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Self-Help Books on Eating Disorders
MUST HAVES for people with an Eating
Disorder
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The Fat Girl's Guide to Life
by Wendy Shanker
paperback $10
Vibrant, vivacious, and gorgeous, Wendy Shanker is a fat girl who
has simply had enough-enough of family, friends, co-workers, women's
magazines, even strangers on the street all trying (and failing) to
make her thin. Written in Wendy's wonderfully funny and candid
voice, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life provides thought-provoking
insights, statistics, and body-image resources intended to restore a
realistic standard of beauty and self-acceptance to the 68 percent
of American women who wear a size 12 or larger.
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Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
by James Lock, Daniel Le Grange
paperback
$12
Always harmful and potentially deadly, eating disorders can wreak
havoc on families. This powerful and controversial book by top
researchers argues that parents are not the culprits but the key to
their teen's recovery.
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Runaway Eating: The 8-Point Plan to Conquer Adult Food and Weight Obsessions
by Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch
paperback
$12
In this first book to address a disturbing new trend: dangerous
eating patterns in midlife women, clinical psychologist Bulik and
dietitian Taylor team up to present a patient-tested ten-point
program to help women regain a healthy relationship with food.
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Hiding Under the Table
by Dennis Henning
paperback
$14
cd $35
$300.00 a day food habit, 300 laxatives a day, prostitution:
These are a few of the ways Dennis Henning numbed himself to deal
with his "silent killer," an eating disorder. This is the raw,
uncompromising account of a man who suffered from an eating disorder
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Biting the Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia
by Richard Maisel, David Epston
paperback
$23
This book takes readers inside the minds, bodies, and feelings of
anorexic patients and tells the stories of those who have
successfully fought back from this disease. Through first-person
narratives, readers get a rarely seen look inside this disease.
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The Truth about Eating Disorders
by Gerri Freid Kramer
hardcover $35
This series are aimed to teenagers. This book discusses problems
including anorexia, bulimia, fad diets, and laxative abuse and
explains topics such as the causes of eating disorders, how to
recognize the disorders
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Love to Eat, Hate to Eat: Breaking The Bondage Of Destructive Eating Habits
by Elyse Fitzpatrick
paperback
$7
Having discovered the power food has over lives, counselor Elyse
Fitzpatrick, author of "Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Anxiety, helps
readers identify destructive eating habits, break the vicious cycle
of emotional eating, and develop a flexible lifetime eating plan.
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So Now You Know
by Darah Echevarria
paperback
$7
Do you have any idea what it is like to live with just one thought
dominating over everything you do? When food becomes your entire
life? A life of figures. Calories, kilograms, hours, minutes.
Counting, always counting. And the lies, the endless promises, the
deadlines. the disappointment, the self-deprecation. 'So Now You
Know' is a necessary breath of fresh air among a host of scientific,
academic explanations, excuses, justifications, legitimizations - it
is emotional, sincere, demystifying.
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Binge Eating - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
by Icon Health Publications
paperback
$35
A 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary
covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to binge eating.
It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally,
it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge
using various Internet resources.
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Eating Disorders - A Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
by Icon Health Publications
paperback
$69
The author shares her life and her early years when food was used
by her parents to reward and to soothe her aches and pains. As an
adult, depression brought on the desperate need for food. Low-self
esteem, anger, and frustration all triggered her compulsive nature.
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How Much Does Your Soul Weigh?: Diet-Free Solutions to Your Food, Weight, and Body Worries
by Dorie McCubbrey
paperback
$11
With Dr. Dorie McCubbrey's plan for "Intuitive Self-Care," you
can unburden your soul of all the "weight attitudes" of the diet
mentality -- rigid rules, negative self-talk, and unrealistic goals
-- that lead to disappointment and hopelessness.
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The Laughing Head
by Annie Wiley
paperback
$15
The Laughing Head is Annie Wiley. She created this image of
herself as a child to deal with secret anxiety and abuse. She built
this character up until her emotional self-abuse became physical.
From age twelve until she began recovery at age twenty she was what
doctors diagnosed as severely bulimic and mildly anorexic.
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