Chocolate Is My Kryptonite: Feeding Your Feelings How to Survive the Forces of Food

By Matthew S. Keene

Each year American consumers spend thirty-three billion hard earned dollars to control their appetites and lose weight. Thousands of promises, gimmicks, and miracle cures try to offer Americans what... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965984729
• ISBN13: 9780965984720
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Saguaro Pub
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Food is a Drug

My parents were alcoholics. Fortunately, they found and sustained recovery. Friends recognized that alcoholism was a genuine disease, and supported both them and their recovery.I never even tried alcohol (my parents taught me well in that regard). But I drowned my sorrows with food, day after day. There was no support and no understanding. My parents had a disease...but I was weak-willed.Chocolate is My Kryptonite helped me realize that Food Addiction is a disease. In fact, it is quite similar to alcoholism. For as Dr. Keene points out, "what's alcohol, but the ultimate processed carbohydrate."I'm using this book, and the Menu For Life to find recovery for the first time in my life. It's only been 4 months so far, but it is the best I have felt in ages. I know that a prior poster had concerns with the concept of "abstinance," but having lived the life of a food addict, and the daughter of alcoholic parents...I find abstinence not to be a problem...but rather, to be the solution!Chocolate is My Kryptonite is Freedom From Food Addiction.

The best of the bunch.

i didn't even know that food addiction existed. But after watching Oprah's show on Carbohydrate Addiction yesterday, I went right to the library and checked out Keene's, Chocolate is My Kryptonite, Heller's, Carbohydrate Addict's Diet, and Sheppard's, Food Addiction: The Body Knows. I've been up all night like some information crazed beast devouring the text in these books. All three books are excellent in their own way, but Chocolate is My Kryptonite does the best job of explaining the emotional and physical causes of my struggles with food. It just makes the most sense. I'm looking forward to starting the food plan as well as some of the psychological exercises, and seeing if I can practice what it preaches. I highly recommend it to any and all food addicts

Chocolate is My Kryptonite saved my career

English 101 taught me to open with a "headline grabber," so I figure saying "saved my career" is a pretty good start. But it's not too far from the truth. I am a Senior Airman with the United States Air Force and have struggled with emotional overeating and weight gain since the birth of my first child and separation from my husband. The military is one of the few places where you can be fired if you are overweight. I had already failed two weigh-ins when I read an article in the Air Force Times about Dr. Keene's belief that compulsive overeating is a chemically-based disease and not just a matter of will-power. I bought the book based on the article and have made great strides. I'm off the weight management program and have returned to my pre-pregnancy "fighting" weight. But more importantly, I've learned how to "feel" my feelings and not "feed" them. This is a wonderful book!

Absolutely Wonderful!

I first heard Dr. Keene on America Talks Health. I was impressed by his down to earth demeanor and humor. I ordered his book with high hopes, and have been pleasantly rewarded! Chocolate is My Kryptonite is my life story, and yours too, if you're a compulsive overeater. His theory is sound, his stories compelling, his writing witty, but most of all, his plan works. I've lost 34 pounds in four months and feel fantastic. This "Supermom" Give Chocolate is My Kryptonite a big thumbs up!

The Best by Far!!!

Just wanted to take a moment and share my thoughts and feelings about this terrific new book. As a therapist it is almost impossible to find a book to help eating disorder patients particularly binge eating. This book is fantastic for both provider and client alike. For years I had seen binge eating clients who have used food as a way to regulate their mood but I had no clear idea on how best to help them. This book explains the phenomenon concisely and with warmth and humor. This is a must read!!! It feels wonderful to be able to offer these individuals a way to understand their disorder so that they may stop labeling themselves so negatively. Thanks Dr. Keene!