"It's O.K. to eat when you are hungry and to cry when you are sad. But ice cream won't ever alleviate sadness, and potato chips will not subdue anger." "There is no food that will fill emotional hunger and no diet that will curb it." "Physical hunger is when your body needs nourishment. Emotional hunger is when your soul needs nourishment. Find out what it is you are truly hungry for." from The Don't Diet, Live-It Workbook
There are important reasons why you over or under eat.
Every single time you eat when you are not hungry, obsess about food or your
body or don't eat when you are hungry, you are crying for help.
If diets worked most Americans would be thin and happy by now.
"Safely expressing your feelings is the opposite of bingeing."
"Physical hunger is when your body needs nourishment. Emotional hunger is when
your soul needs nourishment."
"As you begin to stop over and under eating, you'll also begin to understand
why you did so in the first place."
On any given day 48 million Americans are dieting.
Every year, 65 million Americans choose from 30,000 diet plans.
In 1992, the National Institutes of Health held investigatory hearings and
concluded that diets do not work and may even be dangerous to one's health.
They also concluded that 98 % of those who lose weight on diets gain it
back within 5 years and 90% of those gain back more than they lost!
Conservative figures show that 150,000 women die each year from dieting-
related causes.
The average fashion model is 5'9" to 6' tall. The average American woman is 5'
4" tall.
The average fashion model weighs 110-118 pounds. The average American woman
weighs 142 pounds.
More than 75% of American women claim they "feel fat."
Statistics taken from: Overcoming Overeating newsletter
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