I didn't realize just how important it is to prepare yourself for weight loss until I came across a latest read by Judith S. Beck entitled, "The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain To Think Like A Thin Person".
Before I give you a brief synopsis of the book, I should start off by stating that The Beck Diet Solution isn't really a diet as most would think in the traditional sense of the term. Rather this book offers a breakthrough six-week plan to help you lose weight by changing the way you think about weight loss. And in changing the way you think about weight loss, it means throwing out every contradicting thought and behaviour you've ever learned about weight loss, and addressing and preventing the self-sabotaging behaviors that often stand in the way of you achieving permanent and long-lasting success.
By using Cognitive Therapeutic techniques, Beck offers a series of daily exercises to help readers not only change their eating behaviors and thoughts, but prepare themselves for weight loss, by adopting the necessary tools to guide them through-out the weight loss process. As new tasks are introduced with each day, readers are equipped with the psychological skills to deal with the challenges often associated with weight loss such as emotional eating, hunger and cravings, overeating, self defeating thoughts, and a lack of self-confidence, among others.
About half-way into the book myself, if you think that you can quickly skim through the book and randomly choose what appeals to you-think again. This book takes time and patience and requires you to work through each of the exercises provided as they're presented each day. I understand that this book may not be for everyone, but if you really want to successfully lose weight and keep it off, I agree with Beck in that it all starts with your current state of mind and until you shift your thinking around weight loss, nothing you do will lead to long term permanent success.
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