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Love Thy Body significantly change my perspective of my body. Knowing my body is part of my identity is incredibly reassuring.

I'm a personal trainer and health coach, but I don't like cooking. This is how to cook from someone who doesn't like cooking.

The three major points from the book are that HAES is one extreme, should focus more on developing healthy habits, & reads like a religion.

5 out of 5 stars. I want to be friends with Melissa d'Arabian; her writing is authentic & straightforward. I would recommend Tasting Grace.

3.5/5 stars. Because I'm a Christian, I would recommend this guide with one caution: LaRocca's perspective is counter to Christianity.

5/5. I would recommend You're Not Enough (And That's Okay) by Allie Beth Stuckey to any woman tired of the world's message of self love.

Food addiction speculates that certain foods trigger similar pleasure pathways in the brain that addictive drugs trigger, causing addiction.

The Promptly Journal allows you to spend a few minutes each day to be thankful. The questions are thought-provoking. Good Buy!

5/5 stars. Never Binge Again by Glenn Livingston was inspiring, straight forward advice written in a style that reads like a blog post.

5/5 Stars. I would recommend Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl to everyone because the overarching themes are universal.

Orthorexia is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating to the point of damage. One risk factor is a past/current eating disorder.

There are five critical signs of an eating disorder - rule, hiding, importance, feelings, and habits.

Night eating disorder (NES) is a combination of insomnia and binge eating disorder. This eating disorder entails eating during the night.

Purging disorder is characterized by purging activities to lose weight or obtain a specific body shape.

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, or ARFID, is characterized by staying away from certain foods or eating very little food.

25 actions to accept your body. Tangible, achievable behaviors to change how you see yourself and encourage you to love yourself.

For someone with an eating disorder, an accountability partner can assist in recovery. An accountability partner can hold you accountable.

Rumination eating disorder is eating food, swallowing, regurgitating the food, chewing it again, then re-swallowing it or spitting it out.

The definition of diet culture is a set of made-up rules surrounding health & beauty like the concept that skinny individuals only eat salad

There are three stages of recovery: the transition/abstinence stage, the early recovery/repair stage, and the ongoing recovery/growth stage.