Why Can't I Stop Eating?

Softcover, 310 pages  Author: Debbie Danowski, Ph.D. Author: Pedro Lazaro Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services Published Year: 2000

Why can't I stop eating? If, like millions of others, you often ask yourself this question, you may be addicted to food. The food you eat may be precisely what makes you crave more . . . and more. This straight-talking book puts the widespread problem of food addiction into clear perspective and points the way to a life free of the obsession with food. Debbie Danowski, whose food addiction nearly ruined her life, and Peter Lazaro combine forces to give readers a full understanding of this debilitating condition: its sources, patterns, consequences, and physiological underpinnings. Unlike fad diets and drugs with their side effects, hidden costs, and infamous failure rates, the program outlined in this book goes to the root cause of chronic overeating and puts the tools for a lifelong cure into the hands of anyone willing to accept responsibility for a healthy, happy future.

Compulsive Overeater Hard Cover

Hardcover, 287 pages    Item: 6565
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services Published Year: 1981

Bill B. tells the story of how he lost seventy-five pounds and maintained his weight loss for over ten years. Chapters focus on topics of real concern to us - abstinence, anger, fear and depression, relationships, and money. For those of us who struggle with compulsive overeating, Bill B.'s interpretation of the Twelve Steps and how they apply to overeating can be a valuable inspiration.

Overeaters Anonymous

Softcover, 250 pages   Item: 4741
Publisher: Overeaters Anonymous World Services, Inc.   Published Year: 2000

In a spirit of fellowship and support, members of Overeaters Anonymous share their personal stories. Readers will find acceptance and encouragement in the words and experiences of others who have struggled with compulsive overeating.

When Your Child Has An Eating Disorder

Softcover, 304 pages   Author: Abigail H. Natenshon   Item: 6675
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers Published Year: 1999

Dear Parent, Eating disorders know no boundaries. With indiscriminate cruelty they can splinter families and ravage health. I have watched my husband, and then my daughter, in the grips of this horrid affliction. Like a ship lost at sea, a person who is witness to an eating disorder can be overcome by fear, discouragement, or grief. For me, Abigail Natenshon’s book has been like a lighthouse in that storm.

She guides us on this difficult journey with skill and courageous optimism. She increases our knowledge, teaches us about treatment options, and arms us with the tools to be the best advocates we can be for our child. She invites us all to look beyond the symptoms of this disease and see what’s at its core—the suffering in the heart of our loved one. She reminds us that this disease can be, and usually is, conquered. Your child can recover from this illness, as did mine. This ship you share can arrive safely to shore.

With understanding and best wishes for you and your child,
--An Anonymous Parent

Fat Is a Family Affair - Second Edition

Softcover, 200 pages    Author: Judi Hollis    Item: 2011
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services Published Year: 2003

With more than half a million copies sold, Fat is a Family Affair is recognized as the benchmark text on family dynamics and eating disorders. Newly updated with current research, perspectives, and stories, this instructive and engaging guide provides the latest thinking, compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to individuals who suffer from compulsive eating behaviors—specifically overeating and undereating. Judi Hollis is eminently qualified to offer guidance on this topic, having counseled families for more than 30 years and pioneered the nation’s first Twelve-Step eating disorders treatment program.

Abstinence

Softcover, 176 pages    Item: 6361 
Publisher: Overeaters Anonymous World Services, Inc. Published Year: 1994

This book is a collection of stories and essays on the topic of abstinence. All were written by members of the Overeaters Anonymous Fellowship and were published between 1989 and 1993 in Lifeline, OA's monthly magazine. The opinions expressed are those of the individual writers and do not represent OA as a whole. Their words are not intended to give a definitive or ideological answer to our questions about abstinence; rather, they represent to us many different examples of experience, strength, and hope.

Freedom from Compulsion

Workbook, 64 pages   Author: Tim Sheehan, Ph.D. Author: Sue Hoisington
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services  Published Year: 2001

Clear, concise, and easy-to-use, this workbook will help you understand and come to terms with food addiction and eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and compulsive overeating. Personal stories, definitions, questions, charts, and exercises give readers a sense of where eating disorders start and how they can be stopped. Whether used in a treatment center or a Twelve Step support group, the information, encouragement, and directions in this book will help readers struggling with eating disorders change their attitudes and behavior and live free from food and body compulsions.

For Today

Softcover, 192 pages    Item: 6102
Publisher: Overeaters Anonymous World Services, Inc.    Published Year: 1985

Meditations and reflections from members of Overeaters Anonymous emphasize program principles.

Food for Thought

Softcover, 400 pages   Author: Elisabeth L.   Item: 1074
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services Published Year: 1980

The meditations in Food for Thought focus on our need for support, compassion, understanding, and acceptance of our compulsive eating. Each daily reading provides encouragement for turning to our Higher Power for comfort and addresses the steps and concerns that help us in our recovery. These meditations help recovering women and men begin to benefit from a physically, emotionally, and spiritually balanced life.

