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Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

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I love this book. It is easy to read as it is broken up into small chapters. Jenni is upbeat and very convincing. I like how she doesn't leave room for many excuses in recovery. The book is easy to relate to and I would recommend this book to anybody who is in recovery from an eating disorder.

I was so thrilled yesterday to open up my mailbox to find an autographed copy of Jenni Schaefer's new book, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me! Jenni is also the wonderful author of the book Life Without Ed, a humorous, insightful, and down-to-earth personal story of one woman's 'break-up' and recovery from Ed: her eating disorder. Her lastest work is its companion. I read Life Without Ed during my recovery, and have since recommended it out as a helpful tool to many young men and women as I travel and speak. I was lucky enough to read Goodbye Ed, Hello Me pre-publication and offer a quote for the first page. I HIGHLY recommend both of these books for both individuals and families going through this battle. Jenni's writing is insightful and real; no lofty language, no 'doctor' talk, just raw human emotions, and humor as well. Everyone can relate to Jenni's story, and she is so honest! It's refreshing.

First i need to say that I read a lot, at first because i wanted to learn English, so i started to read Kindle ebooks.

It was a way to find good and cheap books in English to improve my skills. Now I'm able to read very well, not so much writing as you can see.

Anyway,

About the book. I read a lot about this subject, I've had a family member with an eating disorder and that made her parents suffer a lot, besides after this event I've became interested on this particular theme. I've read most of the Amazon's bestsellers about this subject at least once and I have to say that most books are just plain bad. They use re-hashed content or non value at all. And some are written by people who does not look like knows English very well. Like me.

Anyway,

I've only found 3 really good books on this subject on the Amazon sea, more on this after the break.

Because Goodbye Ed, Hello Me is in another league. I can't recommend enough this book, even if you don't have an eating disorder or anyone on your family I still recommend for the lessons you can learn. It's a book with such inspiration and hope. I couldn't put it down from start to finish. It had me constantly wondering what was going to happen next.

Jenni makes this book so personal and touching and one way or another everyone can relate with her story. It's a highly recommended book.

Besides this book the only other bestseller I can recommend about this subject is Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)

Amazon is pretty big so a few gems are sometimes lost in the Amazon sea What is Wrong With My Bathroom Scale? is one of those books. This is my last but not least choice and in my humble opinion should have more recognition that it has.

I have never written a review....who has the time? And I have read MANY, MANY books on eating disorders. This book, however, is worth the time to express how well written it is! I loved her honesty and thoroughness. I loved her hope. I loved her simplicity in writing....nothing flowery or overly deep and wordy. In my stage of recovery, this is exactly the book I needed to read. I will be purchasing her first book today.

Don't hesitate to buy....a great, great book.

I love "Goodbye Ed, Hello Me" by Jenni Schaefer. This is one of the best recovery books I ever read. It covers so many important lessons that those struggling with eating disorders need to hear, no matter at what stage they are in their recovery.

I really liked that the book also includes exercises to get you, the reader, involved and moving forward in your own healing journey. But what I like most about the book is that Jenni talks about how she moved from "being in recovery" to "being recovered." Many people believe that one has to struggle with an eating disorder forever, or be forever in recovery and has to learn to just live with it.

Jenni's book shows us that eating disorders really can be beaten, ONCE AND FOR ALL. This book will inspire you to take action and know that life without Ed (eating disorder) really is possible for you!"

-- Andrea Roe
Author, Speaker, Eating Disorder Survivor

This book is absolutely amazing. Having struggled with an eating disorder, it really showed me that there is life after an eating disorder. I love how Jenni put this book together and included many of her own experiences. She showed me how life can go on. I don't have to be Stacey with an eating disorder or Stacey in recovery. I can be "Stacey." The exercises were just right and made me think and helped put things into perspective. I recommend this book to anyone struggling with an eating disorder, in recovery, or recovered from an eating disorder. Thanks, Jenni for sharing your story of life after an eating disorder.

I used this book on the advice of my counselor. When I leafing thru it, my first reaction was skepticism. I gained 80 lbs after the death of my husband, and I failed at every diet I tried. Then I read this book and learned about the emotional component of overeating as well as under eating. So now my constant companion is Ed, and I make sure all the decisions about food are mine, and never let him get the last word in.

Read it. You'd be surprised at how effective you can become recognizing when Ed is trying to run the show regarding food.

This is a great follow up to Life without ED, her first book. It is easy to read, you can start it and put it down and go back to the places you find especially helpful, this book is a must read for those coping with ED. This is also a good resources for thwe family and friends of the victim( I say victim not patient). ED is a criminal that attacks the mind and needs to be arrested and taken away, not lived with. This book will be helpful for the beginner as well as a veteran of the ED war.

This is the book to read if you are feeling down and hopeless over an eating disorder. It's hard to dip into it and not come away feeling that with the right attitude and a lot of gumption you, too, can overcome even the most difficult disorder.

Jenni Schaefer chronicled her winning battle against anorexia and bulimia in Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too, in which she popularized the concept of naming and personifying her eating disorder (in her case, calling it "Ed" for short).

In this book, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover From Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life, Schaefer declares, "I'm now divorced from Ed (and married to myself). " She is more interested in how to live life post-Ed.

There are chapters on everything from how to begin treating yourself well instead of feeling you are not worthy of good things ("Jenni Deserves a Kitchen Table"), how recovery taught her to recognize and accept feelings of loneliness and sadness ("The Sadness Cloud") and some spot-on advice from the still-recovering, first-class perfectionist on learning to let go and have fun ("Having Fun to Save My Life").

Interspersed throughout the book are "Real Action" exercises you can do, such as keeping a "worry journal" to calculate the time you waste needlessly obsessing, or writing down then eliminating the eating-disordered behaviors that you are still holding on to (Jenni's was being a closet drinker of diet soda).

One thing Schaefer is adamant about is that she is recovered, period. Even a difficult, last-minute broken engagement (the dress had been purchased, the invitations stamped and ready to mail) did not send her running back into Ed's arms.

Schaefer was great company on the road to recovery; now she's there for those facing the post-recovery challenge of living a full life again.

I am getting over an eating disorder and this book did wonders for me! Full of absolutely amazing information. This book is a really good tool to help you over the final hump of recovery.