Eat by Choice, Not by Habit: Practical Skills for Creating a Healthy Relationship with Your Body and Food

By Sylvia E. Haskvitz

Book Overview

Combining sound dietary information with the techniques of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process, this booklet shifts the focus from simple weight loss to changing the ways readers relate to food... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892005204
• ISBN13: 9781892005205
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: PuddleDancer Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Understanding why I eat when I'm not hungry

This book is amazing. In is helping me to understand why I eat even though I am not physically hungry. I often eat out of boredom, fatigue, and the need to belong and eating just really doesn't solve these other issues. Knowing this helps me not to eat when my body doesn't want to. Great book!

a book with integrity

This is one of the only books that I have read about eating that resonates with my values of choice, health, self-acceptance / love, and efficacy--rather than a quick fix or beating myself up. To me, this is a way of looking at eating issues with integrity! I loved in the book how you spoke with such compassion as well as invited readers to take responsibility/have the courage and clarity to go beneath eating habits.

Haskvitz has something very powerful here

I found Eat by Choice to be very insightful and found the concept of applying NVC to eating to be very refreshing and enlightening. I loaned it to a client who has an eating disorder. We had been discussing the concept of paying attention to feelings when the need for the disfunctional rituals arise. We had both read of the idea in Eckert Toole's new book. She came back the next week after reading your book and was thrilled with it. She said it got her through the week and gave her a way to handle her feelings of loneliness that fuel her eating patterns. She was able to sit with the feelings instead of eating them away - for the first time. She and I had each found passages in the book that fit her to the tee and we discussed those passages in therapy. I gave her my copy to keep so I'll have to get another one. I think Silvia Haskvitz has something very powerful here. In fact those are the words my client used to describe the book's effect upon her - "powerful." She and I both said that our only criticism is that it was too short. Each sentence is pregnant with meaning, so pregnant that I found that I had to read and reread some passages in order to fully grasp what was being said. I can see from reading the book that Sylvia has spent a lifetime developing her ideas. They are well thought out and deep. They are complex ideas, layered in philosophies of nutrition, psychotherapy, NVC, and spirituality just to mention a few. I thought the book was a marvelous marraige of all the disparate disciplines. These ideas are probably second nature to her now but for the neophytes who have not delved into such philosophies, the concepts are likely to be less transparent. I felt that each concept could have filled a chapter all by itself. Hence, I have a wish. Has Silvia thought of making a workbook? Then writing a companion book with each idea expounded upon so thoroughly that one cannot miss the point? This book could be a wonderful prelude to something quite great. Congratualtions! I hope thsi book gets into the hands of more people with eating disorders. It is a gold mine.

It's All About Choice

I loved this book! Eat by Choice, Not by Habit offers the reader the opportunity to gently look at the relationship we have with ourselves, in particular, with our food choices. The author wants to inspire each of us to take responsibility for our lives and become more conscious of what we are doing, and how we are meeting our needs. I agree with Ms. Haskvitz that we have the wisdom within to make healthy choices, and her book gives us permission to further access this inner voice, while giving us some practical knowledge and skills. Buy this gift for your best friend (we all need to become our own best friend), and allow a new chapter to be written in your life, one that will give you a longer, more balanced, and healthier life. You deserve it! Marcia Breitenbach, founder of [...]

Finally Clarity About Food!

I loved Ms. Haskvitz's book "Eat by Choice, Not by Habit: Practical Skills for Creating a Healthy Relationship with Your Body and Food." Ms. Haskvitz captures the complexity of these issues and offers concrete, doable, suggestions for making different food choices and for experiencing our bodies differently. If you're looking for an easy-to-read book that offers specific tools, this is the book for you! Mary Mackenize, M.A. Executive Director, Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication