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The secret to lasting weight loss has less to do with what you eat, but why you eat it. What are your emotional triggers and ingrained habits that are hindering your dieting efforts?
List of contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I: The Essentials of Weight Mastery 7
Chapter 1—What You Need to Know About Weight Mastery 9
Chapter 2—Why It Is So Hard to Just Say No! 28
Chapter 3—Why You Crave Food, and What You Can Do About It 40
Part II: The Path to Weight Mastery 59
Chapter 4—Getting Tough with Your Impulses and Cravings 61
Chapter 5—Adopting the Food Journal Advantage 76
Chapter 6—Cultivating a Resilient Attitude 89
Part III: Three Crucial Steps Toward Weight Mastery 107
Chapter 7—The Self-Talk Approach to Dismantling Stubborn Habits 109
Chapter 8—Step One: Separate Facts from Fictions 119
Chapter 9—Step Two: Say No! to Ruminative Thoughts 137
Chapter 10—Step Three: Let Go and Self-Trust 153
Part IV: Lifelong Success with Weight Mastery 169
Chapter 11—Liberate Yourself from Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Sabotage 171
Chapter 12—Food Addiction or Compulsion: Where Do You Stand? 189
Chapter 13—Beyond Weight Loss: Achieving Lifelong Weight Mastery 204
Index 223
About the author
JOSEPH J. LUCIANI, PH.D., is a practicing clinical psychologist and author of the internationally bestselling Self-Coaching and The Power of Self-Coaching. An in-demand speaker and expert, Dr. Luciani is featured frequently in major media, including MSNBC, CNBC, Hallmark Channel, Discovery Channel, NPR, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Fitness, Health, Shape, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Summary
Renowned psychologist Joseph J. Luciani dives into the root causes of overeating and reveals that lose weight and keep it off, you have to retrain your brain.
The research is in: The next fad diet will not work! Of the millions of people every day battling temptation and trying to drop unwanted pounds, only a small percentage are successful. And of those, a whopping 80 percent quickly pack the weight back on! So what went wrong? The answer won’t be found in whatever the next new diet is. The answer to lasting weight loss can only be found from within.
Combining insight and inspiration with powerful cognitive tools, Thin from Within enables you to:
- Embrace change
- Strengthen your self-discipline
- Resist the lure of comfort foods
- Free yourself from destructive thinking
- Replace even the most stubborn bad habits with positive ones
- Learn from setbacks
Complete with simple self-coaching techniques proven to control cravings and break the cycle of self-sabotage,
Thin from Within puts the decision in your hands. Will you try yet another fad diet and fail--or deal with the root problem within and find a permanent solution?
