Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person

With this groundbreaking program, Dr. Judith Beck uses proven Cognitive Therapy methods to help you change treacherous thought patterns that lead to overeating, cheating, excuses, and other dieting downfalls. This time, it’s going to be different. This time, you are going to diet successfully, lose weight with confidence, and, most importantly, keep it off forever!

Publishers Weekly

Can thinking and eating like a thin person be learned, similar to learning to drive or use a computer? Beck (Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems) contends so, based on decades of work with patients who have lost pounds and maintained weight through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Beck's six-week program adapts CBT, a therapeutic system developed by Beck's father, Aaron, in the 1960s, to specific challenges faced by yo-yo dieters, including negative thinking, bargaining, emotional eating, bingeing, and eating out. Beck counsels readers day-by-day, introducing new elements (creating advantage response cards, choosing a diet, enlisting a diet coach, making a weight-loss graph) progressively and offering tools to help readers stay focused (writing exercises, to-do lists, ways to counter negative thoughts). There are no eating plans, calorie counts, recipes or exercises; according to Beck, any healthy diet will work if readers learn to think differently about eating and food. Beck's book is like an extended therapy session with a diet coach. (Apr.)

Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and the daughter of Aaron Beck—the founding father of Cognitive Therapy. The Beck name is known throughout the world—Dr. Beck’s father is known as one of the top 10 most influential psychotherapists in history, on the same list as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Nationally distributed newspapers and magazines frequently seek out Dr. Beck for her expertise on a range of psychological topics. She is also a frequent guest on national television and radio news broadcasts.