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Massive
This book is about a girl who has never been skinny. She has
the pressure to be skinny by her mother, who is anorexic, recovered,
but went right back to where she begin. Carmen develops an eating
disorder and if you read this book you'll be shocked by what
this poor girl has to grow threw.
Just Listen-By: Sarah Dessen
This book really isn't all about eating disorders, but Annabel's
sister has an eating disorder. There is one chapter which is
all about her sister never eating, and when she did eat, finding
her on the ground in the bathroom, almost dead while there is
purged food in the toilet. Its a great book though.
Ashley & Jen- By: Jack Weyland
Wow. That is what you'll think when you read this book. It is
very intense and it will bring you to tears. Ashley struggles
with Bulimia and it gets way out of hand. She stops at a motel,
when she's suppose to be going to a friends sister's funeral,
and she ends up staying 2 or 3 days there just making pancakes
and purging it. This book is not for people trying to recover.
It is probably one of the best ED books I have ever read.
SlipknotSaidFU@aol.com
Inner Hunger
I feel kinda deranged for saying this, but the first time i
read this book, i tried really hard to ignore the real message
Marianne Apostolides was trying to send and actually read the
book to help trigger my eating disorder. It was a desperate
source of thinspiration to me when i couldn't go online to relish
in pro-ana sites. The second time i read the book, i was a little
more passive about letting myself process bits of advice and
facts on and of eating disorders that were actually MEANT to
be processed by the readers of the book. This last time I read
it, I really read it. I listened. I let myself listen to what
she was really trying to say in her words, in each chapter.
i realize why i have an eating disorder better now, after reading
Inner Hunger, but i still don't want to let go... i still don't
feel like i CAN. Don't want to no matter what anyway. well...
that's my "schtick", as she puts it. hope this little
review helps. just my response to having read that book, that's
all. buh-bye, hope it helped u out.
GlowinSari@aol.com
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Wasted
The best book ever. I've read it so many times. You won't want
to take a break when reading it!! It's basically about a girl
who was eating disordered, and she's writing about. Its great!!
BlueEyedQutee@aol.com
I thought this book started off slow in the
begging but as you future read you will discover that is book
is amazing. She tells her story of how she developed her eating
disorder. It starts from the age of nine and continues in till
she recovers. This book is really in depth because her weight
varied in many ranges from 130 to 59. She was even given a diagnosis
of 2 weeks to live. It's a great read and I recommend it.
Heavenlyjaystar@aol.com
Very well written in a way that keeps your attention.
Does a good job of describing an eating disorder over time.
Overall it's awesome, but my only complaint is that it treats
eating disorders too lightly.
elocinwarrior@hotmail.com
This is one of the most impressive books I’ve
read, her ability to transport you back to her darkest times
is to say the least remarkable. This has been the most helpful
book I’ve read so far. I saw a lot of my self in her story
down to her feelings and opinions about this world we live in,
I even adopted a lot of her ”Tricks” to say the
least. In conclusion I absolutely loved every page and recommend
it.
angelgirl122586@yahoo.com
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Stick Figure
this is the most triggering book i have read yet. it goes
into such detail about how phobic the main character is of
food. for example there are parts where she is scared if she
even smells food the calories will get in her nose. and she
makes all that food just sound so nasty. Its about a young
girl who stops eating when her family takes a vacation and
she meets a very thin family member who never eats. then after
that it turns into a battle between her and her parents and
theyre telling her to eat and she is not eating still to defy
them. eventually, the not eating takes a life of its own.
the parts about recovery werent as grusome as some other books.
IMHO this book was a complete and total trigger.
peachesandcreamunicorns@yahoo.com
This girl is beautiful (picture of her on the back of the
book). She writes about her eating disorder, but she takes
you so deep into the story you're not even imagining her telling
the story anymore, you imagining her story like a movie, like
you were seeing everything that happened. Very inspiring.
BlueEyedQutee@aol.com
I just read Stick Figure, and I cried forever, it was so
depressing, but also so accurate. The girl doesnt realize
she has a problem, she truly thinks shes on a normal diet,
and the poor girl is 11, it so sad. I recommend this book,
it was a quick read, but very touching.
