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Do you eat compulsively? Are you overweight as a result? Do you keep trying different diet programs to change your eating habits and to weigh less?

This book is not about dieting to lose weight. It is, rather, about having a life without compulsive eating by changing your beliefs about food, feelings, and being fat. It is based on the concept that your thoughts and ideas affect your feelings, which are the link to your emotional eating. Replacing irrational ideas and distortions in thinking with more realistic ideas can break that link and lead eventually to weight loss.

If you are like most emotional eaters, you often feel that you are a victim in most situations — of abuse, rejection, isolation, injustice. This means you often feel upset. You also believe in avoiding pain and anxiety, and you see food as something to distract you from feeling upset and give you comfort. It is your mind that triggers your eating, creating emotional hunger that gets fed with food.

The way you think often determines how much pleasure and freedom from stress you experience. When you change the negative messages you give yourself, you have less stress and less need to use food to feel better.

The focus of the book is on changing those messages by using the same concepts and written exercises used in the AL/CE Program for A Life minus Compulsive Eating. Many men and women participated in the program and took the mental journey prescribed here. As a result, they were able to make significant changes in their eating and their lifestyles.

As you read this book, you can help yourself by doing the exercises, keeping a journal of your feelings and your eating behavior without judging yourself, and by reading related material. You might also want to seek counseling or join a group that specializes in dealing with the emotional basis of compulsive eating.