It's Not About Food is a book about dealing with the underlying causes that may be involved with a woman's eating disorder. Normandi and Roark founded Beyond Hunger, Inc., a US non-profit organization, after being unable to permanently recover from their eating disorders using the current programs available. Techniques used in the Beyond Hunger workshops are included in the book as well as personal stories (both from the authors and clients), a question-and-answer section and a bibliography.

One part of the book I especially enjoyed was about becoming aware of your eating patterns - when, how and where you eat. I came away with a new way to look at eating focusing more on how a particular food feels inside my body after I eat it, rather than what I'm eating. Retraining my mind and body to eat what my body really wants to eat instead of what my mind thinks I should eat is important as well. A note of caution: following the book's suggestions about not eating until you are physically (not emotionally) hungry and then to stop eating when you are physically full can lead to destructive eating patterns if you're not careful.

The rest of the book left me with mixed emotions. It was interesting to read other women's experiences with their eating disorders, but I found some sections not really useful. Some of the material repeated itself throughout the book and some seemed like ideas recycled from other books I've read about eating disorders and body image. But unlike previous books that focus on the desire to be thin and the amount of food a person eats, Normandi and Roark look at the physical, emotional and spiritual wounds that can cause an eating disorder and then provide advice on finding your own process to healing from good and weight obsession.