PoshVanilla@aol.com
This book was okay, not the best but okay. It's in a 11 year
old point of view. So Lori doesn't know or understand a lot
her. Eating disorder started when she was at her friends house
who mother diets all the time. Lori's mother never would allow
her to bring up the diet topic so when she started to diet
she was taken to the doctor plenty of times. Soon it became
an obsession and she wasn't able to stop. She had to be hospitalized.
This book has a slow start but it's good in all. I liked it
towards the end. It's a good read and I recommend it.
Heavenlyjaystar@aol.com
Takes place in the 70's before most of the public knew what
anorexia nervosa was. Told through the eyes if 11 year old
Lori Gottlieb, who is gifted story teller. As a young girl
she has above average intelligence and is very observant.
So much so that she focuses in on her mothers settle ways.
For example Redbook magazines that explain how ladies should
be a certain size and act in a certain and how her mother
lets her little girl know that you never finish your plate
of food or have dessert. Not only her mother but Lori's young
friends all have mothers that are on that agenda. While on
a family trip she meets a relative that she admires and wants
to be like her. This family member also shares her mothers
philosophy on how a lady should look and eat. Lori looks at
herself. Even though she is an intelligent child she thinks
she is too big (at 69 pounds) and stops eating.
Fantastic book and a quick read. Mostly because of the humor
and honesty in her storytelling of a child who can't understand
that if adult women can be like this why can't she. Thought
dieting,hypocrisy of her family's values, envy among her young
friends for her sudden weight loss. Lori is hospitalized but
lives to tell her story.
Going though a smilar situation growing up with an over bearing
mother who was not aware that she was passing on her "bad
habits" to me. I found some comfort in known I was not
alone in this situation and maybe like Lori I will recover.
Dr0wnSoda@aol.com
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Life Size
It was alright... it's sorta boring, because most of it is about
her recovering... we all know that's no fun.
BlueEyedQutee@aol.com
This book was really good. At least I thought so. The main character
was all ready in the hospital for her anorexia and she has flashbacks
that tell her triggers and what her parents and basically how
she gather her eating disorder. It talks about how many calories
is in this and that and it's a really good book. It sounded
a lot like me and how food is my obsession and I'm not ready
to give it up. it's explains a lot and I recommend it for anyone
suffering or not suffering with an eating disorder.
Heavenlyjaystar@aol.com
This is my favourite, mostly because it focussed
on a short amount of time rather than the illness over time.
The thoughts described in that time were very good.
elocinwarrior@hotmail.com
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Empty Inside
It doesn't really get into details. It was a diary which was
found and published. I didn't even finish reading it.
BlueEyedQutee@aol.com
This book was really good in my opinion. Kim a teenager and
her battle with both bulimia and anorexia. She's the youngest
and all of her sisters have left her with her parents. She struggles
with her with to be accepted in the UCLA gymnastics program.
She starts to blame food for everything bad that happens to
her. She hides her food in various places and struggles to be
accepted. But being able to realize that she has a problem is
a step in the right direction for her. This book was amazing
to read. I loved it.
Heavenlyjaystar@aol.com
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Best Little Girl In The World
This book wasnt very triggering to me, but it might be for people
who were in ballet class or who are younger. I just dont think
i related as much to the character; however, this book was still
a very entertaining read. also, its a pro ana classic so i recommend
reading it just for that reason alone. its like a piece of fundamental
literature of our pro ana sub culture.
peachesandcreamunicorns@yahoo.com
This is a really good book. This girl she's a dancer, and she
turns out to be anorexic. It's not a real story, but it's still
really good.
