The Rules of "Normal" Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between!
Written in easy-to-understand, everyday language, The Rules of "Normal" Eating lays out the four basic rules that "normal" eaters follow instinctively — eating when they're hungry, choosing foods that satisfy them, eating with awareness and enjoyment, and stopping when they're full or satisfied. Along with specific skills and techniques that help promote change, the book presents a proven cognitive-behavioral model of transformation that targets beliefs, feelings, and behaviors about food and eating and points the way toward genuine physical and emotional fulfillment. Readers learn how to reprogram their dysfunctional beliefs, manage uncomfortable feelings without turning to food, and establish new eating habits that tune their bodies into natural sensations of hunger, pleasure, satisfaction, and satiation. Filled with humorous insights, compassion, and practical wisdom, the book outlines balanced attitudes and patterns that benefit all types of eaters.
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Book details
- Author
- Karen R. Koenig
- Imprint
- Gurze Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 224
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Series
- Learn Every Day
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Eating Disorders & Body Image
Health & Fitness › Diet & Nutrition › Diets
Psychology › Psychopathology › Eating Disorders - Topics
- emotional eating · disordered eating · binge eating · healthy eating habits · body image · cognitive-behavioral therapy · intuitive eating · diet and nutrition
- ISBN-13
- 9780936077215 (Paperback)9781684424931 (Hardcover)
About the author
KAREN R. KOENIG is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 20 years of private practice experience helping compulsive, emotional, and restrictive eaters learn to eat normally.
Koenig was a semifinalist in the 1999 Massachusetts Film Office Screenwriting Contest and received a Certificate of Achievement in the 1996 Writer’s Digest Literary Short Story Contest. She has contributed columns on eating, weight, and body image to Focus, the NASW Massachusetts state publication, and her personal essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, and other publications.
When she’s not writing, Koenig runs graduate social work and psychology continuing education programs in eating and weight management. She is a founding member of the Greater Boston Committee of the Massachusetts Eating Disorders Association.