Coping with / advice about eating disorders Books
Turner Publishing Company Why She Feels Fat Understanding Your Loved Ones
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLike never before, this book takes readers into the mind of someone with an eatingdisorder and explains the unexplainable. It is an essential resource for all families and friends.” Jenni Schaefer, author of Life Without EdWhy She Feels Fat is written specifically so that loved ones can better comprehend what is behind an eating disorder. From understanding medical issues to grasping why a person with anorexia says she feels fat,’ this book is a welcome addition to the field.” Carolyn Costin, author of The Eating Disorder SourcebookThis book gives the all-important perspective of the sufferer. When read with an open mind and heart, it brings to friends and family alike much needed understanding and guidance.” Doris Smeltzer, author of Andrea’s Voice: Silenced by Bulimia
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Gurze Books Finding Your Voice Through Creativity The Art and
Book SynopsisThis workbook combines art therapy exercises and guided journal writing for individuals who want to explore their relationship with food and their bodies in a new way. Written by board-certified art psychotherapists, the pages of this workbook literally serve as a canvas for thoughts and feelings spoken primarily through art and elaborated upon through writing. Readers are encouraged to draw, write, and create directly in the book. These images, symbols, and journal entries then become a personal signature that can be accessed and explored to resolve any obstacles to emotional well-being. Included are 58 expressive art projects and corresponding written exercises, which lead readers through specific stages of self-discovery related to disordered eating patterns, body image issues, relationships, life skills, emotions, self love, and personal transformation.
£12.59
Gurze Books Anorexia Nervosa
Book SynopsisAnorexia nervosa, in simple terms, is self-starvation. However, it is a complex problem with intricate roots; and, recovery is best accomplished with a grasp of sound information, specific tasks, and the support of others. All of that is provided in this guidebook, which includes: Answers to questions most often asked Insight from recovered and recovering Monika Ostroff''s story of recovery Specific things to do that have worked Information on healthy eating and weight Suggestions for how to stay committed A special section for parents & loved ones
£11.39
Gurze Books Making Weight Mens Conflicts with Food Weight
Book SynopsisThe negative body-image epidemic that affects millions of women is also a hidden problem for millions of men. In spite of a decade-long emphasis on health and fitness - or perhaps because of it - more men are suffering from a variety of eating disorders and self-abusive behaviors. Using vignettes from their patients, the authors present a new program to help men overcome these problems. They offer ways to enhance self-image, facts about why diets fail, information about the dangers of using steroids, and a section for women who want to help the men in their life.
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Gurze Books A Starving Madness
Book SynopsisStories have the power to change lives. These compelling tales of seven women and one man are a revealing look at the complexity of eating disorders, the process of psychotherapy, and the healing power of the relationship between therapist and client. Sufferers, their loved ones, and caregivers will benefit from the insights provided by this beautifully written collection.Trade Review"Dr. Rabinor has a flair for storytelling and offers a ray of hope for girls, women, and an increasing number of boys and men who are dying to be thinner than ever." Ron Taffel, PhD, Author of The Second Family"Judy Rabinor gives us a soulful glimpse into the hearts and minds of individuals who struggle with eating disorders." Kathryn J. Zerbe, MD, Author of The Body Betrayed
£10.99
Gurze Books The Beginners Guide to Eating Disorders Recovery
Book SynopsisQuestions and awareness activities are at the heart of this book, offering a variety of ways in which readers can pinpoint problems, identify negative triggers and diffuse them. The text, written in a calm, conversational tone, is sprinkled with insights and inspiring quotes from the author’s clients and readers. Ideas are explained in language accessible to teenagers without being concesdending. Includes special sections on athletes, tips for avoiding relapse, basic facts about nutrition, and the role that families play in recovery. This is a self-help guide in the truest sense because, while not ignoring the role of the therapist in treatment, it places the primary responsibility for recovery in the hands of the individual, where lasting change must begin.
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Gurze Books This Mean Disease Growing Up in the Shadow of My
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Gurze Books Bulimia
Book SynopsisThis intimate self-help guidebook offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery. It includes a two-week program to stop bingeing, ideas for things to do instead of bingeing, a guide for support groups, specific advice for loved ones, and Eat Without Fear, Lindsey Hall''s story of her self-cure, which has inspired thousands of other bulimics. This 25th anniversary edition updates all information from previous editions, with additional material on assessment, new diagnostic categories, men and bulimia, evidence-based treatment, family-assisted recovery, the influence of media (including the Internet), the essentials of long-term recovery, and much more. Drawing on its established track record of success, Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery includes input from 400 recovered bulimics and is packed with valuable tips for therapists, educators, bulimics, and their loved ones.
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Gurze Books Telling Ed No
Book SynopsisRecovery from an eating disorder requires support of all kinds, and this book is filled with ideas, exercises, and insights. Based on Kerrigan’s own inspiring story, Telling Ed No! is a toolbox of over 100 practical recovery tools, from family interventions, yoga, and massage, to music, role playing and even holding ice! Each tool brings the recovery process to life with prompts for reflection and discussion. Readers looking for guidance will learn: why having a treatment team” is essential and how to assemble one, how to end self-destructive behaviors such as cutting and over-exercising, and how to transform Ed’s controlling rules into powerful, new recovery rules. Part-self-help book, part memoir, this unique workbook combines the power of real-life experiences and candid straight talk with suggestions and exercises that offer both hope and creative guidance.
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Gurze Books The Ritteroo Journal for Eating Disorders
Book SynopsisThis guided journal includes inspirational quotes and prompts for individuals in recovery from eating disorders. With soulful artwork by the late Mary Anne Ritter Ritteroo” who suffered from anorexia nervosa while conceiving of this project, this four-color workbook combines textual and graphic inspiration with plenty of space for writing. Written by eating-disorders expert Lindsey Hall, the text is organized into six categories for self-exploration: relationships, thoughts, feelings, heart, body, and recovery.Trade Review"I fell in love with it! I would like it to be the gift we give to our day treatment programs throughout the country. We'd like to buy 100 books."Dawn TheodoreClinical DirectorEating Disorders Center of CA"Our psychologist loves these. In the past we have provided each ACUTE patient with a blank journal and she would assign them topics based on what was happening during their stay. We’d love to use the Ritteroo Journal instead going forward and will give this journal to every patient who comes to ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders. Thanks so much!"Rachael HarrimanACUTE Program ManagerDenver, CO"I received the Ritterroo Journal last week and I can"t thank you enough for that. I have already ordered 2 more for 2 of my clients and have passed on the information to several people. It was beautifully done and will touch many lives." Suzanne Rubinetti, LCSWSummit, NJ"I just got the Ritterroo Journal and it’s FAN FLIPPING TASTIC! Your efforts, which I know were extraordinary are clearly reflected in the end product. I want to give one to all my clients!! BRAVO!!"Beth Hartman McGilley, PhD, FAED, CEDSWichita KS
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Gurze Books Starting Monday
Book SynopsisStarting Monday is based on the simple premise that when our behaviors don’t align with our expressed intentions, we’ve got a conflict going on, often outside of our awareness. The book helps readers dig deeply into their psyches to figure out what mistaken beliefs and needless fears are holding them back from achieving their health and fitness goals. The polarized feelings for disregulated eaters to identify and resolve fall within these seven key areas: 1) create lasting change, 2) making conscious choices, 3) feel deserving, 4) how to comfort themselves, 5) know what''s enough, 6) manage intimacy, and 7) developing a healthy identity.Starting Monday first helps readers unearth their mixed feelings in these seven areas, then teaches them how to change their beliefs and behaviors to resolve them. Using humor, plain talk, examples from her clinical experience, reflection exercises, case studies, and homework, Koenig lets troubled eaters know that theTrade ReviewBOOK REVIEW:Synopsis: "Starting Monday" is based on the simple premise that when our behaviors don't align with our expressed intentions, we've got a conflict going on, often outside of our awareness. Author Laren R. Koenig helps her readers dig deeply into their psyches to figure out what mistaken beliefs and needless fears are holding them back from achieving their health and fitness goals. The polarized feelings for disregulated eaters to identify and resolve fall within these seven key areas: 1) create lasting change, 2) making conscious choices, 3) feel deserving, 4) how to comfort themselves, 5) know what's enough, 6) manage intimacy, and 7) developing a healthy identity. "Starting Monday" first helps readers unearth their mixed feelings in these seven areas, then teaches them how to change their beliefs and behaviors to resolve them. Using humor, plain talk, examples from her clinical experience, reflection exercises, case studies, and homework, Koenig lets troubled eaters know that their yo-yo patterns of eating and self care are due to conflicts. She shies away from easy answers and, instead, provides hope and concrete actions to developing a permanent, positive relationship with food.Critique: Informative, motivational, exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Starting Monday: Seven Keys to a Permanent, Positive Relationship with Food" is especially recommended for anyone wanting to improve their mental and physical health through a more nutritional and balanced approach to meal time decisions. Very highly recommended and instructional reading, as well as an invaluable addition to community library Self-Help and Health/Medicine collections, "Starting Monday: Seven Keys to a Permanent, Positive Relationship with Food" is also available in a Kindle edition ($9.99).