Feeding Your Anorexic Adolescent is an action plan for parents of children suffering from anorexia. It is an efficient resource for parents who are desperate to know what to do right now, at this meal, at the next meal, and then again tomorrow. This book provides in an in dept explanation of the physiological and psychological effects of the starvation associated with anorexia nervosa. It summarizes the science behind the enormous nutrient needs during recovery. It also discusses possible family eating patterns that may be counterproductive to recovery. Importantly, Feeding Your Anorexic Adolescent is the only book which outlines in a systematic way how to establish normal eating patterns once weight has been restored. The second section of the book provides parents with calorie-rich recipes, divided into meal categories so parents can plan efficiently and with minimum stress. In a world of concern about obesity, parents struggle to find recipes and ideas which will help their child restore weight. The book has the endorsement of leading figures in the field of adolescent eating disorders: Dr. James Lock of Stanford University, author of the best-selling book Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, and Laura Collins, author of Eating with Your Anorexia.

We're obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet. Too many of us are locked into a war with our own bodies which we'll never win, and which will never make us happy. "The Ministry of Thin" takes a controversial, unflinching look at how the modern, international obsession with weight loss, youth, beauty, and perfection has spun out of control. Emma Woolf, author of " An Apple a Day, " explores how we might all be able to stop hating and start liking our own bodies again. She rallies against the industries of food, health, exercise, beauty, sex, and surgery that seek to create a world that verges on the Orwellian --with the victims of this onslaught trapped and dominated by the societal pressures to conform.
And she dares to ask: if losing weight is the answer, what is the question?

LARGE PRINT edition; also available in regular print, ebook and audio book What you will learn in this book...how this book can help you and why: Food addiction is something that many individuals are fighting to get over. This book will help those who are struggling with this condition, to learn how to conquer it. Those who may not be dealing with food addiction will be able to learn what it is, and what the signs and symptoms are. They can also learn what the negative effects of food addiction are, and how the condition can be treated. Petra www.petraortiz.com

Childhood obesity in the United States has tripled in a generation. But while debates continue over the content of school lunches and the dangers of fast food, we are just beginning to recognize the full extent of the long-term physical, psychological, and social problems that overweight children will endure throughout their lives. Most dramatically, children today have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, something never before seen in the course of human history. They will face more chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes that will further burden our healthcare system. Here, authors Jacob Warren and K. Bryant Smalley examine the full effects of childhood obesity and offer the provocative message that being overweight in youth is not a disease but the result of poor lifestyle choices. Theirs is a clarion call for parents to have "the talk" with their kids, which medical professionals say is a harder topic to address than sex or drugs. Urgent, timely, and authoritative, "Always the Fat Kid" delivers a message our society can no longer ignore.

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.

There is an answer to the emotional, physical and spiritual horrors of food addiction. The Hungry Ghost is based on Gay Norton Edelman's own personal victory over food addiction and obesity. Combining her training as a journalist focusing on psychological and spiritual problems, and her years of mentoring food addicts and compulsive overeaters, Gay spells out the solutions to eating insanity in clear, warm, realistic, no-holds-barred terms. Included: Her 5 step Feed-the-Hunger Plan. It works if you work it

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.

Lean Diet: Get Lean and Clean with Delicious Lean Recipes The Lean Diet book has recipes that support the lean diet. The lean diet is a diet in which is low in fat and low in unhealthy carbs. The idea behind the lean diet is to help aid the body to a more ideal weight level. Weight issues cause so many problems with heath. Dieting is the best way to both lose weight and maintain a good weight level. The foods included in a lean diet are foods that help the body to lose excessive weight and fat and help the body to stay within a good weight range, but it is a lifestyle change.

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.

