Full Lives: Women Who Have Freed Themselves from Food & Weight Obsession

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Summary: Must Read for All Women
Review: As a nutritionist and eating disorders specialist, I highly recommend this book. It is composed of group of individual healing stories by women who make up the well known experts on eating disorders revealing their own experiences. It is not just a "how to" book, but a deeply personal journey into the lives of these women and how they overcame their own personal struggle with the weight and eating issues that haunt so many women today. It puts the issues of food and eating where they belong instead of on the pedestal designed by American Culture. Reading this book should be a tremendously healing experience for all women, not just those who struggle with eating issues. We are all in this together, and the more who understand, the more we will be able to help our fellow sisters in their struggle to have a normal relationship with food and their bodies! It is high time all of us stopped basing our self worth on our body size and our ability to diet. We need to start accepting our worth recognizing that we don't all have the same genetic potential, and we need to try to be the healthiest that we can be, rather than trying to imitate someone else's idea of who or what we should be. That is what this book is about. A great first step on a worthwhile journey.

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Summary: A great perspective on this topic...
Review: This is a great book to read, quite different from the many other titles out there that primarily focus on methods to free one's obsessions with food, weight and the disorder in general. As the book is staged at a dinner party, it consists of remarks and insights from those who have battled these issues firsthand - and is refreshing to the reader in that they have plenty of company in their struggle. I finished the book with a refreshing feeling of freedom, having identified with the personalities within the book and with a fresh outlook on my daily battle. A great read for those already on the road to recovery.