Eating Help

Top experts James Lock and Daniel Le Grange explain what you need to know about eating disorders, which treatments work, and why it is absolutely essential to play an active role in your teen's recovery - even though parents have often been told to take a back seat. Learn how to monitor your teen's eating and exercise, manage mealtimes, end weight-related power struggles, and partner successfully with health-care providers. 

When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder will empower you to help your teen using a unique, family-based treatment (FBT) approach. With this guide, you'll learn to respectfully and lovingly oversee your teen's nutritional rehabilitation, which includes helping to normalize eating behaviors, managing meals, expanding food flexibility, teaching independent and intuitive eating habits, and using coping strategies and recovery skills to prevent relapse.

Have you ever found yourself covered in cookie crumbs with an empty container next to you after an argument with your spouse, but you have no recollection of eating an entire box of Thin Mints? Do you struggle to stay committed to a diet meal plan because you just are constantly hungry? Does food provide you comfort in your loneliest moments? In this thought-provoking and practical book, When Food Is Your Drug will help you determine the extent of your emotional eating issue and how to go about addressing it. Emotional eaters know they have a relationship with food that is not “normal” ...

30 Days to Stop Overeating is a 30-day mindfulness program designed to help you examine your relationship with food, including eating habits, cravings, thoughts, emotions, impulses, and patterns that can influence eating behavior, while developing a more present and observant approach to your experience. Each day introduces a different mindfulness exercise or lesson, giving you a simple, structured practice to explore for approximately 15–30 minutes. Inside, you'll find: 30 days of mindfulness exercises and lessons exploring eating habits, cravings, impulses, emotional reactions, ...

Some days, eating is the hardest thing on the list. Not because you don't know what recovery is supposed to look like — because right now, something is making it feel impossible. Maybe you missed a meal and don't know how to start again. Maybe a number took over the decision. Maybe your body feels impossible to live in today, or your treatment team said something that's still sitting wrong, or you genuinely can't explain what's happening — you just know eating feels out of reach. Feeding Yourself When Eating Is Hard doesn't ask you to figure that out first. This is a troubleshooting ...

This is the 2026 updated version. The most effective treatment for eating disorders is family-based, and parents play an essential role. Yet most struggle to know what to do and how to do it. With a wealth of practical examples and tips that have helped many tens of thousands of relieved parents, Eva Musby guides you through each stage of your son or daughter's recovery. She provides solace and confidence, while addressing the real-life questions that parents struggle with. The practical and emotional strategies in every chapter rest on up-to-date knowledge distilled from published research...

Are you tired of battling emotional eating, stress cravings, and cycles of guilt that sabotage your health? Overcoming Emotional Eating God’s Way is a powerful Christian guide to breaking free from food addiction, emotional triggers, and unhealthy habits using Biblical principles and practical science-based strategies. Many believers struggle with overeating, stress eating, sugar cravings, and weight gain—not because they lack discipline, but because emotional wounds and spiritual disconnection drive unhealthy patterns. In this transformational book, you will discover how to: Identify ...

The Hungry Mind - Rewriting the Story Between Food and Feelings is a compassionate and empowering guide for anyone tired of dieting, emotional eating, and the constant battle with self-image. This book isn't just about eating differently; It is designed to guide readers in understanding and healing their relationship with food by addressing the emotional, psychological, cultural, and somatic factors that drive eating behaviors. Rather than offering another diet or rigid plan, this book empowers readers to rewrite the internal narrative that links eating with self-worth, trauma, identity, ...

There is an end to the anguish of emotional eating - and this book explains how to achieve it. Geneen Roth, whose Feeding the Hungry Heart and When Food Is Love have brought understanding and acceptance to tens of thousands of fans over the last two decades, here outlines her proven program for resolving the conflicts at the root of overeating. 

