The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace

The womanPsychology Todaycalls the best-known life coach in America shatters the myth that willpower is an effective weight-loss tool and introduces a revolutionary approach to lifetime leanness based on a series of 4-day wins that work with any weight-loss program Substitute a good habit for a bad one and stick to it for just 4 days, and it begins to feel normal. Thats the surprising discovery that holds the key to lifetime weight control, according to life coach andNew York Timesbest-selling author Martha Beck. Not a conventional diet or exercise program,The Four-Day Wincombines evolutionary logic, psychology, and neuroplasticity (the ability of the brain to restructure itself, which suggests ways to reshape our bodies) with strategies and success storiesplus large doses of humor and an insightful, straightforward approach to teach the principles required to reverse weight issues. Drawn from hundreds of hours interviewing weight losersin both her discussions with private clients and her groundbreaking consulting work for Jenny CraigDr. Beck reveals: why willpower-based dieting is doomed to fail how to step out of the conflict between the rule-making Commander (who bans all our favorite foods) and the rule-breaking Resistor (who gives in to cravings) and reach the Watcher, who is our happiest self what the latest research into the mind-body connection reveals about how our emotions affect our eating Breaking down the weight-loss marathon into 4-day intervals, Dr. Beck provides effective strategies for changing the behaviors that make us fat. And if there is a relapse, readers take comfort in knowing they are just 4 days from turning it around.

Author: Martha Beck

Language: English

Edition: 1

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 368

Publisher: Rodale Books

Publication Date: 2006-12-26