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The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person |  | Author: Judith S. Beck
Publisher: Oxmoor House
Category: Book
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Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 4662
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0848731735
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9780848731731
ASIN: 0848731735
Publication Date: March 20, 2007
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The Beck Diet Solution is the Missing Ingredient in Weight Loss Lose weight with confidence and keep it off for a lifetime! Battle your sabotaging habits! Resist tempting food - even if it's right in front of you! Confidently say, "No, thank you" to food pushers! Put an end to emotional eating! Confidently say, "No, thank you" to food pushers! Conquer every excuse you've ever used to overeat, binge, or backslide! Any sensible diet will help you lose weight, but the challenge for 90% of Americans is actually staying on the diet they choose. Enter Dr. Judith Beck and The Beck Diet Solution. Dr. Beck, one of the foremost authorities in the field of Cognitive Therapy, has created a six-week plan that will help people stick with their diet, lose weight with confidence, and keep weight off for a lifetime. This program is not only based on the author's personal success and on her success with her many clients, but also on published research. It all starts with how you think. With other programs, you think about nothing but food: counting, weighing, and worst of all, food you can't have. This way of thinking inevitably contributes to diet failure. The Beck Diet Solution is the only program that helps dieters use Cognitive Therapy methods--scientifically proven over 20 years--to forever change those treacherous thought patterns that lead to overeating, cheating, excuses, and other dieting downfalls. Features This breakthrough six-week plan assures success by helping you assess the advantages of weight loss, pick a sensible diet and exercise program, set a goal, line up support, and prepare your environment--all this before starting any diet. This unique approach is key to preventing the downfalls that so often lead to failure. A new task is presented each day to build psychological skills to deal with the challenges of hunger and craving, overeating, alcohol, eating out, special occasions, vacations, stress, and much more. Healthy habits are established with to-do lists, reasons and ways to do the tasks, and how to deal with negative thoughts. One day a week is designated to "Take a Breather." Easy-to-use, flexible, and proven tools are found throughout the program, including daily goals; weekly planner pages; and motivational coping cards for handling time/energy hurdles, eating out, and other high-risk situations.
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 Much obvious to diet vets, but some practical in depth help too November 7, 2009
skepticalis
I first learned about this book a few months ago on a weight loss message board, then later, at a WW meeting, a member who had been losing consistently shared how following the tips in this book totally made a difference to her success. After hearing that I had to read it.
I will say, if you have been watching your weight for any length of time, or read women's magazines, or belonged to any formal diet program, much of the content will be very familiar ground to you. But even a veteran weight watcher like me will probably find at least one little tip that will be useful.
It is not a diet per se, but a way at digging into the underlying practices and thoughts that lead to overeating. You could follow any of a number of regimes and use this as extra guidance. And the thoughts always precede the behavior, even if the thought is "I am now going into a trance so I can devour all this food and pretend like it was out of my control".
The author's advice is based on cognitive therapy and research comparing behavior and thoughts of overweight and slender people.
It helps in learning to recognize and change destructive thought patterns that lead to poor eating, overeating and bad lifestyle choices.
The practical tips in learning HOW to notice these thoughts, and in using notecards to replace those thoughts, is useful.
What I especially appreciated was the fact that the information is garnered from real people.
The two nuggets that most benefited me was 1) the finding that chronically overweight consistently have a sense of unfairness (that they can't eat whatever they want), and destructive thought patterns of self pity, "why me?", and black and white thinking ("I ate one cookie I might as well eat 20"; "I can't be a size 0, so I may as well stay fat"..etc), and 2) that 'craving tolerance' is a muscle that grows stronger with use. That was helpful and encouraging, and I think very true. You won't always feel out of control or like it's hopeless to try, if you hang in there.
The realization that the 'unfairness' thought is a real stumbling block to lasting weight loss was a real 'aha' for me, because I realized I frequently entertained the thought ''why me''!? regarding a very slow and thrifty metabolism. So just for that reason alone, it was worth it, because when I start that thought process now I know catch it in time before it can sabotage my efforts at moderation.
One thing I did NOT like was the constant use of the word 'diet' and 'dieter'. After all, if it's a lifestyle change, it is not a temporary 'diet'. Using this word repeatedly flies in the face of the author's central theme, in my opinion.
 Helpful in making a permanent change in eating October 30, 2009
Patricia M. Davis (Seattle)
Change from just dieting to thinking differently which is more likely to lead to permanent change
 Good motivation. September 13, 2009
healthy living (Mississippi)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a well thought out book. I have read 100s of books on weight loss. This one does take a different approach. I would recommend this book as another arsenal in the weight loss war.
The Beck diet Solution August 16, 2009
Rosemarie Jakubowski (Addision, IL)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book came in great shape. I would definitely purchase again from this seller.
It really really really helped me, more than any other "diet" or "plan" out there. July 30, 2009
Cedarwalla (Michigan)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I picked this book up from the library during a week I was totally going to become dead set on losing weight. I didn't have that much to lose, but 25lbs was a lot for me! I had steadily gained weight over 3 years after quitting smoking, taking bc pills, and plain ole gettin' older. I had pictures taken of me at some friend's BBQs and was cringing and begging my friends not to post them! The Beck Diet Solution book has helped me regain control and I'm 10 lbs lighter thanks to it.
My faves from the book:
Being hungry isnt an emergency (I've gone for a couple days w/out eating before, a couple hours is nothing! it is a craving, not hunger)
Stregnthen resistence muscle and NOT THE GIVE IN MUSCLE
Eat only sitting down (don't put stuff in your mouth in passing, nothing, no nothing!!!)
Figuring out the diff between a craving and hunger
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I wish my friends would read this book, but they think it is just another fad. But, its not.
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