Dieting: A Dry Drunk - Softcover

Jackson, Becky Lu; Mortola, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581127081 ISBN 13: 9781581127089

Publisher: Brown Walker Pr, 2001

Synopsis

This book is for people with eating problems, weight problems, dieting problems. It's for those who have experienced obsessive and compulsive attempts to control their weight and eating. This is a book about how's-not whys- how to identify it, how to arrest it, and how to be free from "needing" it.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Just as there are guidelines and information that help a newly dry alcoholic shift from the depression and resentment of a "dry drunk" to the acceptance and enjoyment of sobriety, this book will offer direction and insight to those problem eaters still suffering from a dieting mentality--their own brand of a dry drunk.

The same solutions and tools that are used in arresting alcoholism are presented as a "map" to facilitate the problem eater in moving from the depressing cycle of out-of-control eating, over-controlled eating, to the serenity and sanity of continuous abstinence from compulsive eating.

Whereas dieting can create a bondage to the insanity of a "dry drunk," abstinence from random, compulsive, overeating or undereating can offer "sobriety"--a sane and sound way to address and arrest addictive eating.

Just as alcoholics can now be offered the hope and promise of recovery, people with any and all expressions of eating disorders can also be invited to believe that they, too, can experience a full recovery.

About the Author:

Becky L. Jackson has emerged as a pioneer in the understanding of eating disorders as an eating addiction. In her own personal recovery since 1974, she has arrested her own eating addiction and serves as a teacher to many whose lives were destroyed by their own eating addiction. She has been the guiding force behind two residential centers and has had an educational center in the San Diego area for over 10 years. She runs groups, conducts seminars and workshops locally and nationally, and serves as a resource for the therapeutic and medical communities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brown Walker Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1581127081
• ISBN 13: 9781581127089
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216