You are more beautiful than you think. How to develop healthy food habits and accept yourself

About the book
Have you thought about how often during the day we think about food? This is our life energy, a source of great pleasure - and it is able to lead us to shame and remorse.
Relations with food are built since childhood. It is important that these relationships are healthy, bring pleasure and good health. To do this, build a competent power system.
This book with recommendations and exercises from leading world experts on food habits brings up the correct attitude to their own body. She talks about how a teenage body changes, debunk myths about diets and harmful food and helps to avoid eating disorders.
In addition, it affects important topics as sleep and its significance in our lives, contain useful information about emotions and their management. Scientific data demonstrate why the concern for its body is of such great importance and why excessive concentration in weight leads to poor consequences.
After reading the book, the teenager will build harmonious relationships with food and develop a balanced regime of physical activity. The knowledge gained will allow you to relax and begin to get more pleasure from life.
But the main thing that the book does not allow to forget is that everyone deserves respect and love right now, regardless of the state of their body and imaginary "shortcomings".

How to read this book
The book consists of short chapters, convenient for reading in short breaks, as well as exercises that can be performed at home in their free time.
Part I is devoted to the psychological and physiological characteristics of puberty, gaining self -confidence, awareness of the needs of your body, managing emotions and the fight against stress, the correct regime of sleep and physical activity.
Part II debunks myths about healthy and unhealthy food, talks about the properties of products, gives recommendations on the ratio of KBJU, meals during the day, teaches how it is without fear, guided by its own hunger and saturation signals.
Part III will give several useful anti -crisis techniques, will tell you how to eat outside the house correctly, and will wean to constantly weigh it.

For whom this book
This book is required for reading to all adolescents and young people, and especially those who have problems with the perception of their own body and self -esteem, are always dissatisfied with themselves, cannot establish a healthy and comfortable regime for life.

About the authors
Signae Darpinyan - a certified specialist in disorders of food behavior, a practitioner psychotherapist on family and marriage, co -author of the working notebook for dietary behavior for adolescents "No Weight!".
Signae received the degree of psychology master at John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco and the degree of bachelor of psychology at the University of Pacific. It is the president of the International Association of Specialists in the Field of Disorders of Eating Board (CEDS-S) and is part of the Council of Positive Partnership (The Body Positive) Over the past few years, it has been recognized as various organizations for achievements in the field of women"s health and business, and it was also asked to perform speeches in well-known institutions such as Rancho La Puerta Spa in Mexico, the University of Stanford and Pinterest headquarters.

Wendy Sterling is a nutritionist and a certified specialist in sports dietetics in Bay Area in California, co -author of the working notebook for adolescents "No Weight!". It specializes in sports nutrition, eating disorders and problems with weight. Wendy conducts private practice in Menlo Park and Los Altos, California.
Wendy received a bachelor"s degree in dietetics at Cornell University and a master"s degree in the field of education on food at the Pedagogical College at the Columbia University, where she also graduated from the internship.
Wendy worked as a nutritionist in the project "Healthy teenager" in 2015-2017. And also for 10 years she advised children and adolescents on nutrition in the center of food disorders at the Koen Children"s Medical Center in New York. She worked in the advisory clinical council of the Heal project (non -profit organization created to assist in financing the treatment of eating disorders).
also Wendy Dietetus of the OAKland Athletics team. She advised the teams "Warriors Golden Steat", Menlo School, New York Jets (2006-2013), Aylanders New York and Women"s Lacross and Volleyball Teams at Hofstra University. It is included in the register of sports nutritionists of the US Olympic Committee.

Shelley Agarval - Doctor of Medicine, a pediatrician, specializes in teenage changes in the body, co -author of the working notebook for adolescents "No Weight!".
As an expert on the health of adolescents, she conducted trainings for small groups of parents and adolescents, and also performed at regional and national scientific conferences. She participated in the work of local and international non -profit organizations, went to Mongolia, Cambodia and Mexico, collaborated with WHO.
For several years she worked at Stanford University (in the Department of Teenage Medicine), at UCSF, and the Los Angeles Children"s Hospital. He is an expert in the field of eating disorders and the health of adolescents. Currently, the director of the children"s clinic of the Santa Clara County and Honored Teacher at the Faculty of Pediatrics of Stanford University
Dr. Agggarval in his work adheres to the principles of integrative medicine, uses meditation in everyday practice