 | Normal Eating for Normal Weight: The Path to Freedom from Weight Obsession and Food Cravings by Sheryl Canter
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $11.63 A uniquely effective step-by-step guide to freedom from compulsive urges and emotional eating. The Normal Eating program breaks the recovery process into stages, with each stage building on the last. Learning one new set of skills at a time greatly improves the odds of success. Visit NormalEating.com to sign up for the free newsletter or join the online support group.
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 | The Rules of "Normal" Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between! by Karen R. Koenig
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.81 I launched an online support group for the now-trademarked Normal Eating method in 2002 (originally a Yahoo Group) and created NormalEating.com in 2003. When Koenig's book was released in 2005, many people mixed us up. Our methods are not completely incompatible, but nor are they exactly the same. Koenig's is based on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Mine draws from many areas, CBT being just one.
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 | The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health by Karen R. Koenig
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $11.25 |
 | Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works by Evelyn Tribole
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.70 A good basic text on attuned eating, what it is and why it works.
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 | Breaking Free from Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.64 Offers much good advice on how to think about and approach your eating so as to minimize emotional eating episodes. The emphasis is on conscious eating and a compassionate, non-judgmental attitude towards yourself. What's missing are effective tools for dealing with the underlying emotional triggers.
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 | When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy (Plume) by Geneen Roth
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Explores the symbolic relationship between food and love, and why people who didn't (or don't) receive enough love in their lives often turn to food instead.
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 | Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life by Jane R. Hirschmann
Buy used from: $35.00 Offers some useful insights, but can be enabling and destructive. It overemphasizes "legalizing" formerly forbidden foods, and underemphasizes the development of internal controls that naturally limit what we eat. The result is that people often gain weight without end.
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 | The Seven Secrets of Slim People by Vikki Hansen
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A very fast read - not many words per page. Everything it says is correct, but there's nothing on how to deal with the emotional issues that prompt non-hunger eating. It tells you what to do, but not how to do it.
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 | Diets Don't Work: Stop Dieting Become Naturally Thin Live a Diet-Free Life by Bob Schwartz
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.01 Recommended mainly for the first chapter, where the author describes an experiment he conducted at his chain of gyms that convincingly demonstrates that diets make normal people crazy and cause everyone to gain weight. The anecdote is told with humor and is definitely worth reading.
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 | Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever by Roger Gould
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.34 |
 | Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop by Cynthia M. Bulik Ph.D.
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.39 |
 | Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher Fairburn
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $3.48 |
 | Body Clutter: Love Your Body, Love Yourself by Marla Cilley
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $2.95 |
 | The Zen of Eating by R. Kabatznick
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.95 Shows how Buddhist principles can be used to explain and resolve the problem of emotional overeating. The author has a deep understanding of Buddhism. Even those without eating problems will appreciate its practical elucidation of Buddhist principles, using the example of emotional eating.
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 | Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food by Jan Chozen Bays
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.44 Excellent exposition of mindfulness in eating. Highly recommended with the caveat that mindfulness is not a complete cure for compulsive or emotional eating - further steps are required.
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 | Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $4.75 Fascinating account of lab findings on what causes people to eat more than they think they're eating. Written with humor, useful and entertaining.
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 | Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
Buy used from: $26.02 One of the first non-diet books ever published, "Fat Is a Feminist Issue" paved the way for all the others. It's especially useful for its insights into how fat can serve women in this society. The book's numerous directed fantasies can help uncover the personal meaning of food and fat in an individual's life.
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 | Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry by Laura Fraser
Buy used from: $1.07 A must-read book that documents the history of the diet industry, and when/why/how female slimness became the cultural mandate. It wasn't always!
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 | The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $3.49 A thorough and detailed examination of how cultural pressure on women to look a certain way disempowers them and spawns eating disorders.
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 | The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness by Kim Chernin
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.01 An insightful exploration of society's demand that women be thin - what's behind it, and the devastating impact it has on women.
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