The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person
The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person
This time, its going to be different.
This time, you are going to diet successfully, lose weight with confidence, and, most importantly, keep it off forever.
That's because The Beck Diet Solution is the first book that teaches dieters how to apply the proven benefits of Cognitive Therapy to dieting and weight loss: how to think differently, change your eating behavior, and lose weight permanently. In fact, Cognitive Therapy is the only psychological method shown to help dieters keep off excess weight once they lose it.
The Beck Diet Solution will change the way you think about eating and weight loss forever!
Written by world-expert Cognitive Therapist Dr. Judith S. Beck, The Beck Diet Solution is a remarkable six-week program that gives you all the tools you need to train your brain to think like a thin person. This breakthrough approach, which works in tandem with any nutritional diet plan shows you how to make the kinds of positive, long-term thinking and behavioral changes necessary to lose weight and to maintain your weight loss, not just for the short run but for the rest of your life!
Simply put: The Beck Diet Solution teaches you the skills you need to diet successfully and to keep the weight off permanently.
You will discover Dr. Beck's strategies for ensuring long-term weight loss based on over 20 years of successfully coaching dieters in her practice including ways to:
Learn to stick to any diet.
Make cravings go awayfast!
Resist tempting foods.
Deal with trigger eating situations.
Say, No, thank you, to food pushers.
Put an end to emotional eating.
Conquer every excuse to overeat.
Find time to exercise.
Lose weight and keep it off for a lifetime!
Give yourself the mental and emotional foundation you need to succeed with The Beck Diet Solution.
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This time, you are going to diet successfully, lose weight with confidence, and, most importantly, keep it off forever.
That's because The Beck Diet Solution is the first book that teaches dieters how to apply the proven benefits of Cognitive Therapy to dieting and weight loss: how to think differently, change your eating behavior, and lose weight permanently. In fact, Cognitive Therapy is the only psychological method shown to help dieters keep off excess weight once they lose it.
The Beck Diet Solution will change the way you think about eating and weight loss forever!
Written by world-expert Cognitive Therapist Dr. Judith S. Beck, The Beck Diet Solution is a remarkable six-week program that gives you all the tools you need to train your brain to think like a thin person. This breakthrough approach, which works in tandem with any nutritional diet plan shows you how to make the kinds of positive, long-term thinking and behavioral changes necessary to lose weight and to maintain your weight loss, not just for the short run but for the rest of your life!
Simply put: The Beck Diet Solution teaches you the skills you need to diet successfully and to keep the weight off permanently.
You will discover Dr. Beck's strategies for ensuring long-term weight loss based on over 20 years of successfully coaching dieters in her practice including ways to:
Learn to stick to any diet.
Make cravings go awayfast!
Resist tempting foods.
Deal with trigger eating situations.
Say, No, thank you, to food pushers.
Put an end to emotional eating.
Conquer every excuse to overeat.
Find time to exercise.
Lose weight and keep it off for a lifetime!
Give yourself the mental and emotional foundation you need to succeed with The Beck Diet Solution.
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Six to eight years ago, I stopped spending money on diet related products. Because nothing has worked for me. Maybe initially they seemed they were working, but it was just temporarily. I saw one diet book, while I was just browsing around on amazon, “you on a diet”, I thought I might wanna try that, thinking like “who knows maybe this is the thing for me”, so I bought it. Even though I spent lots of money on diet products, as a book, “you on a diet” was the first book for me on dieting. And, in couple of months I purchased some other diet books, hoping one would include the missing ingredient on those.
This book,Beck Diet Solution was just released, and was at the best sellers list. I read the description. It sounded very promising, but since, at that moment I already had couple of diet books which none of them really fit in to my problem, I was skeptical. For two weeks, everyday I read the reviews, trying to see if some of the reviews was gonna convince me. I finally got it, I am so glad I did. Because that was the kind of help I was looking for.It is tryin to solve my physchological problems about eating and it is triying to re-program my brain about food.
I knew myself, I can never count calories, I can never follow a menu plan written by some other people, I can never count my steps, I can never count carbohydrates, etc…etc… My diet should be without all these stuff. So that’s why this is the book for me.
She, the author asks you to make your eating plan, or if you want you can use any diet that already is out there. For me, I created my own eating plan.
