YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN STOP BINGE EATING, OVEREATING & EMOTIONAL EATING. Get ready, this book will change your life In this guide, Overeating?: How To Stop Binge Eating, Overeating & Get The Natural Slim Body You Deserve: A Self Help Guide To Control Emotional Eating Today , you will learn how to eliminate the single behavior that 70 years of scientific research proves causes overeating, binge eating, and feeling out of control with food. Uncover the secret to being able to keep any food in your house--without it calling your name. Find out exactly why your best weight loss efforts have failed in the past--and more importantly, exactly what you can do to change it. You are about to finally uncover the single reason why you've been experiencing such an uphill battle with food and your weight. And far more importantly...I am going to teach you the skills you need to win the food fight once and for all--without dieting.

Healthy Eating - learn how to lose weight without dieting...just by eating healthy. Learn what you can eat and what you should avoid...and why. This is an easy to read book on food, with a healthy eating plan included at the end to get you going over 4 weeks. Informative and interesting, this book will help you onto the right track without a complicated diet or difficult meal plans.

This book of Haiku Poems deals with the issues of control, change, and acceptance. These issues for overeater's are difficult to come to terms with. As the reader pages through the Haiku poems, the author hopes they will experience a poetic and spiritual balance in their healing process. Read daily these positive meditations, bring the experience of food overeater's into the light where hope resides, making change and healing possible.

Anguish, guilt, anger, fear, and hopelessness are words often used by mothers who suffer alongside a daughter with an eating disorder. Mothers care for the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of their children, but who cares for them? Cathy Robinson watched her daughter starve herself until she was near death. The resulting helplessness was almost too much for a mother to bear. Making matters worse was the feeling that she was utterly alone in her guilt and pain. She needed others to identify with and help her through this difficult time. "A Melody of Hope: Surviving Your Daughter's Eating Disorder" features inspirational true stories written by mothers of daughters who have recovered from eating disorders; they seek to provide encouragement, hope, and support to mothers beginning their journey. Told with breathtaking honesty and insight, these stories represent some of the many experiences shared by these mothers. For a mother coming to terms with her daughter's illness, these stories represent a welcome community of understanding. "There are very few books that feature families, and fewer still recounting success stories. Far too many are stories written about the tragedy a family experiences when a family member dies as a result of the disorder, not about the much larger community that experiences success. Hope is what people need during those periods when it seems the disorder will never be overcome, and hope is what this book offers." -Bryan Gusdal, MA, Program founder/director, Westwind Eating Disorder Recovery Centre, Brandon, Manitoba

"Is it really possible to recover from an eating disorder? I need to talk to someone who has beaten this and is happy. I want to know what someone else did to recover."
If your life has been touched by an eating disorder and you have ever asked these questions, then "My Recovery" is for you.
Clinical counsellor Julie Parker shares the inspirational and courageous stories of eighteen women and men who have survived anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder or an eating disorder not otherwise specified. Each survivor shares not only their eating disorder journey, but the tips, strategies and tools that helped them regain their life and true sense of self. Each holds the unwavering hope and belief that recovery was not only possible for them, but is for others too. Stories of the importance of professional help, self-care, doing loved activities, creativity, and separation of the eating disorder from the self are all shared.
If you are considering buying this book and wondering if you will ever recover from an eating disorder, "My Recovery" will leave you with the resounding belief that you can, direct from the hearts, minds and experiences of those who once wondered the same thing. An inspirational and hopeful book, "My Recovery" is also relevant for carers, loved ones and eating disorder professionals.
Proceeds of this book are being donated to The Butterfly Foundation to support those whose lives have been touched by eating disorders.

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.

Fat from an early age, the author had an obese adolescence that last into his 30s. Despite having lost more than 130 pounds three times, he weighed 365 in October 1991, when he began accepting that he might be a food addict, and undertaking the practices and treatments designed for alcoholics. "Fat Boy Thin Man" relates what it was like to grow up fat, what it was like to experience reliable improvement in his health and lifestyle, and what about his experience relates to others. The second line of his book assures readers he isn't a guru; he shares what was shared with him by others. "Fat Boy Thin Man" will delight readers who enjoy humorous, engaging, real-life stories of redemption. But it will also serve readers who suffer, or whose loved ones suffer, with obesity that they have tried and failed to resolve repeatedly.

