Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
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No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all.
If you suffer about your relationship with food — you eat too much or too small, reflect about what you will eat constantly or try not to reflect about it at all — you can be free. Just look down at your plate. The answers are there. Don’t run. Look. Because when we welcome what we most want to avoid, we contact the part of ourselves that is fresh and alive. We touch the life we truly want and evoke divinity itself.
Since adolescence, Geneen Roth has gained and lost more than a thousand pounds. She has been dangerously overweight and dangerously underweight. She has been plagued by feelings of bring shame on and self-hatred and she has felt euphoric after losing a quick few pounds on a fad diet. Then one day, on the verge of suicide, she did something radical: She dropped the struggle, finished the war, stopped trying to fix, deprive and bring shame on herself. She started trusting her body and questioning her beliefs.
It worked. And losing weight was only the beginning.
She wrote about her discoveries in When Food Is Like, her first New York Times bestseller. She gave huge numbers of women their first insights into compulsive eating and she changed huge numbers of lives for the better.
Now, after more than three decades of studying, teaching and writing about what drives our compul-sions with food, Geneen adds a profound new dimension to her work in Women, Food and God. She starts with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about like, dread, rage, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God. But it doesn’t stop there. Geneen shows how going beyond both the food and feelings takes you deeper into realms of spirit and soul to the bright center of your own life.
With penetrating insight and irreverent humor, Roth traces food compulsions from devious beginnings to unexpected ends. She teaches personal examination, showing readers how to use their relationship with food to learn the fulfillment they long for.
Your relationship with food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom, says Roth. What you most want to get rid of is itself the doorway to what you want most: the demystification of weight loss and the luminous presence that so many of us call “God.”
Packed with revelations on every page, this book is a knock-your-socks-off ride to a deeply fulfilling relationship with food, your body…and nearly everything else. Women, Food and God is, reasonably simply, a guide for life.
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I, like many of the readers of this book, have read many diet books and been on many diets for the past 40 years. I establish myself in the pages of this book, doing the negative, shaming things that I’ve done to myself by dieting in many different ways. I permanently hoped that if I deprived myself enough, punished myself enough, despised myself enough it would somehow lead to being thin. Of course, it never did. I titled this review A Book to Savor because that is what I’m doing with it. As soon as I got it, I wanted to rush right through and gobble it all up (sort of like you do with excellent food). As a replacement for, I am reading it slowly, thinking about each chapter and each tale. I am savoring the book and I hope I learn to savor my food in the same way. I am stretching the book out – have had it 4 days now and am not allowing myself to gulp to the end because each chapter has so much value. I know it is helping already in that I am eating more slowly and eating less and enjoying what I eat more. But, I also delight in the many tiny “moments” throughout the day where I am conscious and present and aware of exactly what I am doing, the colors, the smells, the sense of being alive. If you are looking for a diet book with menus and plans and lists of “no-no” foods, this isn’t it. This is as a replacement for a book that will teach you what a banquet life is and how to savor it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve read additional books by Geneen, but this one tops them all. When I finished reading, I felt that I had been agreed a gift. Geneen uses her usual brilliant style and humor to show us that it’s not about diet or food choices. It’s about a way of being in our body and a way of ‘doing.’ Our craving for ‘fixes,’ food or otherwise, is really a longing for like, acceptance, and embracing what it feels like–both negatively and positively–of just being alive. What we really need when we go about our daily lives is to stop, breathe, and respect that awesome reality that cannot be expressed in words, and certainly cannot be avoided by overeating. This is the essence of learning what we really want and of being in the body; slowing down, feeling, shiny. I must say that every time I go into the kitchen I’m reminded of Geneen and her message. Thank you, Geneen. Women, and men, will do well to keep this book and refer to it whenever in need.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
In the spirit of “transparency,” I preempted this book for a company I no longer work for. I preempted (bought the book lacking going into an auction) the book after talking to Geneen Roth for 30 minutes. In the next year, we talked about Women Food and God alot. But I was not prepared for the manuscript she finally delivered. I read it and didn’t touch a word. It was perfect. Reading it was like flying and when you landed, you felt stronger and clearer than ever before. With humor, common sense, intellectual vigor and a huge heart, Geneen wrote her masterwork on 30 years of exploring emotional eating. She realized that how you eat is how you view the world – it’s all right there on the plate. And her conclusion is that women are regularly hungry for something that has nothing to do with food.
This book is going to help so many people. Oprah likes it, as well she should. You are going to like it too.
Thank you, Geneen!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
“Women, Food,and God” is the most unusual, humorous, and insightful book on weight control I have ever read. And I’m not a new-comer to this theme.I started leading weight control workshops nearly 40 years ago, and have authored and sold hundreds of thousands of audio programs on how to achieve your ideal weight and shape.
I have long contended that at the core of most eating disorders is an “empty heart/empty stomach model. Simply place, this means that every infant is born with a need to be loved. If they are deprived of this heart-filling like, they will walk around with at least partially empty hearts, which they attempt to fill by filling their stomachs.
But with this book Geneen Roth has taken a step beyond what I and others have done, particularly in her skillful revelations of the tie between our relationship with God, or Spirit, and our eating habits. And she does it in such a way that it isn’t uncomfortable for the readers regardless of how religious or non-religious they may be.
The leader’s style of writing is fresh, amusing, and holds your attention, while conveying her appealing, and sometimes profound, points. In addition, she does an brilliant job of helping us to listen to our body, alter our eating habits, and at the same time experience greater inner-peace and fulfillment.
Nicely done, Geneen. Five Stars.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
What is happening in your life is reflected in your relationship with food. This is my one sentence synopsis of this book. When you reflect of it you realize that this is really right and obvious, yet we needed the insight of Geneen Roth to open our eyes and point that obvious fact to most of us. The most eating disorders, whether starving our overeating stem from our psychological problems and our inability to cope with them. If we are miserable or broken-hearted, food is regularly relied upon as a quick and temporary fix to the underlying larger problem that we are not able to deal with at this particular point in time.
It is right that the way we eat mirrors the way we feel. But the opposite is also right. The leader of the book titled “Your Body Maintenance Handbook” states that “by sinking sugar, meat, and coffee in our diet we can lower aggressive behavior by 50%” He further cites ancient Japanese joke: “If a couple starts their day with a fight, they should recall what they ate the previous day”
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5