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Thin from within : the powerful self-coaching program for permanent weight loss / Joseph J. Luciani, Ph.D.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : AMACOM/American Management Association, 2016Description: x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780814436783 (pbk.)
  • 0814436781 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Part I: The Essentials of Weight Mastery -- Chapter 1. What You Need to Know About Weight Mastery -- Chapter 2. Why It Is So Hard to Just Say No! -- Chapter 3. Why You Crave Food, and What You Can Do About It -- Part II: The Path to Weight Mastery -- Chapter 4. Getting Tough with Your Impulses and Cravings -- Chapter 5. Adopting the Food Journal Advantage -- Chapter 6. Cultivating a Resilient Attitude -- Part III: Three Crucial Steps Toward Weight Mastery -- Chapter 7. The Self-Talk Approach to Dismantling Stubborn Habits -- Chapter 8. Step One: Separate Facts from Fictions -- Chapter 9. Step Two: Say No! to Ruminative Thoughts -- Chapter 10. Step Three: Let Go and Self-Trust -- Part IV: Lifelong Success with Weight Mastery -- Chapter 11. Liberate Yourself from Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Sabotage -- Chapter 12. Food Addiction or Compulsion: Where Do You Stand? -- Chapter 13. Beyond Weight Loss: Achieving Lifelong Weight Mastery.
Summary: "Tired of your weight swinging up and down? Do you find it difficult to stick to a diet? You're not alone. Every day, millions of people battle temptation as they try to drop unwanted pounds. For those who succeed, a whopping 80 percent quickly pack the weight back on. "Thin from Within" delves into the root causes and reveals that diets alone--whether counting calories or controlling carbs--don't work. Why? Because lasting results have less to do with what you eat, and everything to do with why you eat it. To lose weight and keep it off, you've got to retrain your brain. Renowned psychologist Joseph J. Luciani explores the emotional triggers and ingrained habits driving overindulgence--and shares simple self-coaching techniques proven to control cravings and break the cycle of self-sabotage. Once mastered, these strategies turn healthy eating into an effortless process. Combining insight and inspiration with powerful cognitive tools, this remarkable guide 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 - Develop resilience and confidence - Learn from setbacks - Fight food addictions - And more It's up to you. You can try yet another fad diet and fail--or read "Thin from Within" and finally find your permanent weight loss solution."--Publisher's website.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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?

Includes index.

Part I: The Essentials of Weight Mastery -- Chapter 1. What You Need to Know About Weight Mastery -- Chapter 2. Why It Is So Hard to Just Say No! -- Chapter 3. Why You Crave Food, and What You Can Do About It -- Part II: The Path to Weight Mastery -- Chapter 4. Getting Tough with Your Impulses and Cravings -- Chapter 5. Adopting the Food Journal Advantage -- Chapter 6. Cultivating a Resilient Attitude -- Part III: Three Crucial Steps Toward Weight Mastery -- Chapter 7. The Self-Talk Approach to Dismantling Stubborn Habits -- Chapter 8. Step One: Separate Facts from Fictions -- Chapter 9. Step Two: Say No! to Ruminative Thoughts -- Chapter 10. Step Three: Let Go and Self-Trust -- Part IV: Lifelong Success with Weight Mastery -- Chapter 11. Liberate Yourself from Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Sabotage -- Chapter 12. Food Addiction or Compulsion: Where Do You Stand? -- Chapter 13. Beyond Weight Loss: Achieving Lifelong Weight Mastery.

"Tired of your weight swinging up and down? Do you find it difficult to stick to a diet? You're not alone. Every day, millions of people battle temptation as they try to drop unwanted pounds. For those who succeed, a whopping 80 percent quickly pack the weight back on. "Thin from Within" delves into the root causes and reveals that diets alone--whether counting calories or controlling carbs--don't work. Why? Because lasting results have less to do with what you eat, and everything to do with why you eat it. To lose weight and keep it off, you've got to retrain your brain. Renowned psychologist Joseph J. Luciani explores the emotional triggers and ingrained habits driving overindulgence--and shares simple self-coaching techniques proven to control cravings and break the cycle of self-sabotage. Once mastered, these strategies turn healthy eating into an effortless process. Combining insight and inspiration with powerful cognitive tools, this remarkable guide 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 - Develop resilience and confidence - Learn from setbacks - Fight food addictions - And more It's up to you. You can try yet another fad diet and fail--or read "Thin from Within" and finally find your permanent weight loss solution."--Publisher's website.

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