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Can you lose weight before you value your body? Are big goals needed to achieve big results? Do you deserve to go it alone because you got yourself into this? Is it possible for a weight loss journey to avoid setbacks? Must gratitude and happiness wait until you've succeeded at your wellness goal?
No. To all of it.
Dr. Foster's 7 Mindset Shifts show you how-and why-to treat yourself in a way that feels better
and primes you for likelier success. His argument and the techniques in each chapter, built on years of research and breakthroughs in cognitive behavioral therapy and positive psychology, can lead to results on the scale-but, more important, in your own thinking.
The Shift flips old-fashioned weight-loss theory on its head. It's evidence-based motivation-and it really works!
The 7 Mindset Shifts include learning to enhance the traits you like best about yourself, leaning into your strengths, appreciating the power of small steps, finding your people, and truly relaxing into happiness and gratitude. "Diet thinking" isn't habit-forming; mindset thinking is. And muscular yet kind mental habits, like the ones found in
The Shift, are key to permanent, positive change.
List of contents
NOTE TO READERS
INTRODUCTION: I'll Lose Weight By Changing
the Way I Eat Think
Shifting Your Mindset
MINDSET SHIFT 1: I Must Be Tough on Kind to Myself to Lose Weight
Embracing Self- Compassion
MINDSET SHIFT 2: I See Setbacks As Proof I've Blown It Opportunities to Refocus
Building Helpful Thinking Styles
MINDSET SHIFT 3: I Should Take Big Small Steps for Big Results
Setting Goals and Forming Habits
MINDSET SHIFT 4: I Need to Fix My Weaknesses Enhance My Best Traits
Leaning into Your Strengths
MINDSET SHIFT 5: I Have to Hate Appreciate My Body to Lose Weight
Valuing Your Body
MINDSET SHIFT 6: I Deserve to Go It Alone Get the Support I Need
Finding Your People
MINDSET SHIFT 7: I Can Feel Good Once I've Lost Weight Now
Experiencing Happiness and Gratitude
About the author
Gary Foster, Ph.D., is the Chief Scientific Officer at WW (formerly Weight Watchers International). He is the founder and former director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University, and he served as clinical director of the Weight and Eating Disorders Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is the author of numerous scientific publications on the psychology, causes, and treatment of obesity and has worked with thousands of people in group and individual settings. He lives in Philadelphia.
Summary
From the newly-rebranded WW, The Shift is not about points, or what to eat or not eat. It’s about building new thinking habits, proven through science, to help readers lose weight.
