Short description
CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WEIGHT is a no-nonsense, unique approach to normalizing your weight. Rather than promoting any particular diet or exercise regime, this book focuses on the powerful role of the mind. The most critical key to losing weight and keeping it off lies in the way you think, and above all in what you tell yourself when you mess up. Reacting negatively to weight-loss setbacks leads to a state of psychological helplessness - a kind of mental inertia that leads to anxiety and depression and sabotages your efforts to lost weight. Learning to react to setbacks with rational optimism - remaing positive while maintaining a strong foothold in reality - lays the foundation for success. When you prove to yourself that setbacks are just temporary and surmountable, they lost the power to unravel you. There is somethng that you can do about that ugly weight. CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WEIGHT tells you how. Psychologist Dr Mautner presents real-life examples, exercises, self-quizzes, and mini homework lessons to help you change from a negative to a positive and more realistic mindset. Approaching life's challenges with a positive frame of mind is correlated with better health, longevity, lower levels of depression, and greater likelihood of achieving one's goals. CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WEIGHT empowers you by showing how to abandon victim mentality and regain control of their emotions-and their weight. It shows how to argue with emotionally charged, irrational self-judgments. Offers specific techniques to help to avoid falling into the same patterns in the face the next difficult situation. "...A well written, exceptionally clear book that will help many people with their weight reduction problems...." - Albert Ellis, Ph.D., Author of A GUIDE TO RATIONAL LIVING "...offers a sensible plan of action for combating the battle fo he bulge . . an excellent job . . acts as your own personal weight-loss coach..." - Brad Schoenfeld, author of LOOK GREAT NAKES, and SCULPTING HER BODY PERFECT.
Long description
CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WEIGHT is a no-nonsense, unique approach to normalizing your weight. Rather than promoting any particular diet or exercise regime, this book focuses on the powerful role of the mind. The most critical key to losing weight and keeping it off lies in the way you think, and above all in what you tell yourself when you mess up. Reacting negatively to weight-loss setbacks leads to a state of psychological helplessness - a kind of mental inertia that leads to anxiety and depression and sabotages your efforts to lost weight. Learning to react to setbacks with rational optimism - remaing positive while maintaining a strong foothold in reality - lays the foundation for success. When you prove to yourself that setbacks are just temporary and surmountable, they lost the power to unravel you. There is somethng that you can do about that ugly weight. CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WEIGHT tells you how. Psychologist Dr Mautner presents real-life examples, exercises, self-quizzes, and mini homework lessons to help you change from a negative to a positive and more realistic mindset. Approaching life's challenges with a positive frame of mind is correlated with better health, longevity, lower levels of depression, and greater likelihood of achieving one's goals. CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WEIGHT empowers you by showing how to abandon victim mentality and regain control of their emotions-and their weight. It shows how to argue with emotionally charged, irrational self-judgments. Offers specific techniques to help to avoid falling into the same patterns in the face the next difficult situation. .,. A well written, exceptionally clear book that will help many people withtheir weight reduction problems.... - Albert Ellis, Ph.D., Author of A GUIDE TO RATIONAL LIVING .,. offers a sensible plan of action for combating the battle fo he bulge . . an excellent job . . acts as your own personal weight-loss coach... - Brad Schoenfeld, author of LOOK GREAT NAKES, and SCULPTING HER BODY PERFECT.