| Title | Author | Publisher Information | Description |
| Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight | Bacon, Linda | Publisher: BenBella Books Dallas 2008 | Book Debunks the weight myths and translates the latest science into practical advice to help readers forever end their battle with weight. |
| Bountiful Women | Bernell, Bonnie | Berkeley, California 2001 | Book An award winning, celebratory book of the psychological and practical strategies for living a healthy and full life now without "weighting" until you are different -- thinner, more or less of anything. |
| Don't Weight, Eat Healthy and Get Moving NOW! | Bliss, Kelly | Publisher: Infinity Publishing Haverford, PA 2002 | Book Discover your own personal journey to self-care and self-acceptance with a new perspective and entertaining, powerful stories. How can you make peace with food and end body loathing? How can you start exercising and continue for a lifetime? Don't Weight will show you how. (297 pages) |
| Fitness With Bliss 12 Workouts on DVD | Kelly Bliss | Distributor: Sound Image Philadelphia, PA 2005 | DVD TWELVE different workouts in DVD and VHS video---FIVE super sized workouts done in bed or chair! Each person can feel successful when you pop the video in and get started. These workouts FEEL good both physically and emotionally. Whatever your age, size, ability, or disability, you have the right to get your basic needs met. MOVEMENT is a basic need of every human body at every size. |
| Plus Size Yellow Pages | Kelly Bliss | Publisher: Infinity Publishing Haverford, PA 2007 | Book This paperback version of the well-known online directory is four hundred pages. It is filled with thousands of resources for living large in a small world. Enjoy the largest, most comprehensive, plus-size directory in the world. |
| The Voice of Bliss | Kelly Bliss | Distributor: Sound Image Philadelphia, PA 2004 | CD Enjoy gentle nature sounds, misty relaxing music, and comforting messages of self-care and nurturing. This CD is great for stress reduction and improving relationships ... even with yourself! |
| The Diet Survivor's Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care | Matz, Judith; Frankel, Ellen | Publisher: Sourcebooks Naperville 2006 | Book Here’s what Linda Bacon says about The Diet Survivors’ Handbook: “Sensational advice for anyone who’s ever been on a diet. Practical, inspirational and easy to use. Free yourself from food and weight issues forever.”
If you’re one of the nearly 116 million Americans trying to lose weight, only to find out that every diet you’ve tried has failed you, you are a diet survivor. You can step off the destructive diet bandwagon and reclaim your self-esteem, positive body image and a happy, healthy life. These 60 inspiring lessons will give you the tools you need to change your relationship with food, your body and yourself.
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| Beyond A Shadow Of A Diet: The Therapist's Guide To Treating Compulsive Eating | Matz, Judith; Frankel, Ellen | Publisher: Brunner-Routledge New York 2004 | Book For professionals! Virtually every therapist/professional encounters people struggling with food and weight issues, overeating, and body hatred. Beyond a Shadow of a Diet is the first comprehensive book for professionals to address the dynamics and treatment of compulsive eating. Drawing from the mountain of research indicating that diets don't work but actually contribute to the diet-binge cycle, this powerful book presents a sound method of solving, rather than controlling compulsive eating, enabling people to find from preoccupation with food and weight. Rich in compelling narratives, we explore the roots of compulsive eating, including the deprivation caused by diets and the use of food to manage feelings, and invite readers to examine their own attitudes toward food, weight, and dieting. Written in an engaging and easy-to-read style, this outstanding resource offers practical strategies to live more fully in the world at any size. |
| Beyond Measure: A Memoir About Short Stature and Inner Growth | Frankel, Ellen | Publisher: Pearlsong Press Nashville, TN 2006 | Book Beyond Measure explores the stigmatization of height and weight in this culture, and the way in which medical technology is being used to support and reinforce such prejudice. The FDA's recent approval of using human growth hormone injections in an attempt to make short children taller is discussed, along with the many ramifications it raises. In this spiritual memoir, Frankel invites readers of all shapes and sizes to live more fully, freely and beyond measure. |
| A Breath Floats By: An Illusion for the Soul | Thayne Hudson | Publisher: ESSABooks.com / AuthorHouse Bloomington, IN 2006 | Book Large characters who are not defined by their size. Romance, light-hearted while entrenched in the sacred purpose of life. What would you do if you realized you married your best friend's soulmate? Our main character realizes when it is too late that the people she loves need her more than she needs them. Mature chick lit. Light paranormal / spiritual / romance. |
| Measure by Measure | Rebecca Fox & William Sherman | Publisher: Pearlsong Press Nashville, TN 2009 | Book In writing Measure by Measure, we're offering the Zaft community a fun, romantic, sexy "soap" in which fat people -- ingenues, heroes, villains, schemers, mentors & friends -- live & work, and find love.
