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Paperback
Publisher: Tarcher
Format: Bargain Price
Now in paperback, Julia Cameron’s revolutionary diet plan: Use writing to take off the pounds!
Over the course of the past twenty-five years, Julia Cameron has taught thousands of artists and aspiring artists how to unblock wellsprings of creativity. And time and again she has noticed an interesting thing: Often when her students uncover their creative selves they also undergo a surprising physical transformation— invigorated by their work, they slim down. In The Writing Diet, Cameron illuminates the relationship between creativity and eating to reveal a crucial equation: Creativity can block overeating.
This inspiring weight-loss program directs readers to count words instead of calories, to substitute their writing’s “food for thought” for actual food. The Writing Diet presents a brilliant plan for using one of the soul’s deepest and most abiding appetites—the desire to be creative—to lose weight and keep it off forever.
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| Worth every cent |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I'm not even a third into this book and already the benefits are awesome and totally tangible. I did not expect such results so quickly. My personal struggles are not just with weight, and it's these personal struggles that are already being addressed thanks to Morning Pages. I love this book.
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| Writing works for everything! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Julia Cameron is a veteran on guidied writing. Follow her program and shed the pounds without fad diets and for free! Can't beat it!!!!
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| Great for a Daily Dose of Inspiration |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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What I like best about this book is its presentation. The information provided is not necessarily new and profound, but the way it is presented really works for me. The chapters are very brief and each ends with a writing exercise. Because of the chapters' brevity, I was able to read one each morning. It served as a kind of diet devotional. It gave me the motivation to start my day in a positive frame of mind. Cameron explains the importance of eating clean and this makes a lot of sense especially with all the mysterious "additions" that are now included in many of our foods. However, she recommends "diet" foods that include artificial sweeteners which I personally believe are not part of clean eating. I found the exercises to be effective and the personal and client testimony/dialogue to be inspirational. I especially like Cameron's emphasis on living in the moment even when we have chosen to eat something that is not healthy for our bodies. We do not have to continue our unhealthful eating for the rest of the day (as we often think) but can instead forgive ourselves immediately and start over right at that moment. Writing daily, in what Cameron calls "Morning Pages", can really help to uncover hidden links between food and emotions (both negative and positive) as well as other issues we may not be aware of that sabotage our efforts towards a healthier life. Anyone who is focusing on leading a healthier life and building a positive relationship with the food they eat should read this book. They will come away with many great tools - such as four questions to ask before making the choice of what and when to eat - to help them on their journey. This is a book that should be read more than once. I recommend reading it again and again as a daily dose of inspiration.
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| Great concept and tools, bad food advice |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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I got this book as a birthday present from my Mom, a fan of Julia Cameron's other books who knows I've been struggling with weight loss again. I have to say I found the first sections were great. She gives you tools to use, some of which were new to me (such as morning pages), some of which I'd heard before (asking yourself "are you really hungry?" and the AA tool HALT). However, being prompted to journal about all of those things and how they worked in my eating habits was a little new.
After outlining the tools, she writes chapters on different aspects of dieting, such as figuring out what kind of eater you are (grazer, binger, etc), what your trigger foods are, etc. At the end of each chapter there is a journaling prompt to help you think about the different tools or aspects of your approach to food.
I liked the general concept and the journaling prompts, but I thoroughly agree with those who said her attitude towards food is a little unhealthy -- when she called eating one piece of pie a "relapse" I too got a little upset. One thing I have learning from programs like Weight Watchers is that no food should be forbidden -- it's all about balance. It's okay to eat pie -- just not the whole pie and not all time time. She tries to speak to that by saying it's okay to have a little dessert as long as you excercise, but she doesn't seem to really believe it.
I recommend this book for the concept, the "tools" and the journaling prompts, but if you want healthy diet advice, go to a nutritionist.
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| never received this item |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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There was incorrect info on my paypal info when I first placed this order. I EMailed the seller but have not received any answer back.
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