Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79438 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From the Author
stop dieting and start loving yourself.
It's not about food is a book that carol normandi and i (laurelee roark) wrote from our own experiences of having an eating disorder and from the thousands of women we have had the privilege of working with in our groups, beyond hunger inc. The main focus of our book is to help women realize that they are much more than a perfect size 10 body and that the time has come for them to stop dieting and start loving themselves unconditionly.

Customer Reviews

"It's not about Food" is all about self love
Reading the book "It's not about Food" has deepened my awareness about how mean I can be to myself and use my body and the way I choose to eat as a target for self-abuse. This book gently, yet effectively shines light upon America's cultural obsession with food and weight. It explains the reasons why obsessing, dieting, binging, purging and weighing ourselves constantly are ways learned to take care of ourselves when we know of no other way. Drawing from their own experiences with food and weight obsession, Laurelee Roark and Carol Emery Normandi bring wisdom and understanding to their work. We learn from Carol and Laurelee that this recovery is a journey to know our very soul. They emphasize the process of healing disordered eating and body image through learning to be with yourself, your feelings and whatever is happening in you life and taking care of yourself around it, rather than a goal of weight loss.

We learn that we can listen to and trust our bodies and ourselves by the "radical" act of legalizing all foods and allowing ourselves to eat when we are hungry, eat what feels good to us, and stop when we have had enough. This book is written with sensitivity and solid support for those who suffer with this painful issue. It is a book to read over again when a boost in self love is over due.

This book is powerful
If you are a woman who has ever suffered or is suffering from an eating disorder, this book will change your life. It honestly touched me during a time when nothing much did. I discovered new depths to myself, and saw how strong and magical we can be

Wanting to recover from your ED? This book is for you!!
This book has helped me heal. It takes you through a process that you have to trust. This process includes; Becoming conscious of your negative thoughts, avoiding judgmental thoughts, legalising food, healing your spiritual self and many more processes which all help to make you so much more whole. Once the judgemental thoughts stop its like your head is clear and you can finally start to love yourself for you, accept your body as it is right now and ignore all diets, all people who put women in a certain category that makes everyone who doesnt fit into this category inferior. Ignore the negative thoughts and rid yourself of people who make you feel "Less than", because you should never feel "Less than", NEVER. This book has taught me all of this and i have been through the motions of eating disorders. I have starved, binged, starved and i am in recovery, coming through it a little more each day. Legalizing food is the hardest part for me because i was always either counting calories or fasting or bingeing.
Get this book if you want to truly heal yourself because you really will recover with this book.
Say no to diets, legalise all foods and love yourself completely.

Hope that helped.