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Allen Carr

Set Yourself Free from Binge-Eating and Comfort-Eating

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    The cage of addiction

    Emotional eating is like a cage: although it seems to provide a temporary escape from feelings of stress, loneliness, and anxiety, in fact, it traps us in endless cycles of false pleasure and pain. We mindlessly consume junk food to numb difficult emotions we don't want to feel. But in doing so, we only really succeed in amplifying those same emotions.

    And no matter what you tell yourself, this cage can’t be escaped through sheer self-control alone. To break free, you need to dismantle the very belief systems and programming that keep you trapped to begin with.

    Allen Carr's Easyway method has helped millions of people quit another dangerous addiction – the addiction of smoking. Like tobacco, junk food addiction is also built on lies and illusions: the lie that we’re giving up something precious by abstaining.

    Since childhood, you’ve been conditioned to equate junk with happiness – candy as a reward, cake as celebration. You’ve been programmed to see quitting as deprivation. But in fact, by escaping, you lose nothing but suffering.

    Don’t worry, the path ahead isn’t one of white-knuckled deprivation, but joyful liberation. With a positive mindset focused on freedom, you can dismantle the illusions and conditioning that have long kept you trapped. 

    Millions have succeeded before you. If you’re willing to unlearn what you believe about food and pleasure, you too can break free into a new future. And you’ll find, as so many others have, that the cage that once trapped you has vanished entirely. You’ll emerge to a life bigger and brighter than the one you left behind.

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    What is Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating about?

    Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating (2019) guides compulsive eaters past the mental traps that lead to overindulgence. It applies the "Easyway" method which has already helped millions quit smoking and expands on it to uncover the psychological roots of our unhealthy impulses, freeing us to rediscover balanced eating habits.

    Who should read Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating?

    • Emotional eaters looking to quit
    • Individuals skeptical about willpower-based methods
    • Anyone looking to adopt healthier eating habits

    About the Author

    Allen Carr struggled with a severe smoking addiction for over 30 years before developing his Easyway method which enabled him to quit smoking overnight. Carr went on to author the best-selling book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, which has sold over 13 million copies globally. He’s become a renowned guide to helping people overcome numerous addictive and unwanted behaviors.

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