Book Description
For most Americans weight = quality of life. We all have a compelling desire: a) To feel vital and energetic b) To feel attractive and desirable c) To be able to participate in whatever activities we want d) To feel secure that our physical profile is healthy Yet despite the fact that 52 million Americans are on a diet, they invest $40 billion/year in diet products, and run up a $110 billion annual tab in health related costs, 2 out of 3 Americans are considered overweight. The End of Diets offers: #1 An analysis of why, for an emotional eater, traditional weight loss approaches, such as exercise, diets, external motivation, and will power, are conclusively ineffective. This analysis explains why only 3% of anyone that attempts a traditional weight loss approach is successful in keeping the weight off long-term. #2 – A thorough explanation of how an emotional eater uses food to deal with the ups and downs of life. #3 – Insight into how emotions are process in the body. #4 – An explanation of the top emotions that lead to overeating. #5 – Explanations of how emotional eaters must first learn to be with their emotions instead of eating through them, before they can be successful in losing weight permanently. #6 – Useful tools for emotional eaters to stop using food to cope with the ups and downs of life: a) Understand how food is used as a repression mechanism to avoid our emotions b) How to develop the body awareness to recognize the emotional hunger c) Recognize the body sensations behind the emotional hunger. d) Learn how to be with the feeling until they dissipate and stop manifesting as emotional hunger. #7 – A long-term plan to be successful in loosing the weight once and for all.


About the Author
Dilia De La Altagracia’s life is a profile of the American Dream. She was born in Dominican Republic, and when she was 13, her family immigrated to the United States. She went on to study Math and Physics at Rutgers University. Her career in the software industry took her from a system analyst to teaching programming courses at the college level, to project management, and finally to a career as a sought-after crisis project repair consultant. After 20 years in the computer business, she had achieved her career dream: the title of Director of Software managing a $50M international project in Buenos Aires where she oversaw a team of 40 bilingual professionals. Financially, she had everything: house, cars and a six-figure income. Because of her weight Dilia lived in an agonizing world of not being socially acceptable. Despite above average intelligence, career and financial success, juxtaposed against this successful backdrop there was the other emotional world of self-loathing. She went on popular diets, purchased exercise equipment, joined health clubs and hired personal trainers. With each new attempt she experienced some weight loss, but like many dieters, she seemed to gain the weight within months of achieving her short-term success. Her book, "The End of Diets: Healing Emotional Hunger" is not only an insight into the world of an emotional eater, a profile most ‘normal’ people seldom get to see. More importantly, the book is an examination by a world -lass professional analyst of why an emotional eater cannot be successful with the traditional methods and what tools are available to end the emotional eating and finally be successful in long term weight loss.