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That magic diet, detox, flush, or pill that promises a 10-pound weight loss in a week is tempting, isn't it? We know it won't last—and wonder if it works—and yet when you find yourself staring longingly into the refrigerator for comfort or stress relief, start a diet with good intentions but lose focus, reach your goal and then yo-yo back up or gain even more weight, it's not hunger driving you.

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: stop being afraid of food and start eating mindfully and joyfully.

You know those problems in your life that never change, no matter what you try? What if they are actually where your greatest growth and transformation can be found? It turns out that being stuck is not an endpoint, it's a clue. Wherever there is something in your life that is impossible to think, or feel, or do, you are finding the exact spot where the next steps in your life are waiting to unfold.

Includes audiobook-exclusive coaching sessions from Jess! You were made for more than a love/hate relationship with your body. It's one thing to know in your head that you were created in the image of God. Yet it's quite another to experience this belief in your body, against the cultural ideals...

Have you ever stood in front of an empty cookie package, stunned and wondering, "How did I get here again?" Or perhaps you've sworn off certain foods, only to secretly binge on them later, filled with guilt and shame. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone — and there's nothing wrong with you. In The Binge Eating Breakthrough, Jane Pilger offers a refreshing, compassionate, and radically different approach to overcoming binge eating — one that doesn't rely on willpower, restrictive diets, or constant self-control.

This program is read by the author. Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women. Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and...

Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies, and fatness is not a death sentence. Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health. The authors also help make sense of how poverty and oppression - such as racism, homophobia, and classism - affect life opportunity, self-worth, and even influence metabolism.

If you struggle with binge eating or BED, you are not alone. BED is by far the most prevalent eating disorder. Three and a half percent of women and two percent of men suffer from Binge Eating Disorder during their lifetime. In comparison, anorexia and bulimia each affect 0.6 percent of the population. Despite its prevalence, BED remains cloaked in secrecy and shame. Less than half of its sufferers seek therapy for their eating disorder. However, 30 percent of those seeking weight loss treatments have BED.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For her entire adult life, Oprah Winfrey has struggled with her weight. She never thought in her lifetime, medicines would provide hope, health, and healing for people like her. But as her conversations with Dr. Ania Jastreboff...

Binge eating might be your deepest, darkest secret, but you aren’t alone. Rebecca L. Robson was a secret binge eater for 27 years. She tried hundreds of therapies, diets, and treatments to break the crippling binge eating cycle. But no matter how hard Rebecca tried, nothing seemed to stick for longer than a few weeks or months before she was back to square one. Determined to find another path, she uncovered the root cause of her binge eating and was finally able to break her habit for good. This simple and sustainable approach is your path to a future free from binge eating.

Through interviews, research, and her own experience, Brown not only gives us the real story on weight, health, and beauty, but also offers concrete suggestions for how each of us can sort through the lies and misconceptions and make peace with and for ourselves.

Food is the ultimate double-crosser. It provides pleasure and pain in equal measure, but unlike people, you can't break up with food. Instead you need to change how you think and relate to food, so you reap the positives without letting it drive you to distraction. Healthy living strategist and personal coach Lisa Lewtan has the answer.

This book helps the listener understand why compulsive eating and compulsively controlling of our eating and weight hasn’t brought us freedom from the obsessive cycle of on and off dieting. It guides the listener in identifying and understanding the opposing, crazy-making voices that accompany eating and weight problems, and guides us to relief from the self-directed bigotry of looksism.

Most people think big girls have low self-esteem and do not feel as sexy as the models with the perfect bodies that we constantly see on TV. I never knew there was anything wrong with me until I kept seeing people on TV telling me I was too fat, too sloppy, and definitely ugly. Every commercial emphasizes the need to have that perfect plastic factory body. While everyone think that fat is sloppy or unattractive, I have learned to embrace it.

Grace McCready was a thin, beautiful girl; but when she looked in the mirror, all she saw was fat and ugly. What started out as Grace trying to lose a little weight by slowly changing her diet led to telling lies, starving herself, and exercising herself nearly to death.

When it comes to losing weight and keeping it off, it's not really about the food. It's about everything else in your subconscious mind that triggers you to reach for food when you are not hungry or binge when already full. Hence, you can tip the scale in your favor by becoming more aware of underlying fears, concerns about interpersonal relationships, and various ways you protect your heart.

Siguiendo las sugerencias y recomendaciones dadas en esta guía, aprenderá a amarse a sí mismo exactamente como es. Y también aprenderá lo que es la alimentación consciente, cómo funciona, y su historia, los beneficios de esta técnica y lo que promete, el papel que juega la alimentación consciente en el tratamiento de los trastornos alimenticios, incluyendo los atracones y el exceso de comida, y mas.

Is it possible that the biggest threat to your health...is your attempt at improving it? Sometimes the path to destruction is paved with good intentions. Never-before have people tried so hard to be healthy and fit, yet end up with the exact opposite results. Could it be that we're completely missing the boat?