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: #1383 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

Best book I have read in 30 years of weight struggles.
Discovered this book by chance browsing yet again for something new. A deceptively simple book and technique that is truly wise in that the more you study, the more you realise and learn. Gillian convincingly purports the should -be -obvious truth that the way you eat, not what you weigh is the root of the problem then explores this with great wisdom and insight using an addiction model. Initially like some other reviewers i wondered if this too "would not work" for my weight, then realised that my weight had stopped yoyoing by its usual stone, after 10 months it is now starting to drop steadily though slowly in a way I am confident can be sustained. Like anything lasting, authentic and worthwhile it takes sustained and mindful effort to put the techniques into practice but I can honestly say i have not yet encountered a problem Gillian has not addressed in the book. I don't think I will ever need to buy a "diet book" again.

A really helpful book in understanding food addiction.
I found this book to be really helpful in understanding why my brain works against me in my efforts to loose weight and be healthier and how I can change the patterns that have kept me over weight all my life. I find it really useful to mark the chapters/paragraphs that I found particularly relevant to me,so if I find myself reverting back to old negative eating patterns I can read them again and get back to a new positive approach to food and eating, rather than an obsessive, addictive one. I would definitely recommend this book if you have a problem with food addiction, and if it doesn't help the first time I would read it again to really let the information sink in. I hope you find it as helpful as I did.

Great idea but ..
I have had a weight problem most of my life (10-15 kilos up and down) serious enough to keep me buying all sorts of books on nutrition and eating less, eating plans etc etc I enjoyed the book it is well written etc but in the end there have been no positive results after several months.Just as a note I did quit smoking after reading Alan Carr's book the first time (after 20 years of heavy smoking) so I believe that this type of book can work for people but so far none have worked for me with the weight issue.This one may work for you .. or not.