Release Your Obsession with Food - Heal From the Inside Out

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. From the publisher ---

Dr. Lisa Ortigara Crego expertly weaves personal experience, case studies, and her own medical expertise throughout Release Your Obsession with Food: Heal from the Inside Out, giving the reader invaluable information in a manner that is both relatable and riveting. I especially appreciated how she dealt in depth with the way food allergies and intolerances can cause not only food addiction but also some pretty severe and debilitating mental and emotional issues as well. “Release Your Obsession with Food” is well organized and provides the sufferer of food addiction not just with hope for healing and freedom from addiction but also with concrete steps for how to do so. Anyone suffering from an unhealthy relationship with food should definitely read this book. In addition, family members and friends could also benefit from the understanding and wisdom in its pages. (Note: yes, the publisher’s information had a personal opinion in it that was not mine --- my review starts after this.)

As a food addict, food junkie and food lover I hoped to have gained some insight on this issue – instead, (sorry!) I found the author to be annoying and a harpy. I got so annoyed I put the book down and decided that her 13 patterns condensed into six themes was just WAY TOO OUT THERE for me as I firmly believe (IMHO) that no food should be avoided as it just leads to binges. By the end of the book, I disagreed with pretty much everything she wrote - flour and sugar CAN be the part of a healthy diet, addict or not, and 12 step programs CAN lead to co-dependency --- at least that is what I took from the booklet.