The Beck Diet Solution - 9780848731731

Any sensible diet will help you lose weight, but the challenge for 90% of Americas 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 us 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. Dieters learn the rationale for instituting healthy eating habits, and they learn how to respond to sabotaging thoughts that try to convince them it's okay not to use these habits consistently. They practice these skills over and over again, aided by a daily to-do list.

- Easy-to-use tools are found throughout the program, including hunger monitoring scales, daily planning schedules, weight-loss graphs, and motivational cards for handling time/energy hurdles, eating out, and other high-risk situations.