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The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace
Price:$4.95
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Rodale Books |
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Product Description
The Bestselling Author of Finding Your Own North Star Reveals How to Change the Way You Eat, Four Days at a Time Everyone knows how to lose weight: eat less, move more. But so many dieters who know what to do still don't do what they know. Why not? Because they don't understand the brain-body dynamics of weight loss. Now, cutting-edge research has revealed that millions of dieters following typical weight loss programs are actually programming themselves to get fatter. In The Four-Day Win, Harvard-trained Oprah Magazine columnist Martha Beck, Ph.D., reverses this trend and teaches dieters to get lean from the brain outward. The Four-Day Win tells how to reverse the brain-body programming that makes you fat, so you can create a new, leaner and healthier body . . . for good. As empathetic and funny as she is informative, Martha Beck observes that: - Traditional dieting relies on the ability to go numb or to override physical and emotional feelings.
- Overeating is a self-calming compulsion similar to OCD -- dieters turn to food (and lots of it) when they're deprived of comfort.
- Overweight people can reverse the brain-body programming that is making them fat. Instead of attacking their bodies, they can learn to support them.
Dr. Beck helps you to think thin and end your compulsion to overeat, and includes a Jump-Start weight-loss program that will help you shed pounds in the best way, both psychologically and physically. An inspiring and enlightening challenge to everything you think you know about losing weight, The Four-Day Win provides you with an easy and fail-proof way to change your life. |
Customers Reviews
2008-08-08
Nice book!
It is a well written book that combines tongue in cheek humor with common sense to help anyone lose weight. The steps are easy and although sometimes silly, the author acknowledges the silliness. The amazing thing is that it works!!
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2008-07-28
Interesting book!
I think this book has some wonderful ideas about re-wiring your brain to eat better and not be consumed by poor eating habits. I highly recommend!
Be aware, this is not a diet, this is a book on behavior modification so that the diet you choose has a fighting chance of working :) In this respect, I think it is great for anyone to read who has bad habits since the skills outlined in the book could be used for anything you do that you'd like to change.
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2008-07-22
Martha Beck wins again
Truly a tool of invoking personal change and transformation.
NOT 'Another Diet Book'.
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2008-07-18
Dalai Lama isn't this funny
Took Martha Beck's Four Day Win to a week-long writer's conference on the coast. After two days, I was getting so much from the book I ditched the conference and took to the beach. For five days I read and wrote and listened to the seagulls. The exercises in the book were easy, and her sly writing made me laugh out loud every paragraph or two. (Rather like a sunburned crazy bag-lady.) Came out of the week stepping light, feeling free, and writing like crazy.
I recommend everyone take Martha Beck on vacation (if even to the coffee shop). You will have fun, find peace, and come back a lighter person.
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2008-07-15
INSIGHTFUL and a Good Book even if you're not wanting to lose weight.
There are philosophical quotes in here that are put into new perspective. The concept of creating your own paradise to feel free from stress and the desire to self destruct is explained amazingly. She uses a metaphor of a scientific experiment that I quote to anyone who is feeling that their day to day life is like running on a hamster wheel. If we can create a section of our day, our home, our life that stirs the emotions from inner self, we can truly feel free. I was inspired and awakened by this book.
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Find Out About The Dangers Associated With Dieting Dieting should have sensible basis otherwise it may do nothing but undermine and ruin your health. There are some dangers associated with dieting.
Danger 1 - on my own
The habit always to rely upon oneself is not the appropriate tactics in dieting. Fattiness like any other diseases should be treated under the strict doctor’s control. Every one is unique and needs certain and specific approach. Someone may be stout but have a good health someone may have few “extra kilos” which will intermix with serious diseases. So you should be completely aware of your current state. Work, life style, surroundings, living conditions and even climate should be taken in account when choosing a diet.
Danger 2 - on the buckwheat
There are several dieting myths: you should eat meat, you should eat once or twice a day, it’s useful to eat only buckwheat or apple pines for example. Each product is wholesome for sure but only in the combination with other useful products. And if you decided to keep to a “one-side” diet you merely deprive yourself of necessary and vital elements.
The greatest problems may cause incredible protein decrease, especially animal protein which can not be substituted by soy or legumes protein. Animal protein is the base for ferments and hormones production. In case you reduce protein consumption the reproductive function gets worse and the blood formula changes.
Another danger is the lack of calcium which we usually get of the diary products. This element is absolutely necessary especially for the young organism which bones are still in the process of formation.
The variety of food is the main point of the right diet. Remember you may eat everything but with the sense of measure. Fish, vegetables and fruits are irreplaceable products and should “find place” in your diet however.
Danger 3 – only diet
If you really want to loose weight and not to regain it you’d better thing about dieting and physical loading as separate things but work out the plan of healthy life style. It may include the food we eat, the way we spend our free time, sleep and whatever. The main tendency today is square meals and minimum of physical exercise. The quantity of energy we receive should not exceed the quantity we consume.
The simplest recommendations are to eat divisionally – every 3 or 4 hours in little quantities, not to eat before going to bed.
Danger 4- food is my best friend
The other stumbling block is to compensate stress depression by eating sweets and chocolates. Some times in such situations a person may eat even when he is not hungry.
Remember everything is in your own hands. |
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