EATING DISORDER BOOKS MASTERLIST
A Dance of Sisters, by Tracey Porter
A Stranger in the Family
A Trick of the Light, by Lois Metzger
After the Strawberry, by Kathryn Pope
Almost Anorexic, by Jennifer J. Thomas
Anorexic Annie, by Sarah Burleton
Beautiful Me, by Natasha Jennings
Being Ana, by Shani Raviv
Between, Jessica Warman
Confessions of a Failed Anorexic
Confessions of a Teenage Ballerina
Diary of An Anorexic Girl, by Morgan Menzie
Diving in Deep, by Nora Ballew
Dying For the Part: A Novel, by Jessica Ehredt
Dying to be Perfect, by Susan Barry
Elena Vanishing, by Elena Dunkle
Eli’s Wings, by Elizabeth Best
Eve’s Apple: A Novel, by Jonathan Rosen
Fasting Girls, by Joan Brumberg
Fat Chance, by Leslea Newman
Feeling for Bones, by Bethany Pierce
Flowers in Bone Cages, by Sophie Glynn
Frio, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Girl in the Mirror (Carrie Years), by Janet Fiorentino
Girl Interrupted, by Susanna Kayson
Girl Over the Edge, by Amy Z Kinzler
Girls Under Pressure, by Jacqueline Wilson
Going Hungry, by 19 various authors giving accounts of their ED
Hollow: An Unpolished Tale, by Jenna Morrow
How To Disappear Completely, by Kelsey Ozgood
Hunger Point, by Jillian Medoff
Hunger, by Jackie Morse Kessler
Hungry for Change, by Amy Lewis
In Her Shadow, by August Mclaughlin
Insatiable: The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food and Its Power, by Eve Eliot
Kessa, by Steven Levenkron
Kim: Empy Inside, by Beatrice Sparks
Letting Ana Go, by Anonymous
Life-Size, by Jenefer Shute
Losing It, by Jasmin Dalton
Loud in the House of Myself
Massive, by Julia Bell
My Perfect Little Secret, by Rebecca Coppage
My Sister’s Bones, by Cathi Hanauer
Never Enough, by Denise Jaden
One Wish, by Leigh Brescia
Paint Me Beautiful: a Tale of Anorexia, a Love Story, and the Rebirth of Claire Simone (A Duet), by C.M. Stunich
Paperweight, by Meg Haston
Perfect, Ellen Hopkins (one of four main characters is anorexic, but its revolving perspective so ¾ of the book isn’t, just a heads up)
Pretty Bones, by Aya Tsintziras
Purge, by Sarah Darer
Running Lean, by Diana Sharples
Running in Silence: My Drive for Perfection and the Eating Disorder that Fed it, by Rachael Rose Steil
Second Start to the Right, by Deborah Hautzig
Size Zero, by Victoire Dauxerre
Skin and Bones, by Sherry Shahan
Skin, by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Skinny, by Ibi Kaslik
Skinny: A Novel, by Laura Smith
Slim to None, by Jennifer Hendricks
Spoon Fed - A year in the life of a teenage anorexic as seen through her eyes!, by Jake Jacobs
The Best Little Girle in the World, by Steven Levenkron
The Disappearing Girl, by Heather Topham Wood
The Hanged Man, by Francesca Lia Block
The Hunger Scream, by Ivy Ruckman
The Passion of Alice, by Stephanie Grant
The Secret Life of an Anorexic, by Kristen Noel
The Stone Girl, by Alyssa Sheinmel
The Year We Seized The Day, by Elizabeth Best and Colin Falconer
Thin, by Grace Bowmen
Thin, by Laura Greenfield
Thinspo, by Amy Ellis
Unbearable Lightness, by Portia de Rossi
Wasted, by Marya Hornbacher
Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Zoe Letting Go, by Nora Price
Feel free to add more~ ❤️❤️
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How to ACCURATELY calculate calories burned while working out!
