Product Description
It Started With Pop-Tarts is a Mom's Choice Award Silver Recipient for Body, Mind & Spirit! It Started with Pop-Tarts is a personal story of a 30+ year battle with an eating disorder. Written to bring hope and inspiration to individuals suffering with eating disorders and to enlighten loved ones to the depths of this obsession. Hanson's book outlines her practical holistic approach to recovery employing mind, body and spirit. Hanson delves into the chemical contributors to binge eating and discusses the importance of balancing body chemistry along with reprogramming the negative self-talk and behaviors and improving self-esteem. Author Lori Hanson's bulimia was at its worst during college and as a young career woman. After a bout with counseling in her twenties Hanson looked for ways to heal on her own. She discovered the power of the sub-conscious mind and her alternative path to healing began. Hanson's story shares the grim realities of a life obsessed sprinkled with humor and inspiration. Contrary to popular belief counseling and medication may not be the solution to eating disorders! As a recovered bulimic, Hanson identifies and discusses other physical conditions that contributed to her disorder. She shares five key strategies (The Pop Pastry Principles) with practical steps to help readers recover from eating disorders holistically. Hanson's book demonstrates how individuals suffering from eating disorders can access their personal power and overcome their behaviors holistically. If you are a parent or loved one, this book will help you understand the depths of the distorted existence your child or loved one is suffering. You can t deal with it logically!If you have an eating disorder, this book will provide a wealth of information on how to free yourself from the bondage of your obsession, learn how to reconnect your mind with your body and embrace it!

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 15 reviews)

You Can Do This! by Aunt Laya Saul (http://www.auntlaya.com)

4 Stars
February 11, 2010
"It Started with Pop-Tarts" is the first hand account of author Lori Hansen's life with bulimia. Most of the book is spent on her history, the triggers and life that made her vulnerable. Her battle is not just with food, but with alcohol as well. It takes her years to triumph. She explored many healing venues. One very powerful healing tool is to know that you are not alone in your struggles. There are others who came before you, reaching out their hands to help you on your way. Lori is honest about her pain and her mistakes. Sometimes people look at those who are succeeding and think it was always like that, but it's also so important to know that others struggle, fall, and then get up again. I believe that this book could help someone in just that position--someone who feels down and needs the strength to try and get up. Life has a way of challenging us over and over again and we need to have the strength to get up--over and over again. This is what Lori Hansen's story demonstrates. Going for success, missing the mark, getting up, and into success. This book shares an alternative approach that uses a wide variety of resources. She shares it all. She holds nothing back. She tells every book that guided her and every practitioner that helped her. This book will help people struggling quietly in their pain to understand that there is hope, there is a next step, and that it takes what ever it takes. Kudos to Ms Hansen for having the courage to tell her story so it will help others heal. Laya Saul, author of the award winning teen book, "You Don't Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way"

A good read but not helpful for bulimics by Lori Anne (Canada)

3 Stars
December 27, 2009
I found the story in this book interesting. Lori's life was an interesting read and it kept me reading on. I did not find it helpful however for helping me with advice on eating disorders. Her eating disorder was more of a binge eating disorder. Alot of people consider bulimia a binge/purge disorder. I therefore could not totally relate to this book. I wouldn't recommend it to people who are suffering from bulima. I read "Learning to be me" and I found it alot more insightful and alot more relatable.

Help for eating disorders by Sarah Maria

5 Stars
November 23, 2009
Lori Hanson has lived the struggle of disordered eating and Negative Body Obsession. She has lived it, and she has overcome it. Her book outlines how she healed from her eating disorder. You are bound to glean valuable tips and insights, and at the very least, you will know for sure that you are not alone in the struggle, and that healing is absolutely possible. --Sarah Maria, author of Love Your Body, Love Your Life, [...]

Recovery is POSSIBLE! by Kevin Grold (Del Mar, CA USA)

5 Stars
October 31, 2009
It Started with Pop-Tarts®...provides hope, inspiration, guidance and clarity. Through sharing her journey Lori demonstrates that freedom from obsessions, healing, inner peace and recovery are all possible! Christine Hartline, MA Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center [...]

Struggling with food/body issues? There is hope! by Andrea Roe

5 Stars
September 28, 2009
I'd like to thank Lori Hanson for sharing her story in brutal honesty about her struggles, the ups and downs of her healing journey, and ultimately about how she found freedom from her obsessions. If you have struggled with food, weight, alcohol, self esteem and body issues for years, have given up on yourself and lost hope... this book can be a useful tool in your recovery. There is hope, also for you! - Andrea Roe Author, Speaker, Eating Disorder Survivor

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