What is Reddit's opinion of The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person?

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Hey, no problem! I got it off of Amazon for about 13 bucks. It is just based on cognitive behavioral therapy specifically geared towards eating and training the brain. It's been helping me, my therapist recommended it and I'm working through it and checking in with her about it. (https://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524618869&sr=8-1&keywords=beck+diet+solution+book)

There is no such thing as a DVT diet. Being overweight is bad.

Eat a good diet. The Mediterranean diet is considered the best from a health standpoint. But any diet, like heart health, diabetes, whatever, that is health promoting is good.

If you are having trouble sticking with a particular diet try reading https://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758 which is a CBT approach to sticking to a diet. It doesn't tell you what to eat, just pick a diet and use CBT to stay with it. Or you could try an app like Noom or join WW for the support aspect.

The other helpful thing is plan your meals for the week in advance, as opposed to winging it every mealtime.

More help can be found over in /r/loseit in their wiki.

Best exercise: Walk an hour a day. Cycling is good because your calves are pumping. Swimming is good because the water puts pressure on your legs. Generally anything that makes you move your legs because your leg muscles act as a pump to push blood thru your veins. Weight training can also help.

I'd like to add a recommendation for The Beck Diet Solution.

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It's basically a DIY cognitive behavioral therapy guide for weightloss.

As for my own tip, Weightloss demands delayed gratification - it will never be as immediately accessible as a snack or fast food. You have to build skills to tolerate delayed gratification.

What if you plan for fast food for dinner on Sunday? Would that help keep you on track until then? "Oh, I really want that burger, but I can wait until Sunday".

When Sunday rolls around, you go and you fully enjoy your burger as a successful person who accomplished a goal instead of cramming it in your mouth while beating yourself up for "failing" by eating fast food.

You'll build self- esteem, self- discipline, positive self- talk, and I bet you'll enjoy the burger more.

This book explains a lot of the differences snd how to think like a thin person…thinking thin people eat whatever they want and get away with it, usually isn’t the truth the beck diet solution/ train your brain to think like a thin person

I recommend this book for helping you think like a thin person: https://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758

I'm in the middle of my weight loss journey and I have found it very useful. It requires work everyday though.

Do you log your food? It is the primary contributor to me losing ~7 pounds a month for the past couple months. If I really want to increase my weight loss, I force myself to log my food before I eat it. It makes me decline food.

Try intermittent fasting. This is probably the second most important thing I've done to help me lose weight. I use the app called Zero on my phone to motivate me. Visit the subreddit.

Good luck.

Sounds like a good plan!

I personally couldn't work with a spreadsheet. I use the fitbit app to track my exercise, and my fitbit aria scale to log my weight - it saves me a lot of time not having to type stuff down and makes it less likely that I'll stop doing it. Also with the fitbit counting my steps and wanting to hit step goals, I've found myself doing things like pacing back and forth while watching TV, brushing my teeth and surfing the web on my phone - I probably burn half of my calories doing things outside of my dedicated exercise time.

One thing that has helped me is removing junk food from the house, using the Zero app to time my intermittent fasting

In terms of reading material, I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758

It's unlikely most other diet books in that it helps you modify your behavior rather than focusing on types of food you should eat. I love it so far.

Good luck!

Try reading The Beck Diet Solution... it focuses on all the mental stuff that prevents us from succeeding at weight loss and weight maintenance. It doesn't even have its own diet associated with it - you choose whatever diet plan you think is achievable for you.

I live 2 minutes from a Wal Mart and can understand where you're coming from.

Something that's helped me is a bit of mindfulness practice. Being aware of yourself so that you might manage things better. Check out practicing meditation. Don't push the craving away, embrace it, come to terms that you're going to feel that way for a little while and that it's okay.

A book that helped me, that you might be interested in, is The Beck Diet Solution. It's geared towards training you to break your habits when it comes to food, striking the root.

I've been there and have so much sympathy for your situation. It's hard as AF on weekends sometimes. Others have mentioned that it would be healthy to find out the underlying reason for the binging. For me, it was often a really unhealthy relationship with food in the past where I felt a lot anxiety around not having that "stuffed to the brim" feeling.

A book that helped me tremendously with the psychological and emotional aspect of food was "The Beck Diet Solution" by Judith Beck. It's not a diet book, but more a book about shifting your paradigms, getting to a healthier place mentally, and improving your relationship with food.

Someone mentioned CBT. I found this book rather helpful. While it doesn't really help you get to the "why" of self-sabotage, it does give specific tools to help stop the sabotage.

The Beck Diet Solution. My therapist recommended it to me and it's really great. The title made me roll my eyes (I'm sick of diets, damn it) but the content is good. It's focused on your thinking processes when it comes to food instead of "You just need willpower!"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Beck-Diet-Solution-Person/dp/0848732758

Go to a library and request these books for free (or pirate them online):

http://www.amazon.com/The-Beck-Diet-Solution-Person/dp/0848732758

http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Dieting-Live-Life/dp/0062249320

People always underestimate the value of a book, but reading a convincing book based on real science can be truly life-changing.

I read hundreds of diet books for my job as a dietitan and I believe these are two of the best, and help with how to change your habits rather than just "EAT LESS AND START RUNNING."