Never Binge Again(tm): Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person. Stop Overeating and Binge Eating and Stick to the Food Plan of Your Choice!

The content of this book is very good and relevant for our times. Coddling and tolerating our gluttonous ways isn’t working. As a society, we are fatter than ever. This book was a helpful resource to me on my journey to better health and fitness. I’ve lost some weight and reframed my eating habits by applying the concepts in the book.Anyone who has taken up a serious study of the deadly sin of gluttony will make the connection between fighting “the flesh” and entity the author calls “the pig”. This book is basically tells you how to overcome gluttony without bringing religion into it. This book is not a cure-all. For me, it takes prayer, study, constant vigilance, and a lot of meal planning and effort to stay on track. In our modern society, food is literally pushed in our faces 24/7. Temptations are dangled before our eyes at every turn. But Grace also abounds.Some reviewers were offended by the pig references in this book. It’s noteworthy than the historical symbol for gluttony happens to be a disgusting, ravenous pig with a luxurious feast set before it. Anyone who expects to overcome any type of disordered eating should undertake a study of the deadly sin of gluttony to fully understand the nature of the beast (or pig). How can you expect win if you don’t know the nature of your enemy?Gluttony isn’t just about overeating. It consists of binging, purging, eating too early, too often, too quickly, too much, eating fancy food/high calorie “dainties”, or acting rude, fussy, or self-righteous about food. The author encourages us to make simple, healthy meals from whole foods. Avoid additives and junk. Gluttony isn’t about being overweight per se, although weight problems are an obvious consequence of gluttony. A person can be thin or athletic and still be a glutton.Whatever you choose to call it, “the pig” in this book is just a symbolic reference pointing us to the selfish, illogical, self-indulgent, and destructive side of of our human nature that relentlessly seeks pleasure by endulging in the things of this world (food, but also sugary drinks and alcohol) and without any regard for the consequences. The voice of the pig is akin to the spiritual concept of “Logismoi”. The pig’s domain is where our basest human instincts reside, but that space isn’t who we actually are. The author makes the point repeatedly that he isn’t calling us pigs. The bottom line is that we don’t have to obey the voice of the Logismoi (i.e. the pig, the beast, or whatever you choose to call it). We absolutely can and should resist!To overcome any type of disordered eating, we need to confront the ugly side of our human nature and subdue it (the author says to “cage it”). For me personally, I see this as the Christian concept of resisting and subduing the flesh. I call it “the beast” because disordered appetites can definitely influence us to behave like a wild beast. Choose whatever label works for you.We (collectively) should stop thinking of our disordered eating problems as “special” and unique to our times. We’ve been battling the same issues, back to antiquity. In the beginning, we were kicked out of the Garden of Eden over the act of eating (forbidden food). We need to be honest with ourselves about how we got into this trap of using food as a drug, joy, or comfort. Overindulgence actually brings addiction, misery, and loss. The author does a great job pointing this out. It really made me think.The book has a chapter devoted to setbacks. Understanding why we act as we do is great for insight, but ruminating over the past or why we fell short is unproductive. Stop looking back. Boldly move forward. If you get off track, immediately shake it off. It may take a year or more to learn how to handle food and lose the extra weight, but the time is going to go by anyway. Where could we be a year from now, if we started addressing this today?The author makes the point that we need to allow the good, intelligent, rational side of our nature rule over our eating habits: what we eat, when we eat, where we eat, and how much we eat. We should eat to live, not live to eat. Make some rules and stick to it. Start prioritizing our humanity and our character. Tell the pig to shut up as soon as those ugly, base instincts start to rise up in the mind (the Logismoi). Yes, we can and should talk back!Finally, a word about the reviews. Each person must choose their own path. People who believe in “fat acceptance”, “loving yourself as you are”, or shifting the blame to a “diseased state” (outside of your control) are probably not ready to take on this monumental, epic fight against gluttony. Yes, it’s the fight of your life whether you acknowledge it or not.On the other hand, some people will be willing to face the fact that there is nothing to admire, love, or respect about gluttony and the impact it has on our lives. An even smaller subset will actually rise up, formulate a “gluttony action plan”, implement it, and eventually be victorious. This book is just a tool to assist people in the latter category. Broad is the way to destruction. Narrow is the gate.

