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If you're ready to shed more than just the weight, listen to one woman's remarkable journey of self-discovery and healing. In Diary of a Fat Girl you gain an intimate view into how one woman overcame her past and began anew. Through Lisa Sargese's heart-wrenching (but often laugh-out-loud funny) memoir, you'll be inspired to discover your inner strength and drive to triumph in your own life challenges.

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.

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.

Do you seek a specific food every single day? Do you instantly reach out for this food during vulnerable moments of your life or after a stressful day? Do you find satisfaction after giving in to sweet treats? This audiobook will help you understand why you have such intense desires for a particular type of food and how you can handle the cravings. Become more informed about the various techniques you can use to curb your food cravings today.

A university athlete, Jacqueline Alnes’s season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough escalated to a collapse on the track and months of episodes that stole her ability to walk and even speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes’s symptoms returned with a severity that led to months in a wheelchair but left doctors mystified. Desperate for answers, she turned to an online community centered around two wellness gurus—Queensland’s ‘Durianrider’ and his then-girlfriend ‘Freelee the Banana Girl’.

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.

Enough addresses the root cause of disordered eating and body dissatisfaction through attachment theory. Drawing on the author’s expertise as a Registered Nurse and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, as well as personal experience overcoming her own struggle with an eating disorder, this compassionate guide offers a roadmap to sustainable change.

If you have an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, or emotional eating, you may also struggle with negative body image that's made worse by diet culture, television, magazines, movies, and social media. And, despite popular belief, not all people who struggle with eating disorders are tiny or thin. Eating disorders can affect people of all genders, ethnicities, and ages—as well as all shapes and sizes. That's why you need a weight-inclusive approach.

In BE-Friend Yourself: Finding Freedom with Food and Peace with Your Body, author Marla Mervis-Hartmann invites you to resoundingly answer, "Yes!" As the creator of the program, Love Your Body, Love Yourself, Marla draws upon her two decades of expertise as a body image and food freedom expert and healer to empower you. With a mission to silence the relentless noise of the diet industry, Marla guides you on a journey to rediscover yourself.

"ESCAPE - Breaking Free from a Self-Made Prison" is a stirring and deeply personal memoir that chronicles a remarkable journey of resilience, healing, and self-discovery. Diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in his twenties, Tim Kaufman's life spiraled into a vortex of painkillers, alcohol, and fast food addiction, leading him to a critical juncture at over 400 pounds, riddled with chronic diseases, and near immobility.

Heal your relationship with food—by unlocking the power of your subconscious mind. Are you stuck in the cycle of emotional eating, willpower battles, and guilt? If you're tired of trying to "eat better" only to fall back into old habits, this audiobook is your turning point. In Subconscious Mind Power for Emotional Eating, therapist and emotional eating recovery expert Jane McMiller guides you through a step-by-step journey to rewire your subconscious mind—the part of you that’s silently driving your eating behaviors.

A music prodigy, head of her class, and well-liked in school, Emily Paulson decided early that embellishment paved the road to success. As she grew up, she figured out how to make the picture look even better - with a successful husband, five beautiful children, and all the required accompanying accoutrements. Then along came social media, where those pictures of the perfect life grew her a following of women who believed that everything about Emily was #blessed #inspo. But behind the filtered façade was a reality filled with trauma, addiction, and dysfunctional behavior.

It's never too late to get back into fitness and reverse the aging process. Saba Moor-Doucette is the perfect example. At 68, she challenged herself to compete as a Bikini Diva/sports model, and, at 75, ended up an undefeated six-time International Senior Division INBA Bikini Diva Champion. Now she shares her story, her secrets, and her inspirational message with everyone. Saba documents her amazing journey and tells us how everything begins with the thought. First, we think it, then we do it, and finally, we embody it, and become the person we've always dreamed of being.

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At the age of 14, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia. She had seized the one aspect of her life that she seemed able to control and struck different foods from her diet one by one until she was starving. But even at her lowest point, the one appetite she never lost was her love of reading. As Laura battled her anorexia, she gradually rediscovered how to enjoy food - and life more broadly - through literature.

Plus-size TV personality and body confidence advocate Laura Adlington has struggled with her weight (and the weight of other people's opinions) her entire life. Here, in conversation with experts including doctors, psychologists and nutritionists, Laura reveals just how detrimental diet culture is to health, and explores where our true worth lies. Packed with personal stories and practical advice, this book will help you find peace with your body – not be at constant war with it.

Have you noticed since starting all this "healthy" eating, dieting, perfect Paleo diets, wholesome Vegan escapades, and all that glorious exercise that you did in the name of better health and a better appearance…That you look and feel worse? Eating pretty much any overly restricted diet will do these things to you. Throw some "healthy" exercise in there with it and you've got a recipe for shutting down your entire system. It's all caused by a drop in metabolic rate. Diet Recovery is your guide to bringing your metabolism back up to its ideal level.

Diet, Shatkarmas, and Amaroli provides diet guidelines and practices for cleansing and optimizing the functioning of the inner neurobiology. This is more than a diet audiobook. It is an integrated set of instructions on yogic nutrition, hygiene, and rejuvenation, aiding and facilitating the process of human spiritual transformation. The human body is the doorway between our outer world and a boundless inner realm of peace, love, and creative energy.

Every self-help product, self-improvement resource, and dieting program either explicitly or indirectly points to the fact that we are not good enough the way we are; that we need to change something about ourselves to become happy. If we are trying to lose weight so that we can feel better about ourselves, what we are saying is that our body is not sufficient and that it has become an obstacle to us in our pursuit of feeling happy. Because it is a barrier, we develop a sense of resistance to it.

Robyn Cruze, a mental health advocate who found recovery from an eating disorder, has teamed up with therapist and friend Espra Andrus to provide expert guidance for those seeking eating disorder recovery, their loved ones, and treatment professionals. This revised edition offers new insights and stories, updated approaches to nutrition, and answers to such pressing questions within the eating disorder community as: Does the word "recovered" have a place in the recovery process? What about notions of "good," "bad," "health," and "unhealthy" foods?