An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything - Women Food and God

This book is a refreshing challenge to the mind, body, spirit, and self that inspires liberation. A liberation from the old version of who you think you are, a liberation from hating anything you put in your mouth, and a liberation to be a whole and healthy person. Take the time to read, and truly digest what she is saying. Hate it, love it, accept it, thrive with it.

I have only recently gotten back into reading. I saw this on Oprah and figured why not. I read at night before I go to sleep. So while my husband is fast asleep next to me I was sobbing and trying to keep reading through a cloud of tears. I never realized I was using food to numb pain. Great book highly recommend for woman AND their loved ones. I liked it so much I ordered a second copy for my sister.

As a nutrition therapist and co-author of Intuitive Eating, I highly recommend this book to my patients. It's a hopeful book that will inspire those caught in the eating wars, with a practical "peace" plan to bring back the pleasure in eating and finally get on with vibrant living.

Women, Food and God, illustrates the complex relationships between food, mind, and body. It is written with a compassionate, engaging style, with dashes of humor. I especially appreciated Geneen's profound honesty dealing with her struggles--but not just with food.

Despite years of mindful meditation experience, Geneen describes the depths of her anxiety-provoking thoughts, which hijack her mind. It was refreshing to get a glimpse of how powerful thoughts can be. This candid mental snapshot, demonstrated the normalcy of struggling with mindfulness (akin to what author, Elizabeth Gilbert, did for meditation in Eat, Pray, Love).

This is no quick-fix, (nor should it be). Only through awareness, can you obtain meaningful change-- and Women, Food and God, will help you get on that path.

This book was very interesting and well written. However, I would have preferred it to be a bit more in-depth. The writer touched on deep issues, which in my opinion, require more explanation and/or substantiation from psychologists/psychiatrists who specialize in this area. Perhaps this was intentional by the author to encourage the purchase of all of her other books????

I ordered this book on recommendation from my therapist. I found that it connects to many issues that I've struggled with throughout life, namely: using food as an excuse for everything--I'm depressed, I'm lonely, I feel great, I feel terrible, etc. This book is recommended to anyone who struggles with overeating and tends to find justification each time they over-indulge.

This book really helped me shed light on what the real cause of my eating issues is. It is very eye-opening and informative. I learned alot about myself and some of the reasons I eat when I am not hungry. It's not just that food tastes good-it goes way deeper than that. If you think you just like to eat because food tastes good and that's it, read this book!

After years of dieting and bingeing I realize i have been punishing myself. I have never loved myself and this book is helping me find the reason why. I'm going to read this several times. Great book for anyone struggling with their relationship with food.

As a nutrition therapist and co-author of Intuitive Eating, I highly recommend this book to my patients. It's a hopeful book that will inspire those caught in the eating wars, with a practical "peace" plan to bring back the pleasure in eating and finally get on with vibrant living.

Women, Food and God, illustrates the complex relationships between food, mind, and body. It is written with a compassionate, engaging style, with dashes of humor. I especially appreciated Geneen's profound honesty dealing with her struggles--but not just with food.

Despite years of mindful meditation experience, Geneen describes the depths of her anxiety-provoking thoughts, which hijack her mind. It was refreshing to get a glimpse of how powerful thoughts can be. This candid mental snapshot, demonstrated the normalcy of struggling with mindfulness (akin to what author, Elizabeth Gilbert, did for meditation in Eat, Pray, Love).

This is no quick-fix, (nor should it be). Only through awareness, can you obtain meaningful change-- and Women, Food and God, will help you get on that path.

This book was very interesting and well written. However, I would have preferred it to be a bit more in-depth. The writer touched on deep issues, which in my opinion, require more explanation and/or substantiation from psychologists/psychiatrists who specialize in this area. Perhaps this was intentional by the author to encourage the purchase of all of her other books????

I ordered this book on recommendation from my therapist. I found that it connects to many issues that I've struggled with throughout life, namely: using food as an excuse for everything--I'm depressed, I'm lonely, I feel great, I feel terrible, etc. This book is recommended to anyone who struggles with overeating and tends to find justification each time they over-indulge.

This book really helped me shed light on what the real cause of my eating issues is. It is very eye-opening and informative. I learned alot about myself and some of the reasons I eat when I am not hungry. It's not just that food tastes good-it goes way deeper than that. If you think you just like to eat because food tastes good and that's it, read this book!

After years of dieting and bingeing I realize i have been punishing myself. I have never loved myself and this book is helping me find the reason why. I'm going to read this several times. Great book for anyone struggling with their relationship with food.

The book was recommended by a co-worker and, after seeing the author in the Oprah show, I decided to buy it. I have read about 75% of the book. It is more of the same old but it has some messages that hit a cord with me and help me make some new choices. The first choice: I stopped weighting myself every day. Second choice - to love where I am and the way I look today. There is a sentence in the book that says something like "living in hell is not liking where you are right now". This statement really made me think about the unhealthy way I have been treating myself and I have been making adjustments accordingly. Net, the book was a good investment for me.

Doing more eating disorder healing/work with this little book of genius in my hands that I have done in two years with a therapist. She uses humor and true stories and tells truths. I love this book.

Amazing, wonderful read. I cannot recommend it enough! Completely reoriented me in my relationship with food. As soon as I have the eating guidelines a chance, I started relaxing, feeling better, and I began losing weight. I wasn't trying to lose weight, either. It just happened as I began paying close attention to what I did and experienced when I began eating. Read this book now!

Gene Roth is a great writer who conceptualized eating disorder in a way that I never thought about. Although I have my masters in clinical psychology and she emphasizes that she's no Psychologist, she really amazed me at how on target she was with everything in her book. Moreover this book is very entertaining and not at all boring. I look forward to reading more of her books.

Geneen Roth has true moments of billiance in this book. I have read a few of her others and found this to be the best one, by far. There were moments that felt like she was channeling the information through a higher source, so connected they were. I wish there were more specific cases mentioned than there were--I was hungry for more, if you will, and that was my only hesitation in giving 5 stars. All in all, though, an amazing little read!

Having read one of Ms. Roth's previous books, When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy , I was hoping for more of the same gritty honesty and self-revelation, more of the process of falling out of love with food. This book seemed a little bit more to be Geneen telling of her years of success running retreats and exploring meditation (maybe she would like for you to attend one of these high-priced retreats). The title is also deceptive in that what the title calls "God" the author later explains as a feeling of higher consciousness . . .

I felt that one of the best aspects of the book was a list of "Eating Guidelines" that was in the very back of the book (and I believe that was actually just repeated from another of her previous books).

I wouldn't recommend this one.

I have always tried to maintain boundries with friends and family so I am able to stay sane. This book affirmed my actions. I know it was about food, but we all know its never really about the food. I am actually a thin person surounded by several very large family members, always afraid that my own weight gain was just around the corner. I am going to be OK....I know that my life of moderation in all things is not as selfish as my sister's would like me to believe. Read this book for your own piece of mind.

I've read Roth's earlier books and looked forward to reading this one. It doesn't disappoint. She gets to the heart of compulsive eating and helps you understand that obsessive eating is the physical manifestation of deeply rooted issues concerning how we view ourselves, our hopes, and our feelings about love and abundance. I read it slowly, re-reading sections, and really thinking about what she says. Yes, her style can be a bit over-the-top and dramatic at times, but the kernels of truth in this book are so inspirational. I will be coming back to this book again and again as I continue my journey with obsessive eating.