Previously published as: Breaking free from compulsive eating

1. Being hungry is like being in love; if you don't know, you're probably not -- 2. Deciding what you want to eat: having your cake and eating it, too -- 3. Distracted eating: it doesn't count if you're not sitting down -- 4. Knowing when to stop eating: when enough is enough -- 5. Bingeing: when enough isn't enough -- 6. Family eating: the sins of the parents -- 7. Social eating at restaurants, parties, and during holidays -- 8. About exercise and scales -- 9. On wanting: if you don't let yourself have it, you can't lose it -- 10. On having -- 11. On judgment and awareness: birds don't sing in caves -- 12. On trust -- 13. On courting and befriending and forgiving yourself -- 14. On pain: "life is hard, then you die." -- 15. On sexuality: "men use sex the way women use food." -- 16. On compulsion -- 17. Conclusion: through thing and thin

Roth outlines her proven program for resolving the conflicts at the root of overeating using simple techniques developed in her highly successful seminars

Originally published: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1984

Includes index