Break the binge/diet cycle today! Based on Marilyn Migliore's highly successful treatment program, which she designed at St.  Luke's-Roosevelt/A University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, The Hunger Within offers a twelve-week program for compulsive overeaters that provides real hope for lifelong weight loss. If you've struggled with weight your whole life, chances are you know that diets don't work, and that most people who lose weight put it back on.  Finally, here is a book that takes the focus off food and guides dieters through an intensive psychological program that includes daily writing exercises to help the compulsive eater get in touch with the hungry child within. The Hunger Within shows the yo-yo dieter how his or her individual struggle with eating and weight is a response to feelings of emotional deprivation that are established in early childhood, when the ways we're soothed and punished are established.  This concrete, lucid, step-by-step guide explores the core reasons for overeating, identifies the triggers that precipitate bingeing, and helps readers to break the vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting.  Each week, the reader listens in on three fictional program participants, and is encouraged to do the weekly exercises as if participating him- or herself. If you've wanted to join a group or treatment program to help you lose weight, or if you're a last-ditch dieter, The Hunger Within offers a guided course that you can do in your own home and at your own pace. Filled with: Motivational Sayings Guided Weekly "Sessions" Exercises to Help You Stay on Track Hunger Awareness Diary Vicious Cycle Worksheet Weekly Food For Thought Break the binge/diet cycle today! Based on Marilyn Migliore's highly successful treatment program, which she designed at St.  Luke's-Roosevelt/A University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, The Hunger Within offers a twelve-week program for compulsive overeaters that provides real hope for lifelong weight loss. If you've struggled with weight your whole life, chances are you know that diets don't work, and that most people who lose weight put it back on.  Finally, here is a book that takes the focus off food and guides dieters through an intensive psychological program that includes daily writing exercises to help the compulsive eater get in touch with the hungry child within. The Hunger Within shows the yo-yo dieter how his or her individual struggle with eating and weight is a response to feelings of emotional deprivation that are established in early childhood, when the ways we're soothed and punished are established.  This concrete, lucid, step-by-step guide explores the core reasons for overeating, identifies the triggers that precipitate bingeing, and helps readers to break the vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting.  Each week, the reader listens in on three fictional program participants, and is encouraged to do the weekly exercises as if participating him- or herself. If you've wanted to join a group or treatment program to help you lose weight, or if you're a last-ditch dieter, The Hunger Within offers a guided course that you can do in your own home and at your own pace. Filled with: Motivational Sayings Guided Weekly "Sessions" Exercises to Help You Stay on Track Hunger Awareness Diary Vicious Cycle Worksheet Weekly Food For Thought Marilyn Migliore is a certified nutritionist and psychotherapist who has worked as a group and individual counselor for people with eating disorders for more than twenty years.  She currently works in private practice and conducts her nationally recognized workshops for compulsive eaters in Manhattan. Prologue Seated at a long oval table in a nondescript room on the ninth floor of an outpatient medical office building in Manhattan, a group of self-conscious adults are introducing themselves. Fern describes herself in clipped tones as an attorney who is a partner in a small firm that specializes in real estate law.  She is a graduate of Ivy League schools and has lived alone in the fifteen years since getting her first job.  Unsurprisingly, the most intimate information Fern provides about herself concerns the reason she is here: "I have lost and gained more than five hundred pounds since my teens," she says, pain radiating from eyes that have receded into a fleshy face.  "I have taken all kinds of diet pills and have been on six separate liquid diets.  I have lost count of the number of weight-loss programs I've 'successfully' attended.  I've come to think of dieting as my real profession.  And although I realize that the vicious cycle of losing weight, then putting it back on plus some more, happens to more than ninety percent of dieters, that's hardly a consolation.  I've never weighed as much as I weigh now, and I feel like I'm caught in a nightmarish maze with no exit." Knowing nods from three or