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: #1068 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

At last I have conquered my eating problems
I can't believe it,this book makes perfect sense, everything has just fallen into place. I feel so much more confident due to a higher self esteem, which the book talks about. Its about understanding the cause which is the overeating not the sympton which is the weight gain, once you understand and have mastered the cause, the rest falls into place. I read the book in February and so far have lost over a stone with no difficulty whatsover, its amazing. Wish I had read this years ago. Better late than never.

This book is not the same as all the others you've read!
I have a bookshelf full of books on eating and weight control which I've collected over the years, I've read every single one and none of them have had any effect on my long-term eating. I'd gradually come to the conclusion that my excessive eating was due to some as yet undiscovered physical problem and when medicine finally caught up and discovered my problem there'd be a pill I could take which would cure me forever!

Anyway, I got fed up with waiting for the miracle cure and read Gillian Riley's book. I had preconceived ideas concerning the book before I started, I thought it would be all that stuff about repressed rage, subconciously wanting to be fat because it felt safer, unexpressed emotions etc etc etc (I'm sure you've heard it all before). As I read, however, her common sense and simple ideas really seemed to strike a chord. I read the book in one day and put her ideas into practice immediately. It was a revelation. For the first time I didn't feel powerless regarding my eating habits.

The book contains simple strategies to gain control of your eating habits NOW,I found that they worked immediately. If you really take on board what the author is saying, you will gain more self-knowledge and experience a real shift in your attitudes and thinking around food. If you think you've read everything there is to know about eating and weight, you haven't. This book contains new ideas and information that I personally found more effective that anything else I have ever read. I would recommend it wholeheartedly.

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