Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders
A survivor takes those struggling with anorexia and/or bulimia on “a passionate, heartbreaking to humorous road from rock bottom to recovery” (Robert Tuchman, author of Young Guns).

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.

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 thirteen percent of women over age fifty exhibit eating disorder symptoms.

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
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Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders
A survivor takes those struggling with anorexia and/or bulimia on “a passionate, heartbreaking to humorous road from rock bottom to recovery” (Robert Tuchman, author of Young Guns).

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.

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 thirteen percent of women over age fifty exhibit eating disorder symptoms.

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
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Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders

Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders

by Danielle Sherman-Lazar
Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders

Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders

by Danielle Sherman-Lazar

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Overview

A survivor takes those struggling with anorexia and/or bulimia on “a passionate, heartbreaking to humorous road from rock bottom to recovery” (Robert Tuchman, author of Young Guns).

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.

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 thirteen percent of women over age fifty exhibit eating disorder symptoms.

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: 9781633538757
Publisher: Mango Media
Publication date: 01/01/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 157
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Danielle Sherman-Lazar is an active fundraiser for the eating disorder community and an experienced volunteer for women's services. She worked as a helpline representative for the National Eating Disorder Association and was also the number one fundraiser for two consecutive years for New York City NEDA walks. She graduated Summa Cum Laude, receiving a Bachelor of Arts and Science Degree in Economics from New York University in 2009 with a minor in sociology.

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

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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

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