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When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair : by Geneen Roth, Anne Lamott
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Geneen Roth estimates that she's gained and lost more than 1,000
pounds during her life. That makes her uniquely qualified to write this,
her sixth book, which delivers exactly what its subtitle indicates: 50
Ways to Feel Thin, Gorgeous, and Happy (When You Feel Anything
But). It's sure to appeal to her considerable cult of readers who've
bought her other feel-good, anti-diet books including the bestselling
When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and
Intimacy and Why Weight?: A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating.
It's for the estimated 25 million women in America alone who are on
diets; for those who find that they're never happy because they delay
gratification ("I'll be happy when I lose 10 pounds"), and those who
punish themselves for eating one too many chocolate chip cookies.
Roth's advice is simple, but often beyond the realm of thinking of
someone obsessed with calorie counting. She recommends that you eat
at least one hot meal every day, as a slice of hot pizza will make you
feel
more full than a cold and cardboardy one will; that you should do one
"exquisitely kind" thing for yourself every day, be it buying new
underwear or taking a sledgehammer to your scale; and that you should
"separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished." She also
gives straight diet advice that can't be found in publications along the
lines of Cosmo: "Too much fat makes you fat. But too little makes you
fat, too, because you usually make up for eating nonfat foods by eating
twice as much. I suggest you allow yourself to eat enough fat to feel full.
Part of the reason that many of us feel as if we could start eating at
one
end of our kitchens and chomp our way clear across the United States
is that we never give ourselves permission to feel full without feeling
guilty, to eat enough fat when it's not on a binge." Amen. --Erica
Jorgensen
When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair : by Geneen Roth, Anne Lamott
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