Brain-Powered Weight Loss


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Losing weight and successfully maintaining it over the long term is not as much about what you put in your stomach; it's more about what's happening in the brain. In Brain-Powered Weight Loss, psychotherapist and weight management expert Eliza Kingsford shows that more than 90 percent of people who go on diet programs (even healthy ones) fail or eventually regain because they have a dysfunctional relationship with food. Changing this relationship by changing the way you think about and behave around food is what it takes to permanently achieve weight-loss success. Kingsford’s 11-step first-of-its-kind program enlists dozens of mind-altering and behavior-changing exercises and techniques that shows you how to: • Identify and reverse the conscious and unconscious thinking errors and food triggers that lead to the behaviors that drive our food decisions. • Let go of the mindset of going on or off a diet in favor of a conscious quest to pursue a lifestyle of healthy eating and everyday activity--one that can last forever. • Successfully use what Kingsford calls "dealing skills" to outsmart high-risk situations, tame stressful times, and prevent an eating "slip" from leading to a setback or all-out binge. • Find out if you have what emerging research shows is an addiction to certain high-fat and sugar-added, processed foods that can be as powerful as addiction to cigarettes and narcotics. • Design a personal healthy eating program built on Kingsford's 10 Principles of Healthy Eating.




Power Foods for the Brain


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Strengthen your memory with New York Times bestselling author Dr. Neal Barnard’s simple 3-step plan to protecting your brain with your diet. Could your breakfast or lunch be harming your memory? Are you missing out on the foods that could prevent Alzheimer's disease? Everyone knows good nutrition supports your overall health, but few realize that certain foods-power foods-can protect your brain and optimize its function, and even dramatically reduce your risk of Alzheimer's Disease. Now, New York Times bestselling author, clinical researcher and health advocate Dr. Neal Barnard has gathered the most up-to-date research and created a groundbreaking program that can strengthen your memory and protect your brain's health. In this effective 3-step plan Dr. Barnard reveals which foods to increase in your diet and which to avoid, and shows you specific exercises and supplements that can make a difference. It will not only help boost brain health, but it can also reduce your risk of Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and other less serious malfunctions such as low energy, poor sleep patterns, irritability, and lack of focus. You'll discover: The best foods to increase cognitive function Dairy products and meats-the dangers they may pose to your memory The surprising roles alcohol and caffeine play in Alzheimer's risk The latest research on toxic metals, like aluminum found in cookware, soda cans, and common antacids. Plus a detailed menu plan, recipes and time-saving kitchen tips




The Hungry Brain


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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a bathing suit next summer. To make the case, The Hungry Brain takes readers on an eye-opening journey through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never before been available to a general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain undermines our weight goals and transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim. Along the way, it explores how the human brain works, revealing how this mysterious organ makes us who we are.




Train Your Brain to Get Thin


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Get your brain fit--and your body will follow! Conventional wisdom has always been that in order to lose weight, you need to eat less and move more. But skyrocketing obesity rates tell us that it's not that simple. If you really want to get in shape and stay that way, you need to start at the top--with your brain. The latest research in neuroscience shows that the brains of overweight people are different than the brains of lean people--and not in a good way. Yet, you can train your brain to think like those skinnier counterparts--and leverage that brainpower to drop those extra pounds for good. In Train Your Brain to Get Thin, you'll learn how to: Control hunger levels to reach and maintain optimum weight Defeat emotional eating at its core Feed the brain the nutrients it needs for optimal performance Trick the brain into working for, not against, weight loss Get "addicted" to exercise, not food And much, much more! Train Your Brain to Get Thin combines the latest research in both neuroscience and human behavior to give you the brain-changing program you need to get fit, look good, and feel great--for life!




