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Mika Brzezinski is at war against obesity. She believes the fearsome subjects of food, diet, and body image are radioactive in America, and it's getting worse. Mika wages her war on food each day, and in Food Fight; she describes her history of food obsession, distorted body image, and her struggle to be thin. She believes it is time for people to stop blaming and shaming themselves and they should look at the real culprits, the food they eat and...

"A guide to overcoming compulsive overeating by understanding the root psychological causes. Describes coping strategies such as developing mindful awareness of emotions and bodily sensations, practicing self-validation, and re-framing self-defeating thoughts. Contains case studies and practical exercises"--

Readers will learn how to become aware of the difference between eating in a healthy way and eating emotionally neither to satisfy hunger, nor for enjoyment, but in a desperate attempt to distract oneself from painful thoughts and feelings. Diets don't work for people who eat through their emotions. Instead, learning to recognize the stressors that lead to emotional eating and to address those tensions through other methods besides eating is the...

"The author of New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life for Women presents a groundbreaking, neuroscience-based program to rewire your food-addicted brain and get the body you deserve. The body's built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, is a fascinating adaptation: It tells us to do more of the things that give us pleasure. Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship, and even the continued propagation of the human race are driven...

Presents myths, folk stories, and fairy tales used by the author to help women with eating disorders find the source of their problems, and embark on the road to recovery.

"Crippled with guilt after causing a horrific accident two years earlier, sixteen-year-old Bett's life is a series of pluses and minuses. But when the pluses become too much to outweigh the minuses, Bett is forced to confront her self-harming behavior"--

"The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he knew he would be performing one of the most watched tasks in the epicurean universe. And with food his friend...

The founder of Bright Line Eating offers a new way to conceptualize food recovery by sharing the essential steps to avoid the highs and lows of relapse by understanding the psychological and biological origins of addiction and then giving you the system to break free.

Most books about emotional eating tend to focus on how to strengthen self-restraint or how to identify what triggers it. The former can make the problem worse, while the latter may be different each time it occurs. Both approaches fail to help emotional eaters understand why they feel compelled to do something that they dont want to do in the first place. This understanding is the key to changing this behavior. Howard Farkas, who has more than two...