Breaking The Vicious Cycle
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Book arrived earlier then expected. I have just been diagnosed with Colitis but have been suffering with intestinal issues since my 20's, so 30 some years now. I am slowly transitioning over to this way of eating. So far I have already seen amazing results. No more abdominal discomfort and getting a little more control over how often I need to visit the bathroom. All of the recipes I have tried so far have been very good. Yes it does take a bit of time to prepare and cook everything but overall the health benefits make it worth the effort. People are getting too used to an instant society where everything has to be set before them right now. People should get back to home cooked, healthy meals instead of all of this fast-food and processed items with little nutritional value. My doctor wanted me to start on prescription medication that was going to cost me 953.00 p/mth. I said I'd try diet change first and see if my issues improve or not, so far they have. I'm currently not on any prescription medications and don't want to get started now, especially at those prices! I bought this book on the recommendation of one of my niece's, a sister and my Dad. They all swear by this diet and my Dad has been able to get off most of his medications as well. I was never much into cooking but now I'm kind of enjoying it. The recipes are easy to make. You would even feel comfortable serving them to guests. I like that there are also desserts in here too. I would recommend this book to others who have any sort of intestinal disorders. It will provide you with a lot of relief from your symptoms.
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This book will inspire you to breaking the bad habits in your life. The only way to do it is God's way. Joyce Meyers book teaches you how to do this and apply it to life.
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This is a really nice book on breaking bad habits as well as changing lifestyles. There are many great examples in this book and it is very realistic. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.
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I came across Susan's introduction videos to Bright Line Eating last year and it was a life-changer. After struggling with stubborn weight gain, fatigue, and lethargy from hypothyroidism, I was at an impasse and felt completely powerless over my body. I did my best to take the doctor's advice to heart -- diet and exercise -- but it turns out you can't strong-arm your way through chronic fatigue. Every exercise and dieting attempt left me feeling even more wiped out and hopeless. Then came Susan's videos, where she explained the scientific evidence that most conventional wisdom regarding weight loss is wrong. That biologically the cards are stacked against us in a modern sugar-fix driven environment. That trying to exercise your butt off during a weight loss diet is one of the worst things you can do. That being overweight isn't a moral deficiency or a lack of willpower or self-control. Not only was it an immense relief to hear that, but even better, there was a real solution. Not an expensive one, nothing involving pills or contraptions or fly-by-night diet fads, but a method of changing your daily habits and the way you think about food. That's it. Changing your thinking and rewiring new habits into your brain. Yes, there are some portion control rules and eating guidelines, but the most important point from Susan's research is that it's not about food. It's about how our bodies react to food. How our brains, specifically, react to certain foods and social situations. That rewiring our brains, changing our habits, changing our relationship to food is the way out of the obesity cycle. The beautiful thing is that all those things are within our power and don't require any costly programs or medical procedures.

It worked for me. I signed up for a Bright Line Eating boot camp, started implementing the plan, and despite my hopelessly sluggish metabolism the numbers on the scale started to creep down. For me, who had very suddenly gained fifty pounds due to a chemical imbalance and had been stuck at that weight for three hard years, every lost pound was a victory. Since I started the program I've lost twenty-five pounds and I'm starting to see the body I once had. I can wear normal clothes again, can order from catalogs, can wear some of my old jeans. I feel attractive again and feel like I have my body back, not the one that was hijacked and taken for a joy ride. Even better is the way I feel. I have energy again. I can actually make plans after work and look forward to them instead of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. My feet don't hurt anymore. And even better than all those things is the feeling of relief that I now have a plan, a method, that works every time I need it. When I stray from the eating plan, bend the rules, my weight loss flatlines. When I go back to the plan, the scale keeps going down, down, down. There is so much peace of mind in that. I know a method of keeping my weight in check and it works. Every time.

