[BillBlueEyes]

Welcome to the discussion group, support group, Diet Coach group, Diet Buddy group relating to the two books by Dr. Judith S. Beck:

The Complete Beck Diet for Life
and the first book
The Beck DIET solution: train your brain to think like a thin person.

The Beck Diet Solution is a psychological program, not a food plan. It provides a step-by-step program to learn specific techniques to stay on our diet, lose weight, and maintain our weight loss for life. The program is based on Dr. Beck's clinical research in Cognitive Therapy (CT).

The Complete Beck Diet for Life expands the earlier work and includes a food plan with suggested menus. From the cover:

With The Complete Beck Diet for Life you'll discover the 5 stages of successful dieting and maintenance. You'll learn how to motivate yourself, give yourself credit for every change you make, create time and energy for dieting, and handle hunger and cravings. Dr. Beck eases you into changing one step at a time. You'll master one task before moving on to the next. And you'll learn techniques to deal with challenging situations, such as sticking with your plan at celebrations and dealing with "food pushers." With Dr. Beck's skills, you'll achieve a lifetime of healthful eating and lifelong motivation.

This is a place to discuss the Beck strategies and our daily efforts, to receive and provide support, and, for some of us, is where we serve as on-line diet buddy (coach) to each other.

If you’ve arrived from a search engine, you've landed at the site of 3 Fat Chicks (3FC), a remarkable place for those interested in a healthy life style, including mindful eating, exercise, and weight loss. More about the site, including how to register so that you can post, can be found here.

The books are available on Amazon through the 3FC store by clicking their names above; buying through 3FC helps to cover the costs of running this site.

You can find the list of previous (or more current) monthly Beck threads here on 3 Fat Chicks via:

List of Monthly Beck Threads for Support, Discussion, Buddy/Coach

[BillBlueEyes]

Diet Coaches/Buddies - Loud knock on the front door as we were having breakfast. The neighbor warned us that it would be prudent to move the cars from our driveway as the arborist was coming to trim the dead branches from the ancient elm tree on the edge of his property next to us. Good warning. They dropped branches on our driveway. The elm tree no longer has dangerous branches but looks skinned, unfortunately. It's been dying for the last ten years. It doesn't have many years left. Really sad; it has a stately look and provides a bunch of shade.

Eating was on plan with no daytime snacks, CREDIT moi. Dinner was omelettes, sweet potato, spinach, and my green salad. I was full of tales of plankton, zooplankton, and other wee beasties that do 50% of the photosynthesis work of the planet. So important, so little, and so many odd shapes and ways of eating each other. So glad that there are folks with microscopes studying them.


maryann – Paris, Barcelona - your DS gets around. Congrats on achieving a tight budget month.

curlyjax – Kudos, indeed, for resisting baked potato with toppings. I do fear that "disorganized and forgetful" is where we're all headed.

Readers -

day 7 Arrange Your Environment

I don't keep food in my office or in my car because I don't always have the mental energy to resist urges to eat - particularly at the end of the workday.

Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., The Beck Diet Solution (Pink book), Pg 90

[curlyjax]

I got exercise at work by being on my feet for a few hours, and my heel is a bit sore today because of it. I did terribly with eating; freshly baked huge chocolate chip cookie in the am was my mid morning snack, and then more Easter eggs later at home. Ugh!! I was able to leave a bit early and took a nap as I was exhausted, then off to see the accountant who went over all my tax forms. He's so much better than my old one. I drove DD's car which is making a noise again, sigh. I had a nice chat with BFF about Ireland etc. It's going to be a challenge to plan a trip with her as we have some different ideas of where to stay and the reality of getting from place to place-so its a good thing we have a year to plan. But it will be fun and its good for me to flex my adventure muscles in a different way.
Bill-DW sounds very organized, I think she will keep you on track! Some people are just disorganized their whole life;I definitely have some elements of that.
Maryann-great job staying on budget! Writing down foods does help keep me on track on the Lose it app.