Your Diet Is Driving Me Crazy: When Food Conflicts Get in the Way of Your Love Life - Softcover

Sass, Cynthia; Maher, Denise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156924474X ISBN 13: 9781569244746

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2004

Synopsis

Whether they have been together for two weeks or twenty years, many couples struggle with subtle—and sometimes serious—eating tensions. These issues almost inevitably simmer, eventually becoming an emotional drain and leading to intimacy problems and dysfunctional eating. Now, in, nationally recognized nutrition expert Cynthia Sass—an official spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association—identifies and addresses nearly twenty food-conflict situations and shares her secrets to ending food fights and finding ways of eating better together. Readers will closely identify with the book's real-life scenarios—when one partner has picky eating habits, or encourages another to overeat, or gets irritable when hungry, or when a partner begins a new diet (or, worse, a radical new diet). And they will embrace Sass's original, creative strategies and suggestions—advice that is deeply rooted in her decade of working with thousands of couples in a wide variety of settings. Your Diet is Driving Me Crazy is the first book to acknowledge the problem of relationship-driven food conflicts and to offer comprehensive, sensible strategies and solutions for resolving them.

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About the Author

CYNTHIA SASS, MPH, MA, RD, is a registered dietitian and nationally recognized health expert who has been working with couples on their food issues for ten years. She is a national media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, the largest group of food and nutrition professionals in the country, and she teaches at University of South Florida. She is seen regularly by 40,000 Tampa Bay residents who watch her Life Matters health segments on the local CBS affiliate’s morning show. She has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Glamour, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Day, Ladies Home Journal, and many other publications. She lives in Tampa, Florida.

DENISE MAHER is a freelance writer whose stories about health, fitness, nutrition, and relationships have appeared in Self, Cosmopolitan, Details, Time Out New York, Mademoiselle, New York, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

From Publishers Weekly

Although its title implies that this book will address the conflicts that arise when one half of a couple goes on a diet like Atkins or The Zone, dietician and nutrition expert Sass and freelance writer Maher instead explore how one person's unhealthy relationship with food can ruin his or her love life. Sass differentiates between food pet peeves, such as eating with the television on or leaving the milk out, and more serious food conflicts: e.g., when one person becomes a "food cop" who monitors every morsel going into the other's mouth, when a couple can't find time to eat together, when a vegetarian and omnivore become romantically involved, when an individual needs to change his or her diet for health reasons, when one partner unconsciously makes the other overeat or when one person has an eating disorder. To help couples facing any of these critical problems, the authors present the SANITY model, an acronym for "See the problem"; "Ask your partner to understand the problem"; "Negotiate a compromise"; "Imagine creative solutions"; "Take advantage of outside resources"; and "Yuck it up... to dissolve tension." This hard-to-remember acronym may be too vague to be of any use, but the charts, quizzes, role-playing scenarios and direct advice dotted throughout the book are useful. If readers can see past the misleading title, they'll find a wealth of information to help them laugh all the way from the kitchen to the bedroom.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 156924474X
• ISBN 13: 9781569244746
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256