Self-Help Books

I started a new book about a week ago, "Women Food & God" by Geneen Roth.  I saw this author on Oprah a few weeks back talking about this book, and it resignated with me.  She talked about how people, but mainly women, will turn to food for comfort.  We can use food as a short-term "problem-solver" when the going gets tough. I thought, well, since I am trying to really go forth in changing old habits and find my "meaning in life", and I like to read, I will give this book a try.


Roth mentioned that after reading this book, if used correctly, one will never diet again.  I thought to myself, what could it hurt? Maybe I should give this book a try.  So, as I mentioned, I started reading this book about a week ago, and I am now about 1/4 of the way through. OMG!!  There are other women out there like me!  I have never read a "self-help book" or thought much of them. I didn't even think of this book in that category until now. This book relates to emotional eating, and discusses how food and God (or whatever spiritual beleifs you may have) go hand in hand. I am not sure how much I want to divulge into my private thoughts for anyone reading this, but here is your warning.  If I start, it may get ugly.  If you feel the same and really understand a place like mine or similar, then, please feel free to comment. Otherwise, I do not ask for your pity. If you have never dealt with food relating to emotion, then you are lucky and high-five to you!

I like food, and always have. I have also been up and down in my weight since I satarted getting rounder around the age of 8. I have tried a few different diets that have been short-lived fixes to my unhappiness with my body. After my last diet and gaining all my lost weight back over the last 3 years, I swore I would never diet again. I have realized that in order for something to last, you have to stick with it. There is no such thing as a long term fix with a short term change. Some may wonder why I just don't join a gym then, and lose weight in a healthy way. I have joined gyms, attended aerobics classes, done a little weight training, spent hours on a treadmill, etc. I do not like it and it does not make me feel good. The only thing that I think of when at the gym, or when thinking about a gym, is that I am only there to make myself thinner. It is for the sole purpose to appear healthy and trim.I know this is not the case for most, but just sharing my personal opinion and thoughts for myself. I'll leave my feelings toward a gym at that for now.