To learn more, please visit our website at www.measurebymeasureromance.com
"Measure worth beyond girth." We all deserve respect & dignity, not only from others but also ourselves. |
| Bountiful Women:Large Women's Secrets for Living the Life They Desire | Bernell, Bonnie | Publisher: PageMill Press Berkeley, California 2001 | Book A celebratory book of practical and psychological strategies large women use to live a bountiful life! |
| UNDERAGE AND OVERWEIGHT: Our Childhood Obesity Crisis -– What Every Family Needs to Know | Berg, Francie M. | Publisher: Hatherleigh Press New York 2005 | Book A ground-breaking book -- the definitive book on childhood weight issues. Explains the real facts behind the "obesity crisis," why past solutions haven't worked, and provides a 7-point plan for normalizing eating and physical activity, reducing stress, and raising confident children who enjoy good health in body, mind and spirit at their natural sizes. For parents, teachers and health professionals. "Highly recommended." —Library Journal.
Second edition, softcover, 496 pages, $16.95 |
| CHILDREN AND TEENS AFRAID TO EAT: Helping Youth in Today's Weight-Obsessed World | Berg, Francie M. | Publisher: Healthy Weight Journal Hettinger, ND 2001 | Book Challenges America's obsession with thinness and documents its tragic effect on kids. This edition explains the physical, mental and social impact, and guides parents and health providers toward healthy change. Gives clear guidelines you can use now to help children at home, in school and the wider culture. "Recommended ... A feast of facts." —Library Journal. Softcover, 352 pages, $19.95 |
| WOMEN AFRAID TO EAT: Breaking Free in Today's Weight-Obsessed World | Berg, Francie M. | Publisher: Healthy Weight Journal Hettinger, ND 2001 | Book Empowers women to cope with today's weight obsession in healthy ways. This book challenges cultural pressures to be thin, explains the devastating effects, and delivers the tools that women need to break the dieting cycle and build confident new lives for themselves. "Highly recommended!" —Choice, American Library Assoc. Softcover, 384 pages, $19.95 |
| Fat Chicks Rule: How to Survive in a Thin-centric World. | Frater, Lara | Publisher: Ig Publishing Brooklyn 2005 | Book Fat Chicks Rule is a guidebook to accepting your size, and finding your way in a thin centered world. The book includes practically advice on fat positive books, movies, health, dating, self esteem etc. |
| Am I Hungry? | Michelle May, M.D. | | Book Trust Your Gut Instincts to Undo Dieting
-rediscover simple, yet powerful tools for knowing when, what, and how much to eat
-stop obsessing about food, eating, and your weight, and free yourself to live the fulfilling life you deserve
-Experience the pleasure of eating the foods you love without guilt
-Learn the truth about nutrition without confusing, arbitrary rules
-Never again exercise to earn food or punish yourself for eating
-Boost your metabolism and increase your energy and fitness painlessly
-Nourish your body, mind, and spirit to build optimal health, energy and joy |
| Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle | Michelle May MD | Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Austin 2009 | Book Do you regularly deprive yourself, succumb to temptation, feel guilty, and then start the process all over again? If so, you need this book. Dr. Michelle May will guide you out of the food-focused, diet-driven downward spiral that leads you to eat, repent, and repeat. She offers a powerful alternative: end your love-hate relationship with food and start eating mindfully and joyfully.
After twenty years of yo-yo dieting, physician Michelle May discovered a peaceful, joyful relationship with food. With down-to-earth language and uncommon sense, she offers a rare prescription for optimal health of the body, mind, heart, and spirit.
