Hope Beyond Hell: A Recovering Compulsive Eater's Journey

By Jeffrey Nix

In a matter-of-fact style, the author takes you into the mindset of a compulsive eater.

Experience the disparity, the anger, the utter hopelessness felt during the stages of pre-recovery. Celebrate the victory and success of conquering this life-threatening illness. Discover how the author, with the help of God, found inner peace to aid his recovery from compulsive eating.

If you or someone you know has struggled with this or a like eating disorder, Hope Beyond Hell: A Recovering Compulsive Eater’s Journey is an inspiring, must-read account of one man’s journey to recovery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeffrey Nix
• Release date: Sep 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301320691

Jeffrey Nix

Jeffrey is an accomplished author; his articles have appeared in major newspapers and magazines. In 1991, at the height of his eating disorder and at the end of his rope, he sought inpatient treatment for his situation. This, in addition to years of therapy produced successful results. It is all documented in his book "Hope Beyond Hell: A Recovering Compulsive Eater's Journey."Jeffrey is an accomplished genealogist; his hobbies include photography and caring for his vast vinyl record collection.

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Hope Beyond Hell

A Recovering

Compulsive Eater’s Journey

By Jeffrey A. Nix

Smashwords Edition

ISBN: 9781301320691

Copyright 2013

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Dedication

First to God, were it not for

Your Divine intervention

none of this would have been possible.

For my lovely wife Paula,

your love lifts me higher with each passing day.

Epigraph

"No man, woman, or child feels as worthwhile as he or she truly is."

William C. Rader, M.D., Founder

Rader Programs (formerly known as the Rader Institute)

Can’t never could, won’t never will. You owe it to yourself to unlock the loving person inside of you and allow the real you to come forward to live!

Jeffrey A. Nix

Introduction

My love-hate relationship with both myself and my addiction to food culminated in hospitalization in January 1992 for cellulitis of the leg. My doctor was called into the emergency room, and almost dropped the chart when he noticed my swollen leg with its purplish-blue tint. He proceeded to methodically measure both calves, noting that the left one was something like twenty-two inches in circumference while the right leg was about nineteen inches. I’ll never forget the words he said to me in the following moments: Jeff, either do something about your problem with your weight, or be prepared to lose your legs with the next couple of years. If you lose your legs, you’ll become even more inactive. If your body does not get some form of exercise, the next thing you’ll lose is your life

He turned to make preparations for my hospitalization, leaving me to my thoughts. Over the next three days, I cried more than I ever have in my life, with possible exception of my mother’s untimely death. I did a lot of soul-searching during this time, finally realizing that I was out of control with not only food but many other aspects of my life. I knew I was both desperate and beaten. I gave it all to God. He showed me the way to the answers, and now I’d like to present them to you.

The hardest thing about writing a book that will ultimately be filed under the category of self-help in bookstores is to attempt to sift through the layers of the past to separate fact from fiction. In the intervening years between my childhood and emotional