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Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body Hardcover – January 6, 2015

by Alexandra Jamieson (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
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A holistic health counselor and co-star of award-winning documentary Super Size Me explores women’s cravings—for food, sleep, sex, movement, companionship, inspiration—and teaches them to listen to their bodies for a healthier, fuller life.

Transformational health expert Alexandra Jamieson is a woman on a mission. Having overcome her own food addictions and the weight and health problems these habits caused, she learned something life-altering: when we listen to our cravings, they will lead us onto the path of deep healing. Since her own personal breakthrough more than a decade ago, Alexandra has dedicated her life to helping other women learn to listen to the wisdom of their cravings and make food their greatest ally as they step into their lives with authentic passion.

In this powerfully feminine manifesto, Alexandra dares us to face our cravings head-on, to make the self-commitment to no longer hide out behind food, self-loathing, or the limiting expectations of others. With love, deep compassion, and fearless honesty, she calls upon all of us to boldly use food as a tool to cleanse ourselves of the nutritional, emotional, physical, and mental blocks that limit our ability to live full, meaningful, and joyful lives.

In this book she’ll show us how:
· Our cravings are the gatekeepers of our deepest longings and desires
· Transforming habits set us free
· Detoxing unclutters our bodies and minds so we may engage in our lives with more power and authenticity
· Embracing our sexual selves makes us more powerful
· Trusting ourselves and surrounding ourselves with a nurturing community is essential for a vital, healthy, hot life
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  6. ISBN-10
    1476765049
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    978-1476765044
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“Desire is the basis for new conception, new growth, new life. We’re born with it. And often talked out of it. When you tap it, you have access to your inner guidance. Women, Food, and Desire will show you how. Sweet.” (Dr. Christiane Northrup, author of New York Times bestsellers WOMEN'S BODIES, WOMEN'S WISDOM and THE WISDOM OF MENOPAUSE)

Women, Food, and Desire is a must read! As a physician fully aware of the impact of our thoughts and food on the waistline, I've waited for a book like this: one that brings together the sensual, emotional, and nutritional. Alexandra Jamieson brilliantly empowers women to face their toxic thoughts and food habits to establish a new relationship with their body and cravings. Her functional nutrition experience and vulnerability shine through each page of the book as she simplifies the path women can take to an embodied, pleasurable, and juicy life. (Dr. Sara Gottfried, MD)

Combining humor and candor with a smart, science-based approach, Alexandra Jamieson helps you develop a healthier, sexier, more vital existence in Women, Food and Desire. With practical, easy-to-implement strategies, she shows you how to transcend obstacles and tap into your deepest purpose. Transformative and life-changing! (JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFS, Celebrity Nutrition and Fitness Expert, best-selling author of The Virgin Diet)

Finally, someone is giving us permission to embrace our cravings and desires! Alex invites us to take a deep-dive within ourselves and use the cravings we try to avoid to create real transformation. This is an absolute must-read for every woman seeking liberation from being stuck in a world where we’ve been taught to hide our deepest desires! (Cynthia Pasquella, CCN, Bestselling author of PINK Method and The Hungry Hottie Cookbook, Founder of the Institute of Transformational Nutrition)

Get out your highlighter when you read Alexandra's book. Every page is filled with wisdom, wit, and warmth. (Donna Gates, M.Ed., ABAAHP, international best-selling author of The Body Ecology Diet)

Alex Jamieson understands the complexity of our relationship with food and how we can heal ourselves from a lifetime of self-judgment in regard to it. There is deep knowledge and insight in Women, Food, and Desire, and the best part is we are not alone and we can enjoy our lives by understanding this part of ourselves. (Mariel Hemingway, Actress Author Speaker Mother)

"As a theologian, I am intimate with the ways that religious texts have given the body a bad rep. The idea that the flesh is sinful and deceiving has created holy wars for women in their own bodies. Alexandra Jamieson reminds us that Eve was infinitely wise to eat that red apple. Pleasure is a form of soul-nourishment that we need to feel whole, vibrantly alive, and in love with life.This book will detox the shame that has kept you from being in your body. It will let you trust what you truly crave.It will open you to the power of becoming entirely who you are, and it will give you the permission to take action on your deepest desires." (Meggan Watterson, Author of REVEAL: A Sacred Manual For Getting Spiritually Naked)

