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The hunger fix : the three-stage detox and recovery plan for overeating and food addiction / Pamela Peeke with Mariska van Aalst.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale ; [New York] : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2012.Description: xxii, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1609614526 (hardback)
  • 9781609614522 (hardback)
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Contents:
Foreword / by Tara Costa -- Introduction: Hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt! -- The dopamine made me do it! -- The Hunger Fix cycle -- Breaking the Hunger Fix cycle -- The EphiphaME: finding your true hunger -- Stage 1: False Fix detox -- Stage 2: Beginner recovery -- Stage 3: Master recovery -- The Hunger Fix eating plan -- The Hunger Fix recipes -- Appendix A: The Yale food addiction scale -- Appendix B: Mind-mouth-muscle daily journal -- Appendix C: The three pillars of the Hunger Fix -- Appendix E: Document your rewards -- Appendix F: The three M's: resources -- Appendix G: Find your healthy fix voice.
Summary: "The author of New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life for Women presents a groundbreaking, neuroscience-based program to rewire your food-addicted brain and get the body you deserve. The body's built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, is a fascinating adaptation: It tells us to do more of the things that give us pleasure. Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship, and even the continued propagation of the human race are driven by this system--just as is, unfortunately, the urge to overeat. In The Hunger Fix, Dr. Pamela Peeke uses the latest neuroscience to explain how unhealthy food and behavioral "hooks" have gotten us ensnared; indeed, she shows that dopamine rushes in the body work exactly the same way with food as with cocaine. Luckily, we are all capable of rewiring, and the very same dopamine-driven system can be used to reward us for healthful, exciting, and fulfilling activities. The Hunger Fix makes this possible by laying out a lifelong, 3-stage plan that starts with a 3- to 4-week jump start to break so-called destructive fixes and replace them with healthier actions. Fitness guides, meal plans, and recipes are constructed to bolster the growth of new neurons and stimulate the body's reward system. Gradually, healthy fixes like playing games, meditating, having sex, going for a run, laughing, and learning a new language will replace the junk food, couch time, and other bad habits that leave us unhappy and overweight"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Food addiction is real . Our body's built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, tells us to do things that give us pleasure: Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship--even the continued procreation of the human race--are driven by this system. Unfortunately, so is the urge to overeat.

In The Hunger Fix , Dr. Pam Peeke uses the latest neuroscience to explain how, with repeated exposure coupled with life stresses, any food can become a "False Fix" and ensnare you in a vicious cycle of food obsession, overeating, and addiction. Indeed, she shows that dopamine rushes in the body can work exactly the same way with food as with drugs like cocaine.

Luckily, this very same system can be easily rewired to reward us with a healthy, happy, and fulfilling life. The Hunger Fix lays out a science-based three-stage plan that shows us how to break our addiction to False Fixes and replace them with healthier rewards. Fun fitness activities, customized meal plans, and delicious, satisfying recipes are designed to trigger the specific neurochemical cascade that stimulates your body's reward system, reclaims your hijacked brain, and supports your lifelong recovery. Energizing Healthy Fixes such as meditating, having sex, writing your own blog, or going for a walk on the beach--even laughing--quickly replace the junk food, couch time, and other self-destructive habits that can leave you unhappy and overweight.

Packed with practical tips, useful advice, and plenty of wit, wisdom, and inspiring stories of those who have successfully transformed their bodies, The Hunger Fix is a lifechanging program for anyone (of any size) trapped by food obsessions and the urge to overeat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Tara Costa -- Introduction: Hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt! -- The dopamine made me do it! -- The Hunger Fix cycle -- Breaking the Hunger Fix cycle -- The EphiphaME: finding your true hunger -- Stage 1: False Fix detox -- Stage 2: Beginner recovery -- Stage 3: Master recovery -- The Hunger Fix eating plan -- The Hunger Fix recipes -- Appendix A: The Yale food addiction scale -- Appendix B: Mind-mouth-muscle daily journal -- Appendix C: The three pillars of the Hunger Fix -- Appendix E: Document your rewards -- Appendix F: The three M's: resources -- Appendix G: Find your healthy fix voice.

"The author of New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life for Women presents a groundbreaking, neuroscience-based program to rewire your food-addicted brain and get the body you deserve. The body's built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, is a fascinating adaptation: It tells us to do more of the things that give us pleasure. Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship, and even the continued propagation of the human race are driven by this system--just as is, unfortunately, the urge to overeat. In The Hunger Fix, Dr. Pamela Peeke uses the latest neuroscience to explain how unhealthy food and behavioral "hooks" have gotten us ensnared; indeed, she shows that dopamine rushes in the body work exactly the same way with food as with cocaine. Luckily, we are all capable of rewiring, and the very same dopamine-driven system can be used to reward us for healthful, exciting, and fulfilling activities. The Hunger Fix makes this possible by laying out a lifelong, 3-stage plan that starts with a 3- to 4-week jump start to break so-called destructive fixes and replace them with healthier actions. Fitness guides, meal plans, and recipes are constructed to bolster the growth of new neurons and stimulate the body's reward system. Gradually, healthy fixes like playing games, meditating, having sex, going for a run, laughing, and learning a new language will replace the junk food, couch time, and other bad habits that leave us unhappy and overweight"-- Provided by publisher.

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