Eat by Choice, Not by Habit
Practical Skills for Creating a Healthy Relationship With Your Body and Food
by Sylvia Haskvitz
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“Face Your Stuff, or Stuff Your Face”
- Anonymous

Eating is a basic human need. But for those caught in cycles of over-consumption, emotional eating, and yo-yo dieting, it can often be a misguided stand-in for other unmet needs, like emotional fulfillment. When we’ve reconnected to our actual nutritional needs, however, consumption habits turn into choices, leading to greater personal freedom.

Combining expert dietary wisdom with the consciousness of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), this handbook teaches you how to Eat by Choice, Not by Habit by changing the way you see food and your food choices. Rather than a proscriptive fad diet, readers learn to dig deeper to the emotional consciousness that underlies our eating patterns. Find practical strategies to break out of unhealthy eating cycles by becoming aware of your real needs in the moment. Learn to enjoy the tastes, smells and sensations of healthful eating once again.

Sylvia Haskvitz is a registered dietitian and certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She has offered seminars to numerous organizations including Head Start, Child and Family Resources, Health Net and St. Mary’s Hospital. Her monthly column, “Finding the ‘Right’ Words,” is published by Tucson West Publishing. Her essay, “Enemy Images” was recently published in the book, Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves. She has also directed and produced a weekly radio program and hosted a television show. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

This is one of the only books that I have read about
eating that resonates with my values of choice, health,
self-acceptance / love, and efficacy–rather than a quick fix or beating myself up. To me, this is a way of looking at eating issues with integrity! I loved in the book how you spoke with such compassion as well as invited readers to take
responsibility/have the courage and clarity to go beneath
eating habits.

Outstanding book!, August 22, 2010
By     Miracles Happen Everyday (Dallas, TX)
This review is from: Eat by Choice, Not by Habit: Practical Skills for Creating a Healthy Relationship with Your Body and Food (Paperback)
Couldn’t put this book down. This is by far one of the most helpful books on eating I’ve ever read. Thank you Sylvia Haskvitz. What a delight and so refreshing to read such clear insight. I often reach for the “feelings” behind why I want to eat/binge (and that can just make me feel more of whatever I’m feeling), but never thought so clearly (until now) about asking myself what “need” is posing as hunger. Awesome book. Very quick read. Great resources too!