Women, Food and Desire is a beautiful book that above all else, praises women. It’s filled with sweet words, clear advice, deep thoughts, and timeless wisdom. Alex Jamieson has reached into the heart of the feminine experience when it comes to food, and touched the place where transformation and delight can finally happen. If you’d like to go beyond the usual fare when it comes to nutritional advice, then consider this book a worthy feast. (Marc David, best-selling author and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating)

Diet industry beware. You are about to be dismantled by the power of self-love. Alexandra Jamieson's approach to women's wellness brings joy and self-acceptance to the thorny issue of desire, that force that makes each of us who we are. (Claire Cavanah, co-founder of Babeland.com)

Pleasure and desire take center stage as the soul-nourishment that we need to finally be truly healthy, whole and alive.In Women, Food & Desire Alexandra Jamieson takes a stand for a woman's vibrant health and calls on you to trust your body and listen to what you truly crave. (Christina Rasmussen, best-selling author of Second Firsts)

Like a perfect meal savored over an evening with good friends, Alexandra’s book offers nourishment, laughter, uh-huh moments, and wisdom— not just about how to feed your body — but how to feed your soul. Her insights and stories invite you back to your truest self, beckoning you to listen …listen... to the deeper inner longings that your cravings can reveal. She illuminates the path to making peace with your body and to living your most authentic life. I guarantee that you will find yourself reflected in her words. This book will give you the tools you need to give your overtired willpower a rest, move beyond blame and shame about cravings and food, and find the true fulfillment you are hungry for. (Dr. Aviva Romm, MD)

“The feminist perspective and focus on self-care, as well as Jamieson’s honesty about her own struggles, create a compelling authenticity. Far from another faddish diet guru, Jamieson guides readers into revolutionizing their entire relationship with food and their bodies.” (Publishers Weekly)

As a physician on the front lines of the sugar wars, I’ve longbeen on the lookout for a book I could recommend to patients who were ready toget off the dieting treadmill and really do the internal work necessary inorder to achieve a new relationship with nutritional healing, food, cravings, andtheir bodies permanently. Look no further, Women, Food & Desire is thatbook. (Dr. Mark Hyman)

About the Author

Alexandra Jamieson has been featured on Oprah, CNN, MSNBC, MindBodyGreen.com, Dr. Oz’s Share.com, and scores of other television, radio, and web programs. She travels around the country speaking at conferences and colleges spreading the message about the wisdom of cravings and coaches thousands of people via her webinars, retreats, and one-on-one programs. You can find Alex on Facebook and on her website, AlexandraJamieson.com. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her son and partner.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 6, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476765049
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476765044
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 218 ratings

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Alex Jamieson is a holistic weight loss, nutrition and lifestyle coach, detox expert, professionally trained healthy gourmet chef, and "cravings whisperer."

She has been seen on Oprah, Martha Stewart Living, CNN, Fox News, USA Today and People Magazine. Alex was the inspiration and co-starred in the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me.

In her three books, Vegan Cooking For Dummies , Living Vegan For Dummies, and The Great American Detox Diet, Alex offers remarkably sane - and tasty - advice on how to detox, live healthfully and feel fantastic.

She lives in Brooklyn where she juggles, somewhat gracefully, raising her 6 year old son, running her company AlexandraJamieson.com, and riding her bicycle to the food co-op.

www.facebook.com/AlexandraJamiesonFanPage

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Customers find the book engaging and easy to read, with one review noting the author's gentle approach that never criticizes. Moreover, they appreciate its sensitivity, with one customer highlighting how it helps understand cravings and eating habits. Additionally, the book receives positive feedback for its weight loss benefits, with one customer mentioning its focus on gut health.

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Customers find the book engaging and enjoyable to read, describing it as amazing and a must-read.

"Women, Food, and Desire is one of the best self-help books I've ever read...." Read more

"...talking about a topic that everyone deals with, our eating habits, fun and thoughtful...." Read more

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"...and real world work with clients in a an easy to read and engaging format...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's sensitivity, noting how it helps satisfy deeper desires and opens up their minds. One customer mentions it provides great insights, while another describes it as life-changing.

