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Why Can't You Just Eat?: A Look Inside the Mind of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating Disorder Paperback – April 8, 2015

by Shannon Lagasse (Author)

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Shannon was an over-achieving high school student until her life was thrown completely off-track by a vicious eating disorder that no one saw coming. Through years of therapy, tears, dedication, and determination, Shannon and her family worked to overcome her life-threatening disorder and make the painful journey back to living a happy and healthy life. This groundbreaking book pulls back the curtains on what an eating disorder is like, not externally in habits and behaviors, but internally through thoughts and emotions. In these pages, Shannon will lead you deep into the heart and mind of anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, body dysmorphia, and depression. If you’ve struggled to understand eating disorders (or to convey your own experience to others), this is for you. Grab your journal and a pack of tissues, and get ready for the read of your life as the journey that changed her life may change yours as well.

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130 pages
Language

English
Publication date

April 8, 2015
Dimensions

6 x 0.33 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

1508850852
ISBN-13

978-1508850854
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 8, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 130 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1508850852
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1508850854
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.33 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,203,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,817 in Self-Help for Eating Disorders & Body Image Issues (Books)

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Mandy Wildman

Shannon Lagasse has done for eating disorders what the movie 'Rain Man' did for autism.

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2015

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In her determined quest to shed light and understanding on the heart-wrenching topic of life-threatening eating disorders, Shannon Lagasse has crafted the most important book on the topic ever written.

Lagasse put herself and her family through hell, but in making the courageous decision to “out” herself she has also outed the painfully misunderstood topic of how and why some young women attempt to starve themselves to death as their hopelessly ill-equipped loved ones look on. In writing this book, she has done for eating disorders what the movie Rain Man did for autism.

This book will save lives. This book will help parents and loved ones understand. This book needs to be mandatory reading in every high-school in the world, and no library should be without several copies. Counselors and staff at recovery facilities could gain valuable insight from it, and it could provide sufferers with the feeling that there is someone out there who gets it. Someone who really, truly, understands.

If the impact this book will have on a society obsessed with physical appearance is any indication, Shannon Lagasse - still in her 20's - is headed for greatness, and for all the right reasons.

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Jen Caudle

Great insight inspiring

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2017

There is always hope and life is worth living. So keep striving even through some setbacks and the light of I'll soon come shining through .

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FilmRuminations

As you turn the pages or flick the arbitrary ebook units of measure you are peering through the forth wall of the life of a dete

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2015

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Why Can't You Just Eat? is a quick, well written study of eating disorders. As you turn the pages or flick the arbitrary ebook units of measure you are peering through the forth wall of the life of a determined young woman suffering from various eating and mental disorder which can give friends and family who co-exist with similar maladies a glimpse into the mindset of their loved one. I am walking away from this with a much better understanding of what some of my friends have gone through in their lives and the ability to better appreciate their character.

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raven

Good But Has Several Things That Are Wrong.

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2015

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Good book overall but not worth the $15 I spent. More like $8-$10. It's double spaced, 16pt font and MAYBE 100 pages.

This book is claimed to have been written for the friends and family of those with ED but this book is written as a memoir. It would have been better if there was more psychology stuff in there to give the family tools to help those who are recovering. The book is choppy but still entertaining. It'd recommend it but request it for free through Kindle unlimited.

2 people found this helpful

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Vatsala Shukla

A book that needs to be read and taken seriously

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2015

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Shannon is a talented storyteller who captures the imagination of the reader as she narrates her journey and reaching a place of empowerment. I admit I could not read Why Can't You Just Eat? in one sitting because I needed to stop and reflect on her words. I believe this book could benefit many who have eating disorders and give them a flicker of hope not to give up on themselves when a breakthrough is waiting to happen. I salute you, Shannon for your willingness to share the darkness and a hope that one can win over eating disorders.

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Tatiana

underwhelming at best

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2023

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This book confirmed my suspicions of eating disorders sufferers being highly immature, self-centered and entitled. Only a person who’s never experienced hunger other than self-imposed can take food for granted to that extent. It’s a deeply privileged “tragedy.” No wonder why an ED is a disease of the rich. You don’t see people in the ghetto, or immigrants or the homeless suffering from anorexia.

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Sue Brown, Author of Simply Sugar Free

Wisdom Beyond Her Years can benefit us all!

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015

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I downloaded this book to my iPad, and didn't close the cover until I was done! Shannon's book is a well-written and heartfelt journey into the depths of an eating disorder ... written with the voice of the girl-next-door, your best friend or your daughter. For those of us who haven't struggled this way, Shannon's book is a good way to take a peek inside the head of someone who does. Shannon embodies wisdom beyond her years and we all stand to benefit from her bravery to share her story.

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CreativelyAmber24

Eye opener

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2016

This book was so good, as someone who has an eating disorder as well it was just so amazing to read what some else went through and that I went and still am going through the same things this woman went through and in some ways it gives me some hope and inspiration.

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