recomending books for eating disorders

[JackieOnLine]

I started binge eating somewhere around puberty which hit at eleven. somewhere in my 20s I found Geneen Roth and my favorite book was Breaking Free From Emotional Eating. haven't read it for awhile and her more recent books don't seem as helpful but I am also in a very different place 3 decades later.

I had also looked into OA (overeaters anonymous) way back when and I took a real dislike to it. I don't want to disrespect anyone who has been helped by them (or any 12 step approach) but for me it seemed like the opposite of what I needed.

rather than "admit I am powerless", after reading Roth I came to admit I was, in fact, powerFUL. and this was both the challenge and the answer.

the book I linked above and a few of her other early ones like Feeding the Hungry Heart and When Food is Love were just want I needed, gentle primers on screwed up eating behaviors and suggestions about what to do about them. also hope, that there was a way to change.

 

[JackieOnLine]

a book I bought 2 years before my VSG is The Rules of "Normal" Eating which is the same topic but less personal, more detailed, and more general - someone who doesn't have a full blown ED but has dieted for years, perhaps, could benefit.

while Roth's writings are more personal possibly more inspiring - you feel like she knows just how you feel as she has been through it - and this one is more text-booky, some may like that. doesn't make the info less valuable.

so these are several books I felt were helpful and now that I am working on some regain I am going back to this approach rather than the clampdown-on-yourself and go ultra low carb here are the numbers style that others may use.

not too long ago - elsewhere - I read that maintenance is HARD and I'm thinking, the hell with that. if it's that hard I'll just weight more. seriously. I am not spending the rest of my life losing weight - if I can't maintain without constant struggle I will revise my goal upward.