BlueEyedQutee@aol.com
I could relate a lot to the main character and
this kept me reading. It's a great book, but I hated how the
therapist was the "hero" in the book.
elocinwarrior@hotmail.com
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Room to Grow
This book is really good. Its about Tracy Gold who played
Carol Seaver on the hit sit com Growing Pains. It talks about
the fat jokes that were made for Tracy's character on the
show, and how that affected her. She decided to go to a nutritionist
for weight loss during the show . I really like this book
because it goes into details about what she ate. it even mentions
how she made the meals, calorie counts and etc... which is
really hard to find in an ana book. She started out doing
this diet where had to eat on restriction for like four days
a week, and then could pig out whenever she wanted for the
other 3 days. but she said she didnt have enough energy to
maintain on the set of the show, so she switched . it got
to the point where she was eating only one meal per day that
had a certain number of calories ( the meal and calories are
all mentioned in the book ). And it just goes into more details
about her journey through anorexia and back. I think this
is an awessome book that needs to be mentioned on more pro
ana sites. Its a great read.
peachesandcreamunicorns@yahoo.com
This is a good book told by Tracy and how she developed her
eating disorder. It's meant to be a book that doesn't encourage
eating disorders but it actually gives some tips and stuff
that she did to lose a lot of weight. I know it's wrong to
say but it really does help. I loves this book and when I
get a chance to buy it I will.
Heavenlyjaystar@aol.com
This book was very good. I read it in 1 day. It's a "safe"
book in that Tracey doesnt talk about her tricks of the trade,
but it does show the big picture on how anorexia nervosa crept
its way into her life and how she "won the game".
Kept my attention from word 1.
Kjrsygrl74@aol.com
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A Secret Between Friends
This movie was the best. I really enjoyed it. Lexi and her friends
who have dreamed of becoming a model. She teaches Lexi who just
wanted to drop a couple of pounds how to eat and not gain weight.
Lexi started with Bulimia and then down spiraled into anorexia.
After losing some weight Lexi became better with her game at
volleyball as well as with the guys. She was so happy with getting
noticed at her new school so she lost more and more weight in
till she passed out. Being rushed to the hospital she was diagnosed
with anorexia and her mother found about her friend with her
eating disorder. This movie is great and it's a great movie
to watch.
Heavenlyjaystar@aol.com
Lexi Archer has just moved to a new town with
her mother and sister after her parents' recent divorce. She
tries out for the volleyball team where she meets Jen, and they
become friends. One day after eating a lot of food, Lexi overhears
Jen purging and asks her if she's okay. Jen admits that she
made herself throw up. Lexi's volleyball coach had mentioned
to her that she should lose a few pounds. Together she and Jen
embark on exercise, bingeing and purging and starving themselves.
And then some terrible things happen...
STRONG POINTS:Shows how an eating disordered person can "influence"
someone else to lose weight by restricting and purging.One of
the characters dies, which is a lot different then most of the
"everyone recovered and lived happily ever after"
plots you see in MOST made for tv movies about eating disorders.
WEAK POINTS: Lexi's make-up is a bit overdone in some scenes
(her eyes are too dark, her lips are extremely blue...)Also
when Lexi hears Jen purging after they've eaten a lot of food
and it only takes Jen a minute or less...yeah, right. Realism,
please.OVERALL:This is still one of my favorites! I'd give it
an 8 out of 10.
butterflyflutterby82@yahoo.com
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Dying to Dance
This movie was okay, it wasn't that great in the sense of an
eating disorder movie. The main character struggled with her
weight and developed anorexia to be a top ballerina. It's kind
of an old movie but it's good if you watch it the whole way
through.
Heavenlyjaystar@aol.com
I really love this movie maybe because im a
dancer but it's very true to life, it shows the weighins and
the weight and food restrictions the companies put you on. I
think it's a good movie.
FREDRICKJ@Elms.edu
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Perfect Body
This movie is amazing. Andie Bradley the main character is a
gymnast and to be the best she is told to drop a couple of pounds.
She drops them by starving her self and when she sees who good
it feels she drops more and more and developed an easing disorder.
To be the best she has to be thin. This movie is a great watch.
Heavenlyjaystar@aol.com
Stars Amy Jo Johnson, she plays a gymnast who
gets swept up in being the best. She watches all of the other
girls and they are always better and then one day she catches
one of them purging. She falls into an ed and improves for a
while then at the determining meet blows all of her chances
by fainting. Very good movie well researched and in my opinion
it shows the very real pressure and lengths that gymnasts will
go to to be the best.
