Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating: Set Yourself Free from Binge-Eating and Comfort-Eating: 17

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Allen Carr's "Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating" is based on the premise that emotional eating is akin to a self-imposed prison that restricts individuals from fully experiencing life. The book delves into the idea that many people turn to food as a coping mechanism for stress, loneliness, or other negative emotions, leading to an unhealthy cycle of seeking comfort in junk food. Carr's approach, inspired by his successful method for smoking cessation, emphasizes the need to challenge the psychological conditioning associated with emotional eating. Hmm let me tell you why this method won’t work: you can get hooked simply to the act of overeating by itself, not only On junk food. The author keeps repeating again and again that once you eat whole food you get satisfied and no longer desire eating past fullness or for emotional reason, it’s not true. I can totally binge on bananas, nuts, omelets etc... So I found it very hard to visualize myself in this method because every time I had to replace the word « junk food » by overeating or junk addiction by « overeating addiction.. it didn’t work. I don’t have a « little monster » crying for sugar, it cries even for carrots or apples so what mindset should I adopt in this case Sir Richard Branson? YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. I guess one of the highlights is to really think about the food we eat - instead of devouring mindlessly, eat things savouring the moment, analyzing the flavour and texture properly, and also feeling deeply how one feels after a meal - comparing junk vs non-junk food - in a sense that's mindfully eating - and getting to the point where one realizes junk food doesn't really bring any comfort.

Unfortunately, this title did not speak to me at all. He repeats himself quite often and wastes far too many words on trying to convince you what his “method” will do for you while using sensational words such as “brainwashed” which made me think of a snake oil salesman. I just kept wondering where the method was. In yet another desperate search to find something that will help me conquer my sugar and food addiction I just happened to stumble across this book. It's good. I mean, in some ways there was nothing new in there but in other ways it seemed to say the kinds of things I need to hear in just the right way. Things like, " THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO GOODNESS WHATSOEVER IN REFINED SUGARS." Otherwise, I find this audiobook a true eye opener and an honest reveal to the social and commercial brain washing that had been promoted and endorsed by junk food companies. I know I haven't stopped eating just for a long enough time to eat that I'm fully recovered. But hearing this audiobook had muted my inner conflict of wanting to go out of my way to satisfy an unsatisfiable craving for it.

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Carr argues that the mindset surrounding emotional eating is similar to the deceptive allure of smoking. Just as smokers associate cigarettes with stress relief or relaxation, emotional eaters link certain foods with comfort and satisfaction. However, the book highlights the illusory nature of these connections, emphasizing that the relief provided by the consumption of comfort foods is transient and ultimately leads to further emotional distress. Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores the true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user.

A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. With caffeine it started with 1 35p energy drink a day from about age 15-16 then 2 35p energy drinks a day then 1 69p energy drink (500ml) then a 69p and a 35p then 2 monsters then 2 monsters and some coffee later. I wouldn’t even engage with anyone until I’d had my two monsters which I’d down one after the other. Some of the advice, I'm throwing out right away, like eat only when hungry. If you have blood sugar issues, ignore that advice. I'm rarely actually hungry, I have to force myself to eat most meals, to keep my blood sugar up, so it's another area, where it's assumed you are a completely healthy individual. Some of the dietary advice is a bit iffy too. Again it's assuming everyone fits into the same mould, which is just clearly not true. Have you ever purged food (self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas), or has the thought of purging food crossed your mind? It’s a subtle combination of addiction to Bad Sugar, the exercise of control NOT to binge, and the abandonment of control, meaning you succumb to the impulse to binge.Emotional eating is defined as using food to relieve negative emotions, rather than to relieve hunger. It leads to a complex and unhappy relationship with food, a tendency to overeat and put on weight, accompanied by feelings of helplessness, sluggishness and self-loathing. You may have tried and failed to control your eating by dieting or just willing yourself to stop. What you need is a method that truly understands the multiple psychological, rather than the physical, causes and effects of emotional eating and how to untangle them. This seems's like it's targeted mainly at people that eat junk food. Which is probably most people. But I guess you can apply this to any situation. It's not a terribly well written book and it seems to go on forever and ever, without getting to the point. It's a simple message and I think it's more about changing your mindset more than anything. Maybe even that age old saying "Fake it till you make it." Strangely I do feel like I got something out of it, but it could have been condensed into a much smaller book. So it's not been a wasted read. I think it's worth taking a look at, even if it read's like an 80's infomercial. Do you eat to comfort yourself or feel secure? Or do you restrict what you eat to feel in control or secure? This book could possibly be a helpful stepping off point for someone who has never thought about their emotional eating and never before considered that they have a problem until now. I would only be able to recommend this title to someone with basically no knowledge of nutrition, physical or mental health because otherwise the information and arguments just felt repetitive and condescending.