After 46 years of battling bulimia, Iris Ruth Pastor sheds her secret in this engaging memoir. With honesty and humor, she brings readers on the journey from despair to healing. If you are grappling with anything that prevents you from operating at full throttle, Iris's inspirational story reminds us all that recovery is within our reach.

If you lose control over food and are tired of obsessing over every bite, you’re not weak or a failure; you’re just trapped in a negative coping strategy. Now, there’s a new way to beat Binge Eating Disorder. If you’re dealing with binge eating or have an unhappy, unhealthy relationship with food, know this: your behavior has nothing to do with willpower or control, and it’s not about food addiction. The Binge Cure will teach you exactly how to create permanent and sustainable change. Discover how to banish bingeing, stop emotional eating, and create a life of freedom, purpose, and joy. If you’ve been stuck in a continuous cycle of dieting and bingeing, don’t worry, there is hope. Dr. Nina shares the successful tools she has used in her successful private practice and coaching programs to help people all over the world heal their relationship with food. Learn how to crack the code of emotional eating, get yourself out of a diet-binge trap, identify your hidden triggers, express your feelings, and make lasting changes with these powerful strategies that will help you stop binge eating, lose weight, and gain health. Discover which emotions you are feeling based on the type of foods you are bingeing with The Food-Mood Formula. Using the approach in this book, you can overcome compulsive eating, weight fluctuations, and those seemingly unstoppable food cravings. If you feel stuck, as if areas of your life are on hold until you get a handle on food, there is hope for lasting change. Filled with illuminating case examples and concrete exercises, this self-help book will change your life. The Binge Cure will help you break through your emotional hunger to satisfy your real cravings and learn how to truly comfort yourself--without food. WHO SHOULD BUY THIS BOOK? This book is specifically created for those who feel out of control around food. This is for you if you: Struggle with Binge Eating Disorder Want to stop the diet-binge cycle Eat your emotions—any emotions! Feel guilt and shame after you eat Find yourself Binge Eating at night Want to lose weight without dieting Food freedom awaits. It’s time to ditch your inner critic, stop the fat talk, and be a real friend to yourself with the help of this self-help book. Instead of focusing on what you weigh, focus on what's weighing on you. If something is bothering you, you can’t starve it away or stuff it down--and you cannot measure your true value on a bathroom scale. Get ready to break the diet habit and make peace with food--and yourself--so you can lead a binge-free happy life.

Examines the physical, emotional, and spiritual problems behind eating disorders

"Based on the latest science showing that men and women lose weight differently, this 3-step diet [aims to show] women how to drop the pounds, look younger, and feel better than ever"--

The New York Times best-selling author and cohost of MSNBC's Morning Joe describes her own struggles with food and body image and offers insights from notable people in all fields to discuss their successes with food and diet.

Based on Dr. Robyn Silverman's groundbreaking research at Tufts University, and filled with searingly honest young voices, Good Girls Don't Get Fat: – Decodes the ripple effects of actions that damage our girls—and provides tools to help stop them. – Shines light on the positive influence of women who embrace body types of any size—and explains how to model the right behavior. – Shows how girls, whatever their size, can own their strengths, trust their power and accomplish amazing things.

A former Miss Missouri talks sex, politics, and sexual politics, and shares the wisdom she’s gained about men and women. The Sexual Education of a Beauty Queen is at once memoir, commentary, enlightenment, and a little dose of self-help. Taylor Marsh was Miss Missouri and performed on Broadway, hosted a radio show, and starred in a one-woman show. She was also a relationship consultant for the nation’s largest newsweekly, edited the web’s first megasuccessful women-owned and -operated soft-core pornography site, worked as a phone-sex actress, and studied sexuality and relationships for years. She’s been single, a girlfriend, a mistress, and a wife. She has the inside track to what men want, what women need, and how we all tend to muck it up. As a political commentator and popular writer, Taylor is intelligent and inspiring. She blends personal experience, pop culture, and the politics of sex in an entertaining, engaging, and inspiring read.