Why Can't I Stop Eating?: Recognizing, Understanding, and Overcoming Food Addiction

by Pedro Lazaro and Debbie Danowski

Book Overview

This straight-talking book puts the widespread problem of food addiction into clear perspective and points the way to a life free of the obsession with food. Why can't I stop eating? If, like millions of others, you often ask yourself this question, you may be addicted to food. The food you eat may be precisely what makes you crave more...and more. This straight-talking book puts the widespread problem of food addiction into clear perspective and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568383657
• ISBN13: 9781568383651
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Finally, a reality based book

We have all read the diet books. How to, how not to, and everything in between. If you want a straightforward, logical and real look at the problem of overeating, buy this book. This is NOT a diet book. It is a book that explains why you eat and how you can stop overeating.The book is honest in telling you that it won't be easy and that you need help. You CANNOT DO IT ALONE. The book will tell you how to get help (OA, friends,) and explain that there are tools out there to helpp you through the hell that is overeating.Do yourself a favor and read this book.

Interesting book

The book was very interesting. It confirmed what I believed all along and that was that sugar and carbohydrates can be addictive to certain people.This book helped me in alot of ways because it made me aware of things that I didn't know. I recommend this book to people who might be carb/sugar addicts.If it doesn't do a thing for you, it will make you more aware of food addiction.

Excellent Read

This was the first book I read that actually compared sugar and junk food to alcohol. While some people may think this far fetched, many of us who have binged and/or purged know that destructive food can be addictive. The author's view that moderation does not work for many has helped me greatly. Completely avoiding all junk food has prevented me from bingeing and losing control. This book will completely change the way you think. Highly recommended.

A Food Plan for Life

The word "diet" will never have the same meaning after reading this book. The advice given is so powerful you'll want to read it in one sitting. Danowski provides simple, practical tools for achieving freedom from devastating yo-yo dieting tactics. How? By creating an actual food plan for life. Pick up the book to find out more. You won't be sorry you did.

Changing Your Life

The majority of Americans are overweight according to national statistics. Television, radio, and newspapers report new weight reduction diets, books, pills and shakes. Weight loss is a multi-million dollar industry and most of us who have tried some of the diet methods may have lost weight, only to gain it back, which becomes a way of life. Diets, shakes, medications, portioned meals we discover are "quick fixes," but they do not provide permanent results. Society has stigmatized the word "addiction," and many of us with weight problems are reluctant to admit we are addicted to food. Ms. Danowski's book presents medical facts, undeniable data, and we are forced to look at our eating behaviors which many of us find as "ugly" as our overweight appearance. This book provides the rationale and the path to stop eating, to lose weight and to keep off that weight. This is not another fad; it is a sensible way to lose weight and not gain it back, by taking the steps to change our behavior. Debbie Danowski's story is real; this author is brave enough to tell the story of all who do not like what they see or how they feel, but few take the steps to change permanently. For anyone who has been disappointed with all of the marketed diet plans, anyone who wants to like himself/herself, this book can change your life.