- Small Press Bookwatch; The Midwest Book Review July 2014BOOK REVIEW: Starting Monday: Seven Keys to a Permanent, Positive Relationship with Food by Karen Koenig LCSW, M.Ed. (Gurze Books, 2013, 288 pages) People repeatedly - but often fruitlessly - promise themselves they will finally get their eating struggles under control. When? Starting Monday! The title of Karen Koenig's book refers to this familiar resolution, and she explores why emotional eaters, filled with determination to improve their hurtful behaviors, wind up failing time after time. In this, her seventh book, Ms. Koenig offers a key approach for long lasting change: people must confront that internal part of themselves which is invested in not getting better! This is a book for those people who yearn for weight loss and body satisfaction but may have difficulty appreciating the conflicts within themselves that sabotage and defeat their best efforts. Why would someone want to derail their best efforts to be happy? Koenig shows readers how to identify "the ouch of self-recognition" and to discover what blocks normal eating. She describes seven keys to unlock your self-defeat and create lasting change: 1. apply curiosity, self reflection, and compassion to why you have been stuck. 2. make conscious choices through the mindful focus of living in the present moment. 3. feel deserving by exploring your family history which may have left you feeling unworthy or deprived. 4. comfort yourself by reaching out to others and develop strategies to cope with stress. 5. know what's enough and pinpoint where you feel unsatisfied not only with food but money, possessions, work, and relationships. 6. manage intimacy by becoming aware of your fears of closeness and your desires. 7. develop a healthy identity by claiming your most authentic self regardless of weight. What are your beliefs, your needs, your truths? In a lively, engaging style, Ms. Koenig illuminates these psychological solutions to help you get unstuck so you can live a fruitful and compassionate life every day of the week - not just Starting Monday!Book review submitted by Mary Anne Cohen, Director of The New York Center for Eating Disorder----------BOOK REVIEWKaren Koenig has written a book for anyone who has ever experienced dysfunctional eating in his or her life. It is a book that will resonate for either the person who works with people that may struggle with food and body issues, or has had issues of his/her own. (And let’s be honest, who hasn’t in the world in which we live?!) It is a must read for all social workers to better understand our own relationship with food and our bodies in order to better help our clients. This is not a book about eating disorders. But it is a book that will help anyone who strives to have a better relationship with food. Karen provides a step-by-step guidebook on how to manage your eating and emotions. One of the aspects of Karen’s book that I love is that it is light and fun, while also providing concrete advice and helpful homework assignments. Karen uses food analogies to clearly represent her points while also showing us the connections food has to our emotions. For example, Karen speaks about marinating” our- selves in pride or nothing tastes” as good as pride. This spirited way of speaking to the reader is compelling and engaging! All of Karen’s books examine our issues with food from a strength- based perspective. Instead of calling ourselves lazy”, Karen suggests that we acknowledge having ambivalence or conflicts about our relationship with food. She teaches the reader how to reframe one’s beliefs and helps us to understand the identifiers for when we are having difficulty with all or nothing thinking,” (for example, I am good” if I eat fruit but bad” if I have a cookie). We learn not only about the psychological components of our relationship with food, but also about the biology related to eating issues. This is a very important point, showing us that it is physiologically impossible to talk our way out” of a binge. Karen reminds us that there are many areas that require further examination to have a healthy relationship with food. Karen recognizes that our relationship with food and our body does not only have to do with our actions. The media and our peers plays a huge role in how we think about this topic. Karen challenges us to fight society’s concepts regarding beauty” and quick fixes”.Reading Karen’s book feels like you are taking a class with her. Karen’s relaxed writing style is lovely. She tells us to take deep breaths and to be mindful of our response to her writing. She acknowl- edges our discomfort in beginning to deal with these issues and encourages us to take action so we can challenge some of our beliefs. Karen asks us many provocative questions about our own relationship with food at the end of each chapter. This provides food for thought” as we explore her questions and challenge our thoughts and beliefs. Karen believes that people can have healthy relationships with food and their bodies, and provides the reader with the tools they need to get there. I will definitely use Karen’s book in my private practice on a regular basis. I hope you will too.Reviewed by Beth Mayer, LICSWPRESIDENT OF THE MULTI-SERVICE EATING DISORDER ASSOCIATION.Table of ContentsIntroduction Barriers to Normal” Eating 1 - Why It’s Hard to Change Our Eating (Help, My Mouth Has A Mind Of Its Own!) 2 - Reasons We Want to Eat Normally” (Stop Me When I Get To Infinity!) 3 - How Internal Conflicts Prevent Us From Eating Normally” (In This Corner We Have Me and In This Corner We HaveMe!)The Seven Keys 4 - Create Lasting Change(Can’t I Just Wish Upon A Star?) 5 - Make Conscious Choices (How Come When I Lash Out, I Hit Me?) 6 - Feel Deserving (When I’m Good I’m Very, Very Good and When I’m Bad I Head For The Fridge!) 7 - Comfort Yourself Effectively(I’m Better At Licking The Bowl Than My Problems!) 8 - Know What’s Enough (Is Enough Ever Really Enough?) 9 - Manage Intimacy (Can’t I Be A Super Attractive Invisible Person?) 10 - Develop a Healthy Identity (If I Say Goodbye To My Identity, Will It Miss Me?)Conclusion 11 - Resolving Internal Conflicts for Good (I’m Gonna Sit Here And Break Bread With Myself!)
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Westworld International Anorexic The Incredible True Story of a Young
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Pan Macmillan Dead Weight
Book SynopsisCombining cultural history and honest memoir, Dead Weight is a powerful exploration of disordered eating in the internet era.
£9.89
Pan Macmillan My Good Bright Wolf
Book SynopsisSarah Moss has written several novels including the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Summerwater, and Ghost Wall, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize. She has also written a memoir, Names for the Sea, an account of her year living in Iceland. She was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik, west Cornwall and the Midlands, she now lives in Dublin, where she teaches English and creative writing at UCD.My Good Bright Wolf is her boundary-breaking memoir.
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Headline Publishing Group Mad Woman
Book SynopsisA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*''Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer'' Elizabeth Day''A deeply reassuring essential read'' Sunday Independent''Visceral and honest'' Telegraph''Bryony writes with such entertaining and brazen candour about mental illness...she really helps people tackle their own stuff. Her writing has helped me before and this will be another hit'' Matt Haig''A startlingly candid book'' Daily Mail''Gordon injects lightness into the darkness as she recounts her relapse into OCD and subsequent steps to recovery'' Red MagazineTHE HOTLY ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*, MAD GIRL''We shouldn''t forget that the most common eating disorder in the UK and US is actually binge eating disorder.''Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effect it has on people. Now perimenopausal and well into the next stage of her life, parenting an almost-adolescent, just what has that help - and that connection with other unwell people - taught Bryony about herself, and the society we live in? What has she learned, and why have her views on mental health changed so radically? After coming out the other side of the biggest trauma of our living memory - a global pandemic - existing in a state of perma-crisis has now become our new normal.From burnout and binge eating, to living with fluctuating hormones and the endless battle to stay sober, Bryony begins to question whether she got mental illness wrong in the first place. Is it simply a chemical imbalance, or rather a normal response from your brain telling you that something isn''t right? Mad Woman explores the most difficult of all the lessons she''s learned over the last decade - that our notion of what makes a happy life is the very thing that''s making us so sad.Bestselling author Bryony Gordon is unafraid to write with her trademark blend of compassion, honesty and humour about her personal challenges and demons, which means her books and journalism have had profound impact on readers. She founded the mental health charity, Mental Health Mates, which has become a vast online community.*Bryony Gordon''s Mad Woman was a Sunday Times bestseller on 18th Feb 2024.*Bryony Gordon''s Mad Girl was a number one Sunday Times bestseller on 12th June 2016.
