Eating Less: praise for the book

Praise from professionals

Eating Less is likely to succeed where diet books fail. The utter simplicity of its message and techniques makes it easy to start and continue with a programme that revolutionises your attitude to eating and weight.

- Sarah Litvinoff, psychologist and writer

Gillian Riley’s approach is clear, simple and powerful in its effect on people’s lives. For smoking and overeating, her work is excellent in both areas. Simply the best.

- Leslie Kenton, health expert and writer

Immensely interesting and helpful. Empowers those who previously have felt themselves to be the victims of dieting and dietary advice.

- Dorothy Rowe, psychologist and writer

Excellent marriage guidance counselling for those with a difficult relationship with food.

- Patrick Holford, writer and founder, Institute For Optimum Nutrition

This book will be invaluable not only to people with an overeating problem but to those who are counselling them as well.

- Joe Griffin, psychotherapist and writer

One woman I worked with recently had undergone therapy at a NHS funded clinic and she said your book gave her more insight in the few days she took to read it than months of counselling.

- Maggie Preston, MA, counsellor

It is my hunch that this method has something new and long-lasting to offer the rising number of overweight and obese people who have problems with eating which require more than just another diet sheet.

- Dr Melanie Mackintosh, GP, Bristol

I like the simplicity of the Eating Less system; the basic principles are amazingly easy to understand and follow. Most importantly, I've lost many of my fears around the topic of food - fear of going out of control, fear of failure - and this gives me confidence that this is the permanent solution to my problem. I've found that I really can trust myself around food - even regaining my sense of humour about it all!

- Mirjam Bollag Dondi, psychotherapist, Institute of Applied Psychology, Zurich

Praise from readers:

As a fifty year old woman who has dieted since the age of 15, I wanted to tell you of my response to reading Eating Less. As I worked through, chapter by chapter, it took me on a painful journey of self-examination and facing truths I had denied all those years. Gradually, a huge sense of release and relief took over. Your book showed me the way to confront and address my addiction to food. It gave me simple tools to examine my behaviour and begin to take control of the only area of my life I wanted to radically change. It was like stepping off a treadmill, calling halt to a behavioural pattern which lead to misery and failure. A huge weight (!) has been lifted and the food which I love is no longer the source of terror it was before. Your book is entirely new in its approach and answered every question almost before I'd asked it.

- Sarah Kaye, teacher, Wiltshire

Your book is the answer to a prayer. You have blown away all the myths surrounding dieting, weight loss and body size, and you have called a spade a spade. I needed this kind of straight talk. Although I had known for many years I was actually addicted to food, I didn't know what to do about it.

- Cheryl Joyce, county council employee, Cambridgeshire

I can only say I am astonished at my change of attitude to food, eating, my body, my health and my weight. I really did feel your book and your technique was my last chance at finding a way out of the mental muddle I had got myself into, over eating and weight. I wasn't sure it would make a difference and at first I couldn't put it into practice. Then the penny dropped and I am delighted to tell you that I haven't looked back since. I now make healthy choices, think carefully about quantity, and best of all, don't feel any kind of deprivation at all. I feel strong, liberated and intelligent about it. I have of course lost weight! I still occasionally weigh myself, but not in an obsessive way, and I have never lost weight before in such a detached manner, if you know what I mean.

- Maggi Hooper, housewife and mother, Surrey

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