"...As it states on the cover, this book has helped me reclaim my body and my right to fulfill my desires for the pleasures of both food and sex...." Read more

"...She effortlessly weaves in science, personal stories and anecdotes from her clients in a way that makes the reader feel like you are on a weekend..." Read more

"...I love the steps she includes to help curb cravings, and to empower the goddess inside us. Love it." Read more

"...of functional nutrition, the importance of gut health, positive psychology, and real world work with clients in a an easy to read and engaging format..." Read more

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Customers appreciate the writing style of the book, finding it well written, easy to read, and honest, with one customer noting that the author's gentle spirit never criticizes.

"...her personal experience from illness to healing with unflinching honesty and a sharp wit...." Read more

"...desires, is something that terrifies a lot of women” captures her raw, real and honest approach to our cravings...." Read more

"...positive psychology, and real world work with clients in a an easy to read and engaging format...." Read more

"...Alex is raw, real, and willing to be transparent in order to offer alternatives to women who..." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's approach to weight loss, with one mentioning it provides more than just weight loss benefits, while another highlights its focus on gut health.

"...This book explores health and weight loss from a physical perspective, but also very much from an emotional perspective, and I think by taking a..." Read more

"...this book will help you approach cravings, challenges with weight loss, frustrations around wanting to feel comfortable in your body but you don't..." Read more

"...our bodies are trying to tell us so we can start living happier, healthier lives. I really loved the examples...." Read more

"I was truly inspired by this book! It showed me that eating healthy is about much more than counting calories, fat grams, or carbs--it's about..." Read more

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Alex Jamieson, also known as The Cravings Whisperer, has written a shiny, beautiful gem of a book that she is sending out into the world. This book is must-read to grow your energy, confidence, and deepen your self-love…and gain a deeper window into how to answer your physical, emotional, and spiritual cravings. Every woman should keep this book on her bedside table as a reminder to honor what the heart wants and bring our deepest desires to the surface. I loved it start to finish! Esther Blum,MS,RD,CDN,CNS Author of Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous and Cavewomen Don't Get Fat
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  • Diana L Susan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Life Changing!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2015
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    Women, Food, and Desire is one of the best self-help books I've ever read. Alexandra Jamison explores the concept that feeling shame over our desires for both food and sex is a uniquely feminine problem and a destructive societal construct. She encourages her readers to really tune in to what their cravings are trying to tell them instead of trying to bury them or mindlessly giving into our cravings with little enjoyment or understanding of where they come from. Throughout the book, she interweaves her personal experience from illness to healing with unflinching honesty and a sharp wit. The plan of action outlined in the book is to detox from the "Toxic 6" ingredients: sugar, dairy, caffeine, gluten, and corn and soy products for 2 weeks and then slowly add them back in noticing how they affect you physically and mentally when you reintroduce them. It took planning and preparation, but I was able to eliminate the Toxic 6 and experienced so many positive changes, that it forever altered the way I will nourish my body. I have a history of depression, thyroid disease, and hormone imbalances and in just those two weeks I had increased energy, better sleep, a steadier mood, clearer skin, healthier looking hair, and a slimmer body. This book explores health and weight loss from a physical perspective, but also very much from an emotional perspective, and I think by taking a hard look at why we do what we do, a lasting change is completely possible. As it states on the cover, this book has helped me reclaim my body and my right to fulfill my desires for the pleasures of both food and sex. I really needed reminding that while I'm taking care of others, including my husband and daughter, that I deserve to FEEL GOOD, and enjoy my life to the fullest.
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  • Laura Garnett
    5.0 out of 5 stars Do you want to remove food as your best friend, lover and first source of comfort? Read this book
    Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2015
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    This is not a diet book; this is a book that presents an evolution in how to approach life. I loved it and I love Alex’s casual and friendly charm.

    “I want a meatball and a man” and “Self-trust, which is the ability to tune into and honor one’s deepest desires, is something that terrifies a lot of women” captures her raw, real and honest approach to our cravings.

    She makes talking about a topic that everyone deals with, our eating habits, fun and thoughtful. She effortlessly weaves in science, personal stories and anecdotes from her clients in a way that makes the reader feel like you are on a weekend retreat with her and her wisdom. The book also helped me re-think my craving fixes. Is that what I really want? What do I really want in this moment and how can I be more innovative with it rather than default to a habit that doesn’t serve me?

