I'm not very overweight but I have had my weight bounce up and down for years never able to meet my goal of a healthy weight. I saw food as a necessity and a balm in bouts of depression. I really enjoyed the journey the authors shared and thankful for their insight.

I'm not overweight, but I'm struggling with food cravings. This book have been helpful to me, and with a Christian perspective this book is an eye opening.

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When I first picked up this book I quite honestly wasn't sure what to expect.  This is not a book about any particular diet but more about the journey Michael Brown took to realize his unhealthy relationship with food and how, with the help of his wife Nancy, he has broken this stronghold in his life and has had victory over his addiction.  Nancy expresses her opinion throughout the book which I really enjoyed.  It's nice to get a woman's perspective on her husband's journey and she even shares her own story about breaking her personal food addiction at the end of the book.  

Throughout the book, Michael Brown references Dr. Joel Fuhrman and his books The End of Dieting and Eat to Live.  If you are wanting to know more about plan that Michael and Nancy followed to lose weight and gain control of their addictions you should check out both of these resources.  Breaking the Stronghold of Food is more about their personal testimonies as well as the spiritual aspect of food and how it can become more than just a way to sustain life.

At the end of each chapter they have Questions for Reflection which helps you grasp a deeper understanding about what was discussed in that particular chapter and helps you as you begin your own journey to discovery.  The last chapter also has several recommendations to help you start your pilgrimage to breaking your bondage with food.

This book is very well written and I enjoyed reading about Michael and Nancy's journeys but I must be honest, I was hoping for more.  Many of the tips shared in the book are the same old tips that you read in almost every diet/weight loss book or blog.  I did enjoy the Biblical references which is a reminder to myself that God must be a big part of my weight loss story but other than that it was just one couple's weight loss journey by faith.

I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review

This is a book about two peoples journey of weight loss and how they think you can do it- and they call you fat and overweight throughout the book - pretty much that is the whole book - their story about their weight loss and not a lot of help on how to get you to lose and telling you that if you eat this way or that way you are weak or this name or that name and your are overweight and fat, but we are not and this is our story - it doesn't go into detail step by step on how to lose the weight - you need to exercise - well - yeah - our doctors tell us this already - don't need to spend the money to have someone tell us this without telling us how exactly to lose the many many pounds.

Dr. Brown points out in the book, Christians in general don't look on gluttony/obesity as a sin. I realize that not everyone who is obese or overweight is a glutton, but many of us OUT THERE ARE. I have been overweight since I was about 21-22 years old I was not MAJOR over weight until I had my first daughter 11 years ago though, but I did start to pack on weight about age 21. In my early years I will admit YES I was glutton filled, but after I had my two kids and joined my church things changed a lot. I have been eating healthy, but have my BAD DAYS from time to time, but show me someone who does not. Food has always been a HARD subject for me because I have had eating disorders from childhood and have ALWAYS looked as food as BAD, all food! Just in the past 2 years I craved JUNK food BAD and just recently found out the reason I CRAVED these certain foods was because my body was trying to tell me something is wrong. I have not figures out what was wrong, and how to treat the MEDICAL side of it and to be honest it has taken away 80% of the cravings I use to have. Don't get me wrong I have been craving CHOCOLATE bad but because my Magnesium is VERY low, and it is not any chocolate, it is DARK I crave so I am now drinking " Crio Bru" VERY good for you, look it up you would be surprised ;) . I still eat it though but not as much lol. So yes I can see where FOOD is GLUTTON and how people " Christians and non " over look the fact IT IS A SIN!

This book is very candid in calling food addictions and overeating sin. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and instead of treating those temples with honor and care, many of us abuse our temples with too much food ( that is not good for us). If we are sinning in this way, we need to repent and turn away, just like any other kind of sin,because it is a sin!, a sin is a sin! I will be honest I have never prayed for repent for this so after reading this book I am NOW repenting for the THINGS I eat and how I eat them.

As most of you know I started Whole30 , Paleo type eating in October 2016, yes I am NEW to this, but I have been doing HIGH protein diets for three years now! First year I lost a lot of weight then somehow gained it back them some so I stopped my diet for about 6 months ( depression set in). I am now feeling better about foods, and now seeing the right and wrong way to eat, cook, and now how to repent .
This book will OPEN your eyes, atleast it did for me! If you would like to know more about this book please look here: http://strongholdoffood.com/

Good book with good information about how addictive foods affect your body and your ability to stop eating them. It provides direction on how to break free from addictive foods that makes sense.

3.5 Stars
'Breaking the Stronghold of Food: How We Conquered Food Addictions and Discovered a New Way of Living' by Michael L. Brown. Michael and Nancy who are the authors of this book go through their journey of loosing their weight. How it went hand in hand with their beliefs in God. This is so much a diet book but a book on how to be better with handling your food addition by witnessing how Michael and Nancy went through their battle. "My honest review is for a special copy I voluntarily read."