Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e)

Introduction. A Few Words of Caution. What this Book Can and Can't Do. Further Reading. The Way Forward. Do I Suffer from Bulimia? How to Use this Book. First Steps. Back to the Future. Making Your Decision to Go. How to Stage Your Journey. Tools for the Journey. How to Keep a Therapeutic Diary. New Skills to Cope with Old Difficulties. Further Reading. Dieting: A Health Warning. Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder. What Weight is Healthy? The Health Hazards of Dieting. How Much Do I Need to Eat? Working with Your Body to Obtain Your Optimal Weight and Shape. How to Relearn Eating Control. Bingeing, Nibbling, and Compulsive Overeating: The Black Hole of the Never-satisfied Stomach. Why is My Eating Uncontrolled? How to Stop Binges. Lapses. Vomiting, Laxatives, and Diuretics: Have Your Cake and Eat it - Or Not? Facing the Facts? Why You are Right to Worry. What Type of Weight Controller are You? How to Stop Vomiting. How to Stop Abusing Laxatives, Diuretics and Other Medications. Learning to Feel Good about Your Body. Learning about Body Shapes. Getting to Know Your Body. Looking after Your Body. Living with Your Body. Note. Further Reading. Jack Spratt's Wife: Being Fatter May be Better. The Health Risks of being Overweight. Pie in the Sky. Only the Lonely. Shake, Shake, Shake Your Body. Further Reading. Relapse: Walking in Circles - Or Not? Preventing Slips from Occurring. What to Do if a Slip Occurs. A Woman's Work is Never Done - Or is It? The Wounds of Childhood. Sexual Abuse. Trying to Make Sense of It. Grapple with Guilt and Self-blame. Will the Effects Always be There? Get a Toehold onto Trust. Coming to Terms. Further Reading. Food for Thought. Toad in a Hole. The Gloom-and-Doom Scenario. Isn't Life Dreadful? Wracked by Guilt. Please, Please Them. The Dictatorship of Control. Over to You. Shake off Shame. Further Reading. Finding Your Voice. Learning to Stand Your Ground. Anything for a Quiet Life? Ground-rules for Assertive Behaviour. How to Put Assertiveness into Practice. Further Reading. The Seduction of Self-destruction. The Slippery Slope of Booze and Drugs. Should I be Worried about My Alcohol Intake? Do You Like Russian Roulette? If I were a Rich Man... Note. Further Reading. The Web of Life: Parents, Partners' Children, and Friends. Home, Sweet Home. Friends. Sexual Relationships. Children. Further Reading. Working to Live, Living to Work. Some Common Work Problems. Further Reading. Is This the End of the Journey - Or Not? But What if You are Still Stuck? Dream On, Baby. Recovery: A Trip into Uncharted Territory. Appendix. Some Useful Addresses.