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The End of Overeating
Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
by David A. Kessler
Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it s harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food? Dr. David Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the food label and... (more)
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The Incredible Shrinking Critic: 75 Pounds and Counting: My Excellent Adventure in Weight Loss
by Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard was fat and now she's not. In this riotously funny, intensely personal book she tells us how she did it. After trying countless diets and workout routines, she stopped dieting: She began enjoying food and life in a rational, healthy way and finally lost the weight. No foods were demonized, no fads embraced. As Jami discovered, lasting weight loss is about strategy not willpower. She charted her... (more)
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Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever
by Roger L. Gould
Studies show that the reason why many people gain weight—and keep it on—is emotional eating, not physical eating. Now Dr. Roger Gould, a psychotherapist and a leading authority on emotional eating, shows how to overcome fear, anxiety, and other stresses and stop using food as an over-the-counter tranquilizer that can cause weight gain. With 12 practical ways to stop emotional eating and an eight-session program,... (more)
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Bite by Bite
by Geneen Roth
For more than seventeen years, Geneen Roth—best-selling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart—was either on a diet or on a binge every single day, and in the end there was one thing she completely understood: diets do not work. Today she leads workshops around the world for sold-out audiences, and her books have sold over a million copies. Now, she offers listeners Bite by Bite—her essential step-by-step program to... (more)
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Overweight: What Kids Say: What's Really Causing the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
by Robert A. Pretlow MD
Overweight kids are seldom heard and poorly understood. This book presents what kids say about being overweight - their stories, struggles, and successes - in their own words. The source is 134,000 messages anonymously posted by overweight kids on website bulletin boards. With stunning honesty these kids share their difficult lives and their frustration with parents and health professionals. The degree to which... (more)
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Emma Rae Creations: Book 2
Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride
by Sandra D. Bricker
As a wedding planner, you'd think she would have the perfect wedding experience... Sherilyn Caine has left Chicago behind to marry Andrew Drummond IV, an Atlanta native with a family name that tops all the social registers. Landing the job as The Tanglewood’s wedding planner is a piece of cake for someone with a Type A personality; she’s the perfect fit for a wedding destination hotel known for its... (more)
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L.E.A.N. Guide for the Business Traveler: (Living Educated About Nutrition on the GO)
by Veronica Tomor
Are you a Business Traveler with a waistline expanding as fast as your frequent flier miles? The L.E.A.N. Guide for the Business Traveler is a practical guide that will provide you with tools to maintain your waistline and your overall health, as you follow your hectic schedule through airports, hotels, and business meetings, no matter where you are or when you eat. You will discover how easy it is to: Make... (more)
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Weight-Loss Apocalypse: Emotional Eating Rehab Through the HCG Protocol
by Robin Phipps Woodall
This book was written to start a new conversation about how Dr. Simeons' protocol has relevance, not only as a hormonal therapy, but as a means to end our national eating disorder. Instead of continuing to apply the protocol as a short-term diet, it shoulder be discussed as a real solution --a tool to end irrational eating for emotional fulfillment. This country is dealing with a crisis: an addiction to eating... (more)
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Butter
by Erin Jade Lange
A lonely obese boy everyone calls "Butter" is about to make history. He is going to eat himself to death—live on the Internet—and everyone is invited to watch. When he first makes the announcement online to his classmates, Butter expects pity, insults, and possibly sheer indifference. What he gets are morbid cheerleaders rallying around his deadly plan. Yet as their dark encouragement grows, it begins to feel a... (more)
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21st Century Dilemmas
Thought For Food (21st Century Dilemmas)
by Shara B. A. Cohen
What this book is aiming to do is ask you to take a moment out of your day to give some thought for food you are eating and hopefully provide you with some food for thought. ….Each Chapter is written by an expert in the subject and topics include the origins and progress of scientifically moderated food, how some germs that we eat will keep us healthy, whereas others will kill us, the origins of food... (more)
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How to Avoid Emotional Eating (Health Matters)
by Evelyn Trimborn, Carolyn Stone
Emotional eating is one of the main reasons why people start to become overweight. At the first sign of stress or a strong emotion, people self-medicate using food to elevate their mood. This is all too easy to do in the United States, where an abundance of food is everywhere, much of it junk food, convenience food, pre-prepared take-out and other fast fixes. Junk food can elevate mood temporarily but soon leave... (more)