Anybody who has tried to lose weight, successfully or unsuccessfully, knows that weight loss isn’t about the calories, or the type of diet, or even really about the genetics or body type; it isn’t about fat, food or exercise—though of course all of these things come into play. Most fundamentally, healthy eating and body weight is about developing a relationship with yourself.
Tarika Lovegarden sees this clearly in a way few others do. In Meditations on the Fridge, she offers people a path to a deeper understanding of themselves. She softly teaches us that our struggles with eating patterns and weight are simply an opportunity to become more connected and whole within ourselves. This connection—really it’s about Self-love—is fundamental to any successful weight loss strategy. Too often it is never discovered, or it’s stumbled upon haphazardly after much angst. Too often diet experts and health coaches do not fully understood this dynamic or completely miss its fundamental relevance.
Tarika Lovegarden is clearly an expert in the field. What sets her apart is her honestly and compassion. She struggles with the very things we all do around food and eating. In this book you get an expert guiding hand, but even more, you feel as though you have a friend walking beside you rather than an expert looking down on you. The book is full of practical advice. There are many, many exercises designed to develop an aware and balanced relationship with our bodies, our minds and our hearts.
One caveat. The kindle version does not have a table of contents with hyperlinks to the text and chapters within. Navigation can be frustrating, especially for a book that can and should be used both as a general reference and a daily guide to eating practices. I encourage your patience with this. The content and ideas are worth this minor inconvenience. This isn’t simply a good book for those looking to lose weight and develop more healthy eating patterns; I would suggest it is a necessary one.
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