£15.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Beating Sugar Addiction For Dummies
Book SynopsisAre you a sugar addict? Beating Sugar Addiction For Dummies provides you a safe and healthy path to overcome your addiction, eliminate stress eating, and upgrade your nutrition for a healthier lifestyle.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 2 What You’re Not to Read 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 How This Book Is Organized 3 Part I: Are You a Sugar Addict or a Sweet Freak? 3 Part II: Developing Your Low-Sugar or No-Sugar Food Plan 4 Part III: Living a Successful Sugar-Busting Lifestyle 4 Part IV: Sugar-Busting Recipes 5 Part V: The Part of Tens 5 Icons Used in This Book 5 Where to Go from Here 6 Part I: Are You a Sugar Addict or a Sweet Freak? 7 Chapter 1: Moving from Sugar Addiction to Sugar Reduction 9 Understanding Sugar Addiction 10 Defining sugar addiction 11 Realizing how harmful sugar can be 13 Getting Off Sugar without Driving Yourself Crazy 13 Eating Right and Creating a New Normal 15 Simplifying the low-carb concept 15 Improving your eating with five easy habits 16 Change your thinking, change your life 17 Figuring Out What You Really Need Instead of Sugar 17 Chapter 2: Figuring Out Why You’re Addicted to Sugar 19 Getting to the Root of Why Sugar Is So Darned Addictive 19 Brain chemistry 20 Genetic programming 20 Hunger and cravings 22 Learned behavior 23 What Kind of Sweet Freak Are You? 23 The Exhausted Addict 24 The Sad Eater 26 The Undereater 27 The Sugar Stalker 29 Chapter 3: The 4-1-1 on Sugar and Carbs 31 Sugar: The New Poison 32 The Science of Carbohydrates 32 Identifying sources of carbohydrates 33 Seeing why sugar is so bad for you 33 Connecting carbs and sugar to insulin 34 Selecting Desirable Carbs versus Undesirable Carbs 35 Separating complex carbs from simple carbs 35 Getting more fiber and nutrition per calorie 36 Addressing problems with fructose 36 Making substitutions for better carbs and less sugar 38 Understanding Where Your Sugar Intake Comes From 39 Picking out obvious sources of sugar 40 Uncovering hidden sources of sugar 40 Spotting other names for sugar 41 Considering Gluten-Free Eating 42 Steering Clear of Artificial Sweeteners 44 How chemical sweeteners work 44 Monosodium glutamate (MSG) 45 Aspartame (NutraSweet) 46 Sucralose (Splenda) 47 What should you do? 47 Chapter 4: How Sugar Contributes to Chronic Health Problems 49 Sugar Highs: Looking at Escalating Health Problems 50 Seeing the Psychological Ramifications of Sugar 51 Depression 52 Anxiety 53 Dealing with Medical Risks and Problems 54 Obesity 54 Diabetes 55 Liver disease 57 Sugar and cholesterol 57 Metabolic syndrome 58 Hypothyroid disease 58 Chronic fatigue 59 Fibromyalgia 60 Irritable bowel syndrome 60 Immune system impairment 61 Bone loss 62 Wrinkles 63 Part II: Developing Your Low-Sugar or No-Sugar Food Plan 65 Chapter 5: Creating a Sustainable Plan: The Basics of Nutrition and Portions 67 Creating a Sugar-Free Foundation with the Big Four 67 Picking protein 68 Consuming carbohydrates 70 Choosing the right fats 73 Drinking water: A vital key to craving control 75 Eating Natural Foods 76 Picking produce 77 Buying meat, dairy, eggs, and fish 77 Drinking clean water 78 Managing Calories and Portion Control 78 Realizing that a calorie isn’t just a calorie 78 Determining how many calories you need 79 A balanced diet: Finding the right ratios 80 Portion distortion: Understanding how much is too much 82 Adding Supplements for Health and Help 83 Multivitamin/mineral supplement with B-complex 83 Vitamin C, an immune booster 84 Fish oil for essential fats 84 Whey protein to help stabilize blood sugar 85 Probiotics: The good bacteria 85 Green drinks for extra vegetables 86 Magnesium for relaxed muscles and strong bones 86 Chapter 6: Stocking a Low-Sugar Kitchen 89 Cleaning Out the Cabinets, Fridge, and Freezer 90 Tossing the obvious culprits 90 Uncovering less-obvious troublemakers 91 Skipping low-fat options 92 Eliminating questionable foods 93 Creating a Sugar-Smart Kitchen 93 Stocking up on protein 93 Finding the right carbs 95 Discovering satisfying beverages 95 Navigating the Grocery Store (And More) 96 Making your list and sticking to it 96 Reading and understanding food labels 98 Eating local: Farmers’ markets 100 Considering feedlot meat versus pasture-raised meat 101 Going Sugar-Free on a Budget 101 Stretching your grocery dollars 102 Knowing when to buy organic 102 Chapter 7: Sugar Detox 101 105 Appreciating What a Sugar Detox Can Do for You 105 Aiding weight loss 106 Achieving better blood sugar and insulin control 107 Experiencing increased energy 107 Getting more nutrients 107 Improving immunity 107 Reducing inflammation and lowering your risk of disease 108 Having less gas 108 Battling fewer cravings 109 Enjoying better skin 109 Sharpening mental clarity 109 Feeling personal empowerment 109 Taking Your First Detox Steps 110 Using Complementary Medicine for More than Just Detoxing 111 Exploring complementary medicine options 112 Finding a well-rounded doctor 112 Avoiding snake oil 113 Part III: Living a Successful Sugar-Busting Lifestyle 115 Chapter 8: Eating Mindfully 117 What Is Mindful Eating? 118 Mastering Proactive versus Reactive Eating 118 Paying Attention While You Eat 119 Eating with intention 120 Planning your food choices in advance 121 Keeping a food journal (also known as a lie detector) 122 Avoiding being obsessive or neurotic about food 123 Summoning willpower and understanding 123 Managing stress 124 Giving yourself a reality check 125 Chapter 9: Breaking the Cycle of Failure and Staying On Track 127 Applying Strategies for Success 127 Adopting a new mind-set 128 Developing new habits 129 Making a gradual transition versus going cold turkey 131 Shopping with purpose 133 Unraveling Those Overwhelming Sugar Cravings 134 Understanding why cravings occur 134 Filling the hole: What do you really want? 135 Letting your craving tell you what’s missing from your nutrition 136 Managing Cravings 138 Timing your meals properly 138 Following smart nutrition practices 138 Identifying triggers 139 Choosing substitute behaviors 140 Acting when a craving strikes 141 Coping with Falling Off the Wagon 143 Starting with forgiveness 143 Dealing with the inner critic 143 Getting back on track: Three easy steps 144 Chapter 10: Navigating the Minefields of Eating Out and Special Occasions 145 Eating Out Successfully 145 Watching portion sizes 146 Allocating alcohol and dessert 146 Staying mindful 147 Choosing best bet basics 147 Navigating Social Eating 148 Preventing common mistakes 148 Being prepared 148 Creating balance 149 Reprogramming an all-or-nothing attitude about sweets 149 Surviving Vacations and Special Occasions 150 Vacations 150 Holidays 151 Birthdays and other special occasions 151 Chapter 11: Getting a Boost from Your Support System 153 Countering the “War on Food” Mentality 153 Bringing Your Family on Board 155 Enlisting Friends and Co-workers 155 Supporters 155 Naysayers 156 Devil’s advocates 156 Evangelists 157 Finding a Support Group 157 Getting involved with a local support group 157 Investigating Internet forums 158 Seeking Help from a Professional When You Need It 158 Nutrition counselors 159 Psychotherapists 159 Chapter 12: Sugar-Busting Moves: Incorporating Exercise 161 Seeing How Exercise Affects Sugar Metabolism 162 Sticking to an Exercise Schedule 162 Reaping the Benefits of Being Consistent 163 Comparing Exercise Types 163 Cardiovascular exercise 164 Strength training exercise 165 Combining cardio and strength training 165 Creating a Cardiovascular Exercise Program 166 Choosing your cardio activity 166 Determining duration and frequency 167 Finding the right difficulty level 168 Structuring your cardio exercise 169 Watching out for trouble 170 Developing a Strength Training Workout 171 Choosing the right exercises 171 Figuring sets and reps for optimal results 172 Balancing strength training and recovery time 172 Performing Basic Strength Training Exercises Correctly 173 Exercises for the thighs, glutes, and hips 173 Exercises for the posterior chain 177 Exercises for the shoulders and arms 179 Pulling exercises for the back 182 Core exercises for the abs and waist 184 Putting It All Together: Sample Workouts 188 Example workout 1 (easy) 188 Example workout 2 (difficult) 189 Part IV: Sugar-Busting Recipes 191 Chapter 13: Energy-Boosting Breakfasts 193 Appreciating the Importance of Breakfast 193 Launching Your Day the Low-Sugar Way 194 Chapter 14: Powerful Lunches 205 Brown-Bagging Tips 206 Chapter 15: Nourishing Dinners 219 Whipping Up Speedy Dinner Recipes 219 Chapter 16: Satisfying Snacks 235 Understanding Snacking Success 235 Chapter 17: Sin-Free Desserts 249 Practicing Sugar-Free Satisfaction 249 Part V: The Part of Tens 263 Chapter 18: Ten Surprising Foods to Leave at the Grocery Store 265 Diet Soda 265 Frozen Entrees 266 Bacon 267 Canned Soups 267 Genetically Modified Foods 267 Microwave Popcorn 268 Fruit Juice and Juice Drinks 269 Rice Cakes 269 Protein Bars 269 Peanut Butter 270 Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Outwit Your Cravings 271 Eat Small Amounts of Food Every Three to Four Hours 271 Drink Enough Water throughout the Day 271 Take Your Vitamins 272 Stay Mindful 272 Eat Lots of Vegetables Every Day 272 Exercise 273 Choose a Positive Substitute Behavior When a Craving Strikes 273 Avoid Boredom 273 Get Enough Sleep 274 Don’t Let Triggers Make Decisions for You 274 Appendix: Metric Conversion Guide 275 Index 279
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Orion Publishing Co Stay Sexy and Dont Get Murdered
Book SynopsisThe Sunday Times bestseller from Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the #1 hit podcast My Favorite Murder!Trade ReviewA brutally honest and funny handbook for women looking to trust their own instincts. You'll read it in hours. * STYLIST *A brutally honest and funny handbook for women looking to trust their own instincts. You'll read it in hours. * Stylist *
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Scribner Women Food and God
Book SynopsisEmbraced by Oprah, the #1 New York Times bestselling guide that explains the connection between eating and emotion from Geneen Roth—noted authority on mindful eating.No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. After three decades of studying, teaching, and writing about our compulsions with food, bestselling author Geneen Roth adds a powerful new dimension to her work in Women Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: the way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation, and, yes, even God. A timeless and seminal work, Women Food and God shows how going beyond the food and the feelings takes you deeper into realms of spirit and soul—to the bright center of your own life.
