Eat by Choice, Not by Habit: Practical Skills for Creating a Healthy Relationship With Your Body and Food

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Combining sound dietary information with the techniques of Nonviolent Communication, this handbook for successful dieting shifts the focus to changing the ways readers see food and their food choices. Eating is a need, but for those caught in cycles of over-consumption and dieting, it can often be a stand-in for other unmet needs, such as emotional fulfillment. When reconnected to actual nutritional needs, however, consumption habits turn into choices, signaling greater freedom. Practical strategies are outlined for breaking out of cycles of eating and becoming aware of one's needs. Rather than being a proscriptive fad diet, the suggestions are interactive and encourage questioning and reflecting as one moves through the lessons. By learning to connect with food in ways previously not possible, readers who are seeking to slough off old patterns in favor of new options can again enjoy the tastes, smells, and sensations of good eating.

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Sylvia Haskvitz RD is a registered dietitian and certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She has offered trainings and seminars for organisations like Head Start, Child & Family Resources, and St Mary's Hospital. She is a columnist for Tucson West Publishing, where her monthly column is called "Finding the 'Right' Words." She has also directed and produced a weekly radio program and hosted a television show, both of which were based in her training with Nonviolent Communication. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.