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04-05-2010, 03:06 PM
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Any books you would recommend that have made a big difference in your journey?
Often - we come upon a book that has made a huge difference in our relationship with food, losing weight, maintaining our loss, eating better for life, moving/exercise more etc.
I know there are many books that could be so helpful.
How about you?
Last edited by Beverlyjoy; 04-05-2010 at 03:48 PM.
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04-05-2010, 03:13 PM
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The book that has made a big difference to me is The Beck Diet Solution by Dr. Judith Beck. It's a real 'hokey name'. When a good friend, who has lost and maintained a 100 pound weight loss, recommended it - well, I thought it 'sounded' uninteresting.
Last year I got the book (the first one) and found it's not about what foods to eat - but, how to live with food in a healthy and sane manner. It's really a cognitive approach to changing eating habits. This approach can be used inconjunction with any weight loss program that a person wants to live with for their life.
I think this book has helped me more than anything I've read in a long time. Let's face it...for me...I know what's healthy and not. I think many of us could write a book of healthy diets and foods, etc. This book has given me many tools to cope with food in the day to day scheme of life.
When I peek at the maintainers forum...seems like these folks have already learned these principles on their own.
Last edited by Beverlyjoy; 04-05-2010 at 03:17 PM.
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04-05-2010, 03:33 PM
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aka Sarah
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Long ago...perhaps 10 years ago now, I don't remember...I read The Insulin Resistance Diet. That was a total eye-opener about the way food works in my body and that I could control my blood sugar through what I eat.
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04-05-2010, 04:16 PM
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Soul Cyster
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Conquering your food addiction by Caryl Ehrlich- I definitely learned a lot about how habits are hard to break and what other things in my life made me eat more than I should have.
I definitely would recommend it.
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04-05-2010, 04:53 PM
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Larry's Angel
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Location: NW New Jersey But, My Heart's In Pittsburgh!! GO STEELERS & PENGUINS!!!
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Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution By Dr. Robert Atkins
Good Calories Bad Calories By Gary Taubes
Protein Power Lifeplan By Dr's Michael & Mary Dan Eades
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04-05-2010, 04:58 PM
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Moderating Mama
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
Food Matters by Mark Bittman
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04-05-2010, 05:31 PM
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The End of Overeating by David Kessler.
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04-05-2010, 05:35 PM
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Mindless Eating - this book blew my mind
SuperFoods Rx - this book changed my life
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04-05-2010, 09:52 PM
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Omnivore's Dilemma / In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
Healing Your Aloneness (forget the author)
Eating Mindfully
The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - Shauna Reid
Ultrametabolism
The South Beach Diet
All combined - taking little bits and pieces from each - have been invaluable.
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04-05-2010, 11:58 PM
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Metric Member
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For fiction: http://http://www.amazon.com/Perfect...0526071&sr=1-1
By Louise Kean, it's also called "The Perfect Ten". One of the few books I've read that got inside how it feel to lose a lot of weight.
This is also great: The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - Shauna Reid
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04-06-2010, 12:02 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lyn2007
The End of Overeating by David Kessler.
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Yup-- this one for me.
And Micheal Pollan's In Defense of Food
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04-07-2010, 10:49 PM
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Big Miss Sunshine
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The End of Overeating - Kessler (I'm like the fourth person to mention it - it deserves mentioning!)
Geneen Roth's books - esp. When Food is Love
OA literature - 12 Step book (great insight in this book)
Body Clutter - Marla Cilly
All but the first are primarily about emotional/spiritual issues and food.
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04-07-2010, 11:02 PM
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Waddle fast Flap hard FLY
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I have to second Beck's book. By following the steps I was able to figure out why I eat, overeat, emotional eat, bordom eat, and pretty much put a stop to it over the past few months. No, Really!
I can now keep chocolate in the house, eat regular portions {even skip days}, and not go back for more, or obsess about it all the time, feeling deprived. Eating is now my decision, and I have never before had this kind of relationship with food.
Last edited by patchworkpenguin; 04-07-2010 at 11:03 PM.
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04-08-2010, 12:03 AM
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Member
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By Anne Fletcher:
Thin For Life
Eating Thin For Life
Body Clutter by Marla Ciley
The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl by Shauna Reid
By Geneen Roth:
When Food Is Love
Breaking Free From Emotional Eating
Feeding the Hungry Heart
Appetites
Secrets of a Former Fat Girl by Lisa Delany
Never Say Diet by Chantel Hobbs
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