Thinner at Last


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Weight Loss Starts in Your Brain


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If you have struggled with weight loss for years and know diets don¿t work, this book is for you. What is different about this book? It is a clinically proven program that uses a combination of self-discovery tools, games, and activities to help you rewire your brain, create new happy and healthy pathways and by doing so, help you change your eating behaviors. What a novel idea: lose weight while focusing on yourself! After all, ¿weight loss starts in your brain®¿. In this 6 to 12-week program, you will learn about sound nutrition and the benefits of exercise, but the author also has a specific plan to help you understand the impact of stress on your waistline, and the importance of dealing with it. Veronique Cardon, M.S., created The CogniDiet® Program based on years of coaching clients as a holistic nutritionist, studying the science of weight loss, and her own life experience and past struggle with weight and stress. After losing 30 lbs. and keeping it off for over twelve years, Veronique began to explore cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness based stress reduction and emerging brain neuroplasticity techniques adapted to weight loss. She seamlessly integrated these techniques and created this program to help people adopt, and keep, a healthier lifestyle. If you can rewire your brain for happiness, why not for weight loss! About The CogniDiet®: This book takes you through a 12 chapters, 6 to 12-week program that Veronique designed to help you change and lose weight naturally. The focus is on you, versus on a diet. And yes, we are going to ask you to cut sugar. But we will tell you why. The program was studied in a clinical trial in 2016 with 40 women aged 41 to 73. The average weight loss was 12 lbs. with a maximum of 33 lbs. over 12 weeks. The program also helped improve metabolic health. Top line results were presented at the American College of Nutrition 58th annual conference in November 2017.




Brain Power


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Virtually everyone fears mental deterioration as they age. But in the past thirty years neuroscientists have discovered that the brain is actually designed to improve throughout life. How can you encourage this improvement?Brain Power shares practical, state-of-the-evidence answers in this inspiring, fun-to-read plan for action. The authors have interviewed physicians, gerontologists, and neuroscientists; studied the habits of men and women who epitomize healthy aging; and applied what they describe in their own lives. The resulting guidance; along with the accompanying downloadable Brain Sync audio program; can help you activate unused brain areas, tone mental muscles, and enliven every faculty.




The Thin Woman's Brain


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Why are certain women able to stay thin and never, ever diet? What is different between these naturally thin women and those that can only struggle to thinness through obsessive diet-like behaviors? The book explains the significant body of science which finally reveals the differences between the brains of thin and overweight women. It details the alterations in the brain that occur from years of overeating and dieting - and how to reverse them. In a personal and accessible style the author guides the reader through an easy to follow step-by-step program based on cognitive behavioral therapy. The book's program does not include any food restrictions, or recipes. It does not prescribe any specific exercise program as its sole objective is to restore the brain to its healthy relationship with food. You will learn how modern foods and ancient survival mechanisms have interacted to create an obesity epidemic. "Famine" brain, high-stress lifestyles, reduced pleasure from food and other factors are examined. Once you understand how your brain has inadvertently gone awry, you will appreciate this sensible approach to "rewiring" you brain back to its natural state - the thin woman's brain.




The Brain Surgeon’s Diet


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In a market flooded with quick-fix solutions for weight loss and healthy living, Dr Adriaan Liebenberg, an internationally recognised brain surgeon, provides an easy, safe and healthy alternative: use your brain to lose weight permanently. After being fat – and unhappy about it – for most of his life, Dr Liebenberg decided to apply his professional knowledge to work out which foods would adjust his brain chemistry to speed up his metabolism and change his attitude towards food. It worked. He lost 70 kilograms and has been maintaining his new weight for almost three years. Straightforward and easy to read, The Brain Surgeon’s Diet tells Dr Liebenberg’s inspiring story and guides us to utilise our brain power and adjust our eating habits the way nature intended. It empowers us with knowledge about foods that keep us healthy and slim, and is a step-by-step guide for taking control of our lives without having to rely on fad diets and appetite-supressing drugs. This pocket-size book provides complete information on the energy values of foods and contains delicious meal plans that will make your weight-loss journey painless and guilt-free.




Sleep Your Fat Away


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Learn to use the sleep programming techniques that train your mind to naturally acquire healthier habits while you sleep. Too often people who want to lose weight get stuck in a cycle of denying their cravings, and then feeling guilty when they inevitably give in to them. When you approach weight loss this way, you are only setting yourself up for failure because your subconscious mind rules how you think, what you want—and how you eat. The good news is you can train your brain to work for you and achieve weight loss for life! In Sleep Your Fat Away, you will learn the principles behind sleep programming, in which recorded messages play while you sleep, training your subconscious to take on new and healthy habits. There are only three steps you need to take: • Read this book. • Follow the guidelines • Get the program and start losing weight in your sleep!