Author: Valerie Frankel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312373924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Book Description
Frankel, like most women, has endured years of dieting, starvation, and total preoccupation with her weight. Not wanting to pass this legacy onto her own daughters, she set out to cleanse herself of these painful and damaging cycles, which she chronicles in this hilarious, unflinching memoir.
Author: Neil Thin
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 184742919X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Book Description
An examination of the achievements and potential of applied happiness scholarship in diverse cultures and domains, arguing that progressive policies require a substantial and explicit consideration of happiness.
Author: Lauren Greenfield
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811856331
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Book Description
Critically acclaimed for "Girl Culture" and "Fast Forward," Greenfield continues her exploration of contemporary female culture with "Thin," a groundbreaking photographic exploration of eating disorders.
Author: Kay Chronister
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781005418366
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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"Grim but effervescent." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYKay Chronister's remarkable debut collection of modern horror tales, Thin Places, echoes with the ghosts of Shirley Jackson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, while forging its own unique gothic sensibility. Here there be monsters! And witches! These are tales of monstrous mothers and dark desires. Love, grief, death; and the exquisite pain and joy of life. With transcendent prose, Chronister chronicles the lives of powerful women and children; wicked witches and demons. These are the traumatic ghosts we all carry, and Chronister knows what it means to be human and humane. Powerful and hypnotic, these are tales you won't forget, from a vibrant new voice.Chronister's eerie debut collection toggles between reality and mythical, chilling otherworlds. Multifaceted female characters, from the nefarious to the desperate, make up the dark subjects of these horror stories. Themes of infertility, grief, and motherhood pervade "The Fifth Gable," in which a household of witches craft babies out of inhuman materials only for the children to die at birth. "White Throat Holler" features a precocious and fearless preacher's daughter who hunts demons to stop them from claiming her town's mothers and children. In "Russula's Wake" (not for those who are disturbed by the suggestion of animal cruelty), a young widow tries to save her youngest daughter from sharing the curse of her older children, who must feast on animal flesh in order to continue appearing as normal children. Grim but effervescent, Chronister's economical prose packs a powerful punch ("'Are you dead?' Martha laughed, spat out of a bloodied mouth: 'I wish. I wish I was.'"). These modern gothics are as enticing as they are frightening.Kay Chronister is a writer living in Tucson, Arizona. She was the winner of the 2015 Dell Magazine Award, and her fiction has since appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Black Static, The Dark and elsewhere. Her first collection of short stories, Thin Places, is out now from Undertow Publications.In her non-spare time, Kay is currently a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on romance, the Gothic, folklore, and women's writing.
Author: Doris Wild Helmering
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0767920260
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Book Description
If you’ve been struggling with your weight, you know how hard it can be to lose those extra pounds and keep them off. In the groundbreaking Think Thin, Be Thin, nationally prominent psychotherapist Doris Wild Helmering and award-winning health writer Dianne Hales assert that the true key to a healthy body weight is a healthy attitude toward food and exercise. Their logic is simple: Your brain ultimately controls what you eat and whether you work out. If you change the way you think, you can change the way you behave. And you can lose weight. Using proven psychological strategies and scientifically based exercises, you will learn how to harness your thoughts to transform your behavior, body, and life. With practical advice on such troublesome issues as curbing emotional eating, motivating yourself to exercise, and overcoming diet plateaus, this book is the ideal complement to any diet and weight-loss program.
Author: Susan Peirce Thompson, PHD
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401952550
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Foreword by John Robbins, author of the international bestseller Diet for A New America In this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, and biology, Bright Line Eating explains why people who are desperate to lose weight fail again and again: it’s because the brain blocks weight loss. Bright Line Eating (BLE) is a simple approach designed to reverse that process. By working with four "Bright Lines"—clear, unambiguous, boundaries—Susan Peirce Thompson shows us how to heal our brain and shift it into a mode where it is ready to shed pounds, release cravings, and stop sabotaging our weight loss goals.Best of all, it is a program that understands that willpower cannot be relied on, and sets us up to be successful anyway. Through the lens of Susan’s own moving story, and those of her Bright Lifers, you’ll discover firsthand why traditional diet and exercise plans have failed in the past. You’ll also learn about the role addictive susceptibility plays in your personal weight-loss journey, where cravings come from, how to rewire your brain so they disappear, and more. Susan guides you through the phases of Bright Line Eating—from weight loss to maintenance and beyond—and offers a dynamic food plan that will work for anyone, whether you’re vegan, gluten-free, paleo, or none of the above. Bright Line Eating frees us from the obesity cycle and introduces a radical plan for sustainable weight loss. It’s a game changer in a game that desperately needs changing.
Author: Melanie W. Rotenberg
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0313386366
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Argues a unique thesis. Laughter, its physician author proclaims, is the key to losing weight. Losing weight, she goes on to say, will not necessarily lead to happiness, but happiness does lead to weight loss. Offering an approach to weight loss that is grounded in sound medical research, her book shows readers how increasing joy and fun decreases stress and negative emotions resulting in permanent thinness ... covers the entire spectrum of weight loss, but pays closest attention to positive attitude and behavior in activity and eating.
Author: Wayne Nance
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743289374
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Book Description
Recounts how the author successfully lost one hundred pounds, paid off five credit cards, and saved his marriage, in a guide that draws on his "3-Minute Survey" plan to counsel readers on how to overcome negative decision-making practices.
Author: Katie H. Willcox
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401951635
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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We live in a world where beauty is everything. Society tells us that if we just looked a certain way, if we had the right products, if we were skinny enough, then we would be enough —we would have value. Society is wrong, but it took Katie H. Willcox years to understand this: “Over the course of my 30 short years, I have both worked as a professional model and been the exact opposite of our culture’s beauty ideal. I have struggled with my weight and felt like I didn’t and never would fit in. Then I had a powerful realization: my misery and self-loathing didn’t change with my weight or how ‘pretty’ society thought I was, so my looks weren’t the source of happiness and worth that I had believed them to be. But then, what was? And how had I come to invest so much of myself in beliefs that were so untrue?” In these pages, Katie shares the lessons she learned in her journey to find the answers to these questions. She reveals who gains from our feeling small and why we need to examine the messages we receive from our culture and our families. She explains how we can redefine beauty, make healthy the new “skinny,” and harness the power of our thoughts to choose self-love. Katie encourages us to discover our true magnificent selves, find our purpose, and pursue our dreams —and help others to do the same. Join the movement! Visit www.HealthyIsTheNewSkinny.com and follow us on Instagram @healthyisthenewskinny.
Author: Paul McKenna, Ph.D.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401949037
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Book Description
Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight? Would you like to feel really happy with your body? Are you unable to lose those last 10 pounds? Do you find it difficult to say no to second helpings? Do you get disheartened about your eating habits and your weight? Have you tried every diet and it made no difference long-term? Then this amazing system is for you! Welcome to a revolutionary new way to stop overeating, control cravings, and feel totally motivated to exercise. Paul McKenna has developed a breakthrough weight-loss system that re-patterns your thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs about yourself, your health, and food to help you easily take control of your diet and lose weight permanently. As you use Dr. McKenna’s unique book and audio system, the latest psychological techniques will automatically help you to start losing weight right away! You can use it again and again to make you feel happier about yourself as you go all the way to your ideal shape, size, and weight.
