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Summary: My Favorite Key
Review: Although I think that all of the keys are very significant and help you in different ways, my favorite is Key 4: Mastery Over Food and Impulse Eating. This one held the most significance for me- as an emotional eater.
This chapter explains the "quick fix"or "immediate payoff" you experience when you eat and eat and eat, or you go on fad diets, or you starve yourself. they give you immediate control and satisfaction about yourself- they are your reward to yourself. So why stop when what you are doing is making you happy on some level. It goes on to show you how negative thoughts about what you look like and about who you are inside are instigating your need to "reward" yourself in these negative ways. You have to change those negative images of yourself and begin to see the ultimate negative that could be turned into a positive by turning around your reward system. Food (or lack) is not a healthy reward, but going out with friends, driving around with your windows rolled down and the music blaring, or even allowing yourself an hour of freetime every day to do something fun are all healthy rewards that you can do easily.
I really thought this one was the one that spoke the most to the way I live. This book has keys that will help everyone I think.
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Summary: Well Done!
Review: By jove I think he's got it. this is really quite good. I was not sure what to expect. I really liked Dr. Phil's The Ultimate Weight Solution and thought that it was a great idea when his son quickly followed with one about teen's obsession with weight. Jay explains how the pressures and changes that are part and parcel to getting older take their toll on the teenage body. Fat piles on much quicker, or maybe for the first time, during your teeanage years.
I bought this book with my daughter in mind and I am really happy with the results that I am already seeing. She has been reading it for a few days and she said that she agrees with a lot of what he says. I think it was a great idea to approach this very touchy subject with a young voice like Jay's.
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Summary: IN MY OWN WORDS ABOUT THIS BOOK
Review: i a got this book for x-mas, my mom got it for me. i was not really happy about it at 1st in till i stared to read it. i thought my mom was like saying i fat or something. But we sat and talk about it and she said she got it because that one night i was crying because i did not look pretty then all the other girl like my best friend heidi. also when i went to the mall the girls all around me were pretty(NOT ALL!!!)and i felt really i mean really upset. so my mom help by buying this book for me. this book has toally change my life and about my body images. he is a very good writer and he his taking after his father who is every good. i am starting to write my own book about how i look and all the people around me and also how the book help. my book is call me,my self,and i.i fell way better about my self and i take this book every were. for all you people who are like me get this book and read it. it help me and now it is your turn to help yourself.
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Summary: Awesome Book! Really Helpful!
Review: I am 12 years old and 35 pounds overweight. I got this book about 2 months ago. It had alot of great ideas that really worked. I put this book to the test and in the past month i've lost 10 pounds. I reccomend this to teens(or preteens) who have tryed to lose weight with other diets and had no success. Overall, I think this is a wonderful and really helpful book.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: I bought this book based on the reviews at amazon. So i want to help everyone else that is thinking about buying this book. Its a good book butsome of the things i have heard before. There were a few new tricks that were helpful. I like how he relates to you so you get the sense that he really knows what hes talking about; hes been there. He is a really good writer. I like the easy approch he took and its not like reading a text book. Its simple to follow. but the first 40 pages were boring it talked about healing feelings or something like that. The intro and the first 2 keys are the same thing just repeated. But once it gets into keys 4,5,and 6 it gets really good and helpful. The begining was boring for me because Im not an emotional eater i just like food. but he gets into that later in the book so if your still awake after the first 3 chapters then the book is really good. Over all i would recommend this for any teen but have a pillow handy for the first few chapters.
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Summary: A Really Great Book!
Review: I bought this book for my daughter last week, but instead of giving it straight to her I gave it to her older sister to read over the holidays. Tennagers are a bit hard to gage and I wanted to make sure that this book would not lead her into the wrong impression of what it means for her health to be an overweight teen.
My eldest daughter came back with a raving review of the book. She said that it was not solely or even mostly about how to lose weight but more closely relating the problems that arise from an obsession with weight furing your teen years. The book acts as a rational for why the focus on weight and looking good needs to be turned to thinking about staying healthy and away from the eating disorders that plague teenagers.
It gives teeangers a way to see their way out of unhealthy eating choices. I suggest this book for every teen with a weight problem, whether it is obseity or an eating disorder of any kind.