Then, she just teaches you some skills which is the missing skills in people who struggle with weight and skills which all the thin people has. And these skills/behaviors are not difficult to adopt. All you need to do is just practice, practice and practice… until they are your habits. Everyday, for fourty two days, you keep learning one skill at a time, until you complete all of them in that given order. You may take your time if you need, as she suggests. For example I am in my 13th day, but it has been already 23 days since I had started. Some examples of the skills are, first day you write down the reasons you wanna get thin; third day, you learn and practice sitting down whenever you eat; fifth day, you start to practice to eat slowly, and so on. At the end of the program, you have all the equipment to think like a thin person, and to be a thin person. So far I have lost 6 pounds, and I feel like I will be able to follow my plan for a long time. She gives you that confidence. She sounds very sincere about the advice she gives. And she just takes you step by step through the journey and to the very end of the journey. With other diet books, I felt like I am just left somewhere with the tons of information I did not know what to do with, or maybe they just dictate you what to do, or sometimes have fun with your eating habits, and you feel insulted and hopeless. But in this book, BDS, I felt some love and caring about the people, she sounds like she truly wants you to lose weight.
By the way, I never write a review even though I enjoy reading them. That’s how happy I am, it made me write one:) I hope this review is helpful for the people who cannot decide whether to buy it or not.
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This book has great advice for developing the right attitude for weight loss. I am finding it very helpful in remotivating myself. The book consists of a short section of general info about the plan and then 6 weeks of day by day lessons. Everything that is in the book is in the workbook as well so I wound NOT purchase both. The workbook is probably the better buy because it is designed to write in and has preprinted “response cards” that tear out. If you are ready to commit to a weight loss plan, this is a great tool to keep you on track.
Another great motivational book is 100 Days of Weight Loss by Linda Spangle. I like Spangle’s book a little better but that may just be personal opinion.
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I am a medical student and have a bachelor’s degree in psychology. It is widely known in both medicine and psychology that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the most successful type of therapy intervention, which is why I decided to give this book a try to help myself with dieting.
Much has been made about the reasons people eat. I’ve heard obese people on TV say, “Food was my best friend,” or “I ate to fill a void.” This book does not focus on the emotionally-based underlying reasons for eating that may plague a minority of overweight people, but rather the more mundane reasons that most overweight people have for overeating – boredom, fear of hunger, cravings, etc.
The book provides very useful ways of countering overeating do to various causes. Dr. Beck asks the reader to change both sabotaging thoughts (the cognitive portion) and sabotaging behaviors, such as eating quickly and eating standing up (the behavioral portion).
The book provides a day to day guide with predetermined goals and homework assignments. You must be motivated and very willing to submit to following someone else’s advice. In addition, as the other reviewers have pointed out, the book does not give you specific advice for what to eat or to avoid. You must pick a separate diet to follow.
I am about half way through the book and I feel that it has definitely helped me to control my overeating. I tend to eat out of boredom in the evening. I lacked the willpower to deny myself the snacks that I knew I didn’t need. Now, I look at my advantage card (which is a list of reasons I want to lose weight) whenever I feel like snacking in the evening. The book also made me realize that I ate something right before I went to bed because I was afraid that I might be hungry later. I used this “fear of hunger” as an excuse for eating when I wasn’t actually hungry. As the author points out, food is almost always around, so it hardly ever makes sense to eat just to avoid getting hungry. The author really does a great job of examining the reasons why most people overeat and gives solutions for how to overcome those sabotaging thoughts by countering them with more rational, helpful thoughts.
I had been trying unsuccessfully to diet prior to starting this book. Now, since I got it 7 days ago, I have lost 2 pounds. I am recommending this book to my family and friends, and in the future I will recommend it to my patients.
