The Psychology of Dieting


Book Description

Why do some of us become overweight? Why is it so difficult to lose weight? How can we adopt healthy attitudes towards food? The Psychology of Dieting takes a broad and balanced view of the causes of weight gain and the challenges involved in dieting. Exploring the cognitive, emotional and social triggers which lead us to make poor decisions around food, the book considers what it means to diet well. By understanding our psychological selves, the book shows how we can change our unhealthy behaviours and potentially lose weight. In an era of weight problems, obesity, and dangerous dieting, The Psychology of Dieting shows us that there is no such thing as a miracle diet, and that we must understand how our minds shape the food choices we make.




Secrets From the Eating Lab


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A provocative expose of the dieting industry from one of the nation’s leading researchers in self-control and the psychology of weight loss that offers proven strategies for sustainable weight loss. From her office in the University of Minnesota’s Health and Eating Lab, professor Traci Mann researches self-control and dieting. And what she has discovered is groundbreaking. Not only do diets not work; they often result in weight gain. Americans are losing the battle of the bulge because our bodies and brains are not hardwired to resist food—the very idea of it works against our biological imperative to survive. In Secrets From the Eating Lab, Mann challenges assumptions—including those that make up the very foundation of the weight loss industry—about how diets work and why they fail. The result of more than two decades of research, it offers cutting-edge science and exciting new insights into the American obesity epidemic and our relationship with eating and food. Secrets From the Eating Lab also gives readers the practical tools they need to actually lose weight and get healthy. Mann argues that the idea of willpower is a myth—we shouldn’t waste time and money trying to combat our natural tendencies. Instead, she offers 12 simple, effective strategies that take advantage of human nature instead of fighting it—from changing the size of your plates to socializing with people with healthy habits, removing “healthy” labels that send negative messages to redefining comfort food.




Losing It?


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Losing It? The Psychology of Losing Weight and Never Finding it Again is a step-by-step guide to solving a weight problem once and for all-without dieting-as well as author John Whitney's personal story using this technique. Whitney was inspired to lose over 100 pounds after attending a course on the Cornerstone life management method in 1983. Using this approach, the author solved a lifelong weight problem, maintains the weight loss to this day, and even managed to do something previously as unimaginable as running The New York Marathon. In addition to assisting with the Cornerstone seminars, Whitney has written Losing It? to make the concepts available to a wider audience. He has maintained the weight loss for over 20 years without dieting, and continues to follow the Cornerstone Concept today. The Cornerstones provide the infrastructure to lose weight permanently and the tools to re-invent yourself, as you truly want to be. If you have tried endless fad diets only to find yourself more miserable than when you started, Losing It? The Psychology of Losing Weight and Never Finding it Again provides the solution you have been seeking-without dieting! Visit www.LosingIt.com on the Web.




The Psychology of Eating


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With its primary focus on the psychology of eating from a social, health, and clinical perspective, the second edition of The Psychology of Eating: From Healthy to Disordered Behavior presents an overview of the latest research into a wide range of eating-related behaviors Features the most up-to-date research relating to eating behavior Integrates psychological knowledge with several other disciplines Written in a lively, accessible style Supplemented with illustrations and maps to make literature more approachable




The Psychology Of Weight-Loss


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DISCOVER THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WEIGHT-LOSS AND GET LASTING CONTROL OVER YOUR WEIGHT TODAY!Are you unhappy with your current weight? Have you tried to lose weight but failed? Do you keep jumping from one fad diet to another? Do you try to eat healthily but for some reason you still aren't the weight you want to be? Does it all seem too hard, and you give up on your weight-loss goals altogether?Let experienced life coach Andrew Vashevnik reveal the truth behind weight-loss. Having studied and practiced NLP, Hypnotherapy and Philosophy, Andrew will help you uncover the inner workings of your mind, making weight-loss effortless. Through his proprietary concept "The Equation of Change", he's helped countless people achieve their weight-loss goals. Inside The Psychology of Weight-Loss, you'll discover: - The Weight-Loss Law - The only proven way to lose weight - and the only thing that matters!- Why the whole weight-loss industry is set up to make you fail - How natural habit changes occur, and how to make them easily EVERY time- How to lose weight in your own way, so that you feel happy throughout the process- And much, much more Andrew's book The Psychology of Weight-Loss will transform how you relate to dieting forever. It provides a step-by-step guide to make weight-loss easy, lasting and fully under your control. If you want permanent control over your weight, without any fad diets, this is the book for you.Pick up The Psychology of Weight-Loss and get lasting control of your weight today!