So, after saying all that, there's this book. In all honesty, I bought it as a show of support and gratitude to Susan. I expected it to be an overview of material I already knew from her videos and mailers. And it is....but it's so much better than that. I had planned to give the book to friends and family who could really be helped by this program, and I will, but I'll be keeping my copy. This book is insightful, honest, and gripping. It's a great source of information on how our bodies work, how food works in our bodies, and how our brains can make or break our experience regarding our weight. It's beautifully written and a wonderful resource, and like everything Susan puts her heart into, it's full of personal insight, warmth, and an ardent desire to help people create the happy, slender, healthy bodies they deserve.  So thank you, Susan, for writing this book. And to the readers out there who are on the fence: Do it. You won't be sorry.
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The book speaks of intense inner struggles and then gives the way out - face it and change. It is never too late, just do it.
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Stick With It provides TREMENDOUS insight into what it takes to actually change behavior. It's great for someone who wants to break a bad habit in their own life, parents who want to help their kids, a coach who wants to help his team succeed, and entrepreneurs who want to have their products used. I bought the audiobook. This was so good I might just have to buy the paper copy as well!
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Change can be a scary word. For many years I was stuck in the familiarity of stress and accepted it as normal. Now that I have dug deeply into the Emergence work with Derek Rydall my life is transforming. It turns out to be less about radical change and more about my life just becoming the way I always wanted it to be!

The Emergence message rings so true. I really like how Derek shares profound ideas but he also gives practical tools to step gracefully through the seven steps.

I would love to start an Emergence study group with friends. Going through the book together would be amazing.
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The book makes a strong and convincing case for the need to vigorously fight depression as an illness, and advocates a clinically-based combination of both cognitive behavior therapy and medication.  I will add the book's third technique of persuading a depressed person (and her loved ones) of the crucial, urgent need for the motivation to fight depression.

One of the most shocking aspects of the book's discussion of clinical depression was one I found resonant: that depression is widely tolerated and even accommodated.  Doctor Kramer makes the analogy that accepting another serious illness without treatment would be socially unacceptable; yet depression can be mistakenly regarded as a "personality trait", in a way that would not happen with cancer or heart disease.

As a book that both describes physical damage to the brain from clinical depression, and characterizes depression as a factor in suppressing a person's true character, this book helped me realize how destructive depression has been in my own life and in the lives of most of my family members.  I took that to heart; the book also suggested gentle and gradual ways to begin appreciating life again, and helped me to want to participate, by showing the urgent necessity of honest, sincere participation in life.  Reading this book was instrumental in my recovery from depression.
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Most of the research mentioned in this book is not new. But reading about it in a neatly organized way has a powerful effect that left me thinking. The author's personal journey makes it more interesting and approachable than a purely academic text.

This book doesn't promise to fix you, and it won't. It might offer some ideas, but the solutions are not simple, nor easy. The whole point of it is that self help is not enough. It's time we start helping each other.
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Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits is written to guide readers into replacing bad habits with good God filled habits. A habit is something we do regularly and many times we aren't aware that we have formed a habit. Repetition helps us to form the good habits. Some of the bad habits that people struggle with is procrastination, passivity, laziness, overeating, sleeping in and hitting the alarm clock, shopping and spending too much, cluttering, watching too much TV, spending too much time online, nail biting, eavesdropping, speeding when driving, self-criticizing, cell phone addiction, smoking, and pornography, etc. The book stated that experts claimed that a bad habit can be broken in about thirty days of repetition. If you replace the bad habit with a good habit, then the bad habit will lose its effect on your life.

Joyce Meyer is very genuine about some of the bad habits she has had to break in her own life. For example, she used to throw her makeup brushes into the drawer after she was down applying her makeup. She eventually realized that she couldn't ever find the brush she was wanting. She began to form a new habit of taking the extra few seconds to put it back in their proper place. This saved her time in having to search the whole drawer for a makeup brush and she has more peace in the mornings now. Another habit she had to make was starting an exercise program and getting a trainer and a nutritionist to help her feel better and to have more energy. She admitted that she was sore a lot at the beginning and she didn't always like having to eat healthy food choices. She formed a good habit of exercising a few days a week and her body benefited from the excellent choice. She also noticed that she was friendlier and she had more patience with people because she felt better.

