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Artful Eating will take you on a journey filled with stories, life lessons, practical tools and strategies all rooted in the most up to date scientific and psychological research. Learn how to reprogram your mind to lose weight and achieve the body you desire by changing your thoughts, behaviours and approach to pleasure.

Alice Wiethoff Blegen's memoir, My Fat Life, tells the inspiring story of a young girl growing up overweight in the 1950s and 1960s, blending the music, fashion, and social attitudes of that time period into her story. She relates her account of being different, feeling left out, and ultimately stepping up to the challenge of changing her situation.

Two manuscripts in one! This two-in-one book provides great value. Book 1: Food Addiction: Overcoming Your Addiction to Sugar, Junk Food, and Binge Eating: If you're someone who struggles with overeating, binge-eating on unhealthy and junk foods, or feel addicted to sugar, this book is for you. Book 2: Food Cravings: Simple Strategies to Help Deal with Craving for Sugar &Amp; Junk Food: This book will help you understand why you have such an intense desire for a particular type of food and how you can handle this craving.

This audiobook helps listeners change the way they approach mealtime. It includes a section that focuses on the occasional mindless eater and emphasizes that mindful eating isn't only for those on diets or for those who have severely problematic eating habits - it's for everyone. It features over 50 new tips for eating mindfully. You will learn how to be more aware of what you eat and get to know your fullness and hunger cues and how to savor and appreciate every bite!

"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.

Every self-help product, self-improvement resource, and dieting program either explicitly or indirectly points to the fact that we are not good enough the way we are; that we need to change something about ourselves to become happy. If we are trying to lose weight so that we can feel better about ourselves, what we are saying is that our body is not sufficient and that it has become an obstacle to us in our pursuit of feeling happy. Because it is a barrier, we develop a sense of resistance to it.

Father Hunger is the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers were physically or emotionally absent—a void that leads to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears, and disordered eating patterns.

There is a path to learn how to be one of those "normal" eaters—and this book explains how to get there. Jenn Hand, who has inspired thousands of women through her blog and podcast, outlines how to overcome binge eating, how to find freedom from dieting, and how to, finally, make peace with food. With practical and actionable steps, she offers personal stories, simple strategies, and reassuring words to help you end the diet-binge cycle forever.

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.

Embraced by Oprah, the #1 New York Times bestselling guide that explains the connection between eating and emotion from Geneen Roth—noted authority on mindful eating. No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. After three decades of studying...

The Overweight Mind and Body is a self-help guide to understanding the psychological issues that lead to overeating and weight gain. The book enables the listener to discover the psychological drives that lead to unwanted weight and to find ways of meeting those drives other than with food. It introduces a simple, user-friendly theory of Transactional Analysis to promote weight-related self-awareness. She understands that, for many, carrying extra weight is emotionally and physically painful and so gently encourages listeners to explore at their own level.

A new conversation about the media and radical self-love, A Body to Love provides lessons on positively navigating body image in a social media saturated world.

In this book, you will learn everything you need to know about using the powerful effects of hypnosis to lose weight and deal with food addiction, emotional eating, portion control problems, and much more! More precisely, you will learn the connection between your mindset and weight loss, setting up the proper mind-set to succeed in weight loss, how to identify and deal with bad eating habits, how gastric band hypnosis works and how to use it, how to switch up your diet, and more.

Emily Boller’s self-help book provides the necessary inspiration, education, and practical tips for you to escape food addiction - and in the process, shed unwanted pounds and reclaim your health. Chubby in childhood, anorexic in her teens, and then obese until age 47, Emily Boller was desperate to find freedom from her struggles with food. When she began documenting her weight loss journey online, she never expected to become an inspirational voice for food addiction recovery to millions.

In The Wisdom of Your Body, clinical psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explored the ways many of us inherit a broken understanding of the body and offered a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life. In this follow-up book, McBride takes the principles of The Wisdom of Your Body and puts them into action in practical, tangible ways.

Are you fed up with the way you look? Have you lost hope that you can't get your figure back or create that ideal body? Have you tried a multitude of diets but they have all failed you—or worse—you feel you have failed yourself? From the physical reactions of having difficulty coping with your daily activities to the emotional self-doubt that you'll ever be able to keep the weight off, the pursuit of trying but failing takes a toll on you. The bigger picture is, you realize you just don't feel good about yourself. It stops now!

The Anti-Binge Plan by Christina Daidone BSc, LLM - a certified mind-body eating coach and expert in the psychology of eating - is not just another piece of text filled with words, but a profound guide that teaches you practical strategies and techniques on how to overcome an eating disorder known as binge eating disorder as well as emotional eating and overeating. You will not only learn practical strategies but also valuable psychological tools to reprogram your brain for regaining a healthy eating behavior and attitude toward food and your body.

Do you turn to food when you're feeling bored, depressed, or anxious? Do you judge your body for not fitting into some ideal shape or size? If so, you aren't alone. Diet culture has sabotaged our relationship with food and our bodies. As a result, many of us are confused - attaching shame to our food choices and judging our bodies. It's time to break free! Savor Every Bite offers powerful mindfulness and compassion practices for soothing difficult emotions and cultivating positive coping strategies. 

To Erin Washington, soccer was everything. As a high school stand-out who had played since she was four years old, soccer became the prime focus of her obsessive-natured personality. After losing her identity as an athlete when her college career ended abruptly, Erin spent the next twenty years battling body image and hiding a dangerous secret.

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.