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Summary: Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Finally a book that is written in every day language that nonprofessional people can understand. After struggling with my weight for about 10 years now, it was refreshing to read a book that MAKES SENSE! While some of the excercises are not easy, just keep with it and you too will begin to understand why you over-eat. I am not saying that I agree with all of the Wilbert's reason, but they made me look deep inside myself. (And you know, it is much easier to pass by those cookies that they have at business meetings because I now believe in me. I can do it, I can overcome.) I have combined the book with a comercial lifesytle and use elements of each to help me loose weight. I am truley grateful for the Wilbert's for writing this book.
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Summary: Now it all makes sense!
Review: Have you been struggling to lose weight for a long time? Do you feel like you have it all together when suddenly you begin to sabotage yourself all over again? Do you lose and gain back the same 5 pounds over and over again? If this sounds like you, then Fattitudes may be the one diet book you need to read. Let's face it, there are literally hundreds of diet programs and books out there and most of them are effective IF you follow them. But for so many of us, dieting just doesn't work because we learn to defeat ourselves over and over again. Fattitudes doesn't tell you what to eat and how much. Instead it tells you to think about why we eat and to examine the reasons we overeat and defeat ourselves again and again. There are many exercises to do in the book, and all are thought provoking and beneficial. Before you change your body, you have to change your mind first. So I would recommend that before you buy any new diet book, Atkins, Body for Life, Sugar Busters, the Zone whichever you choose, buy this one first because it will help you to succeed.
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Summary: Claims to break new ground but feels like going in circles
Review: I checked this book out of the library last summer, and while it offers a certain sort sympathy for the plight of the overweight, it really ends up at the same bottom line most eating/diet books do: Shape up and be thin like all the normal people, fatty! Parts of the book were interesting, especially when they identified that fat people who've been picked on by loved ones may not (subconsciously) want to lose weight, specifically to keep from giving their tormentors the thing that would make them happy: you don't want to reward the people who hurt you. It's a rare insight for books of this ilk. But the advice near the end of the book for keeping yourself motivated to stay on your diet contained a typical number from Self-Loathing 101: buy a great outfit in a smaller size and keep it in your closet so you'll have something to look forward to wearing. Riiiiight. Because you don't deserve to wear anything you look good in now--oh wait, you couldn't POSSIBLY look good in anything now, you big fat ugly disgusting pig. They don't come out and say this and probably aren't even consciously thinking it, but they don't need to; the desperation inherent in such an act outlines this attitude already. And a visit to the Wilberts' website reveals that they think weight-loss surgery is, in fact, a viable option--IF you have a capable surgeon and know what you're doing and have already overcome all your emotional eating issues. Oh, OK. Emotionally healthy people are very prone to having their entire digestive tracts rerouted, I hear; but personally I'm one of those unstable nutjobs who wouldn't let a doctor near my small intestine for anything stronger than a firm handshake, no matter how big the rest of me gets. (And for the record, the rest of me is quite substantial.) If you want something that will help you deal with emotional eating issues, I suggest Geneen Roth's "Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating" or "When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies" by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter, both of which are intensely sympathetic and neither of which have, even faintly, the admonition to lose weight and be like all the pretty people that hangs over this book like a rancid Slim Fast miasma.
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Summary: Lost 23 pounds in 3 weeks!!!!
Review: I have tried just about every fad diet there is. The Adkins diet actually put me in the hospital. I have been trying to loose weight for 10+ years. THIS BOOK pointed out some things to me that may seem blatently obvious, and yet, I had *NO* idea that I was causing myself to stay fat!! This is the last weight loss product that I will ever have to buy. I have to go get a new wardrobe now because all my clothes are too big!
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Summary: Inspiration & Motivation
Review: Right into the book one of the authors (Norean) talks about the necessity of getting out of our own way in the battle to lose weight. She had my attention from that moment on. Most of us know how to lose weight, it's our attitudes that need adjusting. This book is easy to read, with helpful information on every page. I read it with a Magic Marker in my hand, marking passages to read again. It was pretty well marked up by the time I finished the book. AND, it's got to be the FIRST weight loss book I've ever read cover to cover. I highly recommend it. It's written with compassion.
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Summary: Fantastic Insights
Review: The authors of the book are two practicing psychologist. They decided to write a book about what makes people tick when it comes to controlling their food intake and in turn what can you do to manage it. I am an avid reader and I also have had ups and downs with my weight so I have read a lot of health and diet books trying to find the solution that would work for me. There is nothing wrong, misleading or contradictory to any info they impart. A lot of time is spent giving short, one page or less, case studies of people who fit a particular type of problem they find causes people to turn to food. Later on in the book, they provide short exercises for you to do to help identify your specific issues. I can find nothing wrong with this particular approach to weight management as they are trying to attack the root of the problem not the results. It's another way to go so you won't find any recipes in here. They quote the standard eat right and exercise motto everyone else does. The short coming of the book is there is not enough problem solving info. I already knew why and when I eat. So parts I and II aren't going to buy me a lot. I suspect other women my age who want to get a handle on their eating are in the same boat as myself. How to effectively deal with the specific problems is not given enough effort. If you are not sure about the underlying reasons people turn to food and which of those reasons is applicable to you then this book will certainly help you identify them. If you have that already figured out and want detailed solutions on how to overcome these reasons for eating then you may not be so happy with this book.
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Summary: Simple and Practical approach to weight loss
Review: The authors of the book are two practicing psychologist. They decided to write a book about what makes people tick when it comes to controlling their food intake and in turn what can you do to manage it. I am an avid reader and I also have had ups and downs with my weight so I have read a lot of health and diet books trying to find the solution that would work for me. There is nothing wrong, misleading or contradictory to any info they impart. A lot of time is spent giving short, one page or less, case studies of people who fit a particular type of problem they find causes people to turn to food. Later on in the book, they provide short exercises for you to do to help identify your specific issues. I can find nothing wrong with this particular approach to weight management as they are trying to attack the root of the problem not the results. It's another way to go so you won't find any recipes in here. They quote the standard eat right and exercise motto everyone else does. The short coming of the book is there is not enough problem solving info. I already knew why and when I eat. So parts I and II aren't going to buy me a lot. I suspect other women my age who want to get a handle on their eating are in the same boat as myself. How to effectively deal with the specific problems is not given enough effort. If you are not sure about the underlying reasons people turn to food and which of those reasons is applicable to you then this book will certainly help you identify them. If you have that already figured out and want detailed solutions on how to overcome these reasons for eating then you may not be so happy with this book.
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Summary: The Heart of the Matter
Review: This book goes right to the heart of the matter - answering the question so often asked: Why do so many fail at weight loss when they know what to do? The narrative is authentic, ringing true from personal experience and case histories. Developing a new way of thinking is challenging and these authors, while providing encouragement, are realistic about the difficult road one must travel to change thought patterns. I found it very valuable.
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