This book made a huge impact on me and my life. I’ve been using food for comfort since I was a small child. I’ve been both bulimic, anorexic, and a binge eater. My relationship with food is warped and very, very disordered. My trigger foods seem to be everything on earth. And every emotion. Salty, sweet, hot or mild. Scared, depressed, sad, or happy. Even after having weight loss surgery, it’s been a huge struggle and I find myself slipping back into the emotional eating habit. The surgery doesn’t do a single thing to your brain. It sure as heck doesn’t cut remove the part of you that thinks a bag of chips or half a pizza will make everything better. When, really, it only makes me feel worse about myself.

Roth’s book helped me to see why I was doing what I was doing. By helping me to examine the reasons behind my action, Breaking Free has changed my life for the better.

This is a great book! I have struggled with my weight and with emotional eating all of my life. For me, it really didn't matter what emotion I was feeling, I was ready to eat. When I saw this book, I thought it would be worth a shot, maybe something to explain why I was eating like I was. From this book, I was able to learn hot to work through what I was feeling without food. During and after reading this book, my overall weight loss was 110 pounds--my goal was 100. I am so thrilled with this book, I cannot sing it's praises enough. It's made a total difference in my life--well, actually, it's given me a different life; a new life. The first step is admitting that you have a problem. If you can do that, you're ready to go further. This book is HIGHLY recommended and will work wonders for you!!!

I got this book from the library to try to understand why a sibling of mine eats the way she does. She has been a compulsive eater for years, slowly balooning up to becoming an obese person. It is a very interesting book. It explains all aspects of emotional eating in great detail. I recommended the book to my sister, so that maybe she could understand why she feels the way she does about food.

I've always been the type of person that eats their feelings. Unfortunately, I learned this from my family. Whenever family tragedy happened, they would medicate us with food. Just anything to get our minds off of what was going on at the present time. I saw the title of this book, and I though.. "Hm. I wonder if this means what is says." Let's just say that after reading this book, I learned to put the food down and work my emotions out losing a total of 150 pounds. I can't express my gratitude to this book for how much it has changed my life completely. I even have a happier family, not to mention, a happier husband. I am so greatful to this book. If you're someone willing to admit that you have an emotional disorder that's causing you to eat your feelings, and you're ready to do something about it. This book is definately for you.

I really needed this book. I'm severely overweight due to my habit of breaking out the comfort food whenever I feel a little bit bad.

BREAKING FREE FROM EMOTIONAL EATING made me realize that food isn't actually making me feel better. The author gives wonderful exercises to do to replace the emotional eating when you feel bad. Without them, I'd probably have reached three hundred pounds by now.

This book goes beyond just the habit of eating when stressed and upset, and looks into the underlying causes of the emotions you're feeling. BREAKING FREE FROM EMOTIONAL EATING then helps you work through these emotions and even get rid of them entirely. It's an amazing book, and anyone who breaks out the comfort food when they feel upset should read it.

As someone who spends way to much time emotionally eating, instead of eating properly, this book was an eye opener. The author goes into her own experiences with emotional eating, and theorizes on why she did it. The biggest problem today that we face, is that we're in such a rush, we barely notice what we put in our mouths. This book offers some helpful hints on how to slow down and pay attention to what you're eating, instead of just shoving food in your mouth.

During the economic crisis of 2008, I've watched a trend in comfort food sales. They are all through the roof. McDonalds just today posted more than an 8% increase in sales. For a company that large with that much market saturation and the economic problems this country faces, there is no logical reason why McDonald's should be performing like that. Anyway, this book shows that while emotional eating of comfort foods solves the moment, it multiplies problems in the future. The problem is, food and taste are addictive and can change a person from a fit healthy human, to a tired angry human that's main craving is the sugar addiction instead human interaction. Look into how many holidays and birthdays are celebrated around...food. Change the focus to people, and you win every time.

Many people use food for comfort. Some people eat when they're nervous, stressed, upset, or even happy. Much of the time, what someone eats doesn't even register when they're eating. Geneen Roth explores her own past issues with emotional eating, and offers advice on how to eat more mindfully. When someone pays more attention to what they eat, as well as the consequences, they are more likely to stop the bad habit and see success. This book will transform your view of food.