I Can Make You Thin [antikvár]

PREFACE As a medical nutritionist for more than two decades, I have seen patients lose weight on any number of diet programmes, then watched as they struggled to maintain their weight loss. The ability of overweight individuals to accept chronic food deprivation at levels as low as 400 calories a day for extended periods of time has never ceased to amaze me. Nor has the sad reality that most of them regain their hard-won losses. A significant number have undergone this process repeatedly. Why couldn't obese individuals stay on a diet? Over the years, some patients told me they just couldn't stop themselves. Others said they ate mindlessly, often not knowing what they were eating. The common belief that eating is controllable has led us to expect people to 'behave' or pay the price of public shame. But diets don't work, eating is not due to lack of willpower Eating, ultimately, is tmder the control of the brain. hi our world, where food is freely available, maintaining weight loss by dieting requires a continuous conscious effort to eat less. Like our inability to resist sleep, our brains will override our minds and make us eat. This is in the nature of any living organism where the brain dictates behaviour. How can we alter this course? The answer lies not in the diet but in changing our response to signals from the brain. That is behaviour modification. In this book are all the keys to accomplishing that which seems impossible: losing weight and keeping it off.