Eating Disorders category: 671 books
Insatiable
A Young Mother's Struggle with Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A raw and engrossing memoir of a young mother's addiction to eating disorders and her struggle toward health-now in paperback.
At twenty-four, Erica Rivera appeared to have it all: a B.A., two daughters, a successful husband, a house in the suburbs-and a great body. But under the surface, Erica...
Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat
A Story of Bulimia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that caused her bulimia. Moving coast to coast, she tries to escape her self-hatred and obsession by never...
Hungry
A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
A unique eating-disorder memoir written by a mother and daughter.
Unbeknownst to food critic Sheila Himmel-as she reviewed exotic cuisines from bistro to brasserie- her daughter, Lisa, was at home starving herself. Before Sheila fully grasped what was happening, her fourteen-year-old with a...
Father Hunger
Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"Father Hunger" is the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers were physically or emotionally absent-a void that leads to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears and disordered eating patterns. The term, which is now part of the psychology lexicon, originated with the first...
by Samantha Michaels
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
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...
by Christine Kruger-Remus
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
In this follow-up book to Why Can’t I Stop Eating? 25 Tips for Managing Binge Eating Disorder & Compulsive Overeating, you’ll discover additional skills to help you through the process of learning to cope with your eating disorder and how to keep it from controlling your life. This book may...
Mom in the Mirror
Body Image, Beauty, and Life after Pregnancy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Mom in the Mirror: Body Image, Beauty, and Life after Pregnancy is for every woman who has ever doubted herself or her self-worth after the birth of a child. Because most women spend much of their lives attempting to change their bodies, it’s not surprising that the weight gain that comes along...
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat
A Mindful Eating Program to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Do you regularly deprive yourself, succumb to temptation, feel guilty, and then start the process all over again? If so, you need this book. Dr. Michelle May will guide you out of the food-focused, diet-driven downward spiral that leads you to eat, repent, and repeat. She offers a powerful alternative:...
The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook
An Integrated Approach to Overcoming Disordered Eating
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Some people use food to calm themselves when they feel overwhelmed. Others find it difficult to discern between eating out of hunger and eating out of habit. There are nearly as many reasons why people overeat as there are reasons to stop. While overeating can often bring comfort in the short term,...
Anorexia Nervosa
A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Families and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The highly respected and widely known Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Sufferers and Friends was written in 1997. This long-awaited new edition builds on the work of the first book, providing essential new and updated research outcomes on anorexia nervosa. It offers a unique insight and guidance...
What Are You Hungry For?
Women, Food, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Women have many secrets. But a woman's secret relationship with food and her body can overshadow other aspects of her life, filling her with obsession, shame and fear. Many women waste countless years focusing on food and appearance, rather than spending energy on what holds deepest meaning for them...
by TREVOR.A.DENNIS
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
The book is based on fitness and health while suggesting you better lifestyle tips. While browsing through the book, you will discover a “new you” by making smart eating and living choices. Reading this book can help you inculcate healthy eating habits thereby explaining the unknown concept of “emotional...
by Gregg Murray
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Sick of dieting? You should be, because if you’re like most overweight people, dieting leads you down a mentally difficult path of deprivation and guilt and demands a physically challenging (at best) set of rules that often actually makes it harder to lose and keep off weight. Low-Willpower Eating...
The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman
Wisdom to live the life you crave
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Do you think about food too much? Envy those “skinny bitches” and wonder how they do it? Use the needle on the scale as a measure of your self-worth? Are you “just ten pounds” away from happiness? You are not alone. Iris Ruth Pastor, too, was a weight-obsessed woman who found a way to eat...