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Contributed by: Kathleen Fuller on 5/18/2009

Not Your Mother's Diet
Kathleen Fuller, Ph.D.
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Price $18.99
ISBN: 1-4196-8990-8
Non-Fiction, Health, Self Help
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

Not Your Mother's Diet is different from any other diet book I've read. The author doesn't look at counting calories, eating only specific foods, or exercising x number of days per week. There are plenty of resources for that kind of thing, Instead, this book goes to the core of the problem. Simply put, unhealthy habits illustrate how we feel about ourselves. Are we stuffing emotions? Do we use that number on the scale to berate ourselves for not being perfect?

I really think that most people today have an inaccurate picture of what a woman should look like. Not only it is unrealistic for a grown woman to be a size 0 but it's absolutely unhealthy. The really sick part though is that we as women actually try to make ourselves into these caricatures no matter what the cost to our health, our self esteem, or even our relationships.

I like the approach set out in Not Your Mother's Diet. Essentially, learn and understand yourself so that you can love yourself and treat yourself with the care and respect you deserve. Let go of all the senseless babble that that only serves as an excuse to punish yourself for wrongs you never actually committed.

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