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Simon & Schuster Stick Figure
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Rowman & Littlefield The Truth About Exercise Addiction
Book SynopsisDesigned for individuals concerned about their workout habits, personal trainers, family and friends of folks with a problem, as well as working mental health professionals treating exercise addicts, The Truth About Exercise Addiction provides an easy-to-read, illuminating glimpse into the rising trend of over-exercise. Delving into the history of exercise addiction and the growing influence of thinspiration, Katherine Schreiber and Heather A. Hausenblas illustrate the symptoms and dangers of obsessive exercise with true stories from sufferers, all while exploring why and how such a seemingly healthy behavior morphs into a dangerous means of self-destruction. Analyzing the causes and consequences of excessive physical activity alongside the influence of genetics, culture, and personality, this book allows readers to gain a greater understanding of what exercise addiction looks and feels like. The Truth About Exercise Addiction also provides an unprecedented list of resources to addressTrade ReviewSchreiber and Hausenblas paint a vivid picture of where thinspiration goes wrong, providing an in-depth understanding of the dangers of exercise addiction for both men and women. This text offers a strong mix of evidence-based research and personal life histories that explain the toll too much exercise can have on a person’s body, mind, and social life. Although many know exercise is an effective, safe way to combat diseases, enhance mood, and improve health, this book identifies the addictive power of this ‘drug’ and demonstrates how binging on exercise can cause more harm than good. The authors detail the interaction between exercise addiction and comorbid disorders (eating disorders, body dysmorphia, etc.). Using personal stories, readers recognize that the combination of these diseases can instrumentally decrease quality of life for addicted individuals. Throughout the book, the authors use easily understandable language to discuss a complex issue, enabling comprehension for a variety of readers. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. * CHOICE *If you want a primer on the acquisition, development, and maintenance of exercise addiction, this is the book to read. Comprehensive and well researched, it will help in establishing exercise addiction as a genuine disorder. -- Mark Griffiths, Ph.D., professor, Psychology Division, Nottingham Trent University, UKThis book is a brilliant reflection on exercise addiction. It bridges the up-to-date scientific facts with real life experiences that yields a clear, well-organized, and pleasant reading, which is a must for all sport and exercise enthusiasts as well as anyone interested in this complex subject. -- Attila Szabo, Ph.D., associate professor and acting director, Institute for Health Promotion & Sport Sciences, Faculty of Education & Psychology Eötvös Loránd University(ELTE)Are you or someone you love addicted to exercise? How bad is it really? This compelling and extremely informative book will answer any question you might have. Schreiber and Hausenblas finally give exercise addiction the attention it deserves. The stories are shocking and moving. the possibility of hope imbedded in every page. -- Judith Brisman, Ph.D. author Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends; Founding Director Eating Disorder Resource Center, NYCThe Truth About Exercise Addiction is a thought-provoking and evidence-based examination of a phenomenon that is intriguing and close to home for many avid exercisers. I highly recommend this book to practitioners and exercisers of all levels. -- Danielle Symons Downs, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Kinesiology; OBGYN at The Pennsylvania State University; co-author of The Exercise Dependence ScaleTable of Contents1. What It Is — Defining Exercise Addiction 2. What It Looks Like — The Signs and Symptoms of Exercise 3. Who Coined It? — A Brief History of Exercise Addiction 4. How It Begins — The Origins of Exercise Addiction 5. What It Does — The Short and Long Term Health Risks of Exercise Addiction 6. Why It Happens — Thinspiration’s Darkside 7. What It Feels Like — Exercise Addicts’ True Stories 8. What To Do About It — Treatment 9. How To Approach Someone With A Problem 10. Frequently Asked Questions Appendix A Appendix B Acknowledgments Bibliography
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Simon & Schuster Women Food and God An Unexpected Path to Almost
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Simon & Schuster Take Back Your Life Ending Your Obsession with
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Chronicle Books Hope and Other Luxuries
Book SynopsisAs heard on NPR''s Diane Rehm Show!Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life—two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children''s book novelist. But it''s when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story—told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose—of one family''s fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic.
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Headline Publishing Group I Never Said I Loved You
Book Synopsis''I Never Said I Love You is one of the most electric, enchanting, engrossing and energising memoirs of self-harm, self-loathing, grief, eating disorders, suicide - and sex - that you will read.'' The Sunday Times''Indecently entertaining... one of the most uplifting and eccentric memoirs I have ever read.'' Observer''Brutally honest and relentlessly funny.'' Adam Kay, author of ''This is Going to Hurt''''A brilliant memoir full of gasp-inducing honesty about depression and family and taking control of your own pain. Funny, sad, hopeful, I Never Said I Loved You is an irresistible, strangely empowering read.'' Matt Haig''This mind-blowingly wonderful memoir had me convulsing with laughter even while my heart was breaking. It''s utterly effing BEAUTIFUL.'' Marian Keyes''I found myself blindsided by this extraordinary book ... I was deeply moved by its capacity both to depict paiTrade ReviewBoth funny and touching. * Telegraph *I Never Said I Love You is one of the most electric, enchanting, engrossing and energising memoirs of self-harm, self-loathing, grief, eating disorders, suicide - and sex - that you will read. * The Sunday Times *Indecently entertaining... one of the most uplifting and eccentric memoirs I have ever read. * Observer *This mind-blowingly wonderful memoir had me convulsing with laughter even while my heart was breaking. It's utterly effing BEAUTIFUL. * Marian Keyes *I found myself blindsided by this extraordinary book ... I was deeply moved by its capacity both to depict pain, and offer consolation. I loved it, and won't ever forget it. * Sarah Perry *Brutally honest and relentlessly funny. * Adam Kay *Both unputdownable and beautifully-written, bracing and consoling. A book that tackles mental health and the darkest things with razor-sharp wit and mordant laughs aplenty ... read this. * Sharlene Teo *Touching, funny, wildly readable ... Look out for it. * Sathnam Sanghera *No one writes better, or more sweetly, about how it feels to feel. Even the darkest times are shot through with glorious, bright beams of wit. * Janet Ellis *It's honest and funny (and beautifully painful and brutal at times), but also - oh goodness - it's so elegant. The writing is graceful and kind, even when it hurts a little to remember it's a memoir. * Joanna Cannon *Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. What an absolutely riveting read. * Nikita Gill *Heartbreaking, funny, raw, brave and - yes! - even better than the egg thing. * Erin Kelly *I have always loved Rhik Samadder's writing. And now there's a whole book! * Jessie Burton *A stunning memoir about grief and love, about vulnerability and the strength required to embrace it... this book will have its hooks in me for a long time yet. -- Leaf Arbuthnot * The Times *completely charming and genuinely funny * Grazia *Roars with humour * inews *A feel good mental health memoir... both touching and funny * Daily Telegraph Magazine *A brave blaze of a book... Samadder is a stubborn talent and a gifted storyteller. * The Sunday Times *eloquent, funny, and moving... truly beautiful * Culturefly *A memoir that'll break - then make - your heart... speaking on mental health, grief, disorders and more with frank honesty, Rhik creates a powerful read worth everyone's time. * Topman Blog *
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Hodder & Stoughton Milk Teeth
Book Synopsis''Consuming and sexy'' The Times''Unusually raw . . . so honest and hopeful'' Financial Times?? ?? ??A girl grows up in the north-east of England amid scarcity, fearing her own desires and feeling undeserving of love. Years later, living in tiny rented rooms and working in noisy bars across London and Paris, she meets someone who offers her a new way to experience the world.But when he invites her to join him in Barcelona, the promise of care makes her uneasy. In the shimmering Mediterranean heat, she is faced with both pleasure and shame, and must find out if she is able to change.''Addictive, immediate, brilliant'' Helen Mort''A sharp and beguiling love story . . . Milk Teeth is a transporting, gorgeous novel'' IndependentTrade ReviewJessica Andrews's first novel, Saltwater, was wonderful. The follow-up, Milk Teeth, is even better. A story of young love and desire that's full of the most gorgeous writing. -- Alex Preston, Fiction to Look Out for in 2022 * Observer *Addictive, immediate, brilliant. Jessica Andrews offers a profound take on the ways our bodies are policed, on class, escapism and losing yourself in others -- Helen MortMilk Teeth spills over with care, truth and desire. Andrews makes the case for a life lived abundantly and ardently, full of sensation and pleasure, risk and safety. -- Yara Rodrigues FowlerHeady, sweaty, sexy, salient. I devoured it -- Abigail TarttelinLike many girls from my generation, raised on a diet of Arturo Bandini's oranges and shiny tinned dreams of post-feminism, I have wasted too many years trying to fit into small, muted spaces. I would rather sit down to eat and think with Jessica Andrews any day: Milk Teeth is a novel about holding space, and the hard work that it takes. It is true and I am so grateful it exists. What a relief it is, finally, to step off the ledge: to choose to adventure, to give and take care. -- Livia FranchiniAndrews's sentences are like plum puddings. Rich. Satisfying. And she often uses verbs - spill, split, bleed, leaks - that suggest a messy life. Our heroine does have a messy life - don't we all - but it's presented here in a way that sees truth pouring off every page. * The Crack *In lyric dispatches, with the condensed cadences of poetry, Andrews' novel brilliantly explores