Product Description

This work presents a breakthrough system that transforms your relationship with food. As anyone who has ever been on a diet knows, they simply don't work. No one can diet indefinitely and, once you stop, the weight simply piles back on. "Eating Less" is not about dieting; instead, it places the emphasis where it belongs, on healthy eating and eating less. This revised and updated edition offers you a unique and inspiring solution to overeating: its aim is to look at thoughts and beliefs about food, unravel the mind's addictive impulses, and retrain it to have a more healthy, balanced relationship with food. It introduces you to practical techniques that you can apply in your daily life; it shows you how to set your own limits without feeling deprived and becoming rebellious; and it gives you the ability to develop greater control by helping you to overcome addictive behaviour. So simply follow "Eating Less" and see your weight fall off and stay off. ""Eating Less" is likely to succeed where diet books fail. The utter simplicity of its message and techniques makes it easy to start and continue with a programme that revolutionises your attitude to eating and weight." - Sarah Litvinoff. Gillian Riley is an addiction counsellor and runs the extraordinarily successful Full Stop course for those who want to give up smoking and "Eating Less" courses for those who want to take control of addictive eating. Her sell-out courses drew the attention of the world-renowned health retreat - Ragdale Hall - who Gillian now works for in addition to her private client work. Gillian lives in Leicestershire and teaches throughout the UK and Ireland.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6084 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

Review
"'Eating Less is likely to succeed where diet books fall. The utter simplicity of its message and techniques makes it easy to start and continue with a programme that revolutionises your attitude to eating and weight.' Sarah Litvinoff"

Daily Telegraph
"Gillian's technique is intelligent and well thought through...I can sense the shift in my thought process"

leslie Kenton
"Gillian Riley's approach is clear, simple and powerful...Simply the best"

Customer Reviews

Simply fantastic!
This book makes serious sense. I have tried so many diets and so many self help books (my book shelf is overweight too by now) and I was getting sick of trying different things all the time and in the end feeling more confused than when I started. Then I decided to read this book, armed with an open mind, and - whoosh - it all was clear. I know now what I am suffering from, food addiction, and I know how to combat it. Not a calorie counter in sight and I am feeling great and relieved to have realised what to do. And yes, it works, I am losing weight but somehow the main focus is taken away from that and it's just a pleasant side effect. I am less obsessed with food, I can treat myself to things that I like but I can most of the time just as easily say no. This book is truly great, Ms Riley has written it in a good, down to earth language, there are no recipes nor pictures with stomach exercises included. Just good advice that makes sense. So get the book and start on your way to a better you. I would give this book 6 stars if I could.

At last, a breath of fresh air... on a tired old subject!
I first encountered Gillian's book when I participated in her course of the same name about two years ago now. I think I thought then that I knew it all. How wrong I was! Gillian's methods are such a relief and make such common sense. Taking the emotions, the angst and the stress out of the whole eating and dieting game, she quietly but surely helps you to navigate your way through the whole food addiction maze and gives you real tools, with which to free yourself. Two years down the line, I still re-read the book from time to time, and still benefit from what it has to say. And my own eating patterns? Let's just say that, with a lot of patience and even more practice, her philosphy has helped me discover a far, far healthier relationship with my food and with my eating. Oh, and yes I have lost a significant amount of weight 'effortlessly' (ie without dieting) over this time as well. Actually, about three dress sizes worth... This is no quick fix, fad or diet book. And perhaps if you can combine reading the book with doing one of her great courses, you might get the extra push needed to make those necessarily deep-rooted changes. But even on its own, I would unreservedly recommend this book to you. If you are really serious about making changes, about re-evaluating your life's priorities and about stopping food from ruling your life, buy this book and study it. It's not an easy road, but -take it from me- if you stick with it and take its message to heart, you too will find it changes your life. It has mine that's for sure.

Way, way ahead of the field

Gillian Riley's insight into addiction is like no-one else's. In early 2006 she saved me from the fags - where Alan Carr, three hypnotherapists, 30 years of meditation and much angst had failed - and now (I believe) she's going to help me with a small overeating problem.

Riley's factual knowledge is impressive but never overwhelming. Her psychological insight is always relatable and 'rings bells' (lots of 'Aha! moments'). Her writing style is perfect. (I deem perfection to be to achieve the task it sets out to achieve, something few writers do.) And her British common sense is pitched adroitly to the reader reeling from years of American hype.

I came away from this seminal book thinking that there will have to come a time when it becomes hugely popular.

Nick Hornby recently said: "I have now come to think of Riley as our leading cessation theorist; she's brilliant."

I concur!


John Macgregor
Chiang Mai
Thailand