Has some good tips on retraining your thinking on how to approach ...
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Has some good tips on retraining your thinking on how to approach HEALTHY weight loss. Does not endorse fab diets, but encourages healthy lifestyle changes. I received this item at a promotional price in exchange for my honest review.
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If you're someone that's not in the moment because you're brain is rolling thoughts too fast this might help. The methods presented are worth a try and Dan's journey to arrive at these techniques is a fun and insightful story.
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Cognitive behavior is not a magic bullet. You have to persevere if you want to lose weight but knowing some solid principles of cognitive behavior helps, such as the author's check list to help you be aware of harmful thinking about food. Beck illustrates sabotaging thoughts that you might have such as "I can learn to eat sensibly after I finish dieting." Then she suggests helpful self-responses to damaging thoughts such as "If I don't learn how to eat sensibly now, what evidence do I have that I'll be able to learn later? I need to start now."

Beck give examples of "triggers" that start a chain of events that lead to eating unhealthy food and how you can interrupt the chain so that it leads to a different conclusion. An example of this kind of an unhealthy chain is:  someone offers you a piece of cake, then the cake looks good, then you think you'll have it, then you eat the cake. You can anticipate triggers and plan different responses to them ahead of time.

Beck makes you aware of some of the characteristics of people who can't lose weight such as: confusing hunger with the desire to eat, having a low tolerance for hunger and cravings, liking the feeling of being full, fooling yourself about the quantity of food you consume, comforting yourself with food. When you are aware of these negative characteristics, you can change them by making small, positive interruptions in habitual thinking and behavior.

Changing your thinking about food and starting to think about food the way a thin person thinks about food is an immense help. This takes advantage of neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to re-wire itself as a result of new thinking and new behavior. As you change patterns of eating that are not working for you, and there are many examples in this book to show you how to do that, you are actually building new neural patterns in your brain that over time become dominant.

When you exercise a muscle it becomes strong, when you exercise a thought, it becomes dominant. The brain always follows the direction of its most current dominant thought. Making changes in your thinking about food can actually make physical changes in your brain. As you practice new thinking and behavior, you re-wire your brain neuron by neuron until you are able to think like a thin person thinks, and you become more adept at avoiding temptations.

It's the same principle as learning any new skill, such as playing the piano. Just intellectually knowing that this finger goes here and that finger goes there isn't enough. You have to practice repetitively until the patterns form physically in your brain.

I'm a board-certified cognitive behavioral therapist myself and I use these same techniques to help people get out of depressive episodes. I know they work. A.B. Curtiss, author of BRAINSWITCH OUT OF DEPRESSION.
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I have not been all the way this book yet, but I can tell already it is written in a style that employs doing exercises as you go through each topic, and this technique works for me. Cognitive psychology teaches us that to get something into permanent memory, which is said to be infinite duration of memory, you should do something with the thing, and this book does that.
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Ok, there is the "groth mindset", (I can improve myself), and the "fixed mindset" (things will stay as they are).

This is the core of the book.

This is not a bad book, but it could be much shorter, and may be more pratical.

If you really want to know how your mindsets govern your life, read "Predictabily irrational" from Dan Ariely.&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-and-Expanded-Edition-The-Hidden-Forces-That-Shape-Our-Decisions/dp/0061854549/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions</a>

Have a good day,

Yves from Paris
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Gave me a lot to think about. About restarting a thought process when my own "correctness" presses down on me...
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Some parts a little corny, but good reminders (or lessons) for the Entrepreneur.
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Not sure if it's going to help break me out of my shell, but it's a good read with some good ideas to try.
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good techniques. interesting ideas and makes you think about what you really want and need.
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Might purchase this book, so that I can freshen up on things I may have forgotten and also sharpen my skills.
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There were concepts that I hadn't given much thought to as well as some that were familiar. Although a few parts felt repetitive it wasn't overwhelming enough to keep me from finishing. As a 23-year old who felt pretty stuck, this book has been a great restart for me. It made me examine my current values and call myself out on my destructive ways, things I kept avoiding. Where a lot of self-help books focus on the positive, this one approaches problems in a somewhat opposite manner. Even with a forgetful mind like mine the lessons have stuck.
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As a successful television host the thought sharing is above average. Her emphasis on the steps for success are encouraging.  I stopped at three stars because after reading, and applying i would like to read the book again.
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While some would say that this book is filled with stuff that is pretty common sense at the same time it always helps to have some of those common sense things put back into your head. Yes some of it is common sense, but I found it to be helpful in putting it back to the front of my mind. And there are some tips that I hadn't thought of before. All and all it's a decent read.
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I have come away with some good ideas from this book and maybe because I'm a bit older I already practice which is why I gave or a 3 rather than a 4 or 5. . Good reading
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There are some good points in this book. Some of the concepts can help couples to "couple up" if that is what you want to do.
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This is a fairly interesting book with several good ideas for generating new ideas. Not all of the techniques will work all the time, and as some other reviewers have pointed out there are some strange techniques such as drinking a glass of water a certain way before bed. The objective of the book isn't to teach a technique that generates a perfect idea - the objective of the book is to teach people ways to generate many many ideas and then determine which of them is a great idea. The main point the author tries to make is that great ideas are a percentage game, more ideas overall leads to a higher chance that one of those ideas is great. As the author says in the last section, reading this book won't automatically give you great ideas, but it will give you the tools to come up with great ideas if you put these practices to work in your daily life.
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This was a really good book. It made you think about a few things and  gave a few tips.