We have all seen those cute “easy 100 calorie workout” posts. But sadly, those calories burned aren’t always accurate to what your weight it. A person who weighs 180 pounds is going to burn more calories than someone who weighs 135 pounds. So I’ve done the math behind how to get a perfect count
KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER
• Each workout has their own level of intensity which will therefore burn different amounts of calories
• To get an accurate count, each exercise must be done for a full minute without stopping.
HOW TO CALCULATE
• Each exercise below has a matching decimal
• Take the decimal associated with whatever exercise you did and multiply it by your current body weight
• That number will tell you how many calories you burned in one minute of that exercise
Squats~ .096
Push-ups~ .037
Crunches~ .022
Planking~ .022
Jumping jacks~ .037
Arm Circles~ .007
Mountain climbers~ .059
Lunges~ .059
Donkey/Back kicks~ .030
Walking~ .014
Running/sprinting~ .096
Stairs/ Stair climber~ .044
Weight Lifting~ .022
Box jumps~ .096
Burpees~ .059
EXAMPLE
For a 135 pound person- one minute of burpees will burn roughly 8 calories a minute
For a 180 pound person- one minute of burpees will burn roughly 11 calories a minute
I hope this helped any confusion of how to accurately count calories with out the use of a Fitbit, calorie tracker app, or just guessing. Happy exercising!
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It turns out
You will lose weight if you eat at a caloric deficit. Period.
Basic laws of thermodynamics and the universe say in a closed system,
Energy in = energy out
Your body spends energy by existing -- breathing, walking, talking, getting up to go to the bathroom, chewing on your food, pumping blood to your organs. Every single action requires energy (calories)!
There's something called TDEE, or total daily energy expenditure. It's a calculation of how much energy it requires for you to function and stay at the same weight. Obviously, it matters what heigh and weight you are -- the taller and heavier you are, the more calories you require to simply exist. You can find TDEE calculators all over the internet simply by googling.
So for example:
5'4" female @140lb: 1668 calories
5'0" female @110lb: 1429 calories
What does this mean?
In order for you to lose weight, you just need to eat less than your TDEE.
This is basic physics. The laws of the universe do not change. If you eat less than TDEE, you will lose weight, no buts or ifs. If you "binge" eat 1600 calories, but your TDEE is 1660, you will not gain weight (permanently). It's just not possible (see my notes on water weight below if you have doubts).
1lb of fat is approximately 3500 calories of deficit. In other words, that's a 500 cal deficit per day, for one week, to lose one pound.
So if your TDEE is 1600, if you eat 1100 calories everyday, you lose one pound in a week.
"But I ate at 1000cal/day and I gained .5lb this morning!!!!"
Weight is so dependent on your sodium intake, hormonal levels, what food you've eaten that day that one single scale reading means NOTHING.
Here's a picture of the scale readings over the past two months for me.
See how it fluctuates like crazy? What's important is the general trend-- although one day I may "gain" 2lbs, one week later I'll be 3lbs below that "heavy" weight. I actually recommend stepping on the scale every day, at the same time. It helps move away from "omg I gained 3lbs!!!!" and let's you accurately identify if you are actually losing weight.
So for all you people who are stressed out about eating too much, just do some basic math. Chances are, you can eat a reasonable amount and LOSE WEIGHT. For me, if I try to eat 500cal a day, I do it for one day, then binge eat the next day and ruin my progress. One pound per week may seem slow, but consider how long you e hated your weight, compared to how quickly it'll drop off.
I've hated my weight for almost 8 years now, and in just two months I've dropped 1/3 of the weight I wanted to, while eating at 1200calories a day. In that context, 6 more months of this? Easy!
1200 calories: That's a lot of food! You can eat properly with that! For example one day:
Breakfast
Coffee with condensed milk (60)
Oatmeal (150)
2boiled eggs (140)
Lunch
1cup chicken teriyaki (150)
Broccoli (50)
4 lychees (100)
Dinner
One whole avocado (220)
2 slices of bread (180)
1/2 carton halo top (140)
In conclusion: you can eat a reasonable amount of food and still lose weight (faster than restricting, bc there's wayyy less binges). Your caloric intake will depend on your height and weight-- a 5'0 woman and a 5'6" woman should not be eating the same amount.
Good luck losing weight lovelies ❄️
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