders clinic in Boulder. br /br /But most importantly, Dr. Craighead is a scientist-practitioner. Her Appetite Awareness Training program (AAT) evolved out years of research. In particular, to provide scientific/empirical support for AAT, Dr. Craighead and her research team conducted and reported on several studies of the AAT protocol. Dr. Craighead writes that their 2002 evaluation of AAT-based individual treatment for women with binge-eating disorder revealed that 80% stopped the pattern of binge-eating by the end of treatment.br /br /80% success rate! Now, that's not just clinical lore or anecdotal data. We are not talking about a book of insights and epiphanies from clinical battle-fields. We are talking about outcome studies that satisfy the methodological rigor of the peer-reviewed scientific journals!br /br /Now: about the Best Opening Paragraph of a self-help-for-overeating book...br /br /Here it is:br /br /"If you picked up this book, you are probably concerned about the way you eat, how much you weigh, and how you look. In today's world, most women are dissatisfied with some part of their body. You may even blame a lot of your life's problems on you weight and shape. You may think, "If I were thinner or had a better shape, I would be happier. Learning to eat in a way that feels natural and comfortable is very valuable; it is the goal of this book and it may allow you to change your weight or shape to a degree. But you are not likely to ever be completely satisfied with how you look, and solving your eating problems is not going to make all your other problems go away. The reality is that changing your weight may make less of a difference than you anticipate. Fortunately, once you start feeling better about the way you eat, you will have more time and energy to focus on changing those aspects of your life that have greater potential to make you a happier and more fulfilled human being." br /br /So... what am I "drooling" over here? You might be wondering: what is really here to applaud? A lot, actually. In comparison to your typical bombastic cheer-leading, this first introductory paragraph might feel like a bucket of ice. And it is: Craighead - in a typical for her book straight-forward manner - takes the unrealistic expectations of a total-life-makeover-via-weight-loss head on. She pulls no punches. She says it as it is: "you are not likely to ever (! - my exclamation sign) be completely satisfied with how you look, and solving your eating problems is not going to make all your other problems go away." Now, that's courage of honesty that can cost you book sales in this wishful-thinking culture of ours. br /br /She goes on say: "The reality is that changing your weight may make less of a difference than you anticipate." Bam! A one-two punch, no less! What a brutally honest role induction: you might have just bought her weight management book and here - right off the bat! - Craighead is telling you that losing the weight will not make you the most popular kid on the block and that you will not be finally discovered by Hollywood and that you will probably not be the first trillionaire on Earth... Brutal, but honest, isn't it?! br /br / She goes on: "once you start feeling better about the way you eat, you will have more time and energy to focus on changing those aspects of your life that have greater potential to make you a happier and more fulfilled human being." No more upper-cuts and left hooks here, just plain sobering wisdom and (!) the beginning of re-prioritization of what this whole weight management self-help business is about. Craighead doesn't promise that "once you lose weight, you will have more time and energy..." Her choice of words is carefully selected here. She says: "once you start feeling better about the way you eat, you will have more time and energy to focus on changing those aspects of your life..." The focus is clearly on ending the obsession with food, on shifting back to the position of eating to live, not living to eat (or living to avoid eating, for that matter). br /br /Clinically, Craighead's workbook is impeccable. She offers an excellent program, one of the very few published consumer-level books that offer a Harm Reduction approach to Emotional Eating that allows you to "reduce binges to mere overeating" and to turn ineffective emotional eating into more effective eating as a coping response to prevent emotional overeating. br /br /Stylistically, in terms of the writing demeanor, Craighead offers a calmly compassionate, rationally wise, no-nonsense, realistic-expectations-only, and, most importantly, honest delivery of the method. If, in your search for a perfect weight-management book, you are not ready for honesty and realistic expectations, if you are still looking for that bombastic cheer-leading "you-can-do-it-with-triple-!!!-signs" kind of book, this one isn't it. But - it is my prediction - it is a book that you will eventually have to buy. As your weight management self-help library grows, perhaps, after you haul off a couple of plastic bags of thumbed through and dog-eared weight loss and diet books to Goodwill, when you are finally off that diet-mentality-high, you will likely boomerang back to this very web-page and "look inside" Craighead's book and probably buy it. br /br /But here you are, prospective reader, in this moment, in this as-always-decisive here-and-now... Why waste a few more years on the feel-good-but-unrealistic-total-life-makeover promises? Why not start the process of change at a reasonable place of moderation? Why keep on looking for the short-cuts that prove at best dead-ends or detours? There's more to life than dieting. So, my recommendation is this: point, click, proceed to checkout, and buy, even if you are not yet ready. I think you will find that Dr. Craighead's Appetite Awareness Training program will prove a strategic addition to your weight management self-help library.br /br /Pavel Somov, Ph.D.br /Author of "Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time" (New Harbinger, 2008)br /

5 out of 5 stars

must have for overeaters September 5, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is one of the best books I have ever read about changing eating and the way you think about food. It really teaches you to listen to your body and not all the fad diets out there today. I would recommend this book to anyone with a weight problem that stems from disorderly eating.

4 out of 5 stars

Helping people recover from disordered eating July 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book is not a diet plan as such. It is a training manual that helps people who have disordered eating habits (overeating, bingeing, as well as food restriction) learn to recognize their bodies' hunger and satiety signals. br /br /If you are expecting someone to tell you exactly what to eat and when to eat it, this book will probably disappoint. If you are hoping to develop healthier eating habits without having to measure the caloric content of each bite you take for the rest of your life, or perform other obsessive, time-consuming, deprivation-inducing behaviors, if you'd like to eat healthy foods in quantities that are right for your body and actually enjoy the food that you eat, this book might just be the ticket.br /br /I've been working through the first week, and it's a struggle, but I'm already learning a lot about myself and my eating habits. This book is what I was looking for.

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