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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book because I read an article by Geneen in one of the 300 million magazines I read.  It made me laugh.  Because it made me laugh, I had to one of her books! <br/><br/>It can be really difficult for a person with food and weight issues to be able to smile or even laugh about our situati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15737135">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An &quot;ahh-hah moments&quot; (as Oprah would say)...type of book...loved it!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Geneen Roth provides a refreshingly honest perspective on emotional eating; I found this book to be charming, funny, and so very applicable. I highly recommend.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderfully uplifting educational feel good book.  The author definitely has a sense of humor which helps make a book covering the topic of weight management fun to read.  I think this book is a good read for all women who need a laugh, a reassurance, and a self esteem boost along with som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21896488">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Tips on how to feel good about yourself when you feel anything but!  The author is funny and entertaining and has some really good ideas!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Without a doubt, one of the best books I've read! I got it on a whim, and absolutely loved it. Totally resonated with me.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair]]>
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    <![CDATA[Geneen Roth estimates that she's gained and lost more than 1,000 pounds during her life. That makes her uniquely qualified to write this, her sixth book, which delivers exactly what its subtitle indicates: <em>50 Ways to Feel Thin, Gorgeous, and Happy (When You Feel Anything But)</em>. It's sure to appeal to her considerable cult of readers who've bought her other feel-good, anti-diet books including the bestselling <em>When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy</em> and <em>Why Weight?: A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating</em>. It's for the estimated 25 million women in America alone who are on diets; for those who find that they're never happy because they delay gratification (&quot;I'll be happy when I lose 10 pounds&quot;), and those who punish themselves for eating one too many chocolate chip cookies.<br/><br/>Roth's advice is simple, but often beyond the realm of thinking of someone obsessed with calorie counting. She recommends that you eat at least one hot meal every day, as a slice of hot pizza will make you feel more full than a cold and cardboardy one will; that you should do one &quot;exquisitely kind&quot; thing for yourself every day, be it buying new underwear or taking a sledgehammer to your scale; and that you should &quot;separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.&quot; She also gives straight diet advice that can't be found in publications along the lines of <em>Cosmo</em>: &quot;<em>Too much</em> fat makes you fat. But <em>too little</em> makes you fat, too, because you usually make up for eating nonfat foods by eating twice as much. I suggest you allow yourself to eat enough fat to feel full. Part of the reason that many of us feel as if we could start eating at one end of our kitchens and chomp our way clear across the United States is that we never give ourselves permission to feel full without feeling guilty, to eat enough fat when it's not on a binge.&quot; Amen. <em>--Erica Jorgensen</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another of my go-to books when I'm feeling &quot;fat and ugly&quot;.  Has helped me immeasurably to be gentle with myself.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't loved many self-help books but this puts everything so simply.  I must read it again.]]></body>
    
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