Food Psychology

In How to Beat Extreme Hunger, neurodivergent eating disorder recovery coach Livia Sara delves into the biological mechanisms behind extreme hunger, explaining why it happens and how to navigate it. Through a blend of science and lived experience, she tackles the fears that keep you stuck: uncontrollable weight gain, becoming "addicted" to food, developing binge eating disorder, and beyond.

Many scientists and doctors who think "outside the box" firmly believe now that there are physiological factors which contribute to behavior problems like ADHD and ADD. You need to understand that children and adults who struggle with mental disorders very likely have issues physically and the principal suspect is the digestive system. And food quality can be the primary cause of digestive problems which lead to mental disorders ultimately.

Providing significant information on food, nutrition, exercise, and stress management, It's Not What You're Eating, It's What's Eating You is an essential audio program for anyone who wants to choose a new life - free of food addiction and depression.

Written by a certified personal trainer, certified nutrition counsellor, and life coach. The author shares tips and suggestions and perspectives and attitudes and information about how she lost 50 pounds and kept it off. This book is about changing your life by taking control of the elements which are keeping you where you don't want to be. The book requires the reader to figure out what is driving them to not achieve their goals and dreams and wishes. Everyone wants to lose weight, to look good, to feel good, to fit into a smaller size, to be healthy. But so many trials which fail lead a ...

In practically all developed countries of the world, the rates of obesity are going up. At the same time, the ever-increasing number of people find employment in the IT or IT-related fields of industry. This eBook examines the connection between working in the IT industry and the dangers of becoming overweight that these jobs carry with them, while it also explores psychological ideas which might be able to impact this process in a positive way.

¿Qué pasa en tu cabeza cuando las emociones te llevan a la despensa? ¿Comienzas a cuidarte y abandonas al momento? ¿Te sientes culpable después de comer? ¿Vives con frustración cuando no eres capaz de mantener unos hábitos saludables? ¿Sabías que tu estado de ánimo influye en tu peso y que muchas dietas fracasan por una inadecuada gestión emocional? Las emociones juegan un papel fundamental en las elecciones alimentarias. Cuando la comida se convierte en la única herramienta de gestión emocional, lejos de ayudarnos a resolver el problema, nos genera otro adicional.

Do cravings control your life? Have you tried diet after diet, only to slip back into unhealthy habits? Do you feel guilty after bingeing? You’re not alone, and Control Your Emotional Eating can help. This compassionate, science-based guide offers a practical, supportive approach to changing your relationship with food.

Is your child a picky eater? Do they insist on having the same foods served over and over again? For many kids, picky eating is a sensory issue—whether it's the smell, taste, texture, or appearance of food. So, how can you help your child overcome these sensory sensitivities and ensure that they get the nourishment they need? Written by a pediatric occupational therapist with a specialty certification in feeding, eating, and swallowing, Raising Adventurous Eaters offers eight evidence-based sensory strategies to help kids foster a healthy relationship with food.

Diet Recovery 2: Restoring Mind and Metabolism from Dieting, Weight Loss, Exercise, and Healthy Food is the ultimate guide to breaking free from the empty hunt for the perfect diet and the counterproductive pursuit of losing weight. It's true, whether you are cutting carbs, or fats, or eating a vegetarian diet, or going Paleo, or eating a truckload of fiber - or even reducing your calorie intake... All of it has been proven ineffective in every weight loss study ever conducted.

We’re in the middle of a global anxiety epidemic, but in Calm Your Mind With Food, bestselling author and nutritional psychiatrist Dr Uma Naidoo gives you the tools to take back control. Dr Naidoo draws on the latest science to demonstrate how an understanding of how both the brain and gut microbiome works, and a diet that creates a strong foundation for mental health, will equip you to control your anxiety.

In a genre-bending book that blurs the lines of fiction and nonfiction, the author challenges the listener to identify their own truth about weight loss, diet, and body image by experiencing the truth of others. Fitness professional Renee knows all the stories, the secrets, and the struggles of people working toward fitness goals first-hand. Through her many clients, she's witnessed how people seek self-worth and purpose through the size and shape of their body.

Tantalize your senses, nurture your mind, and transform your relationship with food forever with "Mindful Bites," an enlightening eBook that takes you on a journey through the art and science of mindful eating. Whether you're looking to break free from the grip of mindless munching or seeking to enrich your mealtime with deeper appreciation and presence, this comprehensive guide is the companion you've been craving. "Mindful Bites" is not merely a book; it's a transformative experience that reconnects you with the fundamental pleasures and rituals of eating. Delicately crafted chapters ...

This isn’t another audiobook about advertising. It’s an inside look at how companies count on your obsession with food, alcohol, drugs, and sex to drive behavior modification - permanently. It’s not enough to build a better Super Bowl commercial (sorry, but true); the new end game is about changing your entire mindset.

This anti-diet guide from registered nutritionist Laura Thomas PhD can help you sort out your attitude to food and ditch punishing exercise routines. As a qualified practitioner of Intuitive Eating – a method that helps followers tune in to innate hunger and fullness cues – Thomas gives you the freedom to enjoy food on your own terms.

This is a book about the good, the terrible and the avocado toast. A riveting exploration of the hidden forces behind what we eat, The Way We Eat Now explains how modern food, in all its complexity, has transformed our lives and our world. To re-establish eating as something that gives us both joy and health, we need to find out where we are right now, how we got here and what it is that we share.

In The Diet-Free Diva, Tracy Desjardins provides a healing pathway for you to trust yourself with food and find sustainable peace within yourself—perhaps for the first time ever. What awaits is what Tracy calls your "Best Diva Self"—the you the world needs you to be.

The world's leading life-change therapists, the Speakmans, share a passion to help people lead happier and less inhibited lives. Their intellectual curiosity guided them through years of extensive research into behaviourism and conditioning, which led to the creation of their groundbreaking behavioural change therapy known as Schema Conditioning. Based on the Speakmans' unique coaching method, this book provides the answers to conquering weight gain - for good.

Food and emotions - you may be wondering what the connection is. It may not be immediately obvious to everyone, but for many people, emotions are closely linked to their eating behavior. Whether consciously or unconsciously, regular emotional eating often leads to a high level of suffering for those affected. Emotional eating usually manifests itself in the form of frustration or stress eating - in other words, eating is a way of compensating for a negative feeling. This can result in severe weight gain and eating disorders, which is why emotional eating should not be underestimated.

Have you noticed since starting all this "healthy" eating, dieting, perfect Paleo diets, wholesome Vegan escapades, and all that glorious exercise that you did in the name of better health and a better appearance…That you look and feel worse? Eating pretty much any overly restricted diet will do these things to you. Throw some "healthy" exercise in there with it and you've got a recipe for shutting down your entire system. It's all caused by a drop in metabolic rate. Diet Recovery is your guide to bringing your metabolism back up to its ideal level.

You know how your dependence, need, and obsession to binge on food is dominating your life? You cannot help but open and then rampage through the contents of your fridge every so often. What can you do about it? We uncover food addiction, the symptoms and signs, feeling hungry all the time, how it affects your body, and much more. This includes food addiction, other illnesses, a little science, and therapies, including valuable tips and different diets to try to achieve astonishing results.