the ways we grow into and beyond the limits of ourselves, and what happens in the gaps in between who we are and who we're expected to be. -- Andrew McMillanMilk Teeth is electrifying. It's an exothermic novel that breathes, seethes and writhes. An intimate exploration of class, precarity, sex, power and, above all, of the fragility and exuberance of love. The prose is vivid, gorgeous and supple. It's immediate and ultra-sensual and has the emotional pitch and intensity of the best gig you've ever been to. A thunderbolt of a book. -- Francesca ReeceJessica Andrews' arresting account of obsessive young love and anxiety, Milk Teeth, more than fulfils the promise of her debut, Saltwater -- Patrick Gale, Big Writers on Their Best Reads of 2022 * Daily Mail *As for a new book that I'm excited about, Jessica Andrews' Milk Teeth - her follow-up to award-winning debut novel Saltwater - would have to be it. Lyrical prose, sticky Mediterranean heat and vivid descriptions make this coming-of-age story transporting, sensual and completely addictive. Themes of loneliness, belonging, identity and love - and how we're ultimately deserving of it - will both break and warm your heart. A must for fans of Sally Rooney. -- Best Holiday Reads by Roxy Kavousi-Walker * Net-a-Porter *Milk Teeth examines what it means to allow ourselves to live. * SheerLuxe *Across its blissfully sprawling passages detailing scenes from different cities, what anchors the novel is its exploration of how hunger, class, desire and gender are interlaced . . . In Saltwater Andrews sought a voice that is her own, something she has truly settled into in Milk Teeth. Addressed in second person to the narrator's lover, the writing is gilded with a vulnerable immediacy, blisteringly honest and visceral. Andrews, already lauded, has come into her own. -- Miriam Balanescu * Irish Times *There aren't many high-quality novels for adults that pay serious attention to eating disorders . . . so it's good to find Andrews writing with such precision . . . Andrews's writing style is sensual . . . consuming and sexy. -- Susie Goldsbrough * The Times *This confidence in her material - in placing centre stage a young, unnamed northern woman living a precarious existence but struggling to carve out more space for herself - makes her work reminiscent of Gwendoline Riley . . . unusually raw . . . so honest and hopeful. -- Alex Peake-Tomkinson * Financial Times *An experience akin to having the hue and saturation slider of your mind moved to maximum . . . a brilliantly hopeful book -- Wendy Erskine * Caught by the River *Astute, gut-wrenching...For a novel that is so sharp and often written with such linguistic utility, it isn't at all sparse. Despite these moments in which the narration is given the control that the narrator so desires, this novel is full. In fact, fittingly, one might say it has real weight. * Lunate *A transporting, visceral second novel... a sizzling novel to read in the heat, when you're hungry for life. * Lucy Writers Platform *A sensual and languid love story. -- Sadhbh O’Sullivan * Refinery29 *A tide of sharply sensuous detail keeps the reader riveted as the book flows by in a series of candidly recounted episodes sustained by voice rather than plot. Andrews takes aim at the cultural pressures shaping unhealthy ideals of femininity without ever seeming to preach. -- Anthony Cummins * Daily Mail *A sharp and beguiling love story . . . languid, elegantly written and dripping with a rich emotional humidity . . . Milk Teeth is a transporting, gorgeous novel * Independent *I liked it very much . . . the language, the prose, is very rich . . . there was a melody to it, I found myself reading passages aloud as if there was a poetry to it. -- Agnès Poirier * BBC Radio 4 Front Row *Andrews' prose is distinctly stylised. It possesses a heightened sensuality which reflects the protagonist's aspiration to live fiercely, "like lightning" - free of restraint . . . Milk Teeth possesses a highly charged and often deliberately uncomfortable intimacy. -- Michael Donkor * i *Andrews's lyrical prose overflows with sweet metaphors and sensuous imagery that . . . remains somehow addictive. -- Ellys Woodhouse * New Statesman *An intimate love story . . . Lazy comparisons to Sally Rooney don't do Andrews' unique writing style justice. Milk Teeth is a must-read. * Reaction.Life *Poignant * Daily Mail *
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Orion Publishing Co The Reading Cure
Book Synopsis''Freeman''s pleasure in the food of literature ... is infectious. The Reading Cure will speak to anyone who has ever felt pain and found solace in a book'' Bee WilsonAt the age of fourteen, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia. But even when recovery seemed impossible, the one appetite she never lost was her love of reading. Slowly, book by book, Laura re-discovered how to enjoy food - and life - through literature.Trade Review[A] beautifully written hybrid of memoir and literary criticism... This book is about the anguish of anorexia, written by a bookworm unfurling her wings as a writer of considerable power. -- Cathy Rentzenbrink * TIMES *A miraculous memoir ... Anyone who has encountered anorexia, either first hand or in someone they love, will recognise this harrowing yet heartening portrait. The Reading Cure is a book for the bookish, for those hungry for self-knowledge, or for those who are just hungry. -- Daniel Johnson * STANDPOINT *In its subtle, undogmatic way, The Reading Cure is a tale of joy winning against piety, and the triumph of life over death... both a stimulating argument for the power of fiction as a force for personal change and a wise memoir of anorexia. Moreover, it is never pat, always intelligent, full of enthusiasm, and almost entirely free of self-pity. -- Craig Brown * MAIL ON SUNDAY *Enchanting and original... an illuminating and highly engaging way to think about all kinds of literature. * Amanda Craig *Gentle in its tone and astute in its insights, the book is a treat... [and provides] sound evidence for the ability of literature to affect life. -- Ada Coghen * LITERARY REVIEW *The most moving, most evocative book. -- Sophia Money-Coutts * THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *The Reading Cure by Laura Freeman is devastatingly close to the bone for anyone who has had an eating disorder and knows its power to warp the mind. Gripping, moving, healing, mouthwatering. * Ysenda Maxtone Graham *You might not expect a book on anorexia to be a joy to read, yet somehow this is. Laura Freeman is unflinchingly honest about the loneliness and misery of suffering from an eating disorder: the desperate calculations over 'an inch of almond milk', the 'shivering hunger'. But her pleasure in the food of literature - from sweets in Harry Potter to roast goose in Charles Dickens - is infectious. The Reading Cure will speak to anyone who has ever felt pain and found solace in a book. There are no easy epiphanies here, but you are cheering Freeman on, page by page, as she slowly recovers her appetite, both for double-cheese toasties and for life. -- Bee WilsonThis book seems to have had the most unanimously glowing reviews of 2018 so far. Quite rightly: Freeman's wonderfully uplifting book is all about how she rediscovered the joy of food, and overcame her anorexia, by escaping into the fictional worlds of Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf. * SUNDAY TIMES STYLE *The Reading Cure is a painful exploration of anorexia but also a love letter to the healing power of books written with expert care, talent... and hope. -- Francesca Brown * EMERALD STREET *Freeman's writing throughout is beautiful and bountiful; her descriptions of food are full of flavour and temptation; her journey to wellness an inspiring one. -- Lucy Pearson * THE LITERARY EDIT *This stirring autobiography by Laura Freeman looks set to be a key release. * IRISH INDEPENDENT *Inspiring and illuminating. * CULTURE FLY *[An] honest, beautifully written account. -- Eithne Farry * PSYCHOLOGIES *Do read this book, whether or not you've been afflicted or affected by mental illness. Read it as a book-lover; read it to read with fresh eyes - or sharpened tastebuds; read it for fellow-feeling and hard-won wisdom, and for the sheer joy of taking pleasure in good things. * CORNFLOWER BOOKS *What strikes you most about this remarkable memoir is its joyous absorption in literature in general, and food-writing in particular. It is lyrical, exuberant, optimistic and engaging. -- Patricia Craig * IRISH TIMES *Hers is a story of salvation and picnics, ravioli and freedom, Dickens and survival. Laura's recovery is testament to the power of literature, the love of a concerned family and the tenacity of a woman on a mission. -- Kate Leaver * THE POOL *Lyrically written, raw and honest, this inspiring book truthfully describes an ongoing struggle with inner demons but celebrates those hard-won achievements with grace and gladness as books and their invaluable lessons restored Laura's appetite for life. -- Eithne Farry * S MAGAZINE *Shines like a beacon -- Jake Kerridge * DAILY TELEGRAPH *Clear-eyed, ambrosial, impassioned, bountiful... The Reading Cure is the work of a true-blue bibliophile, and it's impossible not to be seduced by Freeman's love of prose. It's essential reading not just for those who love food, but words. Come dine with her. -- Tanya Sweeney * IRISH INDEPENDENT *An extraordinary account of mental illness captured in all its vivid, perplexing extremity. * SUNDAY BUSINESS POST *Warm and insightful, Freeman takes us on an exhilarating journey. -- Bel Mooney * DAILY MAIL *Highly charged but beguiling and absorbing. * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE *[A] joyful celebration of literature and a candid account of how reading about other people enjoying real or fictional meals helped Freeman recover from anorexia -- Ruth Scurr * THE SPECTATOR Books of the Year *The most delightful hymn to the joys of reading that you could imagine. -- Jake Kerridge * S MAGAZINE *
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McFarland & Co Inc The Surviving Twin
Book Synopsis This memoir chronicles the unique ordeals of identical twin sisters Diana and Julia Lockwood. Even among twins, Diana and Julia were especially close and deeply entwined--they were more than just sisters or best friends, they were like one soul in two bodies. While their total attunement sometimes saved them in funny and unexpected ways, it also eventually destroyed them. A survivor of sexual assault and anorexia and living with Asperger''s, the author tells her own life story while weaving Julia''s letters and journal entries into the text. While Diana survived the struggles that led her to three suicide attempts, her twin unfortunately took her own life only a year after their father did the same. This book explores the life and relationship of twins separated by tragedy and follows a woman''s struggle to make it on her own.
