(Book) When Food Is Love by Geneen Roth
It’s no secret that I have an addiction to food. I’m not even a cool “foodie” – more like just a compulsive eater. I know that about myself – I even know why I am the way I am. This book was very personal to me because it is about who I am and the whys of how I am. I don’t know that I took all that much from it. I’m already “there” with her. I’ve been spending a lot of time “with myself” lately; trying to find the right way to deal with my eating problems. I think, in theory, her methods are good, but I don’t know that surounding myself with Swiss Rolls is the right way to go *laugh*. I do know that it’s given me some more motivation to find that “thing” that will help me improve who I am. I’ve spent the last 13+ years of my life coming to this point – hopefully, one day in the not too distant future, I can “break free” from food… a lofty goal, I know… but I’m literally surrounded by people that love and support me and I guess in some weird way it’s taken this long to realize that it’s okay to be who I am and I don’t have to hide or worry or any of the other things that I’ve done in my life that make me who I am…
Yeah, oversharing… I’ll shut up 
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and compulsive eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on painful personal experience as well as the candid stories of those she has helped in her seminars, Roth examines the crucial issues that surround compulsive eating: need for control, dependency on melodrama, desire for what is forbidden, and the belief that one wrong move can mean catastrophe. She shows why many people overeat in an attempt to satisfy their emotional hunger, and why weight loss frequently just uncovers a new set of problems. But her welcome message is that the cycle of compulsive behavior can be stopped. This book will help readers break destructive, self-perpetuating patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers – physical and emotional – that make us human.