FREDRICKJ@Elms.edu
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Real Women Have Curves
This movie is okay. It's about a Mexican American teenager Ana.
Who struggles with the put downs by her mother. Who refers to
her and her sister as FAT. Even though she is Fat that is a
big way to go to have her mother Call her that constantly. But
it doesn't make her stop eating in fact it makes her eat more.
She eventually gets a boyfriend who likes her for her. It's
an okay movie kind of dramatic but good.
Heavenlyjaystar@aol.com
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Dancing on My Grave
As an anorexic dancer this book showed me an understanding of
me that I thought no one had. The book is amazing and I would
advise it to anyone, dancer or not, who is ana. It is harder
to understand when you aren't a dancer because there is alot
of terminology but, it's an amazing book.
singerballerina@yahoo.com
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Insatiable
Was interesting and great how they gave a portrayal of many
different illnesses instead of just focussing on one. I liked
it, but a word of caution to literary-buffs: it's an "easy"
read.
elocinwarrior@hotmail.com
I'm 23 years old a mother and wife with noone to talk
to about my ed and my first book was Insatiable and I
have to say I totally loved it. Yes its easy reading,
but its a great read and it totally helped me look to
where my problems started or where they stem from.
Anyway I loved how it talked about different eds and
showed thier lifes and thier way of thinking. It made
me realize I'm not alone.
jelibeary@yahoo.com
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Second
Star to the Right
I really liked this book. It was an easy read, and can be read
in one after noon. This book was very triggering to me. Not
as much as STICK FIGURE but it was definatley a close second.
I recommend reading it back to back with Stick figure during
a weekend when you need an extra boost of thinsperation. Each
book can be read in one day, if you have nothing else to do.
so that makes for a perfect weekend!
peachesandcreamunicorns@yahoo.com
I really liked in, despite the fact that the main character
was young. Again, it helps to relate to her and her life, so
even older sufferers might read it and see themselves or their
experiences from the past connected to their lives now.
elocinwarrior@hotmail.com
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Girls Under Pressure
Not my favourite, especially considering the main character
just sort of chooses to be "cured" at the end. It
was an okay portrayal of teenage struggles though.
elocinwarrior@hotmail.com
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For The Love Of Nancy
This movie stars former anorexic Tracey Gold in the true-to-life
story about Nancy Walsh, a young woman who developed anorexia
right before starting college and who's parents sued her for
"mental incompentency" so that they could keep her
in
the hospital for her severe anorexia.
STRONG POINTS:Tracey Gold played this part very well, since
she had suffered seriously from anorexia in the past it made
her role more believeable. She was in recovery but still
quite thin at the time this movie was made, so they didn't have
to use any funny make-up to make her "look" anorexic.
Shows how the stress of moving away to go to college can contribute
to or even be the sole cause of an eating disorder.
WEAK POINTS:None ~ this movie is very realiztic and the acting
is very well. It does have a lot of what could be referred
to as "tips" in it, (the things Nancy does to hide
her food, excuses she makes not to eat, etc) so if you are easily
triggered and in recovery you probably should NOT watch this
movie!
OVERALL:I'd say this is the best eating disorder movie I've
seen to date. 10 out of 10 in my opinion!
butterflyflutterby82@yahoo.com
Great movie. It's Tracey Gold's story, she helped
direct it and write it and all the struggles that Nancy went
through in the movie were taken from Tracey Gold's life. It's
a great movie then ending is a little cheesy.
FREDRICKJ@Elms.edu
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Sharing the Secret
Thirteen year old Beth has a lot going for her...she's smart,
cute, thin, loving...but her child Psychiatrist mom fails to
see the pain her daughter has hidden bottled up inside over
her parents' divorce more than three years ago. Pain which
Beth deals with through bulimia.
STRONG POINTS:Presents the fact that bulimics can often keep
their "secret" hidden from their loved ones for years.Has
a good scene where Beth is "high" after a purge, gets
dizzy, then collapses...and we see it all through her
eyes.
WEAK POINTS:Can't think of any at the moment...I would say this
is the most realistic made for tv movie about bulimia that I
have seen. I'd give it a 9 out of 10!
