Because I Feel Fat: Helping the Ones You Love Deal with an Eating Disorder (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780595320615)

Because I Feel Fat: Helping the Ones You Love Deal with an Eating Disorder is a comprehensive guide that gives family, friends, and loved ones a thorough understanding of what eating disorders are and how to help their loved ones recover. Easy to read and understand, Because I Feel Fat breaks down complex disorders into simple terms that gives everyone, from the sufferer and worried loved one, a common ground of understanding. Through painfully honest and heartbreaking first-person stories, gathered from interviews with women suffering from anorexia and bulimia nervosa, the reader learns what it is like to have an eating disorder, in hopes that this insight will answer questions and identify the keys to helping with recovery. "Because I Feel Fat...is a thorough and comprehensive book that will be of great value to both those who have an eating disorder and to their significant others. It fills a much needed gap in the resources that exist today by offering in detail the perspective of people who suffer from eating disorders."
Marcia Yamashiro, RD
Certified Eating Disorders Specialist

Author: Johanna Marie McShane,Tony Paulson
ISBN-10: 0595320619
ISBN-13: 9780595320615
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2004
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d