Life Inside the Thin Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter
Frustrated by the often unrealistic standards of beauty presented by today’s media, many women have become trapped in a never-ending pattern of chronic dieting. Daily they endure destructive self-talk such as “I can’t eat that or I’ll get fat” or “If I could just lose a few more pounds everything would be better.”

Chronic dieters may be any shape or size but they have one thing in common: They are often left to suffer alone with an undiagnosed “sub-clinical” eating disorder. Such sub-clinical disorders include eating habits that are unusual, even unhealthy, but do not fit the technical classifications of anorexia or bulimia.

Addressing the many dimension of “chronic dieting,” Life Inside the “Thin” Cage offers a wake-up call and practical steps to those who need healing. Readers will find personal stories, insights into their secret patterns and habits, reassurance that they are not alone, checklists, self-tests, and, best of all, a new road to emotional, physical, mental and spiritual freedom.
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Life Inside the Thin Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter
Frustrated by the often unrealistic standards of beauty presented by today’s media, many women have become trapped in a never-ending pattern of chronic dieting. Daily they endure destructive self-talk such as “I can’t eat that or I’ll get fat” or “If I could just lose a few more pounds everything would be better.”

Chronic dieters may be any shape or size but they have one thing in common: They are often left to suffer alone with an undiagnosed “sub-clinical” eating disorder. Such sub-clinical disorders include eating habits that are unusual, even unhealthy, but do not fit the technical classifications of anorexia or bulimia.

Addressing the many dimension of “chronic dieting,” Life Inside the “Thin” Cage offers a wake-up call and practical steps to those who need healing. Readers will find personal stories, insights into their secret patterns and habits, reassurance that they are not alone, checklists, self-tests, and, best of all, a new road to emotional, physical, mental and spiritual freedom.
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Life Inside the Thin Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter

Life Inside the Thin Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter

by Constance Rhodes
Life Inside the Thin Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter

Life Inside the Thin Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter

by Constance Rhodes

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Frustrated by the often unrealistic standards of beauty presented by today’s media, many women have become trapped in a never-ending pattern of chronic dieting. Daily they endure destructive self-talk such as “I can’t eat that or I’ll get fat” or “If I could just lose a few more pounds everything would be better.”

Chronic dieters may be any shape or size but they have one thing in common: They are often left to suffer alone with an undiagnosed “sub-clinical” eating disorder. Such sub-clinical disorders include eating habits that are unusual, even unhealthy, but do not fit the technical classifications of anorexia or bulimia.

Addressing the many dimension of “chronic dieting,” Life Inside the “Thin” Cage offers a wake-up call and practical steps to those who need healing. Readers will find personal stories, insights into their secret patterns and habits, reassurance that they are not alone, checklists, self-tests, and, best of all, a new road to emotional, physical, mental and spiritual freedom.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307553041
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/04/2010
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Constance Rhodes is the founder and director of FINDINGbalance, an organization dedicated to eating, image, and lifestyle management issues. She is also the author of Life Inside the “Thin” Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter. A former marketing director for Sparrow Records, a division of EMI Music, Rhodes was led to pursue this compilation by her appreciation for the work of contemporary musicians.

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Frustrated by the often unrealistic standards of beauty presented by today’s media, many women have become trapped in a never-ending pattern of chronic dieting. Daily they endure destructive self-talk such as “I can’t eat that or I’ll get fat” or “If I could just lose a few more pounds everything would be better.”
Chronic dieters may be any shape or size but they have one thing in common: They are often left to suffer alone with an undiagnosed “sub-clinical” eating disorder. Such sub-clinical disorders include eating habits that are unusual, even unhealthy, but do not fit the technical classifications of anorexia or bulimia.
Addressing the many dimension of “chronic dieting,” Life Inside the “Thin” Cage offers a wake-up call and practical steps to those who need healing. Readers will find personal stories, insights into their secret patterns and habits, reassurance that they are not alone, checklists, self-tests, and, best of all, a new road to emotional, physical, mental and spiritual freedom.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
Forewordxiii
Introduction: The Undefined Disorder1
Part 1When "Thin" Becomes a Cage
1A View from Within5
2When Dieting Turns Chronic15
3The Thought Process27
4Weird Eating--Exposed39
5Health and Physiological Factors49
Part 2How Did We Get Here?
6We Live in a Fallen World59
7How Our Past Shaped Us67
8Significant Life Events77
9My Body Has Betrayed Me85
10Challenging Environments91
11The Hollywood Effect99
Part 3What Keeps Us Trapped?
12We Don't Know We're in It109
13Making Choices out of Fear113
14We're Addicted119
15Good Help Is Hard to Find127
16Triggers133
17The Message of the Tapes145
Part 4A Good Dose of the Truth
18Our Excuses and the Price We Pay153
19Sex Appeal Does Not Equal True Acceptance165
20It's All About Perspective171
21On Getting Older181
22That Which Defines Us Controls Us187
23A Richer Life Awaits Us193
Part 5Getting Out
24Starting Simple203
25Changing Our Perspective207
26Opening the Closet Door215
27Anticipating the Pitfalls223
Final Thoughts229
Notes231
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