I've put off writing this review for a couple of months because I wanted to be sure that this book is everything I thought it was going to be, and 25 lbs. later I can safely say it has changed my life and I will forever be grateful for it.I am not yet at my goal weight, in fact I have quite a way to go, but I know that I am a changed person. I know that I will get to where I want to be thanks to Dr. Livingston's techniques. And the best part of it is, this IS NOT a battle. I no longer feel like I'm trying to climb Mt. Everest. I don't feel like I'm expending all kinds of mental energy to keep up willpower. I've caged the pig - my inner food demon - and now I can live life like a regular, fit, healthy, non-food obsessed individual.I have struggled with my weight for my entire life. I have at one time or another been on every conceivable diet. They all have the potential to work, until you run out of willpower, stop doing them and end up gaining everything you've lost back and then some. Over the years I've come to know that I am not overweight because I haven't found the right diet, I'm overweight because I haven't found a way to overcome my inner demons - my ADDICTION to food.This book addresses that problem head-on, in a simple and effective way. It IS NOT a diet book. It focuses directly on how to simply and effectively overcome the inner demon, (or inner pig,) and break the lifelong cycle. I knew when I first read the book that this was something profoundly different, and felt that it had the potential to change my life. Now after a couple of months of following the techniques in it, I am 100% convinced that I will never go back to where I was before. This is truly the fix I've been searching for my entire adult life.I urge anyone who has struggled with obesity to give this book a chance and see if it will work for you as it is working for me. You LITERALLY have nothing to lose (except your excess weight) - it is FREE on Kindle. The author, Dr. Glenn Livingston offers paid coaching and related services, but honestly, this is such an easy concept that this book is all you need.In response to what seems to be the common theme in the negative reviews I will say this. If you have read this book and think that it encourages negative self-talk, self-shaming, etc., then you have completely missed the point. This book is all about self-EMPOWERMENT and self-LOVE. What could possibly be a more poignant act of self-love than to stop killing yourself with food, once and for all? What could possibly be a more empowering and liberating feeling than knowing that you have finally overcome the voice in your head that has been driving you toward killing yourself with food?I will go out on a limb and say that most anyone who is struggling with obesity and overcoming overeating is ALREADY engaged in tons of truly destructive negative self-talk, and living a life filled with shame. The whole point of this book is to offer an escape from that. But, hey, if you think that you can nurture yourself thin by embracing your inner child, then more power to you. I hope it works for you. For me, I feel a heck of a lot better about and supportive of myself now that I've caged my inner pig.Dr. Livingston, if you happen to read these reviews, THANK YOU. You've changed my life, probably even saved my life. I will forever be grateful.

I never binge again since I read this book, and I love the results, it is a very different perspective and a new way to change how you think, this book will really help you for the rest of your live if you are 100% comitted to defeat the binging, you can do it, but you must read this master pice.

I used to binge eat because somewhere, deep down, binging or the giving up of control felt free and fun. "Food rules" and "shouldn't eat this" lists made me feel like they stopped me from having fun. But reading this book made me re-examine the voice in my head telling me to "be free and binge". I began to hear it for what it was, the voice of "you're in my control now and I will continue to nag and hound you until you give me what I want." In real life, when people act this way, I stop hanging out with them. Similarly, understanding the different ways my inner "Pig" comes up with wily, sneaky ways to sabotage my health by binging, made me want to get better and never binge again. I recommend this book for anyone trying to quit binging. You can do it. Don't listen to the voice that tells you otherwise.

I ordered the free Kindle version of this book and was extremely skeptical of whether it would be worth the time to read. I am so glad I did! At first the ideas seemed ridiculous and far too simple to work. Why is it that so many of us distrust things that are simple? This book has helped me regain a feeling sanity around many trigger foods. Amazing. I love that the food rules I chose to follow are 100% my own and work for my life. Never Binge Again helps clear so much of the confusion around food without promoting any kind of diet philosophy. It simply helps you recognise what does and does not work for you and helps you to do what YOU really want to do. Very, very fun and empowering book.

I bought this book 5 days ago and it has flicked a switch in me that I didn't think was possible. I read the reviews, which seemed to veer between awesome and terrible. I wondered whether the style of the book would be to my liking.To my surprise I found it entertaining, funny, insightful and pretty revolutionary. I've tried many things over the years to lose weight. Mostly 'diets' that prescribe a certain way of eating. Calorie counting, you name it I tried it. What I realised after reading this book , was that I was always trying to have my cake and eat it. Always trying to find the way of eating that offered me a way to eat certain foods and still lose weight. I have a relatively healthy diet but I have always had a problem with craving salty and sweet snack foods. Which was probably undoing the rest of the good in my diet.After reading this book, I was able to identify exactly which foods were my triggers, which are of course the foods that I should be avoiding. I used to take constant trips to the cupboard looking for crisps, chocolate, biscuits, a pre-packaged 'healthy' snack. I did not eat these foods in huge volumes but they were a daily feature, and I felt helpless around them. I decided to put all of those pre-packaged snacks on a very restricted list. ( I already have a very long list of 'never' foods due to being vegan). I will only eat them if its someone's birthday or Christmas. To be honest I'm not even thinking about them or pining for them, I've barely given them a second thought. I've developed a kind of hatred for these foods, I'm seeing them as the enemy! This is in contradiction to everything else I've ever tried where you are taught that no food is bad, and everything in moderation blah blah. For me that clearly doesn't work.I particularly enjoyed visualising a larger version of myself or even the 'pig' locked in a cage, I actually found that very amusing! This is the voice in my head that I really hate, so I was all too happy to finally take some control over it. I think the 'pig' knew I meant it as that voice has shut right up. If it dares pipe up I laugh at it and enjoy throwing imaginary insults at it! It's important to realise that you are not the pig. You are separate from the pig, the pig is just a voice in your head. I guess this technique might not be for everyone but for me its working a treat. In 5 days I'm down 4lbs. Thats the kind of weight loss I could expect if I was following weightwatchers and I would be feeling deprived. I am not feeling deprived at all, I feel liberated.I'm now working my way through the podcasts, and feeling so grateful for stumbling across this book.

Read most of it in one sitting - insightful, entertaining, and most importantly it works. As a fitness professional I read a lot of info on overcoming unhealthy and unwanted habits and by far this is the best I've seen.Separating our true selves and true desires from the desires of the 'pig' - who is not our true self - not us at all - is genius.I also loved the truth that we can choose to stop unwanted behaviours before we know the cause - even if getting to the root is good and necessary - it is empowering to know we can 'just stop it' even as we are in a healing process.Thank you for writing this liberating and empowering book!