Lisa Sargese

Dedicated to helping people live healthier, happier lives, Lisa Sargese shares her personal struggles with her own mental and physical health to provide hope for those who suffer from pain and chronic illness. Through her YouTube videos and her bestselling book ‘Diary of a Fat Girl,’ Lisa unravels the pain of her past. She tells, in painful detail, what it's like to recover from depression, anxiety, and a severe eating disorder. As a certified hypnosis expert, Lisa leads mindfulness meditations (her CD 'Relaxation with Lisa' is available on Amazon) that help people live more grounded, peaceful lives. Known by her followers, readers, and students as ‘Prof Lisa’ you can find her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter sharing daily inspiration and insights on how to heal from the inside out spiritually, physically, and emotionally. She teaches university courses in religion, psychology, and women and gender studies in her home state of New Jersey where she lives with her 5 cats. Lisa remembers, at six years old, hiding in her grandmother's kitchen and eating six meatballs in under a minute. She was truly hungry, but she didn't want anyone to see her eat, so she binged in secret. Placed on restrictive diets beginning in kindergarten, she was continually sneak eating and binge eating as a child, partially out of rebellion against her narcissistic mother, mostly because she was ravenous all the time. After years of yo-yo dieting, binge eating and purging as a teen, and reaching nearly four hundred pounds, she sought out her first weight loss surgery at age twenty-three. She soon discovered that weight loss surgery isn't the easy way out. Her book, Diary of a Fat Girl, documents her first year after gastric bypass, her third in a series of weight loss surgeries that didn't work. She wrote every day as she unraveled the pain of her past and told, in painful detail, what it's like to recover from a severe eating disorder. Brutally telling the details of her weight-loss surgeries and struggles as the daughter of a narcissistic mother, Diary of a Fat Girl follows Lisa on her difficult journey to recovery. Discover how she lost most of the weight, gained it back, lost it again, but gained a more holistic understanding and acceptance of her body that goes beyond diets, dress sizes, or gym hours.