Book Review: WELLNESS, NOT WEIGHT

WELLNESS, NOT WEIGHT—HEALTH AT
EVERY SIZE AND MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING, an anthology edited by Ellen Glovsky,
PhD, RD, LDN, is the rare book whose audience is both disregulated eaters and
their treatment providers. I’m proud to have a chapter from my FOOD AND
FEELINGS WORKBOOK included in it, and am glad to have this opportunity to tell
you how comprehensive and useful this anthology is.

As Glovsky explains in the
introduction, the book is divided into three parts. Part One includes an
overview of its main concepts: the mindful, non-diet approach for resolving
eating problems; the Health at Every Size (HAES) model for achieving wellness;
and the use of Motivational Interviewing, a set of techniques that is
relatively easy to learn and can speed recovery. Parts Two and Three go into
more detail about each of these concepts and how to put them into practice.
This book is so rich in ideas and practice strategies that it will benefit
non-practitioners and practitioners alike.
Topics include an explanation of terms
related to eating—intuitive, normal, mindful, attuned, conscious, and
structured (I learned a great deal reading this section!);a brief history of
the non-diet movement which took me back to long before I became a clinician
when I was a world-class binge-eater myself; evidence illustrating why diets
don’t work, including how they harm you both physically (for example, the
dangers of weight cycling) and psychologically. 

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Source: Normal Eating - November 11, 2013 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs