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Bibiana es una joven normal, inmersa en una sociedad obsesionada con la apariencia física. Como les sucede a muchas personas, ella cae en una trampa que pone en peligro su vida.
"Todo a mi alrededor es light. La gente come ensaladas, toma agua natural y va al gimnasio. El tema central de las conversaciones es dietas y ejercicio. Dicen que para triunfar en la vida se requiere estar delgado. Así que cuento las calorías de cada alimento, hago abdominales,...
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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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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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Childhood obesity in the United States has tripled in a generation. But while debates continue over the content of school lunches and the dangers of fast food, we are just beginning to recognize the full extent of the long-term physical, psychological, and social problems that overweight children will endure throughout their lives. Most dramatically, children today have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, something never before seen in the...
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This book centers around the disorder and effects of Bulimia Nervosa, and its story is universal to all those who are struggling with any sort of physical and emotional addiction. I learned that Eating Disorders are not about food and weight, but rather it's an internal struggle between love and rejection.
Important to note is that this is not a religious book. It's a personal spiritual journey that has nothing to do with any religious denomination...
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People with normal eating patterns eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. But people struggling with binge eating relate very differently to this most basic need, often risking depression, gastrointestinal problems, and even death because of their problems with food. The Appetite Awareness Workbook offers an eight-week, cognitively based program to help you learn to pay attention to hunger cues, keep track of your feelings about food,...
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A life-changing manual for those suffering from food issues of any kind. Focusing on real, long term results, the proven system Shelley Ugyan provides in this book is one of the most effective of its kind and has the potential to help millions who want a permanent solution to the struggle with food. This complete 12 week manual offers easy to use, concrete tools based on the cognitive behavioural approach which teaches people to transform their relationship...
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Brooke Heberling is a shining force of love, truth, humor, and hope. Her story is a testament to the power of an unbreakable spirit and steadfast faith.
--Jessica Flint, Founder and CEO of Recovery Warriors
A must-read: Ruby Blue's dive into darkness is heart wrenching; her journey to find peace within herself painful and relatable, but worth the struggle as her rise into the light is inspiring!
--Rita Herron, USA Today Bestselling...
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"Michael was just fifteen years old when he started dieting. He wasn't fat, he wasn't thin either. But, he was a strong minded teenager who was determined to change his own life in a very dramatic way. Michael's obsession with his appearance drew him into a death struggle with Bulimia Nervosa. Sherry and I believed that there was no hope for Michael. We knew that we were losing our youngest son, but at the height of our desperation, God came and touched...
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Marci Warhaft-Nadler tackles the tough questions that you and your kids face as they negotiate aspects of body image and self-esteem in a world filled with adverse messages. With over two decades of experience on both sides of the fitness industry and herself a survivor of an eating disorder, she speaks from the heart with straight-forward and savvy advice. Understanding the challenges is the first step; learning the tools needed to empower kids to...
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Do you have a secret? Are you distressed about your eating? Do you sometimes eat more food than most other people would eat under similar circumstances? Do you sometimes feel like you can't stop eating, or can't control how much, or what you're eating? Do you eat large amounts of food even when you're not hungry? Do you sometimes eat more rapidly than normal? Do you eat until you feel uncomfortably full? Do you eat alone because you're embarrassed...
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This book is for anyone who is struggling throughout their recovery from an eating disorder. It is a self-love book to lift you up when you are feeling down and to bring you some strength when you need it the most. It is a motivational short rhyming book to remind you of just how strong you are and to not give up while fighting for your recovery.
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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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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 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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This ebook edition of a classic, bestselling autobiography completes Claire Beeken's powerful story, taking the reader on an inspirational journey to the present day. Claire Beeken first went to hospital with an eating disorder aged 10. For over a decade she locked herself into a vicious cycle of starvation, laxative abuse, binge-eating and vomiting, attempted suicide and periods in a psychiatric hospital. This graphically honest, deeply-affecting,...
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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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This intimate self-help guidebook offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery. It includes a two-week program to stop bingeing, ideas for things to do instead of bingeing, a guide for support groups, specific advice for loved ones, and "Eat Without Fear," Lindsey Hall's story of her self-cure, which has inspired thousands of other bulimics. This 25th anniversary edition updates all information from previous editions, with additional...
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Writing from a personal experience with honesty, warmth and compassion, Meredith Seafield Grant explores eating disorders, the development, the depths of despair but most importantly the hope and reality of recovery. With over twenty years of personal journal entries as a resource, Meredith has compiled the wisdom and insight she gained on the road to her personal life's rainbow. Appreciating that each individual suffering from an eating disorder...
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This guided journal includes inspirational quotes and prompts for individuals in recovery from eating disorders. With soulful artwork by the late Mary Anne Ritter - 'Ritteroo' - who suffered from anorexia nervosa while conceiving of this project, this four-color workbook combines textual and graphic inspiration with plenty of space for writing. Written by eating-disorders expert Lindsey Hall, the text is organized into six categories for self-exploration:...
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