Customer Reviews
Eating less is impossible unless I cut out the crap, book did not help. - By: G. Battams, 11 May 2008 
If your an over eater, or addicted to food, I reccomend looking into magnesium deficiency & eating healthily, i.e. fish, vegetables, olive oil, beans, lentils & decreasing meat, dairy & alcohol. Gillian reckons you can eat anything but just do it in moderation./ Well, if I could do this I we would not need the book. I felt the book has some good ideas but the book was not helpful because it just did not change me. For me it was like saying to an alcoholic, drinking less: Say goodbye to alcoholism. When I eat the addictive foods, sugar, wheat, milk, something happens!!!! Its a bit like mask... I go straaanggge! I want more & more & it doesn't matter what I read, I know there is something wrong. I do get relief cutting down to a minimum meat, sugar, wheat, & dairy, & increasing vegetables, fish, beans, pears.
Though Provoking - By: J. Lowes, 22 Apr 2008 
This book provides a very interesting insight into our eating habits. Eveyone who reads this will recognise themselves somewhere in this book. It has given me much to think about & although I havent yet made any changes, I am recognising eating habits that I never realised were there.
brilliant - By: B. Longsden, 07 Apr 2008 I've searched for solutions, reasons & explanations for years. Gillian's book offer alll these & more, now for the hard part of making the changes, but for the first time, I feel those changes will be permanent not short term!
Serious freedom from an eating disorder - By: C. Timsan, 16 Mar 2008 I have suffered from bulimia & anorexia for over ten years & I
have had many types of therapy, books, hypnosis but everything is
always temporary. I always go back to overeating which in turn goes
back to the bulimia because of the fear of weight gain, which happens
anyway...! I am so happy to have found this way, it sounds so simple
but it is so true & I finallly accept that it may be a long road but
IS the right one. One thing I wanted to mention which I reallly could
recommend for other overeaters. I carry with me now a little card and
make a tallly for any times during the day I even slightly want to over
eat or eat when I am not hungry. This is great way to watch progress
without the scales! I started at about 800(!) times a day and
yesterday I was on 14!
These changes will affect you immediately & not from tomorrow morning! The book shows you how to be free from thinking about safe & trigger foods & teaches you how to listen to & respect your body.
The madness can end, trust me!
Best book on this subject - By: C. Kell, 10 Mar 2008 There are so many books available on how to get compulsive eating under control. This stands out as being the best. I think the last two reviewers miss some of the points in Riley's book. For a start 'Times & Plans' is as flexible as you want it to be, as Riley points out. So, if you want to use it just for the late afternoon sugar deficit, when you may reach for a food you don't need, then just use it at that time of day to keep you going until dinner time.
Why not use self-esteem as your motivation to get back on track? That strikes me as better than using an unrealistic weight goal as your motivation, or trying to analyse your emotional state every time you overeat. Every time you succeed your self-esteem grows. This does not mean that each time you fail, you are back to square one. On the contrary.
Finallly, to say there are nutritional & behavioural ways to control beating cravings misses an important aspect of Riley's method. These methods only provide temporary distraction & will not work in the longer term. In order to break the pattern you have to choose to feel your addiction - not easy, but each time you do, you re-inforce the habit.
