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Learn to COOK - Think Thin, Be Thin: 101 Psychological Ways to Lose Weight
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Manufacturer: Broadway
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9780767916967
ISBN: 0767916964
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2004-12-28
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: 2004-12-28
Studio: Broadway
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If you’ve been struggling with your weight, you know how hard it can be to lose those extra pounds and keep them off. In the groundbreaking Think Thin, Be Thin, nationally prominent psychotherapist Doris Wild Helmering and award-winning health writer Dianne Hales assert that the true key to a healthy body weight is a healthy attitude toward food and exercise. Their logic is simple: Your brain ultimately controls what you eat and whether you work out. If you change the way you think, you can change the way you behave. And you can lose weight.
Using proven psychological strategies and scientifically based exercises, you will learn how to harness your thoughts to transform your behavior, body, and life. With practical advice on such troublesome issues as curbing emotional eating, motivating yourself to exercise, and overcoming diet plateaus, this book is the ideal complement to any diet and weight-loss program.
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Summary: Be Thin, buy this book
Comment: I am really impressed with this book so far. It has a lot of great strategies. Not all of them work for everyone but there are enough that at least some of them will work for you. I started it a few weeks ago and have made some minor adjustments it suggests and I'm now on track to being at my goal weight of 119 lbs. Everyone knows you need to eat less and exercise to reach your weight loss goals in a healthy way. Getting yourself to do that is another story. This book has been a useful tool in keeping the little fat girl inside me bitch slapped into submission.
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Summary: Brain Power works for me
Comment: I am a strong believer that you can do anything if you put your mind to it so when I saw this book I thought maybe this is the one for me. I can't follow food plan diets b/cs I don't have the patience to get every ingredient. But this book offers a new gimick every chapter to mentally achieve the goal you want- whether its limit portion size or exercise. I have lost 3 pounds in 7 days where usually it would take me 30 days to lose 3 pounds. Using the ol'noggin has proved to be my favorite tool.
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Summary: Excellent motivational book, tons of tips, ideas on weight loss
Comment: I read this book from cover to cover in a short period of time and it is excellent. It has so many different ideas, some things that you probably already know, on how to mentally prepare yourself to lose weight, eat healthfully and start exercise. It is recommended by Dr. Oz according to the back cover. I think it is a good book to keep and refer to, especially when you are at a difficult point or need some inspiration.
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Summary: Think thin, be thin. . .
Comment: The authors come across as friends more than instructors. Some information is a no-brainer, (eat less, move more) but there are some psychological "tricks" that have been very useful. There is one particular passage titled "No More Negatives" that I found very useful in the beginning. I checked this book out of the library a couple of times and decided that it would be a positive book to go back to during my weight-loss journey.
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Summary: Lots Of Techniques
Comment: The book is a quick read, has short chapters, a single principle covered in each. It's not a mental taxation, but an expanded list of items to try as psychological reminders.
This book addresses all of those aspects surrounding food outside of calories alone, beyond controlling your food. The book addresses how food (and all aspects of food) intervenes - psychologically - into the rest of your life. Therefore it addresses how your lifestyle is affected, or changing your lifestyle will change your weight. If you are not ready for change, you will not be ready for what the book presents.
The book offers a large range of "technique" for becoming less food-centric in your life. It does not, however, elaborate on moving those techniques into permanent behavior change. (It felt more like I was reading a laundry list of options rather than recipes for change.) The techniques are provided in the short chapters (and it does cover an exceptionally wide range of techniques - from the simplest pause between bites to aroma therapy) but I did feel it missed the point on elaboration. Breaking out of the short chapter mold and providing a couple of at length discussion chapters might have proven a useful idea.
The book is decidedly geared toward women (i.e. only women's body fat charts are provided, etc...).
I didn't find it life shattering, but rather a "survey" of technique - and you get to choose which of those techniques might work for you.
One EXCEPTIONAL idea that was presented was "Know Your Weights" these are your Dream, Happy, Acceptable, Disappointed, and Never-Again weights. This consciousness can help you watch yourself - stay aware of creeping instead of waiting until you get to an OH NO point again.
Although the idea was not presented I do feel that eventually you probably want to move away from scale-centered measurement, and instead rely on a mirror to tell you how you feel about the shape or your body. This is true particularly if you are increasing muscle mass. The mirror approach allows you to feel comfortable with your body type, areas you want to accentuate - something that weight charts cannot do. Scales can still serve to supplement your self-review, but eventually lose their primacy as a clear means of feedback (again particularly if your muscle mass is changing).
Overall the book has good ideas, may include some very helpful techniques for you, but is probably not a seminal source for those moving toward mental health in this area. Your arsenal would probably include other material, more discussion oriented, and likely higher on motivational inspiration.
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