Product Description

If you are a binge eater, ordinary diet books do not work for you: just when your latest, faddish diet seems to be succeeding, you are driven to blow it all with a furtive, midnight raid on the fridge. Back to square one! If you recognise this destructive binge/diet/binge cycle, then this book will set you free. Lee Janogly's proven methods - refined over thirty years as a successful diet counsellor - will allow you to take control of your life, rather than letting your life be controlled by food. Forget food combining, totting up points and a life shackled to boring menus: there are no set diets or recipes in this book. Instead, a simple six point plan enables you to choose what you can eat, when and how much, whilst case studies reveal just how others in your situation have beaten the binge for good.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59966 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
"a sensitive and sensible blueprint... that could free you for good of the misery of binge eating" --Sunday Times Style Magazine. "

Stop Bingeing! made me finally admit my pattern of secret eating and yo-yo dieting. Now I'm in control of my eating for the first time in 18 years...I feel alive, alert, sexy and full of energy." --Grazia, feature.

Highly recommended... lively, chirpy and refreshingly irreverent... after a while you feel as if Lee Janogly is your best friend. --City Business Magazine.

Sunday Times Style Magazine
"a sensitive and sensible blueprint that could free you from the
misery of binge eating"

City Business Magazine
"Highly recommended... lively, chirpy and refreshingly irreverent"

Customer Reviews

A book that understands the torments bingers go through!
I disreguarded this book at first - a quick flick through the pages in my local bookstore put me off initially. However, a few months later I realised that it actually was the book I had been looking for.
As someone who has 'binged' on foods in the past I found the advice about how to move on invaluable. I realised that I was not ready for the book when I first saw it simply because the theory was quite challenging - that is, 'give up your trigger foods' - the foods that start you off on a binge. In my case the trigger was chocolate and THERE WAS NO WAY I WANTED TO GIVE IT UP!
However, after months of getting nowhere on periods of normal eating followed by chocolate inspired binges I changed my tune. The book preaches sensible, good advice. After having followed the pointers I must admit that giving up chocolate was not a hardship for me as it's not forever and the theory behind the book is that you can eat EVERYTHING else. Foods that don't trigger you off on a binge are acceptible, even if they are fatty - like crisps for example. This is because you can control how much you eat of them easily as they don't trigger overeating for you.
Try this is you have tried everything else - and still failed! Lee Janoglys approach is friendly and understanding. Some of the case studies and pointers really made me blush because they were so like things I'd said in the past. For example, "I'll start my diet again on Monday."
Read this - I believe it will put you on track for success at last.

A breath of fresh air
The writer knows binging behaviour inside out and leaves the reader absolutely nowhere to hide. However the book is also warm, funny and ultimately very supportive, focusing on ridiculing and so eliminating feelings of guilt and powerlessness. I like the way it contains no recipes and only limited nutritional guidance on the basis that bingers already know all this stuff - at last some appreciation of our skills!

I have been following the principles for about 8 weeks, dipping back into the book occasionally as a reminder. I have lost weight and perhaps more importantly have also lost my cravings - I cannot overemphasise how liberating this is after so many years of feeling controlled by them. I would highly recommend this book to bingers. One comment though - one of my trigger foods is alcohol, and giving this up has been particularly challenging because it perturbs other people in social situations. In the book Lee Janogly doesn't talk about the particularly intense social pressure that exists around drinking, or the relationship between alcohol and binge eating, and I think this is an omission. Otherwise, full marks.

A must buy for compulsive eaters and failed dieters
This is an excellent book for anyone who simply can't stick to diets. It is not a diet book which simply claims that it is all down to willpower nor is it a jargon-filled psychology book. Lee Janogly looks at the causes of overeating and illustrates her arguments with lots of case studies. This is a very readable book and is full of sensible advice. It guides you through the process of changing your eating habits and Lee Janogly is always very encouraging.