Dilia de la Altagracia
1 Change Your Life
I've never written a review before, but I feel very strongly about this book because it's changed my life. One of the author's central premises is that you need to deal with your emotions instead of eating to make them go away. Once I understood it; something clicked. In the past two weeks, I've lost 4 pounds without dieting; the difference is that I haven't pigged out when I get upset. I feel a million times better about myself and know that I can change my life.
2 Simple real life tools!!!
I felt like parts of this book were written for me. It was refreshing to get simple real life tools to use immediately. This book addresses the whole person not just the eating. I've done years of other programs on and off. This book helped me in ways no other program even addressed.
3 Best book on emotional eating
I can't believe that I spent over 30 years trying to find the right eating program when eating was never the real problem.
Dilia de la Altagracia really teaches you to get to the why of the problem and to be with your emotions until your hunger subsides.
If you eat out of control, binge eat or just can't stop eating when things go wrong, you should be reading this book.
Len
Denver, Colorado
4 Why isn't this book publicized more?
This book is incredible.
For the first time I am losing weight and can stick to my eating plan (a controlled carb eating plan).
I've tried them all - Geneen Roth's books, compulsive overeating books, O.A., etc. This is the only book that spoke to my heart and soul and also confirmed that it's ok to follow my desired eating plan (in this case, low carb), and that I don't have to toss it out the window.
I never did well on plans that taught me to rely ONLY on my hunger/fullness signals. Balanced eating IS important, and yes, there are times when we have physiological need to eat (like during PMS). Sometimes it's not 100% emotional, and a good food plan can come into play, whether you choose a low carb, low fat, or low calorie eating plan. What you eventually get, is that you are now following a PLAN, and are no longer on a DIET, and yes, you can do this for life!
A big thank you to the author for this wonderful book. I'm ordering an extra copy for my office, for a quick "reference" when I need a reminder.
This book is highly recommended.
5 It is not about WILL-POWER - it's about emotions!!
This book truly spoke to me and my life long frustration of why eating and food is a daily struggle and addiction in my life. I never could figure out, why I simply didn't have the will-power to eat less, to reduce my calorie intake and to become thin. Like the author, I am a strong willed and determined woman in my professional life, but certainly not when it comes to food...
Over the past 15 years of my life, I've been between a size 4 and a size 16 and currently I am approaching my 30s with a size 14 - I had enough!! I don't want to continue being fat and living throughout my thirties, unhappy, unfulfilled and with an addiction that causes serious health risks.
Anyone out there, who goes through the same struggles and emotions, should read this book. Its message is that will-power won't cure your food addiction, it is about self-love and acceptance. It is from an author, who has been there, knows what you've been through and found a solution that worked. Currently, I am on my journey to self-love and acceptance and it is a long and hard journey but the outcome will hopefully be amazing ;-)
6 A Storm of Fresh Air
I receive 30 books per week, sometimes more, from authors that want to be on my radio show. I give each book 5 minutes and if I don't resonate with it, forget it! Life is too short to read more hype. I have to tell you, this book, The End of Diets: Healing Emotional Hunger was a storm of fresh air. After all the psychobabble, after all the 'what to eat, what not to eat, white-knuckle will-power' - frankly all of the stuff that we finally know doesn't work - this book is truly insightful, different, and powerful stuff about how to get to know ourselves and profoundly understand the correlation between our feelings and our overeating behavior."
7 A fresh approach . . .
A welcome relief from the 'calories in vs. calories burned' school of diets. The End of Diets addresses the issues I have always suspected played a part in weight management, but have yet to see described elsewhere. This book approaches weight loss from the whole person perspective, taking into account the many psychological/spiritual challenges we all face. A great read . . . in fact, a MUST read!
8 Sets new standards
I found this book to be very different from all the other diet books that are out there. It helps you discover what your main problem is when it comes to losing weight with a good plan. I also found the writers ability to describe most of a dieters faults to be extremely precise definitely a person who knows what she is talking about.
9 If you want to loose weight for good--READ THIS BOOK
in the last ten years I have tried diets from Atkins to weight watchers and everything in between. All the diets worked in helping lose ten or more pounds. Soon after I went back to my "real" way of eating, the weight came back in addition to a couple of pounds.
After reading "THE END OF DIETS" I finally understand that no diet is ever going to really work. The way to loose way and to keep it off is to understand why I eat, or what the underling emotions that makes food my main pacifier.
This new years for the first time in my adult life I did not resolve to loose ten pounds, instead I have resolved to understand the reasons I run to food. I read the book right before Christmas and to my surprise the holistic techniques suggested helped me not gain weight during one of the most stressful and food driven times of the year, "THE END OF DIETS" actually helped me to loose three pounds in the last two weeks!!!
Since reading "THE END OF DIETS" I have been applying the simple, realistic approaches suggested and to my surprise I am beginning to understand why am eating, where am eating and how unconscious I have been when consuming most of the food I usually ate.
For the first time in a long time I feel as though I have a chance at loosing the unwanted pounds I have been carrying around for the last ten years. I think "THE END OF DIETS" is a sane doable approach to taking the weight off and keeping it off for good.
10 now you know!
This book has such great information to help you stop the cycle of weight gain and loss. Its knowledge of the subject is personal and profound. If you are really ready to lose your unwanted weight and not regain it, ready to change you self-image and ready to be your best, then read THE END OF DIETS.
It is also the first diet book that is enjoyable to read. Dilia writes about her own efforts in such a compelling way you simply want to know more!
11 Great Data and Practice for weight control
I found this book very helpful and inspiring on the topic of emotional hunger. It reads quickly and easily. If you have struggled with your weight and have not been able to find a way to lose it, I highly recommend you read this.
12 A Wholistic Diet
Why can't the majority of dieters keep weight off? Because their over eating habits are linked to their emotions. The End of Diets speaks to the heart and soul of the weight issue--self understanding, emotional healing and the attainment of self love. The End of Diets needs to be read, re-read and digested before any low calorie or low carbohydrate eating program is attempted.
Teri Harris Saa, Conscious Creation Mentor and author of The Wisdom Chronicles: An Everywoman's Awakening to Her Purpose.
