Summary of Judith S. Beck's The Beck Diet Solution

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Beck Diet Solution is a six-week program that teaches you a different psychological skill every day to help you achieve your weight-loss goals. It doesn’t include a diet plan, but it teaches you all the skills you need to be able to stick to any nutritious diet of your choice, and to lose excess weight and keep it off for your lifetime.
#2 The first few days or weeks of your diet are relatively easy, so you naturally believe that eating less, resisting cravings, and handling hunger will always be easy. But eventually, it will become more difficult for you to stick to your plan and say no to some of your favorite foods.
#3 You will need to learn how to respond to your thoughts in order to lose weight and keep it off. For example, you might have thoughts like, I don’t want to do that, or, I don’t have to do that. It’s important to recognize and address these thoughts so that you’re motivated to do what’s needed to lose weight and keep it off.
#4 If you’re still not convinced that you need skills to lose weight, consider this analogy: imagine if you had unrealistic expectations of yourself when it came to playing tennis. You might expect yourself to be able to figure out how to play on your own, and if that didn’t happen, you’d get upset and think there was something wrong with you.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Nutrition
• Fitness
• Health
• Diet
• Diets

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 12 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822510081
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The Beck Diet Solution is a six-week program that teaches you a different psychological skill every day to help you achieve your weight-loss goals. It doesn’t include a diet plan, but it teaches you all the skills you need to be able to stick to any nutritious diet of your choice, and to lose excess weight and keep it off for your lifetime.

#2

The first few days or weeks of your diet are relatively easy, so you naturally believe that eating less, resisting cravings, and handling hunger will always be easy. But eventually, it will become more difficult for you to stick to your plan and say no to some of your favorite foods.

#3

You will need to learn how to respond to your thoughts in order to lose weight and keep it off. For example, you might have thoughts like, I don’t want to do that, or, I don’t have to do that. It’s important to recognize and address these thoughts so that you’re motivated to do what’s needed to lose weight and keep it off.

#4

If you’re still not convinced that you need skills to lose weight, consider this analogy: imagine if you had unrealistic expectations of yourself when it came to playing tennis. You might expect yourself to be able to figure out how to play on your own, and if that didn’t happen, you’d get upset and think there was something wrong with you.

#5

The Beck Diet Solution is based on the principles of Cognitive Therapy, which was developed by my father, Aaron T. Beck, M. D. Cognitive refers to thinking. When he helped depressed patients solve their current problems and modify their unrealistic and depressed thoughts, they started to feel better and behave in more helpful ways.

#6

You will be able to resist temptation when you understand that it’s not okay to eat junk food if you want to lose weight. You can counter unhelpful thoughts with positive ones.

#7

Eating is not automatic. You make a decision to eat or not to eat, and to keep eating or to stop eating. You’re not paying attention to your eating because you know that you have the ability to stop if you want to.

#8

There are five categories of triggers: biological, environmental, mental, emotional, and social. Triggers do not automatically lead to eating, though. Your thoughts determine whether or not you eat.

#9

You can start practicing the skill of identifying your thoughts right now. Whenever you have the desire to eat, ask yourself what’s going through your mind right now. Don’t worry if you have difficulty doing this at first.