This page focuses on books that provide some sort of self-help program or provide a rehabilitation path.
The following list of eating disorder book suggestions is intended to inform, encourage, and inspire anybody who is dealing with an eating problem.
Never Binge Again(tm): How Thousands of People Have Stopped Overeating and Binge Eating – and Stuck to the Diet of Their Choice! (By Reprogramming Themselves to Think Differently About Food.)
You may be approaching things with the incorrect perspective if you battle with binge eating, emotional eating, stress eating, or losing weight only to gain it all back.
The majority of current thinking on binge eating and overeating focuses on healing and self-love.
However, those who have conquered food addiction and weight concerns typically compare it to catching and containing a rabid dog rather than learning to love their inner child…
If you open the cage even an inch—or show that dog even a smidgeon of fear—it’ll rip your healthy eating plans to shreds in an instant, ruining all your efforts.
Dr. Livingston reveals practical ways for separating and permanently dis-empowering your “fat thinking self” from his experience as a once food-obsessed psychologist—and former adviser to big food producers. In the process, he shares a lot about his own personal experience.
Never Binge Eat Again & Take Back Your Life: Your Powerful Go-to Guide for Binge Eating Disorder Recovery for Teens and Adults (Mindset & Wellness)
Are you tired of battling binge eating, emotional eating, or stress eating? The Road to Recovery Is Long, But With This POWERFUL Fact-Based Guide, It’s All Possible!
Is your weight fluctuating between normal and overweight, then returning to normal?
Have you had a sour connection with food your entire life? Do you find yourself unable to stop eating enormous amounts of food on a regular basis?
You might be suffering from Binge Eating Disorder!
Of course, you should always consult your doctor and get yourself assessed, but if you answered yes to any of the above questions, you’ve come to the correct spot.
The current interpretation of binge eating is that it can all be solved with some inner healing and a generous helping of self-love. The fact is… it’s a lot darker than that.
Before you realize it, you’ve undone all of your hard-earned accomplishments and you’re back to square one.
The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
Do you use food to help you relax when you’re stressed? The Intuitive Eating Workbook is a thorough, evidence-based approach for developing a healthy relationship with food, recognizing hunger and satisfaction cues, and cultivating a profound connection with your mind and body.
Have you tried fad diet after fad diet and ended yourself gaining weight? Maybe you tried the protein diet and then switched to a vegetable-only diet? Instead of large meals, how about raw almonds and coconut water every 45 minutes? Perhaps you’ve tried tracking calories but still can’t get the numbers on the scale to add up.
Take heart if you’re ready to throw on the towel and quit dieting for good. You can eat again; all you have to do is pay heed to your body’s natural hunger signals. This workbook, based on the authors’ best-selling book Intuitive Eating, may show you how.
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience (8 Keys to Mental Health)
Written by a therapist and a former patient who is now a therapist, this book offers a unique and personal look into the treatment of eating disorders.
This isn’t your typical guide to overcoming an eating condition. The authors openly reveal their personal experiences with serious eating problems and how they overcame them. Their insights provide an uncommon depth of understanding into precisely what it takes to successfully overcome this tough and apparently intractable clinical condition by combining personal narrative with the viewpoint of their own therapist-client relationship.
This book should be in the hands of anybody who has suffered, their family and friends, and other helping professionals. Costin and Grabb lead readers through the ins and outs of the rehabilitation process with tremendous compassion and professional skill, defining what therapy comprises, identifying frequently associated feelings such as fear, guilt, and shame, and, most importantly, offering encouragement to seek assistance.
The Binge Code: 7 Unconventional Keys to End Binge Eating and Lose Excess Weight
This is a groundbreaking handbook to recovering and sustaining health.
In The Binge Code, Alison Kerr, a UK nutritional therapist and best-selling author of The Bulimia Help Method, will show you how to stop binge eating, food cravings, and yo-yo dieting, and lose weight for good.
“You aren’t insane, weak, or devoid of willpower. It’s not your fault, either! The Binge Code delves into the science to reveal what’s holding you from gaining control over your eating habits and offers a practical, easy-to-follow action plan to help you look, feel, and live your best life.” Cameron Heathers, best-selling author and co-founder of Life30
“The Binge Code is a simple and scientifically solid road map to better health. This game-changing software comes highly recommended from me.” – Wellbeing’s creator, Dr. Robert Leslie
There’s a new approach to stop binge eating, and it’s one that few of us have heard of.
How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder: A Simple, Plate-by-Plate Approach to Rebuilding a Healthy Relationship with Food
Assist your youngster in resuming regular eating habits.
When their child begins to act strangely, parents are the first to notice. Is your son refusing to dine out with friends or has he stopped eating his favorite foods? Have you seen a significant rise in your daughter’s workout routine or an obsession with healthy foods? These are just a few of the warning indications that your child, like millions of others, might be suffering from an eating problem (ED).
Registered dietitians Casey Crosbie and Wendy Sterling provide an all-new method you may adopt at home to aid your kid in this vital book. The Plate-by-Plate method is based on family-based treatment (FBT), which is the most widely used psychosocial treatment for EDs. Unlike sophisticated “exchange” systems, this is straightforward: Crosbie and Sterling guide you through every step of satisfying your child’s nutritional requirements with only one tool: a ten-inch plate.
This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensible Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD
With this “must-read” book from an expert psychiatrist, you can eat for your mental health while also learning about the interesting science underlying nutrition (Amy Myers, MD).
Did you know that blueberries can help you deal with post-traumatic stress? That eating salami may make you depressed, or that increasing your Vitamin D intake can help you deal with anxiety?
Most people’s nutrition concerns revolve around weight loss, exercise, heart health, and lifespan. But what we eat has an impact on more than just our bodies; it also has an impact on our minds. Recent research has indicated that nutrition can have a significant influence on a variety of mental health illnesses, including ADHD, depression, anxiety, sleep difficulties, OCD, dementia, and more.
Anorexia and other Eating Disorders: how to help your child eat well and be well: Practical solutions, compassionate communication tools and emotional support for parents of children and teenagers
Parents are in the ideal position to assist their adolescent or young kid overcome an eating disorder, but many are unsure about what to do and how to do it.
Eva Musby uses her family’s successful use of evidence-based therapy to empower you to help your kid through recovery from Anorexia and Other Eating Disorders.
This book provides you with the tools you need to care for your kid, your family, and yourself, no matter how terrible your situation is. Eva Mosby maps a road to well-being through compassionate presence, Nonviolent Communication, mindfulness, and acceptance.
Anorexia and Other Eating Disorders is a useful guide to living with and conquering an eating problem in the family, with a wealth of advice and practical examples.