    This is a book everyone needs as a reminder that we all have the power to manage our own relationship to food. Diets don’t work and that's because you are following someone else's rules. Alex helps the reader see that we have the power inside of us to create the relationship to food we want.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for recognizing why cravings are hard to control.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2015
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    I really enjoyed this book. I struggle with food addiction, and in this book it explains so much as to why we can't control our cravings when we aren't aware of the reasons why. I love the steps she includes to help curb cravings, and to empower the goddess inside us. Love it.
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  • aw
    5.0 out of 5 stars frustrations around wanting to feel comfortable in your body but you don't in ways that ...
    Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2015
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    alex offers a fresh and much needed perspective on the journey toward a healthy body and relationship with food. this book will help you approach cravings, challenges with weight loss, frustrations around wanting to feel comfortable in your body but you don't in ways that are positive, compassionate, and self-affirming. she combines her knowledge of functional nutrition, the importance of gut health, positive psychology, and real world work with clients in a an easy to read and engaging format. i have recommended it to a number of people and also recommend checking out alex's cravings cast podcasts and joining her on a cravings cleanse. alex clearly has a passion and joy for life that comes across in this book and she guides you to look below the surface of cravings to ask yourself what you really desire out of life.
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  • Besbah
    3.0 out of 5 stars A decent read
    Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2015
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    I was expecting more from this book. The title and concept seemed very interesting but I just couldn't get into it. It's a bit all over the place but has a good message running through it. I just felt like much of what she said isn't new, it was just presented in a different way. So, for me, it was just okay.
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  • Amy S.
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's only recently that I've seen that it's alright to acknowledge that I have desires and they're not a bad thing. This book wa
    Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2015
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    This is a book that I wish I had read years ago. Admitting what I really wanted in life, or even recognizing that I did want something, just didn't happen for me. It's only recently that I've seen that it's alright to acknowledge that I have desires and they're not a bad thing. This book walks through many types of cravings we experience, what they mean and how to make it easier to really know what our bodies are trying to tell us so we can start living happier, healthier lives.

    I really loved the examples. I find it pretty easy to read personal development books and tell myself that whatever the author suggests won't work for me because of x, y, z. The examples make it so much harder to give excuses of why I can't do what I'm reading and make it easier for me to see how I can take action.

    I've already become more aware about why I'm eating when I grab food and have tried to ask myself what I really need in that moment. I've got a long way to go, but I'm finally starting to recognize real hunger is not the same as feeling like I need food and am excited to start really exploring my food options as I get more in tune with what my cravings are really telling me.
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  • Klaudia
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book! Change a lot in my perspective towards ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2016
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    Amazing book! Change a lot in my perspective towards my body, my mind and my diet. First book which really got me to the point of believing that my body is my temple and I am the master of it!
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  • Eileen Coste
    5.0 out of 5 stars I was a bit puzzled and disappointed when I received an "Advance Reader's Edition - Not ...
    Reviewed in Canada on November 13, 2015
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    I was a bit puzzled and disappointed when I received an "Advance Reader's Edition - Not for Sale or Quotation" copy when I thought I was purchasing the finished product. With that, were edits that still needed to be made and areas left blank, such as the Epilogue and Acknowledgement pages. It didn't matter though. This book was still a fantastic, juicy, one-of-a-kind read. I recommend it to every woman, even those who feel they have a "handle on life". Alexandra says things in such a way that what I grew in my mind as insurmountable challenges, are expressed in easy, relaxed, do-able, non-judgemental terms. This is definitely not just about food. It's about near-everything a woman can be thinking or doing in their life. I feel a lot more confident and relaxed moving forward. I couldn't get enough of it. I just want to read the book all over again to soak up bits I might have missed. I'll not be giving this book away any time soon but will for sure be buying copies for the women in my life who I love and care about. A stellar book. Thanks Alexandra!!!
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  • JOYCAT
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's not about the food!
    Reviewed in Australia on August 7, 2015
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    Fantastic insights that helped me see that the reasons I eat are often not about food.
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  • D'Artagnan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bought for my daughter - helpful and well written posted ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2015
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    Bought for my daughter - helpful and well written posted promptly
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    5.0 out of 5 stars great read, with some aha parts
    Reviewed in Canada on September 28, 2016
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    great read, with some aha parts, and relatable. If you're interested in the psychology of your relationship with food, have struggled with food, and/or have an unhealthy relationship with food, Alexandra writes to you. Her podcast is also really good
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