Conquer Your Food Addiction: The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss

Conquer Your Food Addiction is a one of a kind weight-loss book. Yet it's much more than that! As a behavioral approach to weight loss, it a manual for a new way of thinking, behaving, being and eating. The author's basic premise is that one need not change the foods one eats, but, instead, one's habits. It sounds so basic, until we try it. As creatures of habit, our diets revolve around deeply-ingrained habits and rituals derived from personal history, a contemporary super-size culture, and daily life-styles. The main idea/goal is that if one is overweight, barring some medical condition, one is eating more than needed out of habit!! Change the habits/rituals and you change your food consumption. Although this book is written for those who are food addicts, it speaks to all of us who more often than not use food as an emotional filler, and/or who just eat out of habit, social pressure, boredom and so on. In terms of the actual weight loss, the author turns into a personal weight-loss trainer - in fact, she is one, for those who live in the New York area. Her goal is our goal: to reach our weight loss goal, regardless of how many pounds. Like a coach, she asks again and again, "What do you want to weigh?" This is tremendously helpful in sticking with it! By focussing on the goal, the issue is less about food and more about changing our habits, hence our outlook, about eating to get us to our permanent weight-loss goal. I find this book one of a kind. In fact, I don't see another out there like it! I highly recommend it for someone who is serious about transforming both mind, behavior and body!

I have been dealing with an eating addiciton for ten years, and this book has finally given me the tools and the know-how to crack the addiction. I have lost twenty pounds and am at a weight I haven't seen since high school. This book is NOT a diet, it's a life-style change. For anyone that has tried every diet in the book, who eats for every reason under the sun except for being hungry, for anyone who feels out of control when it comes to food, BUY THIS BOOK. Follow Caryl's program and you see your body and your mind change in ways that you didn't think possible.

Wow! I never knew I had a "food addiction" until I read this book, but I finally understand after reading it why diets like Weight Watchers, Atkins, The Zone, etc., never did work for me. Caryl Ehrlich teaches that IT'S NOT WHAT YOU EAT, BUT HOW YOU EAT. This simple concept, and the incredibly easy instructions in the book have allowed me to lose 8 lbs. so far -- in just two weeks! I have never seen results so quickly. And amazingly, there are no foods restricted on the program -- I can even have dessert. Thank you, Ms. Ehrlich, for giving me a new perspective on eating. Onward and downward!

I read this book on a whim...and tried most of her suggestions...mainly, eating slower at mealtime. It really worked. I am on my way to losing those pesky last 10 pounds. I have given up chips and other finger foods, because I tell myself "I know what those taste like..." I am also not telling people I am doing this, as Caryl suggests. This is the first program that addresses the behavioral issues. This a permanent solution. It makes sense... is easy to follow. Buy this book...you will not be sorry. The only thing you will need is a new wardrobe in a much smaller size. Thank you Caryl!

I happened to read this book by chance (my wife had left it on the bedside table). It made sense, I followed it - fairly easy to do. In a reasonably short time, I went from 203 1/2 pounds to 191 1/2 pounds, where I've leveled out.The reason the program was easy to follow was that it made logical sense to me, and it didn't seem constraining. The book also didn't nag, or make false promises. I had not focused on weight before, but the 12 pounds makes a noticeable difference to me - I am glad I came across the book. Highly recommended -