Conquer Your Cravings

by Suzanne Giesemann

You want to eat right. You want to stick to a healthy diet. You have the best intentions in the world, but just when you think you have your eating habits under control, a food craving hits and won't... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809230127
• ISBN13: 9780809230129
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Effective

This book was very helpful for me decrease my eating for reasons other than hunger.

Finally, a book that can truly change your life around.

I was thrilled to hear that there was a place in which I could express to others how much this incredible book has truly helped me. Like anyone who may have a bad relationship with food, I have spent so many years stuggling with the overwhelming urges to eat when I am not hungry, have a day turn "bad" with binging or simply just obsessivly thinking about food! These actions literally controlled my life, how I would treat people, if I would go to work or social events and so many other things. These things were all determined on whether or not I felt I was having a "good" or "bad" day, I was so out of control with my actions and thoughts of food! I knew, being a person who was (or at least appreared to others to be) a pretty "normal" person in most other areas of my life, that there had to be some reason I was doing doing so lousy at this one, but I could not figure out why. I found Suzanne's book and instantly knew I had found something different, something that could really help me, by using my "inner guide" and intuition and finally getting to the root of the problem. And I have discovered that this problem is all in our thinking patterns and the habits that we have created. Conquer Your Cravings explains this idea, which I knew would be my only way to gain peace and freedom with food and myself. Suzanne has this process, which explains how we are literally able to STOP ourselves when the cravings and thoughts arise, and before any major destructive behavior can actually begin. This process has not only taught me how to acknowledge these negative thoughts and stop them, but it explains WHY they come about and what we can actually do to eliminate and control them. I will continue to work on the processes that are given to me in this book for the rest of my life, my "bad" days are getting less and less and I am utilizing the control that I now know I have by using these wonderful steps and ideas.

Go buy this book!!!

If you have ever struggled with food, ever felt that cravings controlled your life, then this is the book for you. Suzanne Giesemann takes an approach that helps you realize that the strength to take control back lies within you. Once you learn how to listen to your own thoughts, you have won half the battle. It has worked for me, and I rarely have cravings now. And if I do, now I have the tools to stop them. Great, great book!

A powerful, practical text for changing your eating habits

I read this book after reading a newspaper interview with the author. It is everything she promises! The four step program is practical and workable for those of us rushing through life. Once learned, it simply enables us to stop and think before we take a bite of food that we neither need nor want. The best part of the program for me was the emphasis on intuition, which can be exercised and strengthened until it becomes a useful and meaningful "Inner Guide". I also resonated with the advice on how to be a "best freind" to yourself: the author asks, if we wouldn't tell a friend she was fat, why do we tell ourselves that. I recommend this book not only to those who have dropped out of Weight Watchers (like me) but to all who feel they cannot stop reaching for the cookies and candies and doughnuts they see all around them. Great book!