'Learn To Think Like A Thin Person So You Can Eat Like A Thin Person'

[lavenderdiva]

'The Beck Diet Solution: Learn To Think Like A Thin Person So You Can Eat Like A Thin Person' by Dr. Judith Beck, is a new book that is getting a lot of press recently. Yesterday, I ordered a copy at Barnes & Nobles that should be in this coming week. This title has been featured in Newsweek and O Magazine. It caught my attention because the author is a well-known cognitive therapist, as was her father. She uses those techniques to help people lose weight. You can be on any diet of your choosing, but incorporate her new way of thinking, to strengthen your results.


link to the O Magazine article: http://www.beckdietsolution.com/InfoID/47/RedirectPath/Add1/FolderID/67/SessionID/%7BF8A3ACB5-A246-4618-B913-17C7170A8D2E%7D/InfoGroup/Main/InfoType/Article/PageVars/Library/InfoManage/Zoom.htm

From the O magazine article:

'...Beck guides the reader through a six-week, step-by-step process designed to eliminate every self-sabotaging thought that makes dieters throw up their hands and open their mouths. (Thoughts such as I can't diet when I'm stressed or I know I shouldn't eat this, but its my birthday/Thanksgiving/Groundhog Day/fill-in-the-blank day hit me squarely in my size 12 gut.) Along the way, she outlines a comprehensive regimen based on her own experience and 20 years of counseling dieters.'

Link to the Newsweek article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17537384/site/newsweek/

From the Newsweek article:

'At 5 feet 3 and 116 pounds, Judith Beck doesn't look like a threat to anyone. But America's junk-food peddlers should be afraid--very afraid--of this gentle, soft-spoken psychologist. Her new book, "The Beck Diet Solution," could help dieters swear off their Doritos once and for all. That's because it's perhaps the best diet book ever to focus on the psychology of permanent weight loss. In short, it doesn't tell you what foods to eat or avoid. Instead, it tells you how to stick to a healthy eating plan of your own choice-for good- by changing the way you talk to yourself when confronted with temptation, cravings, and the inevitable dietary lapses.'

Here is a link to Dr. Beck's website, where you will find a lot more information: http://www.beckdietsolution.com/FolderID/1/SessionID/%7BF8A3ACB5-A246-4618-B913-17C7170A8D2E%7D/PageVars/Library/InfoManage/Guide.html

I am very excited about reading this new book, and hopefully learning WHY I am overeating, and how to overcome it! From what I've read about it so far, it will give me useful tools, that I am currently lacking, to combat certain behaviours that have been holding me back from becoming my best self. I just wanted to share it with you guys!!

[Longhorn]

1. I'll be interested in what you think about it.

I'm not sure I can bring myself to buy another diet book -- I have so many, some that I haven't even read! But I would get it if you feel like it's worth it! Thanks! :hi:

[hedgehog]

2. I ordered a copy a week ago and am waiting for it to arrive.

I think I saw the same Newsweek article you did.

Here's my problem - as a kid my mother was very weight conscious so I always felt fat and adapted by ignoring my body. Now I look back and realize that I was very lean. I did have big bones (honest! - my wrist measures 6 3/4") so I didn't look skinny. I weighed 116 and was
61 3/4" tall and though t I was overweight!

When I was pregnant, I was constantly hungry and constantly full because my digestion was so slow. Afterword, I gained weight because I developed atypical depression.

So now I know intellectually I need to lose weight, but 95% of the time I'm happy with my body so it's hard to keep on any plan. I'm hoping the book will help.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. I already eat like a bird.

You haven't lived until your mom nagged you to eat more when you were growing up, and picked on you for being a picky eater, and then after you grow up and gain weight, they get on your case for being fat, even though you're still a very picky eater.

Can't win for losing.

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Sounds like applied cognitive therapy

Always a good idea for confronting self-sabotaging thoughts of any kind.