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Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing Thinspired How I Lost 90 Pounds My Plan for
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Amazon Publishing Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
Book SynopsisThe compulsively readable memoir of a woman at war—with herself, with her body, and with food—while working her way through the underbelly of New York City’s glamorous culinary scene. Hannah Howard is a Columbia University freshman when she lands a hostess job at Picholine, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Manhattan. Eighteen years old and eager to learn, she’s invigorated by the manic energy and knife-sharp focus of the crew. By day Hannah explores the Columbia arts scene, struggling to find her place. By night she’s intoxicated by boxes of heady truffles and intrigued by the food industry’s insiders. She’s hungry for knowledge, success, and love, but she’s also ravenous because she hasn’t eaten more than yogurt and coffee in days. Hannah is hiding an eating disorder. The excruciatingly late nights, demanding chefs, bad boyfriends, and destructive obsessions have left a void inside her that she can’t fill. To reconcile her relationships with the food she worships and a body she struggles to accept, Hannah’s going to have to learn to nourish her soul.Trade Review“In this candid and searching memoir, Howard offers a celebration of food as well as an account of the determination required to forge a path to self-acceptance. An inspirational memoir of food and finding oneself.” —Kirkus Reviews “Those in recovery from substance abuse will recognize themselves throughout this honest memoir; for those without addiction issues, this story offers a painful glance into the lives of those who suffer.” —Publishers Weekly “In this deeply felt memoir, Howard, who also mentors young women recovering from eating disorders, pens riveting accounts of the raging monster of bingeing and haunting tales of days of weakness. Readers who are untouched by an eating disorder will be shocked, and those who know its pain more intimately will find a compassionate and understanding friend in Howard.” —Booklist “Feast is a delicious memoir unlike any other.” —HelloGiggles “I’ve just read Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen, food writer Hannah Howard’s book about coming of age in the New York food scene with an eating disorder. It’s honest and funny and full of her love of food—and the conflict between her insatiable hunger with her desire to be thin. I’ve come away from it thinking she is very brave.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Feast is a beautiful, heartbreaking, and life-affirming story that anyone who has ever struggled to define a healthy relationship with food will be able to relate to. I couldn’t put it down.” —Nicola Kraus, author of The Nanny Diaries “Heartfelt, heartbreaking, and courageously generous, Feast is one of the most memorable and important debuts I’ve ever read. With beautiful lyricism and unflinching storytelling, Hannah Howard weaves together addiction, love, fear, sexism, insecurity, ambition, and trauma in a way I’ve never seen done before. As with everything, with every life, Feast isn’t a story about one thing, but rather how intersecting, manifold, and even contradictory things make up a life. It’s a story about the miraculousness of becoming yourself. A must-read for anyone who’s ever wanted to escape their body, for anyone who has loved deeply and wrongly, for anyone who has dared to forgive themselves.” —Morgan Parker, author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé “Brave and beautifully written, Feast is an addictive read. Hannah Howard brilliantly captures the complicated relationships so many of us have with food, love, sex, and ourselves in lyrical prose that will make you hungry for more.” —Kimberly Rae Miller, author of Beautiful Bodies “Hannah Howard’s memoir, Feast, is a courageous exploration of vulnerability, desire, and addiction, set to the thrilling backdrop of New York City’s nascent foodie culture. It’s a must-read for food lovers and makers alike.” —Tia Keenan, author of The Art of the Cheese Plate: Pairings, Recipes, Style, Attitude “Word for word, sentence for sentence, and chapter for chapter, Hannah Howard has written a hard-to-put-down book—one that is heart-wrenching and, ultimately, uplifting and inspirational.” —David Farley, author of An Irreverent Curiosity “In her revealing new memoir, Hannah Howard tells a raw tale of her love-hate relationship with eating, delving into the dark side of our food-obsessed culture. Between tormented relationships with chefs, a moth-to-a-flame attraction to the food industry, and her own struggles with an eating disorder, Howard emerges stronger and wiser, encouraging readers that yes, it can get better.” —Gabriella Gershenson, food writer and editor “An immensely entertaining debut by a writer whose precision and self-preservation are that of a jet-fighter pilot—incisive, totally aware of the forces around her and her own fallibility.” —Steven Jenkins, author of Cheese Primer “Feast is a beautifully rendered account not only of coming of age as a woman in the fraught, fascinating world of food, but of coming of age as a woman in her own skin, and body, and mind. Hannah Howard writes with exceptional candor, insight, and intelligence.” —Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with Men “Hannah Howard tells her story with honesty, insight, humor and deliciously descriptive prose. Feast is a gripping, moving memoir, a book that lives up its name.” —Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun Parts “A gorgeous, painful reckoning with food, femininity, and ambition—a moving look at a young woman becoming herself in the grueling culture of New York City restaurants. There’s an affecting tension between Howard’s passion for exquisite food and an eating disorder that has become a ‘soundtrack’ to her life. This is a book full of heartbreak and delight, with appealing expertise from a talented writer who has been in the trenches, sampling suckling pig, taking the temperature of trout, dodging the unwanted advance from the chef. Rich, complex, and compulsively readable.” —Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Almost Famous Women “In her remarkably vivid debut book, Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen, Hannah Howard draws us into her extraordinary, relatable coming-of-age story, which takes place amidst the bustle and intrigue—and booms and busts—of the food world. In so doing, she dishes up the inside story of her struggles with bad boyfriends, body image, and an eating disorder—with fasting and bingeing, successes and setbacks, emotional ups and downs, and the search for deeper meaning and inner peace. I couldn’t put this book down.” —Stephen Massimilla, author of Cooking with the Muse
£12.11
Simon & Schuster Audio Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost
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Pan Macmillan How to Just Eat It: A Step-by-Step Guide to
Book Synopsis'Laura is a fire starter of the revolution in how we think about food, eating and our bodies' - Red Free yourself from restrictive dieting, punishing exercise and food anxiety.Laura Thomas PhD shows you how to actually break the diet cycle and free yourself from restrictive dieting and punishing exercise, one step at a time.How to Just Eat It is a practical and interactive guide from bestselling author of Just Eat It and Registered Nutritionist Laura Thomas PhD. This book contains more than eighty activities – from journalling to self-care techniques – to help you reframe your approach to food and eating and find an escape from diets and restriction. Beginning with simple exercises for changing your mindset, Thomas shows how to use easy everyday tools to break free from diet mentality, understand fullness cues, and nurture a neutral, judgement-free approach to food.Thanks to expert step-by-step guidance and support through the principles of Intuitive Eating as well as other therapeutic practices, the book will prepare you with a range of personalised tools and skills that give structure to a new and better relationship with food and your body.Trade ReviewLaura is a passionate and intelligent voice of new thinking, a fire starter of the revolution in how we think about food, eating and our bodies. -- Brigid Moss, Contributing Editor, RedLaura is one of the most important voices in food today. She has a rare combination of impeccable academic credentials, clinical experience and a nose for the profound social justice issues at the heart of nutrition science. -- Anthony Warner - The Angry ChefLaura's work is game-changing. I don't know anyone else with her level of expertise who manages to educate others in such an accessible and deeply personal way. She really is blazing the trail in the new nutrition conversation. -- Megan Jayne Crabbe (BodyPosiPanda) author of Body Positive PowerLaura is the clear voice of reason in the world of nutrition and health, as she cuts through a lot of the confusion with hard facts and relatable, funny context. -- Poorna Bell, Journalist for the Guardian, Red, The Pool and former Executive Editor of HuffpostUK
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Hodder & Stoughton How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the next
