CJ B. (amoebastar) - reviewed on 2/2/2012 + 43 more book reviews

A friend talked me into getting this book because she felt it was very profound. However, I realized half-way through that it's basically an "Intuitive Eating" book that I have read before in other forms. It just took a couple hundred pages to get there.

The summary?
1) Putting food in your mouth (or refusing to) is not going to fill the God-shaped hole (whatever you call God) you have inside.
2) Eat what you *actually want* when you are *actually hungry*, giving yourself permission to eat.

Through the second half of the book, she talks chapter after chapter on her eight Eating Guidelines, but never mentions them. Hint: They're on one of the last pages. I got the most out of the Prologue and then out of that list at the end. I plan to swap the book ASAP.

(Review cross-posted at Shelfari.)

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