Allison thank you so much for your response! Yes, I agree on the jumping right in, I'm being really gentle with myself, remembering it's progress not perfection and the real reason I am here - I want to improve my relationship with food because I do not want to live the rest of my life obsessed with food (what I ate, what I'm going to eat, what I can't eat, so on and so on....). If I could get credits for "diets" I would be a PHD and I have to say Dr. DesMaisons approach is the most reasonable, gentle and logical food book I have ever read. The concept of this being a bio-chemical issue instead (or shall I say combined with) an emotional issue blew my mind and it shouldn't have. I have been in recovery from alcohol for 4 years, Without much effort, I went from a woman who with high-risk obesity to normal weight for the very first time in my life (at 38!). I thought "wow, those beer calories really added up"...but now I see it was the cycle. Drink, eat ravenously, drink, repeat. Anyhow - I've gone on much too long! THANK YOU