A Food Junkie's Guide to Recovery: Overcoming a Lifetime of Emotional Eating (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781491706237)

Since childhood, author Lisa Parks Silks has struggled with food addiction and emotional eating. Now, however, she is on the path to recovery. Through deep reflection on childhood memories, she came face-to-face with her inner junkie-and her life was changed forever.

In A Food Junkie's Guide to Recovery she shares her story of recovery from food addiction. She recalls the quest of a middle-aged emotional eater who has battled obesity throughout adulthood as she finally found the answers to genuine, lasting restoration. She then describes her simple discoveries to help those who turn to food for comfort to

stop yo-yo dieting;

stop obsessing over weight and body size;

feel and eat better;

embrace faith; and

kick habitual emotional responses to food.

With meaningful contemplation and a few simple anti-dieting tips, this guide identifies the critical ingredients for managing your weight-once and for all. Silks's profound transformation of lifelong patterns offers hope and proof that you too can enjoy a happy, healthy life-eating meal-by-meal, losing pound-by-pound, and walking step-by-step with God. Following this example can help you develop your own personal path to recovery and lead to miraculous changes in your life.