The Emotional Eating Rescue Plan for Smart, Busy Women Emotional eating is a major cause of overeating and of weight gain. Imagine a life where you don't overeat and YOU are in control of your cravings. If you struggle with emotional eating, diets and willpower won't help, but making peace with food changes everything. Psychologist Dr. Melissa McCreery outlines a day-by-day rescue plan for emotional eating and overeating designed specifically for high-performing, busy women ready to take control of their eating and their weight. Based on thousands of hours of work with smart women struggling to stop overeating, this 28 day plan walks you through the steps to: Take control of stress eating, comfort eating, and other types of emotional eating Say goodbye to guilt, shame, and feeling frustrated with yourself Discover what you really crave and how to really feed yourself Create solutions that don't leave you feeling hungry and deprived Design your recipe for lasting weight loss - even when you are busy and have a lot on your plate. "This is a book you will write in, cry on, and take into the bath. This is a book that has the power to change your relationship to food and emotional eating - forever. Read it and free yourself to be fully and wholly who you are meant to be." Jennifer Louden, author of The Woman's Comfort Book and The Life Organizer "If you've been stuck on the weight loss hamster wheel, your brain is probably full of clutter - advice and strategies that just don't work for you or your busy life. Dr. McCreery's book helps you organize and take control of your relationship with food once and for all, allowing the other pieces of your life to fall into place. It all makes perfect sense " Lorie Marrero, creator of The Clutter Diet(r) and author of The Home Office Handbook: Rules of Thumb for Organizing Your Time, Information, and Workspa

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This compelling and poignant memoir tells about the journey through the disease of Anorexia, the recovery process, and all that comes with it-the hurt, hope and humor. After almost dying from the disease, and being neglected by the doctors, the author sought recovery and spent seven weeks at an inpatient facility. In her powerful story, she digs into the depths of Anorexia and describes how her simple diet and exercise program turned into a horrific eating disorder-one that controlled her life and forced her to go to the gym every day for four hours and reduce her diet to only fruit. After almost suffering from a heart attack and amazed that she was still alive, she knew she had to save herself and get treatment. Today, she is a survivor. By telling her story of the disease and recovery process, she not only educates the reader about eating disorders, but also shares with them a secret world unknown to many, and most importantly, that there is hope and recovery is possible.

In Binge Free, I present the story of my descent to the depths of hell with binge-eating disorder, my journey back to humanity and the various mental techniques and lifestyle changes that helped me to overcome 25 years of isolation, depression and binging insanity. While this killer sickness caused me to lose my humanity, dignity and hope for life, I managed to escape and, through hard work and determination, have found restoration, peace and happiness. If there be any reason for me to still live, I hope that it's to reach-out to others who suffer and share with them the tools that helped me to recover, and have kept me binge free for ten years. My message is that you, too, can attain this freedom. Binge eating is a sickness that lives in the mind and uses our own thoughts, feelings and memories to entice and trap us. Therefore, to achieve long-term recovery, it is imperative to have a suitable arsenal of mental strategies to counterattack, expose the lies and say NO to binging. Together with a series of lifestyle changes that I suggest, this book gives you the goods straight from the experience of a food addict that survived the assault of binge-eating disorder. I hold nothing back and give you practical tips and tools that you can put to use right away so that you can learn to vanquish the binge eating monster once and for all.

What may begin as a simple longing for a magazine-worthy body can morph into an eating disorder, a deadly disease with the highest mortality rate of any mental health disorder, and the highest suicide rate. Brooke Wesley knows this disease intimately. As a mental health therapist she intervenes daily with young women and men who struggle with eating disorders. But her conviction and compassion grew from her own bout with anorexia, one which nearly cost her her life. In Hungry To Be Whole, you'll share the journey of a high-achieving, radically determined teen who discovered in food deprivation a distraction from pain she didn't know how to manage. And you'll share with her the tough discoveries that led to a life filled with opportunity and joy.

