Living FULL: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders (Eating Disorder Book, Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge and Purge, Excercise Addiction)

by Danielle Sherman-Lazar

Overview

#1 New Release in Eating Disorders ─ Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders

Finding My FULL: This is my journey from starving to letting myself be FULL–physically & emotionally. What is living a FULL life? Having anorexia, bulimia, or vacillating between the two, you are trying to achieve an empty feeling through starvation or purging. Living a FULL life is a life where you aren’t starving anymore―starving for acceptance and love from others and yourself. It’s a life where you are feeding your mind and soul with good thoughts and foods. A life without your eating disorder.

Victim of the eating disorder monster: Imagine waking in a hospital bed to find your frail, pale arm punctured by an IV transferring fluids and nutrients into your weak, stiff body. What happened? You’re an adult, age twenty-six, and you just had a seizure precipitated by your chronic, secretive, decades-long struggle with unacknowledged eating disorders. You have no friends and no normal young-adult experiences. Living FULL is written by Danielle Sherman-Lazar, a woman who passed through the eating disorder crucible to recovery, sharing the most intimate and shameful details of her mental illness. Living FULL is Danielle's story.

Hidden out of shame: Eating disorders in young adults are hardly talked about, but are pervasive. Eating disorders are kept hidden out of shame. A groundbreaking 2012 study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders found that about 13 percent of women over age 50 exhibit eating disorder symptoms.

Journey to recovery: Living FULL chronicles the author's step-by-step descent into the full-blown eating disorder nightmare and her path to recovery. Recovery comes from the Maudsley Approach, a regimen of supervised controlled eating or refeeding by out-patient helpers that eventually can result in recovery.

Benefits of reading Living FULL:

• See how to confront your eating disorder demon
• Learn from someone who won her eating disorder battle
• Discover a new and beautiful life

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633538740
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	02/14/2019
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Danielle Sherman-Lazar is an eating disorder advocate, Vice President of a transportation company, and a mother to two daughters, Vivienne and Diana. She has been published on Scary Mommy, Bluntmoms, The Mighty, ellenNation, Project Heal, Love What Matters, Cafemom.com, Beating Eating Disorders, Her View From Home, Motherly, Sammiches and Psych Meds, Recovery Warriors, Kveller.com, Humorwriters.org, and That’s Inappropriate. She has also contributed and has been featured on Today Parents and the Today Show. Follow her on her blog Living a Full Life After ED (https://livingafulllifeaftered.com/) and follow it on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/StrivingToBeFULLeveryday/). She loves to be in touch with her readers and anyone that needs hope or guidance in eating disorder recovery. She writes about recovery from eating disorders and motherhood—a lot of time both together—her two passions in life. Danielle writes, works and lives with her family in the Tri-State area.

Table of Contents

Foreword 9

Part 1 Empty

Chapter 1 The Little Engine That Couldn't 12

Chapter 2 Hello, Anorexia 18

Chapter 3 Hello, Bulimia 33

Chapter 4 Denial 41

Chapter 5 The Mid-Freshman-Year Crisis 53

Chapter 6 Vampires Cry Too 68

Chapter 7 Natural-Born Starver 72

Chapter 8 The Answer, Alex Trebek, Is What Is Total Destruction? 78

Chapter 9 The Final Dingle Dangle 93

Part 2 Full

Chapter 10 The Lone Naked Tree 116

Chapter 11 Maudsley 124

Chapter 12 Gradual Reentry 132

Chapter 13 Touched Back to Life 151

Chapter 14 When Pigs Fly 163

Epilogue 172

For Potential New Mothers 182

Food & Feelings Journal 187

Resources 251

Acknowledgments 255

About the Author 257

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Danielle takes us on a passionate, heartbreaking to humorous road from rock bottom to recovery. The challenge of managing the secrecy and intimacy of eating disorders...this is a journey we will all learn from.”
Robert Tuchman, Author