Based on the most recent research findings, this book gives you innovative exercises and strategies to help you free yourself from your impulsive eating. Although its main focus is on any form of impulsive eating, including compulsive eating, overeating and emotional eating, the book could help with comorbid addiction behaviors including substance abuse, gambling, sex, etc.
Make this book your journey to wellness. Think of it not so much as another self-help …show more content…
we fall somewhere on continuum. ON the problematic end, the desire to eat may be the greatest regardless of whether one is feeling good or bad. While an occasional slip is perfectly normal, it becomes dangerous when it’s an ongoing modus operandi. In the beginning, we may have turned to our favorite treats or desserts for comfort when we are bored or stressed, or when we are happy and overjoyed. Overtime, however, it somehow turned into something we cannot do without, despite knowing the consequences. Exhibiting full symptoms of a substance-abuse addiction of withdrawal and out-of-control feeling mixed with shame and guilt, what was once a basic necessity to provide nutrients to the body turns into a miserable …show more content…
IN chapter six, seven and eight. Exercises for impulse control (IC), distress tolerance (DT), emotional regulation (EG), and behavior modification (BM) are laid out in chapter 5 – 8. Hands-on techniques will be given throughout each chapter to help you deal with each of the four constructs: behavior modification (BM), environmental control (EC), . Chap 6: Facing our emotions, chap 7: improving our distress threshold, chap 8 controlling our impulses, and Chap 8rethinking our eating expectation. .
We know the suffering involved and E. D. is not something where you can take a pill and make it go away. Nor is it something you test ‘positive’ or’ negative’ for. Instead, it’s more of a continuum where there is objective in-control eating on one end and objective out-of-control eating on the other end. In between are subject in-control and out-of-control eating.
For the purpose of this book, however, borderline binge eating and full-blow binge eating will be addressed along the lines of four psychological factors mentioned