Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Geneen Roth has gained and lost more than a thousand pounds. She has been extremely overweight and extremely underweight. She has been plagued by intuitive feeling of shame and self-hatred and she has felt euphoric after losing a quick few pounds on a fad diet. Then one day, on the verge of suicide, she did something revolutionary: She left out the struggle, finished the war, stopped trying to fix, deprive and shame herself. She began trusting her body and questioning her beliefs.

It worked. And losing weight was only the beginning.

Relationships with food are complex and, reported by Roth, represent a person's relationship with the world. Arranging by comfort food and eating only if you is really hungry perhaps can be an crucial step to facing the fundamental causes of weight problems. The author is sincere and intensely earnest in narrating her book. Roth substance is clearly important to her, and she reads with the strong belief that she can improve the listener's life. Still, she doesn't differentiate the voices of the people she quotes in the anecdotes throughout the book. As an effect, the personal stories run together with the commentary, which reduces their effectiveness.