The Psychology of Nutrition


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This title explores the psychological processes involved in the selection and consumption of foods and drink. The exposition is firmly linked to research evidence on the cognitive, socio-economic and physiological influences on the desire to eat and drink. The basic theory is that appetite is a learned response to a recognized complex of cues from foods, the body and the social and physical environment.; The volume starts with infant-care giver interactions in feeding, then moves on to consider how physical and social maturation in Western culture affects attitudes to foods, concentrating on the phenomena of ordinary dieting and the extremes of disordered eating. The concluding chapters deal with the process within the lives of individual consumers which causes the same eating habits to form in different segments of society. It also looks at food technology, marketing and governmental regulation.; "The Psychology of Nutrition" tackles questions about what goes on in eaters' and drinkers' minds about the foods and beverages they are consuming, and about the cultural meaning of the eating occasion in industrialized cultures.




Fat Chance!


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Examines why so many people spend their lives dieting yet so few ever lose any weight. Showing how the process of dieting itself sets you up for failure, Ogden explodes many of the myths about dieting, and offers an alternative to dieting - a way to feel good about yourself.




Weight Loss Psychology


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Weight Loss Psychology: Get a Detailed Behavior-Based Weight Loss Plan to Overcome Binge Eating and Emotional Cravings in Just 4 Weeks! Do you want to lose weight and keep it off PERMANENTLY? Are you looking for ways to shed pounds without starving and suffering! It's all about your weight loss mindset and this book will help get you there! You can try a million diets and still fail. You can lose 20 pounds but get 30 back. As long as you're wasting your time following diet fads, you'll always be bouncing back and forth. After a while, this will make you miserable. It might seem like you can never lose the weight you want. The thing is, when it comes to losing weight, it's all about the mindset. We all know it's good to eat healthily and exercise, but why don't we do it? Often the answer lies in the emotional connection we have with food. Until you get to the bottom of your eating behavior, you'll never be able to sustainably lose weight. The good news? You can fix your mindset! This book has a 4-week plan to help you do just that!




Smart People Don't Diet


Book Description

Being on a diet is a miserable experience for most people, and it rarely leads to the desired goal of shedding fat. In fact, studies show that dieters often gain weight rather than lose it, because the intensity, restrictions, and short duration of most diets means they are ill - equipped to produce long - term effects. In Smart People Don't Diet, Dr Charlotte N. Markey presents a refreshingly different perspective, addressing the underlying causes of weight gain and offering proven strategies for lasting weight management. This book will show you how to eat well, lose weight, and keep it off - without dieting. The gimmicks don't work, but Dr Markey's reasonable, accessible advice will help you get - and stay - healthy.




Smart People Don't Diet


Book Description

Being on a diet is a miserable experience for most people, and it rarely leads to the desired goal of shedding fat. In fact, studies show that dieters often gain weight rather than lose it because most diets' intensity, restrictions, and short duration are ill-equipped to produce long-term effects. In Smart People Don't Diet, Dr. Charlotte N. Markey offers a refreshingly different approach to weight management. Based on more than 100 years of research by scientists, doctors, nutritionists, and psychologists, Dr. Markey's plan addresses the underlying causes of weight gain and offers proven strategies for healthful, lasting weight management, including advice on how to eat well, lose weight, and keep it off. The gimmicks don't work, but Dr. Markey's reasonable, accessible advice will help you get -- and stay -- healthy.