Lori Osachy, MSS, LCSW has been successfully helping families overcome eating disorders for over twenty years. You can contact Lori for help at 904-737-3232, or through her website www.bodyimagecounseling.com. You can gain access to her complete recovery system at www.quickstartrecovery.com. Getting quality care for your loved one with an eating disorder can be a minefield. In this concise and practical guide, you will quickly discover how to handle difficult situations when seeking eating disorders treatment that you rarely hear about but unfortunately, happen all the time, such as: what to do when your child's primary doctor denies there is an eating disorder; when blood work comes back "normal," but you know your loved one is ill; when insurance doesn't cover treatment, and when your adult child refuses care. This is a book that is a culmination of my twenty years of experience working on the front lines of eating disorders' treatment and recovery. I wrote it because I was giving out the same life-saving advice day after day on the phone and in the office to distraught parents, husbands, friends and other loved ones, and hearing horror stories about the struggles they had in finding quality treatment for eating disorders. I realized that there was virtually no practical advice available to help them avoid these heartbreaking and AVOIDABLE mistakes in seeking help. Your loved one CAN recover, and I guarantee that this book with help you avoid these costly emotional and financial mistakes the first time you try. "Parents' Quick Start Recovery was the only book that outlined a clear plan of action for our daughter, and gave us tools we could use immediately. Her methods work. Her methods WORK I will be forever grateful for Lori." - Mandy, age 54, mother of Allison, age 14.

As a nationally ranked high school runner, nobody seemed to notice that Amber Sayer's weight was dropping just as fast as her finish times. "PR" is a sports chronicle, a coming of age story, and a cautionary report of one runner's simultaneous decent into anorexia and rise in the high school track and cross-country rankings. Her honest account of a distressingly common problem among high school and collegiate athletes takes readers through the disease's progression and its unsettling parallels with her burgeoning running career. After losing more than she ever anticipated, and incurring permanent physical and emotional damage, Sayer struggles to overcome her severe case of anorexia and the sport's culture in which eating disorders and their increasing prevalence remain dangerously taboo.

Are you finding yourself drawn to the fridge or the vending machine many times throughout the day desperately searching for something, anything? Guess what That hunger that's driving your urge to eat isn't coming from your body. The problem is not what you're eating. It's what's eating you If you're ready to learn a process to deal with your stress, and explore the emotional hungers beneath your cravings, then you can get slim slowly and naturally without ever having to diet or feel deprived again. Your journey to a lighter, happier, healthier 'you' starts with a spoonful of self-acceptance. Are you ready? Read this book and let's get started. Some of the juicy benefits you'll get are: Comfort, joy and pride knowing you can finally trust yourself around the foods you love Relief from the constant interference of obsessing about food and wanting to eat all the time A new desire to treat yourself kindly & nurture a gentle connection with your body Feeling more comfortable and relaxed 'just being yourself' Self-compassion and understanding that you're already perfect just the way you are Skills to set boundaries and say, "No" to others and "Yes" to yourself giving you killer confidence. The courage to live juicy

Want to succeed managing your diabetes? Now you can. Diabetes Do's & How-To's is the quintessential "owner's manual" for those with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Here are the small, yet powerful steps to live healthfully with diabetes -- and guidance how to take them. This book isn't about diabetes, it's an instruction manual for, simply and quickly, creating your best health. Riva Greenberg, a diabetes educator and patient who's had diabetes for forty years, clears up the confusion, stops the overwhelm, and with a team of top diabetes experts, guides you through 65 steps to improve how you deal with food and eat healthy, bring your weight within a normal range if necessary, begin or accelerate your fitness and enjoy it, manage your medicines, lab tests and doctor visits, progress while staying positive, and much more. Worksheets help you start new goals, fellow patients share personal "How-To's," and Haidee S. Merritt's cartoons put a smile on your face. Also included, a section for health care professionals, to help you further help your patients succeed.

