Think Yourself Thin: The Psychology of Losing Weight

By Zita Weber

Think Yourself Thin: The Psychology of Losing Weight is a little book packed with intelligent ideas about helping you achieve your weight-loss goals. By learning about the emotions of losing weight, you’ll be in a more powerful position to not only shed that weight, but also to keep it off.

Being mindful about your strategies for weight loss and using the powerful psychological strategy of self-talk, will put you in the best position to achieve your goal. Thinking yourself thin requires your understanding of how your mind and emotions work and how you can harness this knowledge to get what you want.

Learning to develop your thinking and using psychology and emotional techniques and skills to motivate you – and sustain you – in your goal of losing weight is key to achieving your goal. Losing weight is much more effective – in the short and long term – when you approach the task intelligently and use psychology to help you achieve your goal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zita Weber
• Release date: Aug 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476135519

Zita Weber

Dr. Zita Weber PhD is an experienced therapist, counselor and academic who specializes in grief and loss, women and depression, relationships and sexuality. She is the author of Back from the Blues, Out of the Blues, Good Grief, Skills for Human Service Practice, The Best Years of a Woman's Life, Unfaithfully Yours and Sex for Sale.

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Think Yourself Thin

The Psychology of Losing Weight

By

Zita Weber Ph.D.

Think Yourself Thin: The Psychology of Losing Weight

Published by Zita Weber Ph.D. at Smashwords

Copyright 2012 Zita Weber

www.zitaweber.com

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Contents

Author’s note

1 – Know your thoughts and emotions

2 – Don’t deprive yourself

3 – Foods symbolism

4 – Judge not

5 – One size doesn’t fit all

6 – It’s all about balance

7 – Transformation

8 – Some final things to remember

Author’s Note

Losing weight, in many people’s minds, is almost exclusively about diets and exercise. These are important, but just as important, is how you approach the psychology of losing those pounds or kilos. By learning about the emotions of losing weight, you’ll be in a more powerful position to not only shed that weight, but also to keep it off.

Being mindful about your strategies for weight loss and using the powerful psychological strategy of self-talk, will put you in the best position to achieve your goal. Thinking yourself thin requires your understanding of how your mind and emotions work and how you can harness this knowledge to get what you want.

Learning to develop your thinking and using psychology and emotional techniques and skills to motivate you – and sustain you – in your goal of losing weight is key to achieving your goal. Most people have lots of information about food, diet, nutrition and weight-related issues, but facts and figures are not enough. Knowing yourself, your motivations, setting your goal and having the confidence in yourself and your repertoire of skills and strategies to follow through is crucial.

Losing weight is much more effective – in the short and long term – when you approach the task intelligently and use psychology to help you achieve your goal.

1

Know your thoughts and emotions

Two thousand years ago, Epictetus made a critical observation. He said:

We are disturbed not by things,

But by the views we take of them

By learning to understand our thoughts and emotions we’re in a better position to act on any challenges we might encounter. Becoming more mindful of what’s going on in our heads and bodies can lead to more effective self-talk