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Summary: Solid book about Teen Weight Issues
Review: I wouldn't exactly call this a diet book. It is more of a solution to unhealthy eating habits that teens get sucked into. There is a dedicated interest in disorders such as bulimia and anorexia that are very informative. Testimonials bring these sections back down to the audience level and allow teens to read what other have or are going through as they struggle with body image. Body image, not being overweight, is the more precisely what this book is about. Most diet books overlook the fact that being overweight is not the only unhealthy daily diet choice. I loke that this book is not title "the ultimate weight (loss) solution because it is so much more than about getting to a healthy weight once you are already overweight. Both teens that are overweight and those with serious eating disorders must struggle daily with something that comes down to peer pressure, societies perfect body image and a warped view of ones outer beauty. I think that Jay McGraw offers insight into a very solid solution for all of these problems by suggesting behavioral changes that will effect every part of a teens life. Everything from how a teen should look at food to how to see ones true self is explained in detail. there is also the fact the Jay, like his dad Phil McGraw, does not hold back and cuddle the reader. The language is of course geared toward teenager but it does not baby them. Jay tells them what they HAVE TO DO in a no nonsense that I think is what teenagers need to hear sometimes. They are not children and do not appreciate being treated like ones. On the whole, I thought the book was very impressive.
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Summary: Great entry point
Review: If you're just beginning the road to weight loss, this is a great guide to get you started. It's conversational, and has a safe approach to weight loss.
If you need extra encouragement and are interested in a book that also contains info on the spiritual side of weight loss, then try Lose It For Life for Teens. It's packed with new research that will surprise you, and it's a fast, fun read.
Ginger Garrett, Author:
Lose It for Life for Teens
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Summary: Follows in the tradition of great father-son writers
Review: Illya Tolstoy established an impressive writing career apart from his father. And Brian Herbert successfully continued the Dune series after his father passed on. And Andre Dubus III made his father proud with House of Sand and Fog. And now, Dr. Jay McGraw continues the grand tradition. Dr. Phil has obviously trained his son well in the family business. Like his dad, Jay writes with the wisdom and folksy down-home style reminiscent of Mark Twain or Will Rogers. And also like his dad, Jay also has a failrly serious weight problem himself, as is very apparent from the cover photo. But as the elder McGraw is fond of saying, "Yern dont have to be a cow, to tell bubba how eggs is made." Jay takes his dad's tried and true formula, and tailors it to sell to the nations teens. His emphasis on keeping a positive self-image, sprinkled with bits of discipline, proper diet and excercise may be considered a radical approach to weight loss. But it is a message that must be heard by today's youth.
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Summary: All the right stuff!
Review: Key One: Right Thinking
Success from the Inside. Teaches you how to understand the myth of willpower, getting real about the media, and how to change your body image by changing the way you think. Key Two: Healing Feelings
The end of eating emotionally, purging, or doing other unhealthy things to your body. This one helps you to understand your feelings, why they happen, and how to eventually control in a way that will not have you focusing on food. Key Three: A No-Fail Environment
Cruise control for getting Fit. How to make the right choices about where you are and how you live that will help you to stay away from temptation. Example: Don't work in an ice cream shop or a fast food restaurant. Key Four: Mastery Over Food and Impulse Eating
Get it together: no more bad food habits. How to gain control over the eating habits that have lately been controlling you and your weight. Key Five: Jay's Portion Power Plan
Warning: This is no-diet territory How to become a former sugar-addict, how to down-size instead of super-size, and how to recognize your satisfaction level and stop eating. Key Six: Intentional Exercise
The fun factor in fitness How to get in shape with exercise that is fun. Yes, this takes work but it does not have to be a chore. Taking up a sport, going dancing with friends, or walking to your friends house instead of driving are all fun, good ways to exercise and have a good time while you are doing it. They are intentional practices that can be habitual to the point that they don't "feel" like you are doing exercise. Key Seven: Your Circle of Support
Friends are for helping- and keeping you accountable. This is a part of the environment that you have to set up around you to make sure that you do not fall back into bad habits. The support group that you choose will keep you on track (accountable for your choices) and will lend you the type of love and comfort that you will need to understand how important this is not only to the way you look, but to the way you look at the world. Let your true self shine with the 7 Keys of Weight Freedom.
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