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.