Since Fat Is A Feminist Issue was published in the spring of 1978， I<br > have received hundreds of letters from individual women about their<br > eating problems. Many of these letters made it clear to me that women<br > needed more detailed guidelines on how to translate the ideas in Fat<br > Is A Feminist Issue into practice. Mira Dana， a student at the Women s<br > Therapy Centre in London， and I prepared a questionnaire designed to<br > identify the specific difficulties individual women were experiencing<br > and the obstacles that self-help groups might be encountering in at-<br > tempting to apply the theories in Fat Is A Feminist Issue. The ques-<br > tionnaire was sent out to women who had attended introductory work-<br > shops that used the Fat Is A Feminist Issue method. This method looks<br > at the meaning of food in a woman s life and the unconscious associ-<br > ations to body images of fat and thin. It offers a way out of the com-<br > pulsive eating syndrome by showing how to distinguish between phys-<br >iological hunger and emotional hunger， and how to respond to each<br >appropriately. After analyzing those answers and reflecting on the ques-<br >tions brought up most frequently by the:，group leaders I was training<br >in this method， I decided it would be helpful， to prepare FatlsA Feminist<br >Issue H， which is intended to be a very ，~l~wn-to-earth and practical<br >guide to address the persistent bumps ar~f barriers that many women<br >experience in grappling with their eating problems.<br ><br >