Moving Away From Diets: Healing Eating Problems and Exercise Resistance
Authors: Karin Kratina, PhD, RD,
Nancy King, MS, RD & Dayle Hayes, MS, RD
Second Edition, 2003
5
new chapters, 276 pages
This focus of this book is on how to quit dieting, heal eating problems, overcome exercise resistance and manage weight naturally.
It was written for professionals, but its easy-to-read style has made it popular with those who simply want to get off the diet roller coaster.

This book takes you step-by-step through implementing the nondiet approach. Clinicians will be able to immediately implement the detailed counseling strategies and techniques that are discussed in a simple, easy-to-understand way.
Numerous handouts are provided to help you easily use this nondiet approach in your practice. Easy-to-read case studies will show you this approach in action.
Learn how to:
- reconnect with and trust internal signals of hunger and satiety;
- feel more comfortable in the body immediately;
- begin to eat more healthfully without the use of cognitive restraint;
- find a natural and healthy weight;
- overcome exercise resistance;
- decode eating behaviors and body image concerns.
Key Benefits
For Clinicians
The specific and detailed stepwise counseling strategies will shorten your learning curve and enable you to begin using this approach immediately. Enjoy your work more with this effective, compassionate approach to treating food and weight issues. Consider using this approach in:
- private practice
- university settings
- managed care organizations
- hospitals
- corporate wellness programs
For Professors
Moving Away From Diets is an excellent addition to college level course work, appropriate for nutrition, counseling, health promotion and fitness curriculums. It is currently required reading at major universities across the US.
For the Public
This easy-to-read paradigm-shifting book provides valuable information and support for changing relationship with food and exercise. Learn how to manage weight without dieting; heal diet trauma; overcome exercise resistance and how to eat when hungry and quit when satisfied. Tools increase awareness and support a new eating style.
Chapters include:
- Weight, Health and Culture: A Time For Change
- Metabolic Fitness: A Non-Weight Centered Approach to Wellness
- Health At Every Size, Health for Every Body
- Size and Self-Acceptance: Hating the Body a Little Less
- Loving the Body You Have: Size-Acceptance
- Understanding Disconnected Eating
- HungerWork: Discovering Physically-Connected Eating
- HungerWork: Heal Disconnected Eating
- HungerWork: Promoting Joyful and Healthful Eating
- Joyful Movement
- Advanced Counseling Concepts
- Concepts in Action
Pricing
| Description | Price |
|---|---|
| Moving Away From Diets | $40 |
| Moving Away From Diets Handouts | $45 |
| Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Tools | $28.95 |
To Order
Moving Away from Diets can be ordered directly from Gurze, or ordered using the order form.
The handouts can only be ordered using the order form. A discount is offered when both Moving Away From Diets and those handouts are ordered together.
And free...download handouts such as the Hunger/Satiety Food Journal for your own use, or to use with clients.