Positively Caroline: How I Beat Bulimia for Good and Found Real Happiness, is one of the first books of its kind to tackle the subject of how eating disorder survivors can and do create lives of joy and health that persist past the early years of recovery. Some media reports have led people to believe that there is an "addictive personality" that careens from addiction to addiction without ever experiencing lasting wellness, but Caroline's story is a demonstration that many people can, and do, put food into its proper perspective and then go on to handle other life challenges without sliding backwards into food abuse or turning to other addictive substances or behaviors. Positively Caroline is the sequel to the bestselling My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988), which was the first major autobiography to cover recovery from bulimia, and which continues to sell well today. The book was an Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild and was reviewed in countless newspapers and magazines all over the world, and featured on television and radio programs. Tens of thousands of people say that the book helped them to have hope for themselves or someone close to them, and that it gave them the courage to speak up and get the help they needed. Positively Caroline picks up where My Name is Caroline left off, and covers many of the issues that women struggle with, regardless of whether or not they are recovering from an eating disorder, including: How to maintain a sane relationship with food throughout different life stages, such as pregnancy How to role model healthy behavior so that children learn how to have positive feelings toward their own bodies How to find happiness and balance between work and parenting How to follow your own dreams in life and take risks so that life is fulfilling and rewarding.

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.

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.

"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.

This workbook contains over twenty exercises that have helped compulsive overeaters and others find tools to cultivate peace, a connection to a HP, and growth in an abstinent life full of recovery. This workbook references The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous. The Authors have compiled and designed exercises and prayers that can be of use in your daily journal writing, working with your sponsor or use in a recovery group.

Change your mind about changing your body. Let go of the dieting dilemma with essential mindfulness principles and practices. o Learn the 5 a's of essential daily practice to get past the dieting impasse o Create your own daily yogic plan of action to focus on fitness not fatness o Stop your old dieting habits with mindful mediterranean food plans to eat well by o Exorcise your exercise demons to find your path to essential movement that brings balance, health and wellness o Choose essential daily wellness practices to discover your inner self o Master the dieting mindsets of skinnyism, perfectionism and dietism with simple but powerful principles that change the course of the die-iting mind. Change your mind about changing your body. Transform body and mind with essential mindfulness principles and practices.

Positively Caroline: How I Beat Bulimia for Good and Found Real Happiness, is one of the first books of its kind to tackle the subject of how eating disorder survivors can and do create lives of joy and health that persist past the early years of recovery. Some media reports have led people to believe that there is an "addictive personality" that careens from addiction to addiction without ever experiencing lasting wellness, but Caroline's story is a demonstration that many people can, and do, put food into its proper perspective and then go on to handle other life challenges without sliding backwards into food abuse or turning to other addictive substances or behaviors. Positively Caroline is the sequel to the bestselling My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988), which was the first major autobiography to cover recovery from bulimia, and which continues to sell well today. The book was an Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild and was reviewed in countless newspapers and magazines all over the world, and featured on television and radio programs. Tens of thousands of people say that the book helped them to have hope for themselves or someone close to them, and that it gave them the courage to speak up and get the help they needed. Positively Caroline picks up where My Name is Caroline left off, and covers many of the issues that women struggle with, regardless of whether or not they are recovering from an eating disorder, including: How to maintain a sane relationship with food throughout different life stages, such as pregnancy How to role model healthy behavior so that children learn how to have positive feelings toward their own bodies How to find happiness and balance between work and parenting How to follow your own dreams in life and take risks so that life is fulfilling and rewarding

"Interpersonal" follows twenty year old Erin after her stays in the Intensive Outpatient Program for Eating Disorders at Stafford Hospital. As she tries to navigate through life without acting on eating disordered behaviors, readers are shown what's most important in treatment: relationships between patient and professional. While expressing her emotions and fears, her treatment team explains things from their points of view. Just when Erin becomes more comfortable in sharing her thoughts, an unexpected change occurs, with the potential to derail her track in recovery.

Starting a diet? Easy. Sticking to a diet? Not so much. Every woman knows that the hardest part of weight loss is staying on a diet. The secret to accomplishing your goal is to find a healthy diet plan that works for you. "How To Stick To A Diet: Weight Loss Tips for Women" gives you practical diet tips, motivational strategies and alternative therapies to get through setbacks, realistic diet planning ideas, ways to find support, avoid stress eating, and use positive affirmations. This book will assist you to discover the foods that help you lose weight, stick with your diet, and feel good about yourself in the process. Whichever weight loss plan you choose - low carb, high protein, low fat - you need this book as the companion guide to keep you on track. Get this weight loss support program today

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.