The Hunger Habit
Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop
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- 14,99 €
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- 14,99 €
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'Stop fighting with food and read this book!' -Arianna Huffington, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thrive
'Rewire your brain to fix bad food habits ... Brewer has helped people break out of a habit of 40 years' standing in one month.' - The Telegraph
'A game-changing plan to change your relationship with food.' - Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind
A proven neuroscience-based programme to heal your relationship with your body and food, from the world-renowned addiction psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety.
Eat this not that, count calories, exercise more, use your willpower ... how many of these guilt-laden dieting messages make you feel bad about why it's so hard to manage what and how you eat? Based on over 20 years of clinical research and Dr Brewer's work with thousands of patients, The Hunger Habit is the kindest and most effective approach to eating that you'll ever come across. It's the antidote to food shame and dieting.
Using the power of curiosity and awareness, Dr Brewer's proven step-by-step programme will help you heal your relationship with food, reset eating triggers and resolve any long-held personal issues around self-esteem, anxiety, shame, anger and stress. Dr Brewer will help you learn how to work with your brain rather than fight cravings. At the same time you will learn how to embrace setbacks and adopt an attitude of self-kindness instead of self-judgment, ultimately establishing new eating habits. The Hunger Habit is not a diet book but, like many of his clients have already discovered, once you break out of your personal food jail, you'll find a changed relationship to eating leads to a newfound freedom and a lightness that comes from an inner well-being.
No matter where you are now or how hopeless you feel about yourself, stress eating, overeating, binge eating or whatever your habits are, Dr Brewer's powerful book will help.
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Brown University neuroscientist Brewer (Unwinding Anxiety) presents a sensible guide on how readers can feel more in control of their eating. Brewer explains that strong negative emotions can cause the rational prefrontal cortex to go "offline," leaving evolutionarily older brain networks in charge of improving one's mood, which they usually do by prompting the person to seek out food they have fond memories of eating. The brain then comes to associate food with comfort, turning "emotional eating" into a habitual way of dealing with negative feelings. To break this connection, Brewer recommends practicing "mindful eating," which involves savoring each bite and focusing on "being present" during mealtime. He suggests that doing so forces people to pay attention to their bodily signals, which will let them know when they've had enough to eat or when they're eating too much of an unhealthy food. Lay readers will appreciate the accessible science ("When you get stressed, your survival brain grabs the steering wheel from the , which has only recently gotten its learner's permit, aiming to steer you to safety until the danger has passed"), and the practical guidance is easy to implement. The result is a competent manual for cultivating a healthier relationship with food.
