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Self-Help Books on Eating Disorders

MUST HAVES for people with an Eating Disorder

   
  The Fat Girl's Guide to Life
by Wendy Shanker

paperback $10

Vibrant, vivacious, and gorgeous, Wendy Shanker is a fat girl who has simply had enough-enough of family, friends, co-workers, women's magazines, even strangers on the street all trying (and failing) to make her thin. Written in Wendy's wonderfully funny and candid voice, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life provides thought-provoking insights, statistics, and body-image resources intended to restore a realistic standard of beauty and self-acceptance to the 68 percent of American women who wear a size 12 or larger.


  Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
by
James Lock, Daniel Le Grange

paperback $12

Always harmful and potentially deadly, eating disorders can wreak havoc on families. This powerful and controversial book by top researchers argues that parents are not the culprits but the key to their teen's recovery.


  Runaway Eating: The 8-Point Plan to Conquer Adult Food and Weight Obsessions
by
Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch

paperback $12

In this first book to address a disturbing new trend: dangerous eating patterns in midlife women, clinical psychologist Bulik and dietitian Taylor team up to present a patient-tested ten-point program to help women regain a healthy relationship with food.


  Hiding Under the Table
by Dennis Henning

paperback $14 cd $35

$300.00 a day food habit, 300 laxatives a day, prostitution: These are a few of the ways Dennis Henning numbed himself to deal with his "silent killer," an eating disorder. This is the raw, uncompromising account of a man who suffered from an eating disorder


  Biting the Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia
by
Richard Maisel, David Epston

paperback $23

This book takes readers inside the minds, bodies, and feelings of anorexic patients and tells the stories of those who have successfully fought back from this disease. Through first-person narratives, readers get a rarely seen look inside this disease.


  The Truth about Eating Disorders
by Gerri Freid Kramer

hardcover $35

This series are aimed to teenagers. This book discusses problems including anorexia, bulimia, fad diets, and laxative abuse and explains topics such as the causes of eating disorders, how to recognize the disorders


  Love to Eat, Hate to Eat: Breaking The Bondage Of Destructive Eating Habits
by Elyse Fitzpatrick

paperback $7

Having discovered the power food has over lives, counselor Elyse Fitzpatrick, author of "Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Anxiety, helps readers identify destructive eating habits, break the vicious cycle of emotional eating, and develop a flexible lifetime eating plan.


  So Now You Know
by Darah Echevarria

paperback $7

Do you have any idea what it is like to live with just one thought dominating over everything you do? When food becomes your entire life? A life of figures. Calories, kilograms, hours, minutes. Counting, always counting. And the lies, the endless promises, the deadlines. the disappointment, the self-deprecation. 'So Now You Know' is a necessary breath of fresh air among a host of scientific, academic explanations, excuses, justifications, legitimizations - it is emotional, sincere, demystifying.


  Binge Eating - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
by Icon Health Publications

paperback $35

A 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to binge eating. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources.


  Eating Disorders - A Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
by Icon Health Publications

paperback $69

The author shares her life and her early years when food was used by her parents to reward and to soothe her aches and pains. As an adult, depression brought on the desperate need for food. Low-self esteem, anger, and frustration all triggered her compulsive nature.


  How Much Does Your Soul Weigh?: Diet-Free Solutions to Your Food, Weight, and Body Worries
by Dorie McCubbrey

paperback $11

With Dr. Dorie McCubbrey's plan for "Intuitive Self-Care," you can unburden your soul of all the "weight attitudes" of the diet mentality -- rigid rules, negative self-talk, and unrealistic goals -- that lead to disappointment and hopelessness.


  The Laughing Head
by Annie Wiley

paperback $15

The Laughing Head is Annie Wiley. She created this image of herself as a child to deal with secret anxiety and abuse. She built this character up until her emotional self-abuse became physical. From age twelve until she began recovery at age twenty she was what doctors diagnosed as severely bulimic and mildly anorexic.


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