The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person | Judith S. Beck

The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person | Judith S. Beck | You won't believe it until you are able to do it!

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The Beck Diet Solu...

	The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person Judith S. Beck Oxmoor House, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 88 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

the missing piece

So many diet books focus on the mechanical aspects of losing weight -"this is what you should eat, or not eat, and this is how you should exercise," blah, blah, blah.

As a veteran of various diets over the years, I realized some years ago that I often eat for emotional reasons. But, I couldn't figure out how to change that, in spite of being a psychotherapist, and understanding the principles of cognitive therapy. Now I know.

Beck presents the ideas you need to know and the techniques to use along with a diet to combat your tendency to make excuses, sabotage yourself, or otherwise fail to stick to a weight loss plan. As she says, it's about learning how to think like a thin person. And it's not magic.

The book itself is not a diet plan but a companion to any reasonable diet you may choose. If you have a serious eating disorder like bulimia or anorexia, this is not the book for you. If you are a compulsive overeater, using this book along with your diet, and the help of a therapist would probably work well.

One of the first things she said made me laugh because I could see myself in it. It is "Hunger is not an emergency."

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You won't believe it until you are able to do it!

I have been using the skills taught in the Beck Diet Solution for about three months and have lost over 20 pounds. This solution is no quick fix, but helps a person lose slowly over time, which is the way to change lifestyle behaviors.

The most effective lesson taught in the book for me personally was making an Advantage card listing all the reasons why I want to lose weight. When I am tempted to eat something I know is not on my own unique eating plan and is unhealthy, I dig out my card and review the 30 reasons I came up with for why I would rather be thin than eat that Twinkie or that piece of pie. Self talk really works to overcome temptation. Also Judy Beck suggests phrases to repeat, repeat, repeat when that little voice inside tells you it is okay to "just this once" have a little bite of something (which leads to disaster!)

The book isn't a diet in the sense that it tells you what to eat. Most people know what foods will be convenient to prepare and what they like to eat and even what is healthy. Beck lets us be adults and do it our way, in moderation of course.

She also recommends counting calories, because every bite does count. There are many internet sites that will count the calories for you if you just enter what you have eaten that day, every day.

Also get a good digital scale and weigh every day. Even if you have only lost one-tenth of a pound the previous day, at least you know you are making progress. I also record my weight on a chart like she suggests, which is hugely motivating.

Don't expect to drop 10 pounds in a week. That would not be healthy. Hang in there and re-read the book when tempted to weaken. Honestly I can't believe I have been able to do this without getting hungry and giving up. This book has been a miracle for me. I am 60 years old and decided it was time to do something besides take pills for high cholesterol and high blood pressure, the obesity diseases. I still have 20 pounds to go and have every confidence that I will make it this time. Highly recommend this book to anyone who has tried and failed over and over. Try it, what have you got to lose besides weight?

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Inside the Mind of the Thin

This book uses cognitive psychology to help you lose weight. Cognitive psychology is based on the concept that the way you think affects how you feel and what you do. Cognitive therapy, then, helps you identify your self-defeating thinking and helps you respond to it so you can feel better and behave in helpful ways. Instead of leading you step-by-step through a diet plan, this book addresses the psychology behind why you can't get yourself to follow one and lose weight. In this book, you pick the diet (and an alternative as a back up), and the book helps you follow it.

The set-up of the book is a six-week plan. Week 1 is laying the groundwork, where you pick 2 diets. Week 2 is getting prepared to diet, Week 3 is starting the diet, Week 4 looks into responding to sabotaging thoughts, Week 5 is about overcoming challenges, such as staying in control when you go out to eat, and Week 6 is fine tuning things.

All-in-all, I'd have to say that its a great resource to address the psycholgical side of eating. There's no magic to it, just a little looking inside yourself and addressing any barriers you have that may be holding you back.

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Good advice and support for any goal in your life

This is really NOT a diet book, but will help tremndously on your diet. The real surprise is that applying the same cognitive concepts will make it much easier to achieve any goal in your life that requires discipline and perseverance. It's a well-known fact that ANY diet will "work" if you stick to it. This book will make sticking to it much easier by enlisting your own good sense and bolstering your self-esteem to the point that you'll feel so good about yourself that wrecking that feeling seems as idiotic as touching a hot stove. It's also something you can come back to, as I think I may need to, again and again when you need a fresh start. Thanks Judith!

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Food for Thought...

I ordered a used book, & couldn't tell it wasn't new, very pleased with that indeed. Contents are really food for thought, no menus or diets, just cognitive thinking ideas & much to think about & choose from...a very informative book I find.

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