Spanish Food for Thought

Locked Up for Eating Too Much

Softcover, 225 pages   Author: Debbie Danowski, Ph.D.   Item: 1932
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services Published Year: 2002

At age 23, Debbie Danowski was imprisoned by food addiction. Years of stuffing her feelings by ingesting endless quantities of ice cream, potato chips, candy, and burgers left Danowski feeling isolated, inadequate, deceptive, and unlovable. Liberation came only after Danowski enrolled in a six-week inpatient treatment program for food addiction. There, as she learned about her physiological addiction to sugar and flour, Danowski came to recognize her deeper, unmet cravings for love and self-acceptance. With honesty, raw emotion, and even a bit of humor, Danowski offers an engaging first-person account of her treatment experience. The result is an inspirational and informative book that offers hope to millions of people who suffer from food addiction.

Inner Harvest

Softcover, 400 pages   Author: Elisabeth L.   Item: 5071
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services  Published Year: 1990

As we recover from an eating disorder, these 366 meditations will help us find the power to develop and deepen our spirituality. Daily positive thoughts offer insight and ideas for meeting the challenges of ongoing recovery from eating disorders.

Twelve Steps For Overeaters Anonymous

Author: Elisabeth L.   Item: 5162
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services Published Year: 1993

The author of the popular Food for Thought takes a fresh, in-depth look at the Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous. Each chapter carefully examines and interprets each of the individual Steps.

The Twelve-Step Workbook of Overeaters Anonymous

Softcover, 111 pages   Item: 6018
Publisher: Overeaters Anonymous World Services, Inc.  Published Year: 1993

This companion to the basic text of Overeaters Anonymous asks thought-provoking questions and provides space in which to write out answers. By gently posing questions we might not have considered, this workbook helps us explore the subtle ways compulsive overeating has affected our life, relationships, and well-being.

Softcover, 211 pages    Item: 6234
Publisher: Overeaters Anonymous World Services, Inc.   Published Year: 1993

This book provides a detailed explanation of the principles of Overeaters Anonymous and serves as a guide for those of us living the program of OA who want to spread the message of recovery to others.

Overeaters Journal

Softcover, 150 pp.   Author: Debbie Danowski, Ph.D.   Item: 2036
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services Published Year: 2004

As a 328-pound woman, Debbie Danowski was on her way to an early death when she entered a treatment center for food addiction 14 years ago. During the six-week stay, she was required to keep a daily journal, a task that she now credits with helping to save her life. The act of writing forced Danowski to uncover thought and feelings she had kept hidden. It was the key to unlocking her lifelong food obsession. Now Danowski brings her special insight and writing expertise to The Overeaters Journal with journaling exercises that explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of food obsession.

Eating Disorders and Obesity, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Handbook

by Christopher G. Fairburn (Editor), Kelly D. Brownell (Editor)

An expanded edition of a text that seeks to strengthen connections between the fields of obesity and eating disorders; areas of common interest include the physiology and psychology of hunger, binge eating, body image, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Topics new to the second edition include developments in the study of molecular genetics, leptin, and binge eating disorder, as well as information on the etiology of eating disorders, the social and psychological consequences of obesity, genetic and environmental causes of obesity, and pharmacological treatments. Copyright © 1996 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Breaking Free from Emotional Eating

by Geneen Roth   Paperback: 224 pages   Publisher: Plume (May, 2003)

Roth offers practical ways to recognize the signals of physical hunger, eat without distraction, know when to stop, kick the scale-watching habit, withstand social and family pressures, and many other strategies. Translates the gentle philosophy of Roth's Breaking Free Workshops–trusting yourself, nourishing yourself, accepting yourself– into daily actions and beliefs. A guidebook for daily support, direction, encouragement.

Eating Disorder Pamphlets

Facing an Eating Disorder in Recovery

Pamphlet, 30 pages   Author: Tim Sheehan, Ph.D.   Item: 1687
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services Published Year: 2000

This pamphlet clarifies the nature of addiction to chemicals and food and how the Twelve Step program can support recovery from both.

Anorexia and Bulimia

Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

by Marya Hornbacher  Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Perennial (January 15, 1999)

"I fell for the great American dream, female version, hook, line, and sinker," Marya Hornbacher writes. "I, as many young women do, honest-to-God believed that once I Just Lost a Few Pounds, suddenly I would be a New You, I would have Ken-doll men chasing my thin legs down with bouquets of flowers on the street, I would become rich and famous and glamorous and lose my freckles and become blond and five foot ten." Hornbacher describes in shocking detail her lifelong quest to starve herself to death, to force her short, athletic body to fade away. She remembers telling a friend, at age 4, that she was on a diet. Her bizarre tale includes not only the usual puking and starving, but also being confined to mental hospitals and growing fur (a phenomenon called lanugo, which nature imposes to keep a body from freezing to death during periods of famine).

Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too

by Jenni Schaefer (Author), Thom Rutledge
Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 26, 2003)

Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge.

This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved "breaking up" with Ed