Table of Contents
Your Turning Point Starts Here 11
External Triggers 17
1 When Your Why Is Front and Center 19
2 When You Feel Defeated Before You Start 27
3 When You Are Bored 36
4 When Your Clothes Don't Fit and You Can't Hide It 44
5 When You Lack Portion Control 50
6 When Your Doctor Tells You to Lose Weight Before it's Too Late 56
7 When Others Sabotage You or You Sabotage Yourself 63
8 When Community Means Food 69
9 When Losing Weight Is Harder Than It Used to Be 77
10 When You Want to Be a Couch Potato 84
11 When You Travel 91
12 When Losing Weight Is Easy for Everyone but You 98
13 When You Need Support from Someone Else 103
14 When It's the Holidays 109
15 When You Hit a Plateau 117
16 When You Eat Mindlessly 122
17 When Your Favorite Beverage Keeps Calling Your Name 129
Internal Triggers 135
18 When You Are Stressed 137
19 When Negative Self-Talk Overwhelms You 144
20 When You Are Lonely 150
21 When You Are Addicted to Sugar 156
22 When One Mistake Makes You Want to Quit 162
23 When You Are Downright Hungry, and Hangry Too 169
24 When You Feel Ashamed 174
25 When You Are Addicted to Food 179
26 When You Feed Your Emotions 185
27 When You Are Fixated on the Scale 192
28 When People Compliment You but It's Hard to Accept 198
29 When Self-Care Is Not a Priority 204
The Journey Continues 211
30 When You've Reached Your Goals 213
31 When You Need to Celebrate Your Victories 218
Appendix: When You Have an Eating Disorder 225
Acknowledgments 229
Notes 231
