When Food Is Love by Geneen Roth

When Food Is Love by Geneen Roth

In this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and emotional eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on her own painful personal experiences, as well as the candid stories of those she has helped in her seminars, Roth examines the crucial issues that surround emotional eating: need for control, dependency on melodrama, desire for what is forbidden, and the belief that one wrong move can mean catastrophe. She shows why many people overeat in an attempt to satisfy their emotional hunger, and why weight loss frequently just uncovers a new set of problems. But her welcome message is that change is possible. This book will help readers break destructive, self-perpetuating patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers--physical and emotional--that make us human.

When Food Is Love, Feeding the Hungry Heart, Appetites, Breaking Away from Compulsive Eating, and Why Weight? are among Geneen Roth's five best-selling books. Blanche, the male cat, whose colossal size has never--not even for a day--disturbed his self-esteem. She lives in Northern California with her husband, Matt, and Blanche, the male cat.