Book SynopsisChildren are born intuitive eaters in a society where diet culture dominates. Parents are concerned about how to best feed their children, and nearly everyone is offering solutions on how to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic. But these solutions miss the most important thing: a healthy relationship with food.The absence of this healthy relationship can lead to disastrous consequences: weight cycling, low self-esteem and eating disorders can result from this fear-based approach to food that has become the norm for us all.How to Raise an Intuitive Eater is a compassionate guide for parents to help improve the health, happiness and wellbeing of their children. Based on their experiences working with parents and children, Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson understand that parents want their kids to live their best lives in the bodies they were born to have.Trade ReviewHow to Raise an Intuitive Eater is a compelling book that will teach you to identify and heal the wounds of a toxic diet culture. Brooks and Severson provide readers with accessible, well-informed and evidence-based recommendations to protect and support your kids in developing food and body confidence, deftly presenting what family nutrition books aspire to - strategies parents can use to positively influence their child's today and tomorrow, with simple, actionable steps to help their kids with one of the most important experiences they have every single day - the experience of eating. -- Lindo Bacon, PhD, author of Radical Belonging and Health at Every SizeIf you only ever read one parenting book, let it be How to Raise an Intuitive Eater. That's how vitally important, wise, medically-sound and cutting-edge this brilliant book is. A must-read for all parents and any clinician who works with children, eating disorders, or both, this comprehensive classic embodies preventive care by realigning parental good intentions with truly sound skills and philosophies. Children raised with this guide will truly be fortunate. I will be recommending it to everyone I know. -- Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-S, FAED, Founder & Medical Director, Gaudiani Clinic and Author of Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating DisordersThis is the book I've been looking for forever, both as a health journalist and as a mum trying to raise kids who don't fear and resent their appetites or their bodies the way too many of us were taught to do. Brooks and Severson ask us to go deep and wrestle with our own internalized fatphobia and food fears, to work through the body baggage that most of us show up to parenthood still figuring out. But they also answer all of our practical questions, like what to do about juice, or how to respond when our kids want a snack 20 minutes after breakfast. How To Raise an Intuitive Eater is warm, wise, impeccably researched, and thought-provoking. I will be returning to it often; this book is a must-read for every parent. -- Virginia Sole-Smith, author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in AmericaI'm so glad this book exists! Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson demystify the process of intuitive eating for kids, explaining how to navigate that essential balance between structure with food and unconditional permission to eat--all from a foundation of inclusivity and body respect. Not only do I plan on recommending How to Raise an Intuitive Eater to many of my clients, but soon I'll also be using it myself as a new-parent-to-be. -- Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDRD, certified intuitive eating counsellor and author of Anti-Diet
£14.24
iUniverse It Was Never About the Food: Stories of Recovery
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Little, Brown & Company Soul Archaeology: A (Totally Doable) Approach to
Book SynopsisYou want to love yourself. You want to let go of feeling invisible or unworthy or alone. You want to break free of others' expectations (and your own) and live life on your terms. Let's do it!In this highly anticipated debut, plus-size personal growth trailblazer Sarah Sapora redefines self-love, offering the knowing nod, the deep cleansing breath, and the older sister wisdom which women of all sizes have been waiting for. Soul Archaeology begins with a simple, illuminating question: "What's hurting me right now?" Acting as your guide, Sapora helps you through the sticky, liberating process of self-discovery to uncover your Ultimate You, allowing you to:* see the patterns of self-abandonment that screw you out of a self-loving life;* define how you truly want to feel and craft a plan to make it happen;* build your Self-Love To-Do List to break free of the quest for unattainable perfection and learn to love the empowered, messy, and beautiful you. Weaving together practical, transformative guidance with her own deeply personal narrative, Soul Archaeology teaches readers to cast off the chains of traditional Before-and-After thinking so often found in self-improvement. Instead, it offers a strategy for self-accountability, honesty, and compassion that can help each of us to grow into our greatest selves-a person not defined by weight or age, but by our commitment to a more loving, honest, and powerful life.
£15.29
Little Brown and Company This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers
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£26.25
Little, Brown Spark Hanger Management: Master Your Hunger and Improve
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£26.25
Health Communications Food Addiction
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£10.44
New Harbinger Publications The Overcoming Bulimia Workbook: Your
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide covers everything from bulimia's symptoms, causes and risks, to how to normalise eating. It provides a structured action plan for recovery.Based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), the techniques in this book have been proven staggeringly effective in clinical trials. The authors are leading researchers and experts in the eating disorders field.
£22.50
New Harbinger Publications The Anorexia Workbook: How to Accept Yourself,
Book SynopsisLeading researchers in acceptance and commitment therapy suggest to readers struggling with anorexia that strategies to control their disorder are themselves problems. Instead, they use the techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, to teach how better to cope with out-of-control emotions and thoughts. The aim of this book is to teach anorexia sufferers how to redirect the drive for thinness to achieve more healthful goals.
£22.50
Conari Press,U.S. Stop Eating Your Heart out: The 21-Day Program to
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New World Library Over it: A Teen's Guide to Getting Beyond
Book SynopsisBased on their ongoing workshops and the feedback of hundreds of young women, Carol Emery Normandi and Lauralee Roark look at the behaviours that may lead to eating disorders and the cultural, emotional, and physical reasons girls obsess about weight and eating.
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YMAA Publication Center True Wellness For Your Gut: Combine the Best of
Book SynopsisCombines the best that Eastern and Western medicine can offer in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of digestive conditions, diabetes, and obesity. All the while, boosting your immune system! True Wellness for Your Gut combines the best that Eastern and Western medicine have to offer in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of gastrointestinal disease, diabetes, and obesity. By blending modern research with ancient practices, this book will help readers stay positive and keep motivated along their journey toward better health and overall well-being. The authors have helped thousands of people through the use of surgery, pharmaceuticals, acupuncture, herbs, qigong, tai chi, meditation, and life-style counseling. They explain how Western medicine has substantiated a long-held understanding of the gut held by Eastern medicine – that digestive health significantly impacts and is impacted by sleep, emotions, movement, food, and social support. The authors discuss how sleep, exercise, nutritious food, stress management, acupuncture, and qigong favorably impact the gastrointestinal system. These modalities restore balance in the nerves, hormones, and neurotransmitters that improve digestion and metabolism. A special section is devoted to discussing the human gut microbiome, the bacteria we harbor in our intestines, and how the microbiome is essential to our health. Drs. Kuhn and Kurosu strongly recommend a collaborative approach, encouraging readers to engage with their Western healthcare providers so that serious conditions can be addressed safely. The authors share ideas about how the reader can create a multidisciplinary care team, involving practitioners of both Eastern and Western healing systems. The science behind meditation, acupuncture, and qigong are explained. Understand how the microbiome is essential to good health. Readers are offered recommendations of proven Eastern and Western therapeutic interventions that will calm the mind, decrease stress, improve sleep and nutrition, strengthen digestion, and normalize metabolism. True Wellness for Your Gut includes a step-by-step guide and qigong exercises designed to promote overall gastrointestinal health. The authors recognize that digestive disease is complex and requires a multifaceted approach for successful treatment. By blending the ancient wisdom of Eastern Medicine with cutting-edge Western discoveries, True Wellness for Your Gut will help readers stay positive and achieve optimal health, whether through prevention or treatment of digestives conditions, diabetes, and obesity.Trade Review“Hippocrates famously stated, “All disease begins in the gut.” And, as it relates to the number one causes of death on our planet, chronic degenerative conditions like diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity and coronary artery disease, what goes on in the gut has wide reaching and even existential implications. As such, we welcome True Wellness for Your Gut as it provides profoundly insightful and actionable information that may well serve to be transformative in charting the reader’s health destiny.” —David Perlmutter, MD, author, New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain and Brain Wash "I recently had the pleasure of reading True Wellness for Your Gut and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. As a board-certified gastroenterologist, I found the chapters involving the anatomy and physiology of the digestive system to be very detailed and well-researched, yet concise, logically presented, and easy to understand. Not only was it an excellent review of some of the basics for me, it also allowed me to expand my knowledge in the field of gastroenterology. I found of particular value The Human Microbiome and Balancing the Gut-Brain-Microbiome Axis sections of chapter 3, which examine some of the most up-to-date principles of the human gut microbiota. As our knowledge of this exciting and rapidly evolving field grows, I believe it will fundamentally change how doctors and their patients approach digestive health. Furthermore, as a physician trained almost exclusively in the principles of Western medicine, I learned a great deal about how Eastern and Western medicine can complement one another. In short, without reservation I would recommend this book to anyone with a desire to improve not only their digestive well-being, but their overall health as well.” " —James D. Panetta, DO, Board Certified Gastroenterologist “At no other time in our history has taking responsibility for our health and wellness been more imperative. Science has now shown that diet, lifestyle and stress