Don’t Eat That
What if the problem was never a lack of willpower?
Don’t Eat That is not another diet book telling you to try harder. Written by practising psychotherapist Disree Shaw, it is the first book to fuse psychodynamic therapy and CBT specifically around the way we really eat — drawing on Disree’s own journey of losing almost five stone in under four months, not through misery or punishment, but by understanding herself differently.
Because food is rarely just about food. It is connected to attachment, stress, shame, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. This book maps the hidden emotional patterns behind emotional eating, bingeing, restriction, and the exhausting cycle of being “good” and then feeling “bad” — and shows you exactly how to step out of them, for good.
Inside, you will discover:
– How your attachment style shapes your relationship with food
– The Food Triangle: the three roles you unconsciously rotate through with eating, and how to break the cycle
– The five core emotional needs food can never fully meet
– How to challenge the unhealthy beliefs driving your eating patterns, using tools from REBT and CBT
– Why “food noise” is not a personal failing, and how to quiet it
– A compassionate, evidence-based path from self-criticism to self-trust
Part memoir, part clinical guide, Don’t Eat That is for anyone who has felt trapped in their body, trapped in a diet, or trapped in the belief that they simply lack willpower. This book will show you it was never about willpower at all.
If you are ready to understand your relationship with food differently — not through willpower, but through insight — start reading today.
Discover Your Attachment Style With Food
A full 100-question quiz, built on attachment theory.
Curious About the Full Picture?
If either quiz gave you a glimpse of your own pattern, the book goes much further — with worked exercises in every chapter, so it functions as much as a workbook as it does a read.
About the Author
Disree Shaw is an NCPS-accredited psychotherapist with 18 years of clinical experience, practising from Harley Street. Don’t Eat That is her first book, and the opening title in the Don’t Do That series.