The Appetite Awareness Workbook

The Appetite Awareness Workbook
Linda W. Craighead, Ph. D.
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
ISBN: 1-57224-398-8
Non-Fiction, Self Help, Health, Diet
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

Newborn babies are the picture of perfection when it comes to eating. They eat until they are full and even when nursing to comfort themselves they never binge. If they do happen to consume a little too much, they bubble up the result.
Somewhere between that perfect eating start and now, some of us have gone a little astray. Often we eat not for sustenance but to calm difficult emotions, because others expect us to clean our plate, or something tastes good. We then make things even worse by stuffing ourselves.
The Appetite Awareness Workbook serves as a guide to understanding your own eating issues. Instead of looking at counting calories and other forms of self esteem harming deprivation, this book encourages the reader to learn his or her natural appetite signals. The reader can then easily change his or her eating routines and serving amounts to suit their own nutritional needs completely eliminating the need for counting calories, binging behaviours, and self deprivation.