play an integral part in the support of our immune systems and therefore our health. Myriad health issues begin with poor dietary and lifestyle habits that lead to dysfunction of the digestive system and dysregulation of our immune function. The old adage…you are what you eat rings true. True Wellness for Your Gut combines the most current discoveries of Western medicine with the ancient healing wisdom and practices of Eastern medicine to address digestive related disease. It provides an easy to follow guide to proper nutrition, stress management and overall health and wellness. ” —Alice Newton, National Board-Certified Licensed Acupuncture Physician“An informative guide to digestive health that draws on concepts from modern and traditional medicine from around the world. Following up on their previous book, True Wellness: How To Combine the Best of Western and Eastern Medicine for Optimal Health (2019), medical doctors Kurosu and Kuhn aim to bridge the gap between ancient and modern health principles in this self-help guide, which offers helpful approaches to readers struggling with digestive issues or with maintaining a healthy weight. It starts with a general overview of the philosophies behind Western and Eastern medicine (Kuhn received medical training in China and Korusu, in North America) and then walks readers through an in-depth analysis of the human digestive system, including common digestive and metabolic illnesses such as peptic ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, and celiac disease. After that, the chapters shift to healing methods and strategies that readers may implement on their own, such as dietary restrictions or the use of Chinese herbal supplements. The authors make it clear that they wrote the book to give sufferers clarity about the origins of their problems, but they also encourage them to reflect upon their lifestyles—and, specifically, whether they’re pushing themselves too hard at work and at home, as stress can be a worsening factor. There are helpful, uncredited illustrations throughout; a chapter on qi gong practices for gut healing offers several detailed images to help readers understand its physical movements. The authors’ writing style is warm and inviting, and they effectively get their points across without relying on complex jargon or a preachy tone. What’s most striking about the book, however, is how it demonstrates the benefits of holistic medicine when combined with lifestyle changes and how it explains how a single aspect of digestive well-being can affect other areas of one’s health. A valuable and wide-ranging wellness resource. —Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsForeword Preface Chapter 1: The Gut – An East/West Perspective A Brief History of the Gut The History and Philosophy of Western Medicine The History and Philosophy of Eastern Medicine The Science behind Eastern Healing Modalities Western Health-Care Providers and Eastern Medicine Chapter 2: The Gastrointestinal System in Health and Disease Understanding Our Digestive System The Human Microbiome The Second Brain (or The Gut Brain Axis) How Chronic Inflammation Affects Digestion and Metabolism How Sleep Affects the Gut and Vice Versa Common Digestive and Metabolic Illnesses Gastrointestinal Problems Diabetes Obesity Chapter 3: The True Wellness Approach to Gastrointestinal Problems Chapter 4: The True Wellness Approach to Diabetes Chapter 5: The True Wellness Approach to Obesity Chapter 6: Qigong for The Gut Benefits of Qigong Qigong for Healing and Prevention of Gastrointestinal Diseases Chapter 7: General Principles of Self-HealingThe True Wellness Checklist Conclusion Appendix A – Elimination Diet Appendix B – Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Acknowledgments Recommended Reading and Resources Glossary Index About the Authors
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Boutique of Quality Books Binge and Sprint: From Endless Cake to Recovery
Book SynopsisHave you ever stood at the kitchen counter urgently devouring insane amounts of frozen, stale hot dog buns dipped alternatively in jelly and almond butter, while on high alert for approaching humans? After a lifetime of getting knocked to the ground by the same opponent, a Dark Voice, and then rising repeatedly while praying for a way out, Naomi Joseph wrote the rules of "Binge and Sprint:" Use cake as fortitude to steel yourself to plow ahead, and then keep moving, keep achieving, and never ever let the world see your suffering. Never idle, Joseph takes the reader on a four decade journey from childhood through college, marriage, buying a home, comparison, community, infertility, low self-worth, work, starting a business, keeping up with the Joneses, and caring for children and ailing parents, all while chained to her secret burden. Readers will understand their own darkness in the midst of "the good life" as the lid is blown off the shameful shroud of the taboo war with food.Poignant and hilarious, Joseph's journey will help the reader claim their power, and lean into their greatness as they incorporate the many lessons that brought her to recovery into their own lives.
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Shambhala Espanol Comer atentos (Mindful Eating): Guía para
Book SynopsisEl arte de la atención (mindfulness) puede transformar nuestra cotidiana lucha con las comidas, renovar nuestro sentido del placer, así como nuestra satisfacción con la alimentación. El arte de la atención plena puede transformar nuestros conflictos con la alimentación –y renovar nuestro sentido del placer, valoración y satisfacción con la comida. Recurriendo a investigaciones recientes e integrando sus experiencias como médica y maestra de meditación, la Dra. Jan Bays ofrece una presentación maravillosamente clara de lo que es la conciencia plena y cómo ésta puede ayudar con los problemas alimenticios.Comer atentos es un enfoque que involucra llevar una conciencia plena al proceso de alimentación –a todos los sabores, olores, pensamientos y sensaciones que surgen durante una comida. Ya sea que usted tenga sobrepeso, sufra de un desorden alimenticio, o simplemente quiera sacar más provecho de su vida, este libro le ofrece una herramienta simple que puede marcar una diferencia notable. En este libro, usted aprenderá cómo: • Sintonizar con la propia sabiduría de su cuerpo en relación a qué, cuándo y cuánto comer. • Sentirse plenamente satisfecha aunque coma menos. • Identificar sus hábitos y patrones alimenticios. • Desarrollar una actitud más compasiva hacia sus problemas alimenticios. • Descubrir la verdadera fuente de su ansiedad por la comida. Comer atentos incluye también un programa descargable de audio de 80 minutos de duración, con ejercicios guiados.
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Morgan James Publishing llc Dear Ashley: A Father's Reflections and Letters
Book SynopsisEvents wholly beyond our control can sometimes abruptly and profoundly interrupt our life journeys and the journeys of those we love. As they are unfolding, the physical and emotional trauma that often accompany such events present seemingly insurmountable obstacles to our ability to move forward. We become stuck, paralyzed by fear and uncertainty. Several years ago, one of those events drove Don Blackwell's daughter to death's doorstep. In the midst of her suffering, however, and largely as a result of her courage, Don came to realize that such events can also serve as critical points of reflection and opportunities for growth. He also realized that if we are willing to take a step back from the heartbreak of the moment and reflect on the matters of the heart that surround those events, they can lead to a deeper understanding of ourselves, of those we love and of the human condition. "Dear Ashley" is a collection of those reflections and the intimate father/daughter letters used to convey them---shared in the hope that the unique perspective they offer will provide guidance, understanding and healing when life's challenges come knocking on your door.
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The Experiment LLC How to Nourish Yourself Through an Eating
Book SynopsisA much-needed guide for adults on how to tackle an eating disorder and rebuild a healthy relationship with food. For many people, thinking about food is just one small part of their day—but for those struggling with an eating disorder (ED), these thoughts take over and leave them desperately asking, “How can I eat normally again?” Dietitians Wendy Sterling and Casey Crosbie have the answer: the Plate-by-Plate Approach®, a no-numbers, visual method that teaches readers how to restore their relationship with food using only a ten-inch plate. This approach works across all eating disorder diagnoses—in conjunction with medical and psychological treatment—and helps individuals: Break free from the physical and psychological traps of an eating disorder; Learn how to plate meals and snacks without measuring or counting; Heal their relationship with their body and repair their body image; Eat flexibly, paving the way to intuitive eating and a renewed sense of joy around food.
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New Harbinger Publications Mindfulness and Acceptance for Treating Eating
Book SynopsisMillions of people in the United States suffer from eating disorders, and dissatisfaction with weight and body type-even in individuals whose weight is considered normal-is similarly widespread. In addition, more than half of Americans could benefit from healthy weight loss. Unfortunately, not all people with eating disorders or weight concerns respond to traditional therapeutic interventions; many continue to suffer significant symptoms even after treatment. What these clients need is an integrated therapeutic approach that will prove effective in the long run-like the scientifically backed methods in this much-needed clinical guide.Edited by Ann F. Hayos, Jason Lillis, Evan M. Forman, and Meghan L. Butryn; and with contributors including Kay Segal, Debra Safer, and Hugo Alberts; Mindfulness and Acceptance for Treating Eating Disorders and Weight Concerns is the first professional resource to incorporate a variety of proven-effective acceptance- and mindfulness-based approaches-such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)-into the treatment of persistent disordered eating, body image issues, and weight problems.With these evidence-based interventions, you'll be ready to help your clients move beyond their problems with disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, and weight management once and for all.
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