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Life can be challenging and stressful, and having a healthy dieting plan can be difficult. For many, the missing ingredients are weight loss inspiration tools. Maybe you believe a common myth about diet motivation: that you are born with will power,or you are not. Research indicates that this simply isn't true. Dr. Albers provides easy-to-use behavioral tips that are clinically proven to kick-start your efforts and shift your momentum into high gear.

Do you feel trapped by body hate? Are negative body thoughts taking over your life? Let's face it: body hate is ugly. It steals your time, your money and your peace of mind. Most of all, it can hold you back from living your dreams and leading the life you truly desire. Love Your Body tackles the negative thought patterns that cause you to feel anxious, discouraged and downright miserable about your appearance. It's a simple, common-sense guide to learning how the way you think affects how you feel about your body (and your life!).

Statistics show that anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating have doubled since the 1960s. A food addiction, like any other addiction, can overtake a person's life as they struggle to escape an out-of-control existence. As a teen, Gail Kasper fought a secret battle with the food addiction, bulimia...

Have you struggled with obesity, poor self-image, weight-related health problems, or simply a feeling of inadequacy or meaninglessness? Are you tired of feeling left out of the active world around you? Have you ever contemplated weight-loss surgery? Kelley Gunter found herself dealing with all of these issues and many more as she weighed the decision to undergo bariatric surgery. Finding very few personal accounts from those who had gone through the same struggles, she decided to write about her experience in an effort to help others facing the same decision.

Food and emotions - you may be wondering what the connection is. It may not be immediately obvious to everyone, but for many people, emotions are closely linked to their eating behavior. Whether consciously or unconsciously, regular emotional eating often leads to a high level of suffering for those affected. Emotional eating usually manifests itself in the form of frustration or stress eating - in other words, eating is a way of compensating for a negative feeling. This can result in severe weight gain and eating disorders, which is why emotional eating should not be underestimated.

¿Y si perder peso no significara castigo, restricción o culpa, sino una profunda sanación interior? Si has probado todas las dietas, has contado todas las calorías y sigues atrapado en el mismo ciclo de antojos, culpa y alimentación emocional... este paquete es tu gran avance. La pérdida de peso no es solo física, es profundamente emocional.¿Te encuentras buscando comida cuando estás estresado, triste o abrumado?¿Los antojos nocturnos sabotean tus objetivos?¿Sientes que has «empezado de nuevo» más veces de las que puedes contar?¿Anhelas la paz con tu cuerpo más que nada en el mundo?

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.

Recovery 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.

This updated and expanded edition of Desperately Seeking Self offers a spiritually-centered approach that emphasizes the how of healing from an eating disorder. It guides listeners on a journey inward, showing them how to connect with their true self and from there, heal their eating disorder and transforms their lives. How do you look within when an eating disorder has filled you up with pain? Desperately Seeking Self speaks directly to this need. Its message is simple, gentle and accessible, resonating with a new generation of millennial listeners who are hungry for spiritual connections.

Stories I Tell My Patients by Arnold Andersen, MD has been an intermittent feature in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention from 1993 to 2015. The complete set of 101 stories is collected here in one volume for the first time. Combining myth, metaphor, fable, tall tale, and inventive fantasy, they were originally intended for professionals treating eating disorders to listen to and share with their clients, though they can also be listened to and appreciated by individuals in recovery and their loved ones.

The 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.

Achieve Rapid Weight Loss with Hypnosis, Even if You've Struggled for Years. Do you feel trapped in a cycle of diets and cravings that never lead to lasting results? What if there was a way to lose weight naturally and rapidly, without punishing diets or grueling workouts?

The Food Security Blanket offers a compassionate roadmap for foster parents, social workers, and therapists supporting children through complex relationships with food. Drawing from a decade of hands-on fostering experience and evidence-based research, this guide reveals practical strategies that address the heart of these behaviors.

Intermittent fasting (IF) is about when you eat rather than what you eat. This popular approach to healthy weight loss has you cycle between periods of eating and fasting, and many people find it simpler than traditional diets (healthline.com). In this beginner-friendly guide, we’ll explain why IF is worth considering, break down three common fasting methods (16/8, 5:2, and OMAD), and provide practical tips on getting started.

Part one of Three Years With A Monster comes to you in real time as Dennis scribbled it down in his journal and recapped the events every few months in blog form. You will experience the heartbreaking daily struggle as it unfolds. Eating disorders are nearly impossible to understand unless you come face-to-face with them. This book brings you so close you can smell the monster’s breath. The Wilkinsons were directed to use family-based therapy and dialectical behavioural therapy. Helpful explanations and observations of these tools are contained in this section.

Los seres humanos somos seres integrales: espíritus que tenemos alma y vivimos en cuerpos físicos. Como hijos de Dios, sabemos que nuestros cuerpos son templos del Espíritu Santo (1 Corintios 6:19) y estamos llamados a cuidarlos con responsabilidad y gratitud. Por eso, la lucha contra el sobrepeso y la sobrealimentación no puede abordarse únicamente desde un punto de vista físico, sino que requiere una mirada más profunda que incluya también los aspectos emocionales y espirituales.

Entiende porqué, a pesar de haber pasado por cientos de dietas, cada día tienes peor relación con la comida y tu cuerpo. Si estás atrapada, obsesionada y desnutrida, es más fácil que te sometas. Saca a la luz tu fuerza para crear, construir y vivir la vida que mereces.

Emotional eating often starts as comfort — a way to fill emptiness, ease tension, or reward yourself. But what once soothed you can slowly create guilt, loss of control, and frustration. This guided hypnosis session helps you break that emotional link, so food returns to its natural purpose — nourishment and enjoyment, not escape. Instead of trying to suppress cravings, this session works with your unconscious mind to create a calm, natural relationship with food and with yourself.

Um programa de 21 dias, comprovado cientificamente, para curar sua relação com a comida e com seu corpo. Sem dietas, sem restrições, usando o cérebro como aliado. Quem tem dificuldade com excessos alimentares sabe como é se sentir culpado e fora de controle. E as razões para o descontrole são muitas: desejo, hábito, tédio, estresse, ansiedade ou o simples fato de haver uma caixa de bombons à vista. A fome fica em segundo plano diante de tantas sensações. Perdemos o contato com nosso corpo e não sabemos se o que sentimos é fome ou se estamos apenas engolindo nossas emoções.

Even though as Christian women we know that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, many of us have been in a war with our own bodies for years. We tediously track calories, eliminate food groups, jump on the latest exercise trend, and wonder if all this business about balancing hormones is real or just someone trying to sell us something.