The book contains a number of life changing principles for replacing bad habits with good habits. The first good behavior is forming a God habit. Without seeking first the kingdom of God we won't be able to successfully break our bad habits. We can't overcome our habits if we don't acquire the strength from our loving Heavenly Father. Joyce Meyer encouraged readers to read and meditate on the written Word daily and keep a journal of what God is teaching you. Studying God's Word will give you wisdom in order to handle the struggles and challenges of this life. Some of the other good behaviors are, "being decisive, happy habit, habit of excellence, being responsible, habit of generosity, hurry habit, emotional habits", and many more.

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who needs to break the bad habits in their life. If you're struggling with gaining freedom from addiction, perfectionism, self-criticizing, or anything else you know God is prompting you to change, then this book will be a catalyst for a full transformation. This book has taught me that I have some bad habits that I need to break. My first bad habit I choose to break was to stop biting my nails. I have realized that I tend to bite my nails whenever I am nervous or bored and impatience. I have to say this is still an ongoing process for me, but so far, I am growing some nails finally. But I will overcome this bad habit! I replaced this negative habit with a positive habit. I began reflecting on scriptures verses that provide me with peace instead of focusing on my worries and fears. Some bigger bad habits that I will be breaking next is self-criticizing and perfectionism. The book is not a book to be just read, it will require readers putting action behind breaking their bad habits. Breaking bad habits isn't going to be easy. They will take a great of effort with working with God on breaking them, but good habits can be created. If you're looking for a magnificent resource on breaking bad habits and establishing good habits, then this one is for you!

"I received this book free from Hachette Book Group/Faith Works."
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The message of this book is loud and clear - DIETS MAKE YOU FAT. The author explains why this happens and offers a viable alternative to dieting. If you're serious about breaking the diet-binge cycle and losing weight for good, this book is for you.
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Jack Challem couldn't have written a more timely book.
Millions of Americans are taking anti-inflammatory drugs and drug companies are rapidly pursuing the development of more potent anti-inflammatory drugs? Why?  Because inflammation is the pathway for all disease.  Pouring more drugs on a burning fire may not be the answer.  A diet, plus supplements, is probably the best way to forstall disease.  Jack Challem describes the way to do this.  --- Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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The author hits on a critical point: starting is often the hardest part. What can we do about it? This book provides a series of inspirational tweets to get you past whatever hurdle you are facing today. It's a fast read but provides a lot to think about. If you're always "thinking about doing something" but somehow never actually getting around to doing it, this book is for you.
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The book is more of a philosophical doctrine for the chronically busy than a standard self improvement book. It serves as a miraculous antidote for all of the stress and compulsion to do everything that so many of us face. The book teaches readers how to focus their time in the areas of their work that have the most impact, and to politely steer away from the mentality that causes us to say yes to every single task. Indeed, the book is an insightful journey in the art of saying no, and teaches readers to canonically simplify their lives. This book contradicts the Getting Things Done philosophies a bit because it encourages the reader to avoid the simple, low-impact tasks of life in lieu of more important and strategic choices, rather than filing them in some highly-architected task management system. But, hopefully Ive been able to find a balance between these two worlds, and Essentialism provides powerful advice for anybody facing tough choices in prioritization.
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A good read that goes the extra mile - not only identifies the issue, but shows how to overcome it.
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This book opened my eyes to the three parts of the "habit loop" and how you can ONLY intercept a habit at one of the parts. The other two must remain the same. So simple, yet most people mess it up and end up stuck in bad habits and unhealthy patterns. The more we understand the mind, the more we understand ourselves, and the more we can create the lives we desire. This book is a HUGE step towards that.
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Although there have been advances since this book came out, "Breaking the Vicious Cycle" offers a straightforward and adequate approach to healing the gut. Like many other successful protocols, the Specific Protein Diet (SPD), starts by eliminating those things that tend to destroy intestinal flora. It then suggests what to eat to promote a healthy gut and it does with enough detail to be useful.