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When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair: 50 Ways to Feel Thin, Gorgeous, and Happy {When You Feel Anything But}
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Include books by the same authorIntuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works
Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch
"First published in 1995, Intuitive Eating has become the go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. We have all been there, angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet. But the problem is not us; it is that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped us from listening to our bodies. Written by
Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin Free
Susan Peirce Thompson · 313 pages
"Over 99% of people who try to lose weight don't succeed. They don't get slender and they don't stay slender long term. The average dieter spends a significant amount of money and makes four or five new attempts each year. Four or five new attempts each year with almost no hope of success. Only 1% of people will get down to their goal weight on traditional diets. Susan Peirce Thompson. Ph.D., sugg
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay · 320 pages
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxa
The Body Project:: An Intimate History of American Girls
Joan Jacobs Brumberg · 267 pages
Girls today are in crisis - and this book shows why. Drawing on a vast array of lively historical sources, unpublished diaries by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up memories of the past, The Body Project chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century and why that experience is more difficult today than ever before. Girls' bodies have certainly changed
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
Courtney E. Martin · 330 pages
Draws on original research and more than one hundred interviews with patients, psychologists, and nutritionists to analyze the pervasiveness of eating disorders and body-image-related emotional challenges in today's generation of young women.
Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
Jen Lancaster · 379 pages
Unfortunately, being overweight isn't simply a societal issue that can be fixed with a dose healthy of positive self-esteem. It's a health matter, and on the eve of her fortieth year, Lancaster learns to make changes. Because what good is finally being able to afford a pedicure if you lose a foot to adult onset diabetes?
Fat Is a Feminist Issue
Susie Orbach · 203 pages
Abstract: Compulsive eating is rooted in the social inequality of women. Drawing on case study experience, the meaning of fatness and thinness in our society is explored, and self-help guidelines are provided for individual or group use. Anorexia nervosa is discussed, based on the author's reading and talks with those afflicted. Medical interventions, as detailed here are part of the problem rathe
Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It
Harriet Brown · 288 pages
"Over the last 25 years, our longing for thinness has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession with weight and body image. You can't be a woman or girl (or, increasingly, a man or boy) in America today and not grapple with the size and shape of your body, your daughter's body, other women's bodies. Even the most confident people have to find a way through a daily gauntlet of voices and images
Huge
Sasha Paley · 272 pages
When Wilhelmina and April find themselves roommates at a fat camp, both with very different goals, they find they have very little in common until they are both humiliated by the same person. April and Wil couldn't be more different, but both of them are spending the summer at Wellness Canyon -- otherwise known as a weight-loss camp. April knows that if she could just drop a little weight, she wou
Obsessed: America's Food Addiction - And My Own
Mika Brzezinski, Diane Smith · 239 pages
With insights from notable people in medicine, health, business, the arts, and politics, Brzezinski breaks through the walls of silence and shame we've built around obesity and food obsession and talks openly about how our country became overweight, and what we can do to turn the corner and step firmly onto the path of health.
Strong Looks Better Naked
Khloe Kardashian · 256 pages
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy · 230 pages
Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance after childhood surgery left her jaw disfigured. As a you
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Marya Hornbacher · 301 pages
Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sen
Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
Lesley Kinzel · 169 pages
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
Jes Baker · 232 pages
"Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for women of all sizes and ages. With smart and sassy eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat-shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview to change public perceptions and help women maintain mental health. With the same straightforward tone that catapulted her to nationa
The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess
Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsythe, Alwyn Cosgrove · 258 pages
In The New Rules of Lifting for Women, authors Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsythe, and Alwyn Cosgrove present a comprehensive strength, conditioning, and nutrition plan destined to revolutionize the way women work out. All the latest studies prove that strength training, not aerobics, provides the key to losing fat and building a fit, strong body.This book refutes the misconception that women will "b
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski · 416 pages
Beautiful Bodies
Kimberly Rae Miller · 222 pages
Blending social history and personal experiences, an exploration of how people try to control their bodies with food reveals the struggle everyone experiences with their own bodies.
Skinny Bitch
Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin · 224 pages
Presents advice on following a vegan diet which eliminates meat, dairy products, and eggs, and concentrates on vegetables, fruits, and soy products, to promote a healthier body free of toxins and the harmful ingredients present in overly processed foods.
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge · 192 pages
The author describes her life battling an eating disorder and provides exercises to help people deal with their own problems.
Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
Jenni Schaefer
Dont Battle an Eating Disorder Forever-Recover from It CompletelyJenni Schaefer and Ed (eating disorder) are no longer on speaking terms, not even in her most difficult moments. In her bestseller, Life Without Ed, Jenni learned to treat her eating disorder as a relationship, not a condition-enabling her to break up with Ed once and for all.In Goodbye Ed, Hello Me Jenni shows you that being fully r