This is for all who battle with an eating disorder and the question: Am I worth more than twenty pounds? This is a must read for those who stand with us in the battle: our family, friends, therapists, and sponsors. To eat a mango is to enter into a process of cutting and scraping the fruit from its skin and seed. It is a process that takes some time and is a little messy. And, it is so worth the reward in the end The same is true for the journey of recovery. Recovery is a process from beginning to end. It takes time and is messy. And, recovery is also so worth the reward in the end An influential woman in Elefant's life gave her the wisdom that life is a process. Recovery is a process. There are no quick fixes, it is not black and white, and the joy is in the journey. The light bulb went on one day as Elefant was eating a mango and she discovered what her mentor had meant Half the fun of eating a mango is in the process of working the fruit free; half the fun of doing life and doing recovery is in the process of doing it with other people. Eating Mangoes is an inside look at what residential treatment is like. It is a glimpse inside the mind of someone with an eating disorder or other addiction. It is a story of hope. Eating Mangoes is a must-read for all who have been affected by eating disorders and their co-occurring disorders. It is a must-read for all who have a connection to the residential treatment world: survivors themselves, family, friends, and professionals. May we dream of recovery and dream bigger than recovery to lives that have greater meaning.

Females make up the greater percentage of those affected by eating disorders; however, males are not immune to the disorder. Males can also fall victim to Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa and Compulsive Overeating. Eating disorders are not caused by a single known cause. In fact, the majority of those individuals struggling with this disorder have developed it after numerous factors paved the way. These issues surrounding weight, diet and body image can prove highly dangerous to the physical and mental health of an individual. Because poor body image is at the core of those struggling with eating disorders, it is no surprise that this disorder is associated with depression. The treatments success is proportional to the timing of problem diagnosis. The more time that elapses where harmful habits have developed and become routine, the greater the difficulty to break the unhealthy patterns. Eating disorders are responsible for tremendous damage to both the body and mind, thus the greater the amount of time it is left untreated the greater the danger. If you feel that you or a loved one may be struggling with an eating disorder, it is imperative to seek immediate attention. This book will give the reader further insight into this female and male issue. From what an eating disorder is to where it stems from, pregnancy concerns and treatment; this book will not only inform but offer helpful insight for professional help.

Bright, popular and a star on the rugby pitch, 15 year old Ben had everything he could want. But then food-loving Ben began to systematically starve himself. At the same time his urge to exercise became extreme. In a matter of months Ben lost one quarter of his bodyweight as he plunged into anorexia nervosa, an illness that threatened to destroy him.
"Please eat... A mother's struggle to free her teenage son from anorexia" is his mother's heart-breaking yet inspirational account of how she watched helplessly as her son transformed into someone she didn't recognise, physically and mentally. It also describes how, with the help of his parents and therapist, and through his own determination, Ben slowly began to recover and re-build his life.
Read the first 6 chapters free here: http: //www.anorexiaboy.co.uk/Please_Eat.pdf
""Cancel your plans for the day when you open this book: the riveting story will have you caring and cheering for a family that the world needs to meet. If only the world knew the truth told in this memoir " Laura Collins, Founder of F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders) & Author of Eating with Your Anorexic"
""The world is slowly coming to realise that 'Boys Get Anorexia Too'. Bev Mattocks writes honestly and from the heart about helping her teenage son to overcome anorexia. Like ours, this is another success story of a family working together with friends, school and clinicians to beat this insidious illness. Many families will find great comfort from reading this story as well as much needed energy to fight the eating disorder." Jenny Langley, Author of Boys Get Anorexia Too"
""An essential read for anyone trying to understand more about eating disorders in teenage boys. Bev Mattocks describes the story of her son's anorexia but also provides insight for other families facing this complex illness in a world where anorexia is still associated with teenage girls. Totally recommended." Sam Thomas, Founder, Men Get Eating Disorders Too"
""A powerful, painful account, beautifully written... this book will benefit parents in reducing isolation and feeling more powerful when speaking with healthcare providers." Becky Henry, Founder of Hope Network, LLC & Award Winning Author of Just Tell Her To Stop: Family Stories of Eating Disorders"
""Bev Mattocks is doing such amazing work empowering other parents and helping to raise awareness that boys get eating disorders too." Leah Dean, Executive Director, F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders)"
""This is a wonderful book. It's quite hard to read because the story is so painful, but easy to read because of the clarity and simplicity of style." Gill Todd, RMN MSc, former Clinical Nurse Leader at the Gerald Russell Eating Disorders Unit, Bethlem & Maudsley Hospitals, London"
""I have just finished Please eat... and it such a powerful page turner Bev Mattocks has captured the complexity of her family's journey so honestly, bravely and with such clarity of writing. It is a compelling read." Susan Ringwood, Chief Executive, BEAT"
""Please eat... is gut wrenching and touching. It captivated me and I could hardly breathe as I was reading it. I read the first 6 chapters in one sitting. Bev Mattocks has done such a great job of bringing her story to us in a vivid and personal way." Parent"

