I Can't Stop Overeating: And The Story Of How I Did Just That

By Raego Liann

Obesity is a growing problem for today’s generation. This is the reason that there are so many books on dieting and weight loss, and so many weight loss programs to choose from, not to mention the trendy fad diets which come and go.
It is a fact that very few people make a success of losing weight, alternating instead between binge eating and dieting.
In this new book, I Can't Stop Overeating - And the Story of How I Did Just That, you will discover the solutions to overeating which have eluded you all this time, including in-depth knowledge and advice on;
•What it’s like to be a binge eater
•Why dieting rarely works
•The critical changes you need to make
•Living in the moment
•Coping with the cravings
•Breaking the hold that food has over you
•Healing techniques
Battling the urge to eat is a real challenge. But in I Can't Stop Overeating you will learn about specific personal life events that the author experienced, which she will share with you to ultimately show that being present is the key to success.
You won’t find the usual broad advice about ‘having willpower’ or ‘pushing through the cravings’ in this book. Instead it concentrates on very real emotions, helping you to find ways to love yourself and accept the current state of your life, and leading you to a long term solution which you will ultimately find acceptable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raego Liann
• Release date: Nov 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370168200

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I CAN’T STOP OVEREATING

And The Story Of How I Did Just That

Raego Liann

Copyright 2016 © Raego Liann

© 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other —without the prior permission of the author.

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Table of Contents

About this Book

Introduction

State of Mind

Key Events

Being Present

Practise

The Games the Ego Plays

Acceptance

Presence and Dieting

An Extra Chapter

When Nothing Changes

Life After

About this Book

I am somebody like you.

I have struggled with my weight for most of my life. I have been overeating since I was a child and dieted since my teenage years. Like you, I have read dozens of books and am well informed about nutrition and healthy eating, intuitive eating, the dangers of sugar, hormones in our brain affecting our eating habits, how muscles burn fat and so much more. Like you, I have failed over and over again to lose weight as I dieted briefly and binge ate far more regularly. For some reason, I simply could not lose weight and eat healthily even though I knew just what to do.

Over the past 4 years I have made it my life’s primary goal to try and understand just why I and so many other people overeat and more importantly, how to stop this pattern of overeating that does not require iron will power, which does not work, or a lifetime of watching and constant self-monitoring that is exhausting and sucks the life out of living. I believe I have rediscovered, for myself and hopefully you, the way to get out of this tormented pattern of overeating.

I wish I could promise you, like a good marketable book should, that that I finally found the ultimate method that will cure you of your weight loss problems, with uplifting promises of incredible and speedy results:

I will give you an incredible method that is so simple and so effective that the weight will fall off you in days and weeks.

You will look 10 years younger in 30 days and you will never have to diet again.

You will eat healthier and be happier without any effort whatsoever.

That is standard marketing and that sells. But the honest truth is: I do not know if I can change your life. I only know that somehow I found a way to change mine and to break from the cycle of dieting and binging, and all I can do is share my story and ideas with you. It is hardly a story of instantaneous and magical transformation but full of stops and starts and mistakes and lessons learned.

This book is a narration of my personal experience, of what I believe has helped me. You will not learn about nutrition or exercises in any great detail. I have no tips or tricks and I am not going to suggest that you eat intuitively or keep a food journal or just have some will power! I have heard all that and more and found that they only helped me temporarily.

I watched with fear and pain as my urges and cravings tormented me and drove me to eat like it was my only purpose in life. There was something missing in the usual information available through books and the Internet that did not make a connection between knowing what to do and actually doing it. If it was not missing, something was certainly under-emphasized.

In a four-year struggle to understand just why I couldn’t lose weight, why I couldn't stop eating and why I couldn't change, I realized in the midst of utter mental exhaustion that it was the struggle that was hurting me. In fact, let me tell you what my solution is right now and what my book is about in a sentence, you don't even need to buy this book if you've downloaded the sample.

To reduce the power of your cravings and to stop giving in to your urges, you need to know just two words:

BE PRESENT.

This is something I will elaborate on throughout the book. It is something that has been said before. But I have often had to hear the same message said by different people and from different perspectives for it to finally have any meaning for me.

As a fellow sufferer, I think my experience will resonate with yours as I express in near painful detail the urges that compelled me to overeat and the insights that gradually lifted me and helped me to get better. What I do have to offer is my own voice and experience: in-depth and honest, and what I believe everyone needs to do to finally break free from the enslavement of overeating and dieting.

Being present is the lifestyle change you need to make to get a grip on your out-of-control eating, not just embracing the lifestyle change of eating more whole foods and less fat or sugar or white flour or whatever method you follow.

Please note that this book has no actual nutritional advice or instructions on how to exercise. All the information you need is extensively documented and shared across the great plain of the world wide web and most of it is for free.

However, I will be addressing beliefs, emotions and thoughts, many of which are negative or false concepts that imprison us and prevent us from getting healthier. I will refer to and suggest books that I found helpful including The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Ultimately, this book is mostly my interpretation of what I have studied and a lot of my personal experience and reflections, which I want to share with you.

If you've tried everything else and nothing has worked for you, not counting calories, not eating intuitively, not using will power, then give this book a chance. I know that what I have to say is not new, but perhaps simply expressed differently through my perception and experience.

In the end, perhaps, you may simply be glad to know that there is someone like you who has been through what you have, not understanding what's wrong, not able to make a change. Maybe this book will give you some hope.

This book actually began as my journal. Several months before starting this journal, after the 100th (or was it the 500th?) failed weight loss attempt, it was another late night, I lay abed fuming and raging. I had overeaten again. I hated the way I felt and hated how powerless I felt when food beckoned to me. It had been yet another mindless experience as I had quickly gorged on heavy carb-laden food while gazing at the TV. I lay cursing my life and

Reviews for I Can't Stop Overeating

[olga · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I feel like it's not a book about binge eating, rather author shares her journey of healing ptsd and traumas. waste of time