"Love my food?!" -- Diets do work--to cause compulsive overeating and bingeing! -- Point #1: Stress--learn from it to lessen it -- Point #2: Exercise--learn to love it -- Point #3: Love your food--hands-on techniques -- Point #4: Fluids and healthy foods--learn to love them -- Point #5: Evening eating--"are you a 'light' eater?" -- Love your food with friends and family -- Love your food at parties and on vacation -- Love your food for a lifetime -- Resources: eating disorder organizations

Readers will learn how to become aware of the difference between eating in a healthy way and eating emotionally - neither to satisfy hunger, nor for enjoyment, but in a desperate attempt to distract oneself from painful thoughts and feelings. Diets don't work for people who eat through their emotions. Instead, learning to recognize the stressors that lead to emotional eating and to address those tensions through other methods besides eating is the goal