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The Thin Commandments Diet: The 10 No-fail Strategies For Permanent Weight Loss - Hardcover

Gullo, Stephen

 
9781579548988: The Thin Commandments Diet: The 10 No-fail Strategies For Permanent Weight Loss
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1579548989 ISBN 13: 9781579548988
Verlag: Rodale Pr, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The best-selling author of Thin Tastes Better offers his Ten Thin Commandments that govern all eating habits and his easy to follow and highly successful ABC diet plan, which has helped patients lose more than one hundred pounds. 100,000 first printing.

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STEPHEN GULLO, PH.D., is former chair of the National Obesity and Weight Control Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and President of the Institute for Health and Weight Sciences in New York and Beverly Hills. Dr. Gullo is a frequent contributor to Allure magazine. He lives in New York City.

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Dieting is about losing weight--food strategy is about ending the problem.

The First Thin Commandment:

Strategy Is Stronger Than Willpower

COMMANDMENT ESSENTIALS

. Use strategy to stay in control.

. Stop self-defeating food talk.

. Weigh yourself on the New Scale for Dieting.

. Keep a food diary.

. Listen to a power tape.

THE SINGLE GREATEST SURPRISE of my professional life has been the discovery that success at weight control is not about willpower. Indeed, those who succeed at weight control do not have greater willpower than those who fail- -they just have better strategies. This is the most powerful lesson I have learned in 25 years from almost 15,000 clients.

Like you--and many of my colleagues--I once had quite a few preconceptions about people with weight problems: They lack willpower to control their eating; they have psychological or emotional issues that keep them from permanently losing weight; and they lack the food smarts to follow a healthy diet.

When I actually began to work with these individuals, I discovered that almost all of my preconceptions were wrong. They were successful in their professional lives, enjoyed many interests, and had meaningful personal relationships. They were creative people with vision, who cared passionately about their goals and were dedicated to excellence. They epitomized the American ideal of determination and success.

Far from lacking nutritional knowledge, many of my clients already knew what to eat and what not to eat. They'd read diet book after diet book, were aware of calories, carbohydrates, and fats, and knew how to read labels. Many had lost hundreds of £ds over the years. But despite all their knowledge and weight loss, they had never been able to keep the £ds off permanently.

I struggled to reconcile my clients' success in every other area of their lives with their failure at weight control. How could these people--many of whom had overcome tremendous obstacles to achieve greatness--still lose control with chocolates or a breadbasket? They knew what they had to do to lose weight, but they were living in misery because they couldn't do it. Such repeated failure takes a terrible toll, even on the most successful individual.

WHY WE FAIL

By looking back across the years at my clients' dieting, weight loss, and gain, I've seen that there are distinct and predictable patterns of behavior and food choices that have led these men and women to failure. I have conclusively discovered that the particular diet an individual follows is secondary to success at weight control, which is why people can so easily switch diets from year to year. The most important factor for winning is having strategies--not the particular diet you follow.

In a recent article "The Diet That Works" in the Wall Street Journal, Tara Parker Pope captured the truth that resonates for a large number of individuals who struggle with weight control. "If sticking to a diet were easy, so many of us wouldn't be so fat."

The men and women who have avoided a weight problem--or conquered one on their own--instinctively use strategy to stay in control. It's the common thread that unites everyone who has ever won at weight control, including myself. Food strategy has saved me again and again in my own life.

Obviously, no one who has lost weight intends to gain it back. After every diet, every one of my clients was completely committed to maintaining his or her weight loss. But the commitment was overcome by a combination of powerful forces: biology, our value system, and advertising.

Recent research shows that our ancestors passed on powerful biological programming that may predispose us to crave and seek out certain foods, as many of us who are sensitive to sweet, salty, and bitter tastes know well. These differences in sensitivity, not willpower, may explain why some people are able to maintain control around certain foods--such as chocolate chip cookies--while others find that these foods actually trigger increased appetite and losses of control.

And unlike many of our ancestors, who had to struggle to find food, we are literally surrounded by it. Yet we still carry the ancestral mindset of "waste not, want not" in our modern society where food is overly abundant and always present. Just consider all of the food stores, fast-food chains, airport and shopping mall food courts--many of them open 24 hours a day! Overconsumption is the name of the game, and "all-you-can-eat" has become a national mantra. We have been steadily programmed to believe that it is our birthright to eat whatever we want, whenever we want. We're also bombarded by slick commercials that reinforce the belief that foods are the goodies and treats that make life worthwhile and wash away stress--and that any limitation of them is a horrible deprivation. Even the language of love is expressed in terms of food--honey, cookie, peaches, sweetie. And when you fall out of love, that person becomes a crumb!

Saddled with this powerful psychological and biological programming, surrounded by messages that food is the answer to every problem and the reward for every success, it's no wonder so many people fall back into the habits that lead to weight gain. And it's totally clear why so many feel instantly deprived when they think about weight control.

STRATEGY: THE KEY PRINCIPLES

Food situations are a part of every life. They come up again and again, and there's an amazing amount of predictability to what you can expect to encounter. Most of us rely on a very small assortment of foods--the same vegetables, the same meats, the same snack foods that satisfy an eat-and- run diet. Despite the fact that we can buy practically any food at any time, no matter how exotic or out of season, few of us venture beyond the limits of our favorite foods. And most eating occurs in only about seven situations: at home, in the workplace, in restaurants, in others' homes, when traveling, on vacation, and at celebratory events, such as holiday dinners, weddings, and parties. The realm of food is not a big world, but a small village.

The same scenarios come up over and over again. You face the same foods, the same temptations. However overwhelmed you may feel in the land of abundance, there is another more powerful truth at work as well: You have seen it all and tasted it all before. It may come in different shapes, varieties, and new presentations, but there's very little that's new in the world of food that you will face today. I will teach you strategies to deal with each situation. And I'll show you ways to develop your skills so that your responses become automatic. Rather than a constant tug-of-war that drains your willpower and resolve, you will have a set of tools to rely on, no matter where you go or what foods you may meet along the way.

Although food strategies vary depending on the person, the techniques share common themes. This chapter and those that follow will teach you a new way of dealing with your weight that involves key principles that have enabled so many of my clients to turn a lifetime of failure with weight into a lifetime of success.

. Food history. In a world of thousands of types of food, my careful research has revealed that only a handful are at the root of most weight problems. Food history shows that weight control is not a mountain to climb, just a few patterns to master.

. Food desensitizing. Techniques to defuse the power of cravings so that you can be around food that would normally tempt you without feeling deprived.

. Breaking through food "baby talk." Methods to transform self-defeating food talk learned in childhood--that can rule and ruin adulthood--into a new script, with phrases, thoughts, and values that work in the real world and prove that anyone can...

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Verlag
Rodale Pr
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1579548989
ISBN 13 
9781579548988
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
318
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Rodale
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