Burt Nordstrand has been in recovery from compulsive overeating for thirty years. While struggling with food and other dangerous addictions, he started SSG Corporation in 1971 and transformed the gas-and-convenience-store industry. As of 2010, Nordstrand’s multimillion-dollar company employs five hundred people in forty locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The very qualities that defined Burt Nordstrand as an addict also made him an entrepreneur extraordinaire. Living with the Enemy chronicles Burt’s story of hitting “bottom” when, for all appearances, he was fit and happy. No longer willing to live a double life of outward success and inward devastation caused by multiple addictions: compulsive overeating, diet pills, nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, irresponsible sex, gambling, over-exercising, etc., Nordstrand pursued recovery at age forty and his personal life began to turn around. At age seventy, he reflects back on the distance he traveled in pursuit of serenity and peace of mind. Most addictions can be addressed with abstinence; however, that is not possible with food addiction. Burt Nordstrand must continue Living with the Enemy.
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"I have had the privilege and—at times—the challenge of hearing the stories of a number of extraordinary people. I am heartened to read how Burt Nordstrand has put his life and achievements into perspective. He demonstrates that healthy recovery from an eating disorder is achievable." —Mike Schiks, executive director, Project Turnabout Addiction Recovery Center, former executive vice president of Hazelden Treatment Services for 21 years.
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