An Overeater’s Guide to Well-Being: I Can’t Stop Eating

By Pauline Hurtt

This is a personal story about weight gain and weight loss. How can an overweight person possibly lose 200, 300, or 400 pounds? The author suggests approaches to make that happen. Because she is an overeater herself, her loss of 140 pounds is an interesting story. This book is intended as an interactive guide to help you achieve your goals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982271329

Pauline Hurtt

Pauline is a retired Chemistry teacher with BS and MS degrees from CCNY in New York, and an ABD from BC, Massachusetts. She is a published author of: “What is Cancer”, “My Noble Profession”, and “A Catholic Nun’s Story”. She is in recovery for overeating and alcoholism.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021913376

Balboa Press rev. date: 07/27/2021

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Contents

Dedication

Chapter 1 Anything Is Possible

Chapter 2 How To Start

Chapter 3 Benefits Of Exercise

Chapter 4 My Story

Chapter 5 Today

Chapter 6 Nutritionists

Chapter 7 Overeaters Anonymous

Chapter 8 Weight Watchers and Noom

Chapter 9 Weight-Loss Surgery

Chapter 10 Breakfast And Fasting

Chapter 11 Calories

Chapter 12 Sugars/Carbohydrates

Chapter 13 Fats

Chapter 14 Proteins

Chapter 15 A New Day

Appendix A

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all of my Recovery friends in Boston,

Hampstead, and Wilmington, NC

JULY 1, 2021

This is a personal story about my weight gain and my weight loss. You may be reading this because you may weigh close to 200 or 300 or 400 pounds, or you may be struggling to maintain a healthy weight. You may not know where to begin to lose some weight. You want to take a walk. You yearn to feel good about yourself. Five years ago, I could only wear size 24 clothes and three years ago I wore size 12. It took me two and a half years to accomplish that weight loss. I am suggesting that you, too, can achieve this level of wellbeing.

Excess weight simply boils down to overeating both at meals and in-between meals everyday of the week! If you make a fist right now, and look at it, THAT is the size of one portion of food. How sad is that for those of us who love to eat? Consider a meal of spaghetti and/or pasta. How much do you eat? A plateful? Yes, it tastes good, but it might be more than your body needs. Changing what and why and how you eat will take courage, honesty, stamina and commitment. It may take writing in a journal, and/or talking to a counselor or therapist. Choose a therapist that specializes in addiction. You see a definition of addiction is: participating in behavior despite the consequences. Yes, I am addicted to food and right now weigh more than is healthy for my heart, but not the 285 pounds where my journey started.

It will certainly make a difference for you if you are living alone or with your soul mate. I have experienced both conditions. Of course, living alone makes it a whole lot easier to change eating patterns. If you have a family, it will require more skill, but it