Anatomy of a Food Addiction or Skinny

Anatomy of a Food Addiction: The Brain Chemistry of Overeating

Author: Anne Katherine MA

Featuring an honest account of the author's own struggles with food, Anatomy of a Food Addiction helps readers understand binge eating and plan a recovery through exercises, self-tests, and an examination of family issues. Illustrations.

What People Are Saying

H. Theresa Wright
H. Theresa Wright, MS, RD, CDE, Renaissance Nutrition Center, Inc., Plymouth Meeting, PA
This book offers a clear and logical explanation for the origins and progression of compulsive eating disorders, with a moving and deeply honest account of the author's own struggle with food. It outlines a gentle and compassionate approach for beginning your own recovery. Insightful, loving and effective.

Claire Boehling
Claire Boehling, M.Ed., Eating Recovery Center, Solon OH
This book takes you from active food addiction into recovery with love and a true understanding of this painful disease. I recommend it to everyone who goes through my center.

Ruth Lorenz
Ruth Lorenz, recovering food addict
Anne Katherine's book helped me to make it through the night when I was bingeing and had no other hope. It mapped out a plan of recovery, offering tools that I have found essential in maintaining my abstinence.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Addiction Is an Illness	11
2	Chemical Warfare	21
3	Deprivation	48
4	The Great Escape	70
5	Nature's Telegrams	81
6	How Healing Happens	95
7	Achieving Abstinence	108
8	Help!	131
9	Dear Beloved	137
10	Fat Prejudice	151
11	Anorexia and Bulimia	155
12	Timing, Choices, and Hitting Bottom	169
13	Relapse	174
14	Further Abstinence	187
15	Wait!	200
16	Fullness	223
	Notes	229
	Sources of Help	232
	Index	233

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Skinny: How to Fit into Your Little Black Dress Forever

Author: Melissa Clark

Eat what you love and love how you look! Let the girls show you how it's done.

If your two favorite girlfriends wrote a hilarious, insightful book about how to look and feel fabulous without denying yourself the pleasure of great food, it would look just like this! The authors bring their unique perspectives (girl-about-town and mother of twins) to show how, whatever your lifestyle, you can balance eating smart and eating rich, and still look amazing in that little black dress. No strict rules, no boring talk about glycemic index, just savvy advice, complete meal plans, and more than 75 amazing recipes, plus an emergencies-only The Little Black Dress Diet-how to eat when you absolutely must fit into your dress by the weekend.

Crystal Renfro - Library Journal

Food writer Clark (Chef, Interrupted) and health writer Aronson (The Whole Pregnancy Handbook) collaborate on this guide for women looking to lose those last few pounds and keep the weight off. An appealing presentation effectively combines different fonts, lists, conversational bubbles, and sidebars to catch and hold the reader's attention. The main points of each chapter are summarized in a section called "The Takeaway." The authors write in a bouncy, conversational style that makes the reader feel as if she is sitting with a group of women at a lunch table discussing healthy eating tips. Deciding which food is most wanted and then eating it accordingly; reducing portion sizes; and substituting fresh vegetables, whole grains, and lower-fat alternatives whenever possible count among the authors' suggestions. Most of these commonsense recommendations provide moderate solutions that avoid strict food restrictions or laborious weighing and measuring. Approximately 80 pages of recipes and a two-week sample meal plan appear toward the end. Recommended for public libraries.