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The Complete Beck Diet for Life: The Five-Stage Program for Permanent Weight Loss | 
 enlarge | Author: Judith S. Beck
Publisher: Oxmoor House
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 100213
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 084873274X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9780848732745
ASIN: 084873274X
Publication Date: December 23, 2008 (In 20 Days)
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Product Description
Bestselling author and weight-loss expert Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., has inspired thousands of dieters to lose weight and keep it off using the power of Cognitive Therapy. Her techniques emphasize preparing the mind and changing eating habits before making changes to the food you eat. Now, for the first time, Dr. Beck outlines the next step on the road to success: a specific, balanced diet plan that teaches how to eat thin to ensure that weight loss lasts a lifetime. Based on the eating choices of her most successful dieters and maintainers, The Complete Beck Diet for Life provides a step-by-step approach to weight loss by helping readers successfully navigate the 5 stages of learning to eat thin. Each stage teaches a different skill necessary for losing weight and keeping it off. It starts by first helping dieters change their thinking so they can make permanent changes in their eating. When dieters are ready to change what they eat, they determine the right food plan, including comprehensive suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and bonus foods, as well as a Think Thin menu formula with 37 recipes for Phase 2 of the plan and 15 bonus recipes for Phase 4. In addition, a sample strength-training plan is provided to help shape up while slimming down; interactive elements include filling out Response Cards, completing daily eating logs, and charting progress on weight-loss graphs.
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 The Complicated Diet for Life November 26, 2008
DynomiteWins (Costa Mesa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
From reading this, I gather that I may not be the target audience. I'm not obese and I have a rough idea of what I need to do to get my act together and take excess weight off but I was hoping for a guide to a lifestyle change. This is the first diet book I've read and it seems to require that people get obsessed with their food, how much they eat, keep track of everything and make note of everything. I can see how it would benefit people to whom the idea of reducing calorie intake and increasing calorie burn is not something that seems natural.
I guess that's what this book is going for though - a weight loss diet plan that you will have to work on for the rest of your life. I was hoping for a guide to healthy diet without having to restructure your entire life around what you are and are not eating with charts and notes. Overall, there was just too much involved for me to want to even start.
I think though that the book can be motivating for the right people.
changing thoughts and behaviors November 26, 2008
Morganna Wolf (Portland, OR)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In my experience where most diets have failed me is that I may change my behavior for a short period of time but I have not changed my thought process that drives that behavior.
This book tackles both the behavior and the thought process that cause diets to fail.
This is not a simple read this book and lose 10lbs simple solution. As any one who has struggled with weight or any other behavior change knows there is no simple solution for behavior change. It is a process and this book honors that process by taking things in manageable chunks.
I have just working with this book to change my behavior but I feel I have launched on a journey that will be successful.
 The missing link in staying on the diet. November 20, 2008
M. Stone (San Antonio, Texas)
This book has the thing that all other diet books are missing...the answer.
What's the key? Well something I had never heard of, "Cognitive Therapy".
Using a web of self-support, tracking, positive reinforcement and accountability. Coupled with knowledge of what and why, this is the program that I am actually sticking to!
For those of you that have other books by the same author, let me say that Dr. Judith Beck assures the readers that this book has something that has been missing in the past books. This book doesn't leave it to you to pick food, real detailed guidance is provided. Step by step, menu by menu, food that fills you up and energizes you to meet the challenges of your day.
Awesome book! November 20, 2008
E.L. (SoCal)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is great. It is not just about eat this, do that. It is about the way you think as well. I am almost done with the book and it makes you think about a change in lifestyle rather that dieting. Dieting is temporary and lifestyle is permanent.
Change your mindset about food. November 20, 2008
B. Cha (Chicago, IL United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This isn't really a diet book. It's a way of thinking about food book. This book is for the people who eat their food and continue eating even after the plate is finished. It's for the people who say "I'm hungry, dinner is coming soon, but I want to instantly gratify my hunger pains, so I am going to eat this bag of chips." We live in a society where we don't want to feel pain (look at the pain reliever isle at your local pharmacy) or feel hungry, or be in want of anything at all. We want to be gratified and satisfied all the time.
This book helped me a little, but I don't have the time to do all the tasks and journaling it requires. I appreciate the recipes in the back, and I will use those, but I think I need more of a one on one kind of system to keep me accountable about my eating habits.
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