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I have lost 90 pounds using the principles and techniques in this book. How can that be true when the book has been out for only one week? No tricks here – early in 2006 ( a year ago) I began a self-designed plan of eating right and exercising based on 2 things: 1. my many years of familiarity with every new diet and nutritional research discovery regarding weight loss; and 2. participation in a cognitive therapy-based group called DBT which teaches skills to increase emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, etc. A couple of months ago I started getting the Amazon plogs regarding Dr. Beck’s new book, and I enthusiastically pre-ordered. After almost a year of steady weight loss and working my way up to walking 3 miles a day (with Leslie Sansone DVDs)I had stalled out at minus 90 lbs, and need to lose about 30 more pounds. Receiving the book, I was amazed, because almost everything I did to motivate myself over the last 13 months was contained in this work. Of course, the principles are set forth much more methodically, professionally, and with more of a well-developed theoretical basis, than in my home-made plan, but every sentence in the Beck Diet rings with honesty, integrity, thoughtfulness, compassion and hope.
To be more specific, the book does not contain a “diet” and you are told to find a suitable nutritious food plan to follow, along with an exercise plan of your own. The strategies presented in the book do indeed ‘talk’ you through cognitive retraining techniques which change your thoughts about food and eating and hunger: identifying positive outcomes; ways to make a choice NOT to indulge; how to effectively deal with set-backs and limit the damage done; how to say no to friends /family who show love by sharing good food (I’m Italian; I know a LOT of them!)
Interestingly, in the first 2 weeks you don’t diet at all – this is time spent planning and strategizing to re-train your thoughts. This involves completing motivational cards where you write statements to counteract any sabotaging thoughts that will come up. I found the process to be so similar to the strategies I used when I was successful in meeting the inevitable temptation, so I know that it works “in action.”
On the 15th day you start your eating plan, and each day you have a checklist for reviewing the motivational materials (Advantage Cards, for example, list what YOU want to accomplish in losing weight.) Some of the basic concepts are to pre-plan for dangerous situations, acknowledge your accomplishments even if not perfect, and realize that resisting hunger and cravings is possible when you commit to using the skills Dr. Beck presents.
I have read many, many books both on weight loss and psychology, and this book is “the one” for me, and I hope for you. You have to be willing to think ahead about eating, hunger and cravings. You have to commit to following the techniques daily. If you do, this WILL WORK!!!!
I am going to be bold enough to add one additional technique that worked very well for me, and that is to “Redefine Your Treats.” I admitted to a friend one day that I am basically ‘treat-driven.’ That is, I feel deprived and inferior in some way if I can’t have a dessert, or eat a hearty portion of food. So I redefined treats – to me now it is buying bottled water; drinking Harry and David Tiramisu Coffee (no calories!!); playing Sudoku on the computer for 20 minutes. I feel like I’m indulging but it has nothing to do with actual food. So if you are “treat-driven” like me, try defining and then indulging in your own rewards.
Reading this book made me feel positive; it made me feel like I can make it happen to lose the remaining pounds; it made me admire and respect Dr. Beck for producing a non-judgmental, encouraging, ‘mindful’ book that is written in an engaging style. I recommend it with 90 stars and more to come.
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As a graduate student in psychology, I am very familiar with cognitive therapy strategies and particularly Aaron Beck’s (the author’s father, I believe) incredible contributions to the field. In application to the “Beck Diet Solution,” I have struggled with weight problems since I was 10– first obesity, then starvation, then obesity again, and all leading to painful binge-eating. Judith Beck’s “Solution” makes sense and is readable for anyone looking to become heathier– whether losing 5 lbs or 50 lbs. She does not advocate any weight-loss program, which was helpful because I have been familiar with Weight Watchers for years. I have been able to make cognitive changes– not simply behavioristic changes, such as “eating less, moving more.” This makes a long-term change more plausible.
I have shared this book with many people and feel as though it may be the only book of its kind.
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This book uses cognitive psychology to help you lose weight. Cognitive psychology is based on the concept that the way you think affects how you feel and what you do. Cognitive therapy, then, helps you identify your self-defeating thinking and helps you respond to it so you can feel better and behave in helpful ways. Instead of leading you step-by-step through a diet plan, this book addresses the psychology behind why you can’t get yourself to follow one and lose weight. In this book, you pick the diet (and an alternative as a back up), and the book helps you follow it.
The set-up of the book is a six-week plan. Week 1 is laying the groundwork, where you pick 2 diets. Week 2 is getting prepared to diet, Week 3 is starting the diet, Week 4 looks into responding to sabotaging thoughts, Week 5 is about overcoming challenges, such as staying in control when you go out to eat, and Week 6 is fine tuning things.
