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"Gregg McBride was always determined to make it big--although not quite this literally. by the time he was a young adult, Gregg McBride topped the scales at over 450 pounds and wore a sixty-inch belt. Pretending airline seatbelts fit across his belly, eating out of the trash to cheat on his diets, and working as an overweight stripper are just some of the misadventures Gregg endured as he continually tried to win his battle of the bulge. It was only...
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At nine years old, Breanna Bond weighed 186 pounds. Her school days were filled with taunts of "Hey, Fatty!" Breanna's mom, Heidi, was devastated and wondered, How can I get my daughter healthy again? She helped her daughter lose weight without the aid of fad diets, medication, or surgery-- and shows other parents how they can do the same with their kids.
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"Big Girl chronicles Kelsey's journey into self-loathing and disordered eating-and out of it. This is a memoir for anyone who's dealt with a distorted body image, food issues, or a dysfunctional family. It's for the late-bloomers and the not-yet-bloomed. It's for everyone who's tried and failed and felt like a big, fat loser. So, basically, everyone."--Page 4 of cover.
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Chubby in childhood, anorexic in her teens, and then obese until age 47, Emily Boller was desperate to find freedom from her struggles with food. When she began documenting her weight loss journey online, she never expected to become an inspirational voice for food addiction recovery to millions.
Starved to Obesity combines her personal journey, hard-won wisdom, and practical tips with Joel Fuhrman, M.D.'s teachings to create a powerful resource
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A brutally honest memoir of life as an obese woman, the pain, humiliation...and hope Jennifer Joyner was slowly killing herself with food. She didn't know what to fear more: dying or knowing that she was causing her own death. She was powerless to stop. She weighed 336 pounds. She had uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure. She'd lost jobs and friendships, and her marriage was hanging by a thread. She disgusted herself. She couldn't even attempt...
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After undergoing gall bladder surgery at age twenty-three, Jennette Fulda decided it was time to lose some weight. Actually, more like half her weight. At the time, Jennette weighed 372 pounds. Jennette was not born fat. But, by fifth grade, her response to a school questionnaire asking what would you change about your appearance was, "I would be thinner." Sound familiar? “Half-Assed” is the captivating and incredibly honest story of Jennette's...
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This is a story of hope-of profound, personal change from a life of obesity and depression to a life of love and freedom.
As a child, Jenny Marshall endured emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual abuse. Using food as comfort, her weight began to increase through adolescence, as did the bullying she experienced at school.
By the time she reached 12, she weighed 300 pounds (132 kg) and was ashamed of her body. When she left home and entered...
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Why Didn't Somebody Tell Me I Was Fat? is a humorous and inspiring account of the author's decades-long battle with weight and self-image.
Starting as a 180-pound teenager with dreams of athletic success and a love for pancakes, the author's choices gradually lead him to tip the scales at a dangerous 320 pounds. Facing the risk of losing his feet to disease and his self-esteem to the numbers on the scale, he candidly reflects on how he got to where...
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When I entered the convent, I was eighteen, heavyset, and lacking self-confidence. I planned to stay forever, living an idealistic life devoted to God. Perhaps deep down I was looking for one solution to all of life's decisions and ambiguities while forging ahead. But the years I spent in the convent transformed me in many ways. Without "dieting" at all, I practiced time-tested weight management principles because that's just part of convent life....
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The Weight You Carry: My 125-Pound Weight-Loss Transformation takes readers on a journey with Tanner Jay, growing up overweight and desperate to gain his self-worth through the approval of others. To do so, he identifies as the "funny, fat kid" who always makes people laugh. Motivated to lose weight because of his desire for a girlfriend, Tanner researches and tests countless diet plans and exercise regimens to find his weight-loss secret sauce. Remarkably,...
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When obesity became too heavy a burden to bear, would one man give into despair... or reinvent his world?
Dan Hawthorne anticipated death. After an innocent childhood relationship with food turned into a destructive adult habit, he dreaded seeing his 650-pound self in the mirror. But on his darkest night of the soul with his sinister inner voice berating him, the desperate man cried out to God, was heard, and formed a plan to redefine his image,...
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When Robert Earl Stewart sees his pants lying across the end of his bed, they remind him of a flag draped over a coffin - his coffin. At thirty-eight years old he weighs 368 pounds and is slowly eating himself to death. The only thing that helps him deal with the fear and shame is eating. But one day, following a terrifying doctor's appointment, he goes for a walk - an act that sets The Running-Shaped Hole in motion. Within a year, he is running long...
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Meet your new best yoga-and-healthy-eating friend in this smart, accessible, and funny memoir of dieting and discovery.
For years, Jessica struggled with fluctuating weight and bouts of unhappiness. Like many of us, she found comfort in food and craved cigarettes and self-confidence. Then one day Jessica took her first yoga class in Katmandu. She lost 40 pounds and changed her life forever.
In enLIGHTened, Jessica shares the core principles of yoga...
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