Every year, desperate parents try to save their daughters from starving themselves to death. Yet every year, more girls eat less to look like their favorite supermodels.  We developed this book based on our ongoing work at the Beyond Hunger Organization, and the feedback we received from hundreds of young women. We looked closely at the behaviors that lead to eating disorders and the cultural, emotional, and physical reasons girls obsess about weight and eating.

This book offers girls and their parents a map and a method for finding a realistic and livable balance. Stories and quotations from girls who have struggled with eating disorders give the book immediacy, and exercises and writing suggestions steer girls toward a healthy self-image and wholesome eating patterns.