Diary of an Exercise Addict
Friedman suffered from exercise bulimia—a compulsion to purge calories through excessive exercise, and a rapidly growing eating disorder that affects some 400,000 American women. In Diary of an Exercise Addict Friedman recounts her descent into a life-threatening illness, her remarkable recovery,...
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Friedman suffered from exercise bulimia—a compulsion to purge calories through excessive exercise, and a rapidly growing eating disorder that affects some 400,000 American women. In Diary of an Exercise Addict Friedman recounts her descent into a life-threatening illness, her remarkable recovery, and the setbacks along the way. With refreshing candor she lays bare her relationships with family, friends, and lovers and the repressed desire that finally surfaced as she found her own way back to health.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780762748969 (0762748966)
Publish date: November 5th 2008
Publisher: GPP Life
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
This is what it felt like to read this book:"I was stressed. I started exercising. Then I lost weight. I kept exercising. Then my mom got worried. I ate."Compare that to how it feels to read this excerpt from Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia:"It does not hit you until later. The fact that yo...
This should really be two and a half stars, but I round down.Diary of an Exercise Addict was good, an easy and relatively quick read that for the most part held my attention. Unfortunately she wandered away from the point quite often--I wasn't particularly concerned about her relationships or sex l...
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