Dear Susie Orbach, I´m launching my book: “And Were They Thin and Happy Ever After? The Ways Out of Compulsive Eating”. Everything started in 1988. I was on vacation, at the beach, with another diet going wrong, when I found a book with a weird name: “Fat is a Feminist Issue”. When I read it, important issues of my life got …
What are you hungry for?
Sometimes, in the search for quick fixes for our compulsive eating, we end up finding paths that eventually control our symptoms but do not deal with the causes. We realize that we just exchanged a compulsion by another, like shopping, compulsively working, drinking, drugs, cutting, promiscuous sex. We live in a society that imposes upon us a compulsive lifestyle …
The ways out of compulsive eating
The ways out of compulsive eating Compulsive eating is like a dark night in a rough sea of waves that lead us to many directions. Immersed in this suffering, we may feel inclined to do a diet of proteins, or one that indicate increasing complex carbohydrates, or taking supplements that at first sight will make all the difference, or greatly …