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Severe dieting often results in periods of reactive binge eating, a phenomenon experienced by one in twenty American women. Responses to these periods may include prolonged fasting, self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and obsessive exercise: all symptoms of bulimia. This workbook contains tools to help bulimics break the cycle of bingeing and reacting, allowing them to take control of their lives and make positive behavior changes....
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Eating disorders are everywhere, from anorexics to bulimics, binge eaters to yo-yo dieters. An awful lot of people today feel miserable around food and unhappy in their bodies. But, it doesn't have to be this way. Recovering from an eating disorder is a long, difficult road, and you need guidance along the way. There are many books about eating disorders available. This book is different. This book isn't about your eating disorder: it's about you....
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The book is a read about how my eating disorder came into my life and how it took control over me. It's the battle between me and my eating disorder as it developed into its own entity. As it ruled my life, I sat back and watched it devour everything that I was and loved. As I was vanishing away, I had one chance to get my life back and recover from it. I chose to recover!
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Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders presents the accumulated experience, strength, and hope of many who have followed a Twelve-Step approach to recover from their eating disorders. Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA), founded by sober members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), have produced a work that emulates the Big Book in style and substance. EDA respects the pioneering work of AA while expanding its Twelve-Step...
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Existen muchos libros sobre transformación personal, pero pocos que nos ayuden a empatizar, desde el humor, con quienes sufren problemas de alimentación y codependencia.
En busca de la verdad desnuda narra el viaje que hizo su autora para conocerse. Sus ilustraciones, en una combinación extraordinaria de ternura, realismo y guasa, nos muestran la vida de una mujer que lucha como una auténtica guerrera por descubrir su verdadera esencia, superar...
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What would it be like to really savor your food? Instead of grabbing a quick snack on your way out the door or eating just to calm down at the end of a stressful day, isn't it about time you let yourself truly appreciate a satisfying, nourishing meal? In our modern society, weight concerns, obesity rates, and obsession with appearance have changed the way we look at food-and not necessarily for the better. If you have ever snacked when you weren't...
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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. 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 7 key...
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Book Preview: #1 Obesity, the condition of having excess fat, is typically viewed as bad and unhealthy. However, obesity is a savior that allows animals to survive deadly winters or droughts.
#2 Animals that migrate and hibernate increase their food intake in the fall to prepare for the cold winter ahead. By eating more while using less energy, more of the food they eat is turned...
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Written unflinchingly, Why My Daughter? From Binge Eating to Restriction chronicles an intergenerational journey with disordered eating that swings dangerously between bingeing and restriction. After witnessing her daughter's eating disorder diagnosis at a very young age, the author's quest for meaning uncovered something deeper: a family narrative stretching across time, with ancestral roots. She realizes her daughter's illness is not an isolated...
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This eBook is a guide for parents who have either just discovered that their child has an eating disorder and are overwhelmed with knowing the right steps to take, or who have known for awhile but have been frustrated and dismayed in their attempts to find help that works. This guide will help you to quickly secure effective treatment for your son or daughter, and will likely save them from years of suffering from the devastating effects of anorexia,...
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This book is intended for anyone who is a loved one of someone who is actively struggling or trying to recover from an eating disorder. This is an informational guide on how to best support their loved ones who are struggling and signs to look out for.
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Do you have a silent struggle that wages deep within your soul? Are there questions, shame, and sadness that resound within at the end of every day? The emptiness and loneliness from not being understood . . . the pain that is too much to bear by yourself so you must numb out just to survive. And then there's the question of "Why do I survive?"
You are not alone. This book is a window into the souls of the troubled at heart. It reveals the silent...
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Break the Bulimia Cycle with Mindfulness and Acceptance
If you have bulimia, you know what it's like to be locked in a battle with your body-and you know that whether you're trying to lose weight or struggling to end the bingeing and purging cycle, the same old fears and self-doubts keep coming back. The approach to moving beyond bulimia in The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Bulimia is different than other treatments you may have tried. Instead...
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Is your body an asshole? Does it keep you up at night, crave nonstop French fries and ice cream, and try to convince you that exercise is evil? Does it develop weird illnesses and pains for no apparent reason and run out of energy just when you need it the most? Does having a body at all fill you with uncomfortable emotions? Enter Dr. Faith G. Harper, therapist, nutritionist, and bestselling author of Unfuck Your Brain. She explains the emerging...
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#1 The act of dieting promotes weight gain in a variety of age groups. The body's attempt to survive the dieting process is to slow down your metabolism, destroy your muscle tissue, and become more hungry and preoccupied with food.
#2 The war on obesity has created bigger health problems, as high-quality studies show that being at a lower weight does not confer better...
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“It's Not What Things You See, It's How You See Things” deals with many of the issues that are plaguing people in every walk of like. These things may not seem to be as destructive as the pandemic or natural disasters, but I guarantee they are extremely damaging to those involved. Suicide plagues the United States at a clip of over forty-eight thousand a year. Many of those suicides are due to how people look at themselves. It is estimated that...
77) Intermittent Fasting for Beginners: Simple and Easy-to-Follow Weight Loss Guide on How to Lose We
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Do You Want to Lose Weight in 2020 - and to Keep It Off the healthy way?
Are you struggling to live a healthier lifestyle and want to improve your overall health this year - while still being able to eat your favorite foods? If so, read on...
If you have been experiencing the pain of trying to lose weight, this isn't an uncommon feeling. So many have tried different solutions in order to lose weight. And although there are those that work, they...
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Statistics suggests that as many as 2.5 percent of American women suffer from anorexia; of these, further research indicates that one in ten of these will die from the disorder. This is the only book available that addresses the particular needs of anorexics with the techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a revolutionary new psychotherapy. The authors of this book are pioneering researchers in the field of ACT, with numerous research...
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Una guía practica con todos los secretos del proceso de desintoxicación con jugos de frutas y verduras, creada por la experta en salud Cecilia Ramírez Harris. Esta es la edición blanco y negro con bellas fotografías insertadas.
• Descubre todos los pasos a seguir antes y después del «detox»
• Recibe las herramientas necesarias para comenzar un nuevo estilo de vida lleno de salud, vitalidad y energía
• Aprende como sacarle provecho...
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Starvation eating disorders such as anorexia not only affect your body, but also take a devastating toll on your mind. Constantly feeling anxious about your weight, your appearance, and your self-worth can leave you mentally exhausted. And no matter how thin you become, it's impossible to be happy when you are controlled by anxious and obsessive thoughts. If you're ready to stop letting your eating disorder run your life, Feeding the Starving Mind...
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