This list specifically supports the Overcoming Overeating approach as defined in the books "Overcoming Overeating" (ISBN: 9781456413330) and "When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies" (ISBN: 044991058X) by Jane Hirschmann and Carol Munter. We do not discuss other "non-diet" approaches on this list.

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The Overcoming Overeating Philosophy

* Compulsive eaters are people whose hands or minds move toward food
when they are not at all hungry. Compulsive eating has nothing to do
with the size of your body. Compulsive eaters come in all shapes and
sizes. Compulsive eating has to do with how many hours you spend
preoccupied with thoughts about what you are eating and what you look
like. The Overcoming Overeating approach does not address eating
disorders; it addresses dieting disorders, the casualties of the diet
industry.

* Compulsive eating may seem self-destructive, but it is always an
attempt at self-help.

* Diets never, ever solve eating and weight problems. Diets cause
compulsive eating.

* Significant change flows only from self-acceptance, never from
self-contempt.

* Food is not the compulsive eater's problem, it is the solution. The
Overcoming Overeating approach teaches people how to eat their way out
of an eating problem.