Eat What You Love shifts the conversation away from restrictive dieting toward awareness of the habits that keep people stuck in their eat-repent-repeat cycle. This book takes a very practical mind-body approach to change the food-focused mindset inherent in overeating and dieting. It has four parts: Think (conscious decision making using the Am I Hungry? eating cycle), Nourish (nutrition from a non-restrictive perspective), Live (integrating physical activity into daily life), and Eat (nutritious, delicious, easy recipes). |
| The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your True Center for More Energy, Confidence, and Pleasure | Sarasohn, Lisa | Publisher: New World Library Novato, CA 2006 | Book With a friendly and lighthearted approach, The Woman's Belly Book reveals practical, pleasurable ways women can reclaim the body's center as the source of vitality, creativity, confidence, intuition, and self-esteem. The book offers wise and helpful tools -- including a sequence of dynamic yoga moves -- for peeling away layers of negativity and finding the treasure that's already inside. |
| More to Love | Patch, Elizabeth | Publisher: BookSurge Charlseton, SC 2009 | Book More to love is a charming illustrated gift book that features Elizabeth Patch’s adorable illustrations and positive, upbeat messages that deal with the difficult issues of negative body image and self-esteem.
No diet plans to follow or lifestyle changes required.
No self-esteem questionnaires to take or visualization techniques to practice.No sad stories of rejection, pain or depression.
No dull statistics about overweight or obesity.
Each page of More to Love is a zero-calorie “chocolate chip cookie for the soul”, a sweet happy bite of positive imagery combined with a heartfelt affirmation, guaranteed to make you smile.
ISBN-13: 978-1439202616 |
| Honoring Your Belly | Sarasohn, Lisa | Distributor: Self-Health Education Asheville, NC 2008 | DVD This dynamic sequence of belly-energizing exercises draws from yoga and other healing arts to activate the Source Energy concentrated in your body's core.
As you learn these moves, you'll animate ancient symbols of the Sacred Feminine and enact a Rite for Reconsecrating Our Womanhood.
This program teaches and expands on The Gutsy Women's Workout featured in The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your True Center for More Energy, Confidence, and Pleasure. |
| You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies... | Chadwick, Dara | Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books New York 2009 | Book A guide for moms who want to break the cycle of bad body image and raise daughters who feel good about their bodies. |
| Love Your Body Hypnosis Experience | Jones, JoLaine; Hunt, Lori | Distributor: Genuine You Coaching, LLC Gainesville, FL 2009 | CD The many messages we get every day telling us that our bodies are flawed and unacceptable make it difficult to move towards the calm self-love advocated in the HAES movement. This CD is a relaxing 20 minute hypnosis experience intended to help the listener over-ride the conscious mind that tells her that her body is ugly, and access the unconscious mind, the heart, to assure the listener that her body is lovable just as it is. |
| Taking Up Space: How Eating Well and Exercising Regularly Changed My Life | Thomas, PhD, Pattie; Wilkerson, MBA, Carl | Publisher: Pearlsong Press Nashville, TN 2005 | Book A sociological memoir examining the experiences of a disabled, fat woman who lives in a world that stigmatizes both. Extensive resource section in the back to help others understand the damage stigma causes in personal lives and public issues. |
| A BREATH FLOATS BY | Essa Adams | Publisher: ESSA Books Culver Indiana 2010 | Book Contemporary women's fiction. Mainstream novel which features three plush women and two BBMen.
What would you do if you realized you married your best friend’s soul mate? What becomes of your soul group if you do not keep your promise this lifetime?
Lindsay thinks she finally has reached the age when one gets away with nothing. She is terrified to begin her true life work and faces the death of her husband, Sam. She is taken underwing by someone she would rather not know, then becomes aware the woman is vying for Sam’s heart. Beyond forgivable. Through it all, Lindsay realizes her soul group needs her more than she needs them, especially her husband's best friend, Daniel.
Lindsay, Heather Laurel and Gooee are strong, genuine characters, well over forty, dealing with divorce, security, forgiveness, faith and death. Each finding their greatest challenge is the raw honesty required to face the complexity of their love affairs.
Within a timely romance of lifetimes anew in the Great Lakes Region, a swirling spiritually-charged world is exposed.
During our era of spiritual awakening, despite belief in reincarnation, readers exploring transformation and soul-growth may never again view a coincidence in the same light.
A Breath Floats By. Where spiritual answers sometimes come with unrelenting force. |