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Hunger Point
Shelly and Frannie grew up in a home where they were taught
that being thin was very important, and it could get you places
in life. Over time Shelly developed anorexia and Frannie,
some disordered eating habits. This movie follows the
family (focuses on Frannie) through Shelly's sucide, dealing
with their grief, confronting their true emotions, and trying
to heal.
STRONG POINTS:A large percentage of anorexics who die do so
by commiting suicide, as is portrayedin this film. Portrays
how growing up in a family that puts high standards on being
thin can contribute to an eating disorder down the road.
WEAK POINTS: We only see Shelly for maybe the first 30 minutes,
the rest of the film focuses on Frannie and how she deals with
her sisters' death. Not very insightful, as a whole, on
eating disorders. Has a bit about pro-ana sites where
Frannie says about Shelly, "Well, I guess she was PROUD
to be anorexic". I don't agree with that ~ I think
it gives the general public the wrong idea. Most people
who visit "pro-ana" sites are looking for people they
can relate to, people who struggle with the same behaviors and
thoughts they struggle with daily. Not because they are
proud of it.
OVERALL:
Not the best. I give it a 4 out of 10. I haven't
read the book, but have heard it's ten times better than the
movie.
butterflyflutterby82@yahoo.com
It was a pretty stereotypical movie overall,
I thought. The mother encourages thinness. She promises presents
to whichever daughter can lose 10 pounds the fastest. In the
end the younger daughter dies and the older sister turns out
to have an ed too. and it rips the family apart. It's a good
movie, but it very stereotypical in nature.
FREDRICKJ@Elms.edu
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The Secret Language Of Eating Disorders
That 's a really good book. She talk's about her daughter's
and their struggles with anorexia and talks about how when they
were going through it the doctors were just handing her death
sentences for both daughters because they didnt know what else
to do for them. I would highly recommend reading this book if
you are going into Psychology or anything research related.
Also her clinic is amazing.
FREDRICKJ@Elms.edu
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Dying to Be Perfect
The Ellen Hart Pena Story: I liked this movie not so much for
the content but for how she thought and felt and conveyed those
feelings to the audience. She gave up her career and the olympics
because of her ed's. She gets married and keeps her ed's a secret
because her husband is a politician and nothing can reflect
bad on him or them. Eventually she does tell him and she gets
help for her ed's and of course makes a full recovery. Good
movie i recommend watching it.
FREDRICKJ@Elms.edu
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Center Stage
It's about a dancer who strives to be perfect by dropping weight
she developes Bulimia and continues to dance until she realizes
that what she is doing could possibly kill her. So at the end
of the movie she gives her solo to another dancer and doesnt
end up dancing, much to the dismay of her mother who only cares
that she isnt dancing and doesnt really care that she is sick.
I think it's a good movie if you're into dance, if not i think
it could be a bit boring.
FREDRICKJ@Elms.edu
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Bitter Ice: A Memoir of Love, Food, and Obsession
It is very interesting the way that she writes it. It is also
interesting to get insite on what the other side feels about the
anorexic. I think that the book is really well written and it
is good for anyone who is anorexic to get an idea of what others
think of us. There was mild triggering moments but nothing too
bad.
littlemoonbunny@lycos.com
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Starving for Attention
It's a very detailed bio of her life of Anorexia and Bulimia.
I'm assuming since she wrote this book during the time of which,
EDs were less heard of, she didn't exactly realize that an ED's
bio spoon feeds a walking eating disorder with delicious tricks
and techniques. She talks about how she kept busy, with an extreme
schedual (only ever so once in a while leaving time for a small
salad). She talks about how she kept a sort of calorie log system,
including listing all her weight periods. The best of all: in
her hard back cover, she provides pictures of her in her 85-100
pound stage. TONS OF DETAILS.. loved it... easy read, and it's
were I got my start about four years ago.
aamberrose@yahoo.com
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Slim to None
I must confess, I didn't read the whole thing...because I couldn't
stand it! It did not draw my attention at all and was written
by parents, which I thought gave an unrealistic portrayal of
the illness.
elocinwarrior@hotmail.com
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