What’s Eating You? – A Workbook For Teens

… With Anorexia, Bulimia & Other Eating Disorders

Author: Tammy Nelson, MS

• Develop A Positive Body Image
• Understand Your Eating Behaviors
• Recognize The Relationship Between Your Feelings & Your Eating

Bingeing, purging, excessive dieting, and relentless exercising are all destructive behaviors common among young women with eating disorders.  The activities in this book help teenage girls understand how their eating behaviors developed, recognize the relationship between their emotions and their eating, and learn to see their bodies in a positive light.

Living in a culture obsessed with body size and shape, it can be hard to feel good about the way you look.   But eating disorders caused by unrealistic body image ideals create much larger problems-diminished self-confidence, unhealthy eating and exercising habits, and an inability to see yourself as a person rather than a number on the scale.

This workbook takes aim at the motivations behind your relationship with food and helps you to better understand how your need to control what you eat can end up controlling you.   As you complete the worksheets in What’s Eating You?,  you’ll learn more about the beliefs and experiences that contribute to your disorder.   Each worksheet includes questions and exercises targeting the cultural myths, perfectionism, stress, and lack of self-confidence that are often at the heart of a dysfunctional relationship with food.   Once these issues are addressed, you’ll be able to gather the strength you need to make peace with your body, exude confidence, and live a healthy life.