All-in-all, I’d have to say that its a great resource to address the psycholgical side of eating. There’s no magic to it, just a little looking inside yourself and addressing any barriers you have that may be holding you back. Readers may also benefit from Exercise Beats Depression as well.
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I lost 40 lbs over about 6 months and am now at my “ideal weight” (from size 14 to size 6) — something that I haven’t seen during my adult life (I’m turning 50 this year). The book revealed the simple truth that my problem was not really WHAT I ate or even WHY I ate, but HOW I ate, which of course links to the others but is something you can systematically control. Seemingly simple changes in behavior (do not eat standing up) had both huge direct benefits and also made me realize how much control I have over my own behavior. Interestingly, in addition to dealing PERMANENTLY with eating and exercise issues, I’ve figured out how to apply the Cognitive Behavior Therapy approach to other problems in my life, to good effect. Very powerful stuff. (Of note: I got the audiobook version, and I think that was helpful in really “implanting” the voice of reason into my head, plus I can get a “refresher” easily when I’m driving to work or even out to dinner!!)
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This book was so great, I bought another copy for my daughter. It’s really more about making good habits, & not a “diet” book. It doesn’t tell you what to eat, or when to eat, but rather helps you follow any diet of your choosing. I have followed the advice in the book & am on my way to a desirable weight, and am even using some of these methods to improve other areas of my life. I highly recommend this book if you are really ready to drop the excess weight.
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After 30 years of yo-yo dieting, laxative and diet pill addiction, and bulimia, I lost 50 pounds in 1999 and have kept them off (along with an additional 10) ever since.
This book contains the key ideas that enabled me to keep the weight off after so many unsuccessful previous attempts.
1. You have to accept that you will need to make permanent and significant changes in your eating habits. You can’t “diet” and then go back to your old way of eating.
2. There are very few “naturally thin” people, especially over the age of 35 or 40. People who didn’t know me 10 years ago think I’m “naturally thin” but, in reality, I am vigilant in restraining my eating and exercising vigorously.
3. Eating smaller, healthier portions and resisting snack food and fast food really DOES become easier over time. Once you establish habits of avoiding mindless and/or emotional eating, weight maintenance becomes almost second nature. In addition, if you do put on a few pounds, you will have the confidence that you can easily get them off by refocusing on those behaviors.
4. Losing weight is absolutely worth all the effort. Beck lists 27 advantages to losing weight … and I have experienced every one of them.
Although I didn’t have this book to help me lose weight or maintain my weight loss, reading it has helped me to put into concrete terms the mindset that I have developed during these last eight years. People often ask me what the “secret” to weight control is … and I think this book has really defined it. It’s not the diet … it’s the thoughts and habits that you must establish and maintain for the rest of your life.
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I’ve been dieting on and off for years…losing weight and then regaining it– plus some extra with every attempt. I was about to give up when I found the Beck solution just last week….
I’ve read the entire book already—it really hit a home run for me.
I never thought of my excuse for regaining weight as being “it isn’t fair if I can’t eat the foods that I want to eat”…but I got a good kick in the pants by Dr. Beck when she says that life’s not fair….even in the world of dieting! Finally….something that I can grasp as to why I continue to diet and regain weight!
Life’s not fair in fact….I already knew that tidbit…but never applied it to my dieting struggles. Now I feel a certain freedom….life is not fair…but I can accept that and now move on. Hopefully with a new, thinner body!!
If you are tired of gimmicks and of being told that extreme dieting works…give this book a chance. It will clearly change the way you think about dieting and about life in general.
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You may not get overly excited when you read this book in the beginning, but if you really do what the author says, it starts to stick in your brain. Writing things down and reading them a couple of times a day may not sound thrilling, but for me, it really seems to have helped. The thoughts get embedded in your mind. They are just reminders to yourself, as to WHY you want to lose weight and WHY you must stop feeling sorry for yourself etc.
I find myself preaching to my friends who are trying to lose weight, and recommended the book to someone. You really have to be serious about wanting to lose, then I think you will have the patience to try what the author suggests. It’s really not that hard.
I’ve lost a few pounds so far and I think I have a more positive attitude after reading this book.