Eat, Hide, Hate, Repeat: A True Story of Binge Eating, Shame, and the Fight to Heal by Krysta M What if the thing that feels most out of control is actually trying to save you? In Eat, Hide, Hate, Repeat, Krysta M exposes the brutal cycle of binge eating with raw vulnerability, dark humor, and hard-won clarity. This is not a book about willpower. It’s a true story about what happens when food becomes the only safe place—and the prison you can’t escape. Raised in a world of religious control and body shame, Krysta learned early to keep her pain quiet and her body smaller. But years of ...

From the author of the NEW YORK TIMES best-selling books The Seven Pillars of Health and I Can Do This Diet, along with best sellers Toxic Relief, the Bible Cure series, Living in Divine Health, Deadly Emotions, Stress Less, and What Would Jesus Eat? Dr. Don Colbert has sold more than TEN MILLION books. This guide will teach listeners what the Bible has to say about food. Dr. Colbert gives his recommendations on which foods to eat heartily, eat in moderation, or avoid all together. Full-color throughout.

You are not weak. You are not broken. And this is not just about food. If you have ever eaten when you were not hungry, gone back to the kitchen after dinner, eaten in secret, or promised yourself that tomorrow would be different, you are not alone. Why Can’t I Just Stop Eating? looks beneath the surface of overeating and explores the shame, stress, emotional hunger, exhaustion, and all-or-nothing thinking that often keep the cycle going. This is not another diet book. It does not offer a strict meal plan, calorie target, or promise of quick transformation. Instead, Dr. Dan Boynton helps ...

In case no one’s told you lately, or ever: I’m so proud, of all you’ve accomplished in your life, and I’m so proud of who you are. I know we’ve had a rough go of things. Life sure hasn’t ever been gentle with us or easy on us, but you rose up like a lion, and you fought back. You refused to let the darkness define you, or break you. I’m so incredibly proud of you. You've worked so hard for decades of your life, to grow through the concrete we got slammed into over and over again, when life knocked us down. Never forget that there is beauty in how we fall, strength in how we ...

Looking for a way to curb emotional and unnecessary eating habits? Want to have a meaningful relationship with food? Want to understand the role of emotions in compulsive eating? The fact of the matter is that most of us have, at some point in our lives, been afflicted with unhealthy and compulsive eating habits. Though there can be many external factors behind this, the root cause generally lies within ourselves. If you are someone who is frustrated with anxious and compulsive eating, then you have to keep reading. Emotions play a vital role in most of our attitudes and behaviors, ...

Do you feel like you have tried every new diet out there, without any real and long-lasting results? Sometimes the diet isn’t the problem, but a syndrome called insulin resistance is. When you have more glucose than your body needs, your body responds by producing more insulin to stabilize your blood sugar level. This will lead your body to store the excess glucose as fat, and is also the reason you probably feel like taking a nap after eating lunch with carbs in it.

An archaeologist and chef explains how to follow our ancestors' lead when it comes to dietary choices and cooking techniques for optimum health and vitality. Our relationship with food is filled with confusion and insecurity. Vegan or carnivore? Vegetarian or gluten-free? Keto or Mediterranean?...

Whether you are someone with an eating disorder wanting to understand what's happening in your body, a family member searching for answers, or a clinician striving to provide the best care, Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders and Undernutrition offers relatable...

Lose weight, boost your metabolism, and start living a happier life with this transformative 30-day plan for healthy eating from the host of the hit podcast The Model Health Show. Food is complicated. It's a key controller of our state of health or disease. It's a social centerpiece for the most...

Embraced by Oprah, the #1 New York Times bestselling guide that explains the connection between eating and emotion from Geneen Roth—noted authority on mindful eating. No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. After three decades of studying...

"Is this normal picky eating stuff, or is there more going on here?" It's a question many parents worry about, and the same question one mom asked Jennifer Friedman in a session about her son Ryder, who struggled to eat more than chicken nuggets and french fries. In Stories of Extreme Picky Eating, Jennifer invites you into her nutritional therapy office to meet real kids struggling with serious food aversions, and learn the strategies that helped them come to eat a wider variety of nutritious foods with more ease.