It's Not about Food : Change Your Mind, Change Your Life, End Your Obsession with Food and Weight

Roark, Laurelee, Normandi, Carol Emery

ISBN 10: 0399525025 / ISBN 13: 9780399525025

Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: It's Not about Food : Change Your Mind, Change Your Life, End Your Obsession with Food and Weight
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399525025
• ISBN 13: 9780399525025
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.441 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

A revised and updated edition of the longstanding guide that has helped thousands struggling with emotional eating disorders.

Based on the techniques used successfully by Beyond Hunger, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people overcome emotional eating disorders, It?s Not About Food gives readers the practical advice and inspirational push they need to take care of their bodies, minds, and hearts and put an end to the roller coaster of dieting and binging.

This new edition includes updated statistics, a new section on the challenges of obesity, and a range of new personal accounts from eating disorder survivors and advice from the authors? recent Beyond Hunger workshops.

About the Author

Carol Emery Normandi, MS, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in treating eating and body image disorders. She cofounded Beyond Hunger, Inc., a nonprofit that provides support and education for teens and adults with anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and other eating disorders. With Laurelee Roark, Normandi is coauthor of two books, It’s Not About Food: Ending Your Obsession with Food and Weight and Over It: A Teen’s Guide to Getting Beyond Obsessions with Food and Weight.

Laurelee Roark is a cofounder of Beyond Hunger, Inc., a nonprofit that provides support and education for teens and adults with anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and other eating disorders. For more than 20 years, Roark has facilitated support groups, led workshops, and given talks about eating disorders. She is coauthor with Carol E. Normandi of two books, It’s Not About Food: Ending Your Obsession with Food and Weight and Over It: A Teen’s Guide to Getting Beyond Obsessions with Food and Weight.