The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person

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Dr. Beck is an expert in cognitive therapy. She helps people change the way they think. The book puts the process in perspective. It is not step by step, but prepares you to implement the program with the help of the workbook. It isn't about what you eat so much as it is about what you think and say to yourself. One of the main ingredients in her program is an accountability interview built in to your program. I highly recommend this program.

I have read alot of diet books in my life but this book is the best ever. It teaches you to thank yourself for saying no to something and then saying its ok if you did eat ice cream but correct the problem so the rest of the day is not full of more mistakes. You take it day by day which for me is cool.

It is very organized, helpful and full of common sense and solutions to diet pitfalls. Used with the workbook, I found it quite helpful.

These books are really usefull. I have been doing it for 2 weeks and lost 4 pounds allready. I highly recommend these books to anyone.

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.