Books On Eating Disorders
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Breaking Free From Anorexia and Bulimia
By Linda Mintle
You are a unique creation with a true identity! Discover who you are in Christ, and live in total health: body, mind, and spirit. Break free from your obsession with food, body image, and weight. Don't live another day struggling to recover. God wants you to live in complete freedom.
Compulsive Overeating
By Linda Mintle
It's time to stop using food to fill your emotional hunger. In this handy booklet written by Linda Mintle, PH.D., you will learn how to recognize the signs of compulsive overeating and binge eating and break free from your addiction so you can enjoy a better and longer life. Includes biblical guidelines for healthy eating and self-control.
From the First Bite: A Complete Guide to Recovery from Food Addiction
By Kay Sheppard
Are you wracked with guilt after eating an entire bag of chips? Do you cringe when you look at yourself in the mirror despite your attempts to diet? Do you feel fat and bloated after a night of binge eating? If you've lost control over your eating, stop beating yourself up. There is a physiological reason for your behavior and eating disorder. Expert Kay Sheppard will help you stop it.
Love to Eat, Hate to Eat: Overcoming the Bondage of Destructive Eating Habits
By Elyse Fitzpatrick
After years of futile dieting, readers know there's more to weight control than what they eat. Having discovered the power that food has over their lives, counselor Elyse Fitzpatrick, author of Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Anxiety, helps them identify destructive eating habits; surrender the desire for control; break the vicious cycle of emotional eating; and develop a flexible plan suited to unique situations. God knows everything about us ... where we've been and where we're going. Because He knows us so well, He can deeply transform us, giving us the contentment we long for.
Food Addiction: The Body Knows, Revised & Expanded Edition
By Kay Sheppard
In this expanded edition of Food Addiction, author Kay Sheppard has added an important new chapter on relapse, which is a common occurrence among food addicts. In this important resource for compulsive eaters, readers will learn what food addiction is, how to identify trigger foods, and how to develop a healthy food plan for life.
Thin Enough: My Spiritual Journey Through the Living Death of an Eating Disorder
By Sheryle Cruse
As a young girl desperate to feel loved and worthy, Sheryle Cruse decided she could win the love she lacked if she could only be perfect. Finding comfort in food, she began a hopeless struggle with her weight. After a series of failed diets beginning at age seven, she finally was able to lose weight during high school. She seemed to be realizing her dreams. The thrill of control she felt, however, led her on a self-destructive course of anorexia and then bulimia. Six-hour exercise regimens beginning at midnight and a 600-calorie-per-day diet become a "necessary" way of life for her. When she broke down and allowed herself the comfort of food, her eating binges required her to begin the self-punishment cycle all over again.
When Sheryle had sunk to the depths of despair, Jesus spoke to her through a simple Bible story. She experienced God's patient, healing love and finally discovered the truth. She could never be perfect, but she could be a beloved daughter -- deeply loved and valued by the God who created her and accepts her just as she is.
The teen and college years are a crucial time for girls, when positive or negative views about their bodies often become manifest. Written to eating disorder sufferers who are between the ages of 12 and 25, this book provides hope that, through faith and trust in God, they can rise above the living death of eating disorders and become God's daughters, full of life with a promising future. Each chapter includes a prayer for the sufferer, asking God's help.
