It Was Food vs. Me ... and I Won

By Nancy Goodman

"I have a great life, if only I could stop eating." Those were the words Nancy Goodman used to describe herself. Like millions of women of all ages, she had an obsession with food. She was obsessed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067003312X
• ISBN13: 9780670033126
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 0.9" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

lung- to -tongue honesty

WHAT AN HONEST, no frills, DIFFERENT kind of BOOK! Thank God that someone finally had the guts to write about the true ups and downs of dieting and food obsession. No "sugar coating" for the sake of the reader! Nancy Goodman makes us face ourselves head on and tells us to "sit with our feelings" instead of covering them with food. This book isn't only about food, though. Anyone with any kind of addiction or obsession MUST READ THIS BOOK. If anything, you will come away feeling like you aren't so wierd or alone after all. I loved this book and you will too.

that good looking stranger on the street...

Have you ever wanted to go up to that athletic, good looking woman you just saw on the street (the one who's physique you have spent the last year trying to attain) and ask: "tell me the truth -- what do you do/have you done to look the way you do?" Well this book is the equivalent of that. A "from the trenches" life story of the writer's struggles with food and emotion. She does not wax prosaic, she writes like you're having a heart-to-heart with your best, most honest friend. Read her experiences, know you're not alone, and find motivation in that simple knowledge. A caveat: please don't read her and then judge her writing like she's a Booker Prize literati, take her as she is -- the girl next door with a brain, heart, body and life experiences -- just like you.

It's Good To The Bone

Thanks Nancy!I stayed up all night to read this book cover to cover.This is the most inspiring book of it's kind. Nancy writes with a funny,chatty,candid style that speaks directly to the heart.With every turn of the page I found a ah-ha, yes that's how I feel.Her positive enthusiasm, and warmth is very inspiring.Showing us how to deal with real life situations and using her tools of how to make daily food choices and journaling to find the real issues behind the food is so helpful and very doable. This approach to working with and for yourself is really the key to being free from the distraction of food as a way to hide yourself.You will love the feeling when you read that you are not WEAK of WILL or ALONE.When you read this book you will laugh, cry, and at the end wish you could meet this remarkable woman to say hi and give her a hug of THANKS.

Finally Something In Between.....

I have been vascillating for years between diet books that are loaded with structure, and the new "non-diet" approach that encourages you to eat when you are hungry, stop when you're full and no restrictions as far as food content. Not so easy when you have a history of disordered eating. Nancy's book is a welcome place between the two extremes. She encourages some structure but not restriction. There is definitely a difference. I was at the point where I thought I would have to accept myself much heavier than I am comfortable with (nondiet approach), but this book has given me hope that I can be at a more healthy weight and still not live my life around the diet du jour. I love Nancy's honest, down to earth style, and I love her attitude of being thin and having your cake and eating it too!

Very Motivating!

I have read this book cover to cover twice now, and I am so happy that I did. It was such an honest, funny and truly sincere story that it motivated me to stop feeling sorry for myself and start "redirecting", as Nancy puts it, my energy into something positive. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs that extra push or motivation! This book will be one that I refer to many times in the future. It is my inspiration!