Body Hunger: The Psychosomatics of Excess Weight. How to Stop Comforting Yourself with Food and Program Your Brain for Slimness

The audiobook is narrated by the author herself—a doctor-psychosomatologist—so the sound maintains a calm, therapeutic atmosphere. The practices are placed in separate tracks and complemented with musical-noise design: you can turn them on separately and do the exercises whenever it suits you.

“Listen and lose weight” here isn’t a slogan for advertising—it’s a thoughtfully designed system. This is the first book about excess weight grounded in scientific psychosomatics: instead of endless diets, restrictions, and recurring relapses, you go through a consistent training path toward new relationships with food, your body, and yourself. It’s not about “pull yourself together and just eat less.” It’s about the reasons food became a way to comfort—and about how, gently (without pressure and violence), to re-tune your brain toward caring for yourself and sustainable slimness—not toward shame and self-punishment.

If you’re tired of counting calories, worrying about every bite, “relapsing” at night, and waking up in guilt in the morning, this book is for you. It shows how excess weight can be not only a matter of nutrition, but also a physical agreement with anxiety, loneliness, childhood pain, and family scripts. Why your body holds onto water, craves sweet foods, or “builds protection” when it’s too heavy inside. And most importantly—it explains that nothing about you is “broken,” and you’re not “powerless.” For a long time, your body helped you survive in the way that was available.

The author is Ekaterina Tur, a psychosomatologist and PhD in psychotherapy. In simple, honest language she weaves emotions, childhood experiences, hormonal mechanisms, instincts, and family history into a unified picture. You’ll understand how stress and lack of sleep affect cortisol and leptin no less than your food composition; how the child’s “finish everything” turns into adult “hovering” by the fridge; and how maternal anxiety and unprocessed traumas—quietly—reflect in appetite, portion sizes, and eating habits.

The book is built like a practical course. Inside you’ll find exercises, questions for an open conversation with yourself, and small steps that help you get out of the traps of comfort-eating. You won’t be told to “forbid” and “break” your willpower; instead, you learn to notice, understand, and re-train your brain and body toward other ways of calming down and experiencing pleasure. Rather than promises like “minus 10 kg in a month,” you get a working scheme: from recognizing triggers and hidden agreements with food to feeling boundaries, safety, and inner support—so excess weight stops being a necessary armor.

“The hunger of the body” helps you end the war with weight and feel again: your body isn’t an enemy, but the most reliable ally—ready to change with you when you stop drowning out pain and start taking care of yourself for real.

Attention: information in the book does not replace a consultation with a doctor. Before following any recommendations, you must consult a specialist.