I am... Drawing Conclusions is dedicated to telling my story of treatment for an eating disorder. These are my emotions reflected in visual form and serves as evidence of the growing transparency of my soul as told through graphite and acrylic. The art is intended to depict the day-to-day and sometimes even hour-to-hour thoughts and feelings that consumed my mind, recording the transformation over time. The drawings and paintings are very personal to my journey and me but I hope that you can find your own meaning in them as well and be able to make them personal to you. Remember that although our struggles may not be the same, we all have challenges in our lives that push us to become more than the person we are right now. And with that said, I invite you to join me on my journey.

Say the name Nikki Grahame and most people will remember the bubby, highly strung and hugely entertaining Big Brother 7 contestant, famous for her diary room outbursts. Since leaving the Big Brother house, she had forged a successful career for herself in presenting and writing. Yet Nikki isn't just another reality television contestant and her life story is not like any other you will ever read. From the age of eight until she was nineteen, Nikki battled anorexia nervosa--but few cases have been quite as extreme as hers. What she has been through while suffering from this illness might surprise you--it will definitely shock you. At just seven years old, Nikki began feeling that she was overweight. A remark about her being fat from a fellow pupil at a gymnastics class along with insecurity brought about by her parents' separation and he beloved grandfather's death, were the catalysts for Nikki's long-term eating disorder. Aged just eight and weighing just under three stone, she was diagnosed as anorexic. For the next eight years, Nikki was in and out of institutions--seven in total--during which time she attempted suicide twice and had to be sedated up to four times a day so that she could be force-fed. At one point, she was sedated for fourteen days while doctors sewed a tube into her stomach, through which she was fed in order to get her weight out of the critical range. Nikki admits that she knew every anorexic's trick in the book: from breaking into hospital kitchens to water down full-fat milk, altering her diet sheet and switching name tags on food to ensure that she received smaller amounts, to even stuffing a door-stop down her trousers before a weigh-in. The extremes that she went to in order to avoid eating and find ways to exercise excessively shocked doctors who have worked in the field for years. As Nikki says, "I've always wanted to be the best at everything I do, so I had to be the best anorexic--and I was." This is the heart-rending and powerful story of a girl who lost her childhood but was brave enough to finally admit that she wanted to live again. With searing honesty, Nikki recounts her long and painful road to recovery, how she has had to come to terms with the long-term ramifications of her illness, how she coped with being in the Big Brother house and how she uses her new-found fame to promote awareness of eating disorders and to help those who are suffering from similar problems. This compelling book tells the story of an incredible journey.

The memoir is about my personal battle with an eating disorder (both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa) for six years and my near death experience with the dehabilitating disorder. It's basically journal entries from my 45 days of intense inpatient treatment, complemented with inserts from my mother's journal and her point of view of a daughter going through recovery. My goal market would be 18-24 year-olds who are teetering on an eating disorder; the point is to tell them to get help early-on and prevent years of misery. I think the market would be fairly extensive, as 1 in 10 young women suffer with this disease and it continues to get worse. My ideal would be to partner with NEDA or ProjectHOPE and have all proceeds go to them, helping patients get the treatment they need.