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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.

While the market is full of books on dieting and weight loss, Change Your Mind, Change Your Body helps you navigate your weight loss efforts to create a new healthy lifestyle. This audiobook identifies the basic patterns and belief systems that hold you back from living a more energized and happier life. It gives you insights to manage your relationship with food in a more productive way.

This book is different. You’ll find nothing here about diet or exercise. No keto, paleo, supplements, superfoods or smoothies or workout recommendations. No promises of magic bullets that miss the mark, and somehow that’s your fault! If you find yourself frustrated, exhausted and deeply discouraged in your struggle with weight, this book may be for you. If you feel disgusted with your body, or hate yourself for being weak and undisciplined, this book is definitely for you!

An unforgettable true story of a life-altering incident and the ensuing emotional cycles colliding with the Peacegiver, who unveils acceptance, balance, and love--piece by piece. Just shy of twenty-five, Teresa Brunsting had everything she thought she needed for a good life--a great job, loyal friends, and a boyfriend. She dreamed of a more lasting "normal": marriage, family, and stability. Beneath the surface, however, was an unpredictable anger and shame that sent her on harmful detours. When her emotions finally overwhelmed her, life was never the same.

In The Binge Eating Cure, you will learn specific step-by-step strategies to help you be able to overcome any desire or urge to binge eat. While many books will tell you not to eat certain foods and give you strategies to help you stop consuming them, they aren't dealing with the source of the problem.

This book is part memoir and part guidebook that would be helpful to anyone considering bariatric weight loss surgery. Jamie gives a brutally honest account of the year after her weight loss surgery where she lost 143 lbs. Filled with tips, advice, and emotion, this book is a must for anyone considering a gastric bypass, gastric sleeve or a SADI-S (single anastomosis duodenal-ileal bypass with sleeve) procedure.

The psychological impact of intuitive eating is powerful, as it aims to remove the barriers of foods you eat versus foods you are not permitted to have and puts the decision making in your mind and body. You eat what you feel and when those forbidden foods are readily available, the cravings for them may not be as strong as they once were, when they were “off the table.”

Intuitive eating is a new way of life. It doesn’t begin with a list of rules, restrictions, and guides to follow. Nor does it require you to stock up on a new group of supplements, specific food items, or "lose weight quick" guides. The psychological impact of intuitive eating is powerful. It aims to remove the barriers of foods you eat versus foods you are not permitted to have and puts the decision-making in your mind and body.

Empowering and uplifting self-help book that explores all eating disorders. Offers hope, inspiration, encouragement, insight, and tips on how to cope successfully with an eating disorder. Contents include: introduction, eating disorders defined, symptoms, causes, my own personal struggle, coping skills, recovery and outcome, and inspirational quotes.

At the age of four, Anne McTiernan is left by her mother at a boarding school. Overcome by sadness from the neglect she experiences there, Anne emotionally and physically starves. A doctor, appalled by her excessive weight loss, forces Anne's mother to bring her home, but she is still not safe.

Food addiction doesn't have to run your life and Food Addiction: Stop Emotional Eating and Overcome Your Food Addiction will show you how to break free from the hold that is food addiction. You can start on the next phase of applying the things that you will have picked up from this book and soon you will be seeing some positive changes taking place to your personal health and an overall increase in the quality of the life you lead.

Many women - regardless of income, size, shape, ethnicity, and age - are uncomfortable in their own skin. We fixate on our body image and try endless diets, implants, hair extensions, and new shoes, but it's never enough. The problem is that girls and women have been socialized to mistakenly conflate body esteem and self-esteem. Body esteem refers to how you think and feel about your physical appearance: your size, shape, hair, and features.

Digestive distress is often the body’s way of reflecting inner tension — a sign that the system is holding on too tightly. This guided hypnosis session helps you calm that tension and bring the digestive system back into balance — gently and naturally. Rather than focusing on symptoms, this approach works with the unconscious mind to release stress, restore flow, and return the body to comfort and ease.

Say stop to never-ending, useless fad diets. Say stop to lack of energy. Say stop to lack of motivation in pursuing the body of your dreams. Say no to the risk of developing obesity, diabetes, heart diseases, and mental illnesses. Say yes to this comprehensive guide with which you’ll get rid of these troubles!

Eating well should be easy. But so often it is not. How to Eat Well at Every Age provides practical tips based on psychological theory and evidence to enable people of every age to eat well and build a good relationship with food. Eating well is key to how we interact with others, manage our...

Mind Your Mouth takes a comprehensive look at the practice of mindful or intuitive eating. Recognizing the power in our thoughts and words, listeners are supported in learning to distinguish the differences between emotional and physical hunger. They are also provided easy-to-master tools necessary to determine and reprogram food-related triggers while positively replacing outdated meal-time habits.

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a mental health condition in which an individual spends a lot of time worrying about perceived flaws or defects in their appearance. However, these flaws are either minor or cannot be seen by others at all. Regardless, the individual may feel so ashamed, anxious, and embarrassed by these perceived flaws or defects that they will try to avoid specific social interactions or situations.

"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.

Food is fuel--not a drug to numb your emotional pain. Waking up each morning feeling guilty about what you ate the night before and obsessing about each and every calorie is no way to live. If you're done battling your weight and fed up with dieting, reconnect with your intuition and embrace...

Words to Eat By details key elements of constructive, smart self-talk. You’ll learn how to distinguish trash thoughts from treasure thoughts, why external motivators don’t work long-term, and which internal motivators will fast track you to success. It includes hundreds of examples of exactly what to say and not say to yourself in challenging food situations and how to get and keep your body moving.