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The National Center for Overcoming Overeating is an educational and training organization working to end body hatred and dieting. It was started in 1989 by Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann, authors of Overcoming Overeating and When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies. Jane is also the co-author of Preventing Childhood Eating Problems. Carol started the first anti-dieting group for women in 1970. Both are psychotherapists in New York City who have been working with women with compulsive eating problems for twenty-five years. The National Center for Overcoming Overeating has offices in New York City, Chicago, Houston, New England, and Atlanta.

The National Center for Overcoming Overeating launched The Women's Campaign to End Body Hatred and Dieting in March 1995 with a series of speakouts on the topic of body hatred and dieting in cities throughout the country. The time has come for us to stop the dieting that has become a life-long, life-draining preoccupation. Dieting has turned millions of us into food junkies, driven compulsive eaters who grow fatter every year. The time has come for us to enjoy our bodies in all their diversity. The time has come for us to reclaim our appetites, our bodies, and our lives.

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Jane R. Hirschmann, M.S.W., (left) is a psychotherapist in private practice who specializes in treating women and children with eating problems. She was on the faculty of the New School for Social Research for more than a decade. She is the codirector of the National Center for Overcoming Overeating, and coauthor of "Preventing Childhood Eating Problems" (Gurze Books).

Carol H. Munter (right) is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist. She started the first anti-dieting group for women in 1970. She was a member of the faculty of the New School for Social Research. Currently, she is the codirector of the National Center for Overcoming Overeating.

The Overcoming Overeating Philosophy

Compulsive eaters are people whose hands or minds move toward food when they are not at all hungry. Compulsive eating has nothing to do with the size of your body. Compulsive eaters come in all shapes and sizes. Compulsive eating has to do with how many hours you spend preoccupied with thoughts about what you are eating and what you look like. The Overcoming Overeating approach does not address eating disorders; it addresses dieting disorders, the casualties of the diet industry.
Compulsive eating may seem self-destructive, but it is always an attempt at self-help.
Diets never, ever solve eating and weight problems. Diets cause compulsive eating.
Significant change flows only from self-acceptance, never from self-contempt.
Food is not the compulsive eater's problem, it is the solution. The Overcoming Overeating approach teaches people how to eat their way out of an eating problem.

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For a more in-depth view of the principles of the Overcoming Overeating approach, read "Overcoming Overeating" and "When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies" by Jane R. Hirschmann & Carol H. Munter, published by Fawcett.

You can reach the National Center for Overcoming Overeating by calling 212-582-0383.

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