You Are More Than What You Weigh

INTRODUCTION (Pages i-xv)

Why this book is for you *  How this book can help you * What professionals and readers say about this book *  Acknowledgments.

I. PHYSICAL SELF: Accept and Love Your Body and Self (Pages 1-50)

Improve your body image * Start today to accept and love your body * Good bye fat * Medical problems * Exercise and metabolism * Life style * How to stop the deprivation * Eat when physically hungry * Break the destructive habits and addictions * Trigger foods *How to stop the binging * Binge diary * How to stop the purging * Purge diary * Food guide pyramid * Food diary * Healthy alternatives to eating + Physical evaluation.

II. INTELLECTUAL SELF: Change Your Thoughts to Change Your Weight and Self-esteem (pages 51-78)

How to change your stinking thinking * Thoughts to change about your body and self * How to stop the obsessive thinking * Change negative to positive thinking * How to stop the obsessive thinking * Overcome your perfectionism * Change “shoulds” to choices * Change your attitude * To motivate yourself, take action * How creative thinking can improve your self-esteem * Use visualization to obtain your ideal weight * Daily affirmations to love your body and self * Intellectual evaluation.

III. EMOTIONAL SELF: Express Your Feelings to Change Your Weight and Self-esteem  (Pages 79-114)


Satisfy emotional hunger in ways other than food * Identify feelings * Express your feelings *Grieve your losses * Anger as positive energy *Sob the sadness *Decrease the depression * Lessen the anxiety and fear *Stop the guilt * Overcome the shame * Lessen the jealousy *Show compassion for yourself * Balance contentment with happiness * Journal writing * My journal * Emotional evaluation.

IV. SOCIAL SELF: Improve Your Relationships to Change Your Weight and Self-esteem (Pages 115-150)

Influence of how your family affects your self-esteem and your weight * Life line: family history * How families and friends of a person with eating disorder can help *  Let go of the past to let go of the weight * How to develop healthy relationships *  How abusive relations affect your weight and self-esteem *  How control issues affect your weight and self-esteem *  How your co-dependence, dependence, and independence influence your eating * How to stop the people pleasing *  Set  necessary boundaries * Develop support systems * Social evaluation.

V. PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF: Improve Your Self-esteem to Change Your Weight (Pages 151-168)

How to improve your self-esteem * Steps for healthy self-esteem * How to develop self-love without becoming selfish or selfless * Love the parent, adult, and child within *  Just be: (Enjoy the present) * Identity to include more than what you weigh * Psychological evaluation.

VI. SPIRITUAL SELF: Enhance Your Spirituality to Change Your Weight and Self-esteem (Pages 169-184)

Higher power * How your values affect your weight and self-esteem * Honesty and its effect on weight and self-esteem * Forgive yourself and others * Develop patience with self and others * Trust and its effect on weight and self-esteem * How to have hope * Spiritual evaluation.

VII. SEXUAL SELF: Love Your Sexuality to Change Your Weight and Self-esteem (Pages 185-196)

Overcome the trauma of sexual abuse * Value your male and female traits * Victimization no more * Sexual evaluation.

VIII. ASSERTIVE SELF: Assertive Skills to Change Your Weight and Self-esteem (Pages 197-216)

How to be assertive rather than aggressive or passive * Assertive responses * Assertiveness to enhance your self-esteem * Avoid manipulating and being manipulated * Say no * Sending “I” messages * How to maintain your power * Assertive evaluation.

IX.  STRESSED/RELAXED SELF: Reduce Stress to Change Your Weight and Self-esteem (Pages 217-232)

Relaxation techniques * Play (Have fun) * Stress Journal * Balance your life *  Stress/relaxed evaluation.

X. CAREER SELF: Enrich Your Career to Change Your Weight and Self-esteem (Pages 233-254)

*Career analysis * Maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses * Skills * Learn from your past successes and failures * Parenting: your career? * Workaholic * Set realistic goals * Goals * Career patterns.

APPENDIX (Pages 255-269) 
Characteristics of anorexia * Characteristics of bulimia * Characteristics of binge eaters * Summary * Tools * Bibliography * Eating Disorders * Internet information about eating disorders * Index * About the author         
       

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