With more than half a million copies sold, "Fat is a Family Affair" is recognized as the benchmark text on family dynamics and eating disorders. Newly updated with current research, perspectives, and stories, this instructive and engaging guide provides the latest thinking, compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to individuals who suffer from compulsive eating behaviors--specifically overeating and undereating. "Judi Hollis" is eminently qualified to offer guidance on this topic, having counseled families for more than 30 years and pioneered the nation's first Twelve-Step eating disorders treatment program.

Key features and benefits over 500,000 copies of the first edition have been sold features personal stories that validate readers' experiences ideal for overeaters, undereaters, and binge eaters as well as their loved ones

About the author "Judi Hollis, Ph.D..", is a licensed marriage and family counselor with special training in addiction and sexuality. She maintains a private practice in New York City and teaches on a number of faculties. Dr. Hollis, who is in recovery from an eating disorder, has been counseling addicted families since 1967 when she helped to establish New York City's Phoenix House programs. In 1975, Dr. Hollis founded the HOPE (Helping Overeaters through People and Education) Institute, the nation's first addiction-model eating disorders hospital unit.

Dr. Hollis is the author of the national bestseller, Fat Is a Family Affair with over 500,000 copies sold. . Has over forty years of experience in family therapy and treatment of addiction and eating disorders. . Opened the nation's first eating disorders unit. . Her articles on weight loss/management have been published n Shape, Teene, Self, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and numerous professional journals. Part memoir, part how-to, this book addresses the growing obesity epidemic in the US in a humorous and non-judgmental manner. . Addresses the growing obesity epidemic in the US in a humorous and non-judgmental manner. . Part memoir, part how-to that offers inspiration to those struggling with weight loss/management. . Written by someone who has 'been there, done that.' According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity affects over 33 percent of Americans-that's one third of adults. Medical costs associated with obesity are estimated at $147 billion and obese adults are at a higher risk for coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, liver and Gallbladder disease, and respiratory problems. In From Bagels to Buddha, a successful therapist, renowned for her work with addictive and obese families, uses her own story to illustrate her message that a spiritual life is the key to sustaining weight loss and ending food obsessions. Dr. Hollis tells us that the path to permanent weight loss has little to do with what you are eating or what's eating you, but rather involves changing how you behave, how you interact with others, how you face your own dark side, and ultimately how you accept life on life's terms. Only then will you start eating to nurture your true inner being and only then will enough ever be enough. Written in an unexpectedly witty and self-depricating style, Dr. Hollis recounts some humbling learning experiences, such as her nerve-racking first appearance on Oprah that caused her to vow never to do TV again, and an uncomfortable stay at a Buddhist Monastery, where she had finagled her way into the last week of a three-week meditation workshop. Her story entertains with many more comical moments, even as it tackles a serious, sometimes life-or-death subject.

Dr. Judi Hollis, founder of the nation s first eating disorders hospital unit, reports that in twenty years of clinical practice, she has never met a starving or bingeing person who wasn t raging within. Why? What is the link between unexpressed anger and food obsession?