Tired of being overweight? Tired of the way you look in clothes? All your clothes look alike? This short book gives you personal solutions without diets, pills, or expensive programs. Is this possible? YES. Change is the solution, but you must be willing to make those changes. One at a time, work on changes in attitude, lifestyle, food choices, cook practices, exercise - all those not-so-good things that brought on your overweight condition. Think and solve your way to that new person. This short book includes possible changes, food ideas, recipes, and methods to weight management - permanent solutions. It can be done, and you can do it

One day, one moment, one step at a time... An estimated 30 million people suffer from eating disorders in the United States alone. Eating disorders are real, complex, and life-threatening illnesses. They have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. With the complexity of this illnesses being a distinct factor, it is easy for sufferers to feel hopeless, trapped, and as if they will never recover. In this book, Vanessa leads readers step by step to the way out. After struggling with an eating disorder for seven years, Vanessa guides readers through her journey of successful recovery. She shares her most useful strategies, from the moment she first realized she needed help, her most useful tools during residential treatment and upon leaving, how she recovered from relapses, what she had to do to finally let go of her illness as well as lifelong "safety tips" to ensure a complete and permanent recovery. People affected by eating disorders, as well as family members, friends and professionals will find Vanessa's positive and direct point of view helpful and comforting, as she walks them toward full recovery and freedom from the torment of an eating disorder.

Women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s who have suffered with lifelong low self-esteem, disordered eating, and body image issues, who have defined themselves by their weight, and experienced the relentless psychological "tug of war" that accompanies these issues, will relish this book as a means to help them deeply understand and appreciate their eating behaviors as a coping mechanism that no longer "serves" them, and as a hands-on skill-building tool. Behind the Mask first details specific issues that many women struggle with during various stages of life that play an integral role in their disordered relationship with food, through the voices of two adult women with lifelong eating issues and the connections they have made along the way. It then provides the author's detailed three-step approach to acquire the skills necessary to eat in a more peaceful way, find one's voice, and practice self-acceptance and self-care. It is a book of connection, hope and tools for recovery.

If you are out of control with your eating and can't seem to stop, Julie Latz knows exactly how you feel. For 45 years, Julie went through the yo-yo dieting/binge cycle time after time. She suffered the shame, guilt and embarrassment of feeling out of control that every binge eater feels. After discovering her simple yet highly effective method to take control of her eating, Julie now enjoys whatever food she wants while never feeling deprived and never feeling the urge to binge. She calls this very calm place "living in the magic zone." Julie's system teaches people how to eat what they want in moderation, even if they have never been able to do that before. In Stop Binge Eating and Start Living Again, Julie will teach you the exact step-by-step system that has helped her and those she personally coaches to put an end to food addiction and binge eating and making deprivation a thing of the past. If you want to stop the insanity of yo-yo dieting and learn how to eat the foods you enjoy while losing the weight you want to lose, this book will give you fast results so you can start reclaiming your life and stop feeling like a slave to food.

This book is unlike any other on anorexia and bulimia. Solve the mystery of eating disorder in a few pages and perhaps, discover new avenues of healing that are right for you.

Getting a daughter or son through an eating disorder can be challenging to say the least. In "When Anorexia Came To Visit" 20 families from across the UK talk frankly to Bev Mattocks ("Please eat... A Mother's Struggle To Free Her Teenage Son From Anorexia") about the effect that anorexia had on their lives. (With a Foreword by Professor Janet Treasure, OBE PhD FRCP FRCPsych.)
Few, if any, people expect their son or daughter to develop an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa. Also, eating disorders are notoriously insidious illnesses; they can creep up slowly, almost undetected, over several months or even years. By the time families are aware that something is seriously wrong with their child, the illness can be deeply entrenched. And, once the penny drops, families are faced with the struggle of getting a diagnosis, referral and treatment whilst being forced to undergo a huge and often distressing learning curve.
In "When Anorexia Came To Visit" 20 families (21 if you include the author's own account which appears at the end of this new, updated edition of the book) have come together to describe their own experiences of getting their child through a serious eating disorder: boys as well as girls, from across the UK including England, Scotland and Wales, and across a wide age range from pre-teens to 20-somethings.
Not only do these 20 families want to help other parents understand this complex illness and demand prompt and effective treatment for their child - and learn that there is hope for a full recovery - they also want to provide healthcare professionals with a unique insight into what goes on, at home, beyond the confines of the consulting room as families battle with the eating disorder 24/7. Thus - in addition to parents and carers - this book is important, informative reading for everyone, from GPs and school or university medical teams to mental health practitioners and other professionals.
Of course with such a complex illness and widely differing personal circumstances, each story is different. Nonetheless there are overlaps that many families will identify with. By describing their experiences, these 20 brave families want to help others to identify the warning signs, get help and read about the tools, resources and coping strategies they found most helpful on the journey to recovery.
May these accounts offer other parents and carers the hope, strength and inspiration they need and deserve in the fight for full and sustained recovery for their daughter or son.
"Note: This book is not a medical reference, nor does it endorse any particular treatment method. For diagnosis and treatment of an eating disorder you should always consult a physician."