Reddit reviews The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person

I think there is a deeper issue that you need to figure out, but I do have some tips that might help you in the short term. I went on a diet two years ago and lost 16 pounds, which sounds like nothing but it was really, really hard.

1. Don't buy unhealthy foods for your home. Never go to the supermarket hungry and make sure you NEVER have things in your house that you will lose your control with.
   
   
2. Until you have better control over your impulses, do NOT go to Taco Bell and do not order from Domino's. Pack sandwiches with healthy low-fat ingredients for lunch.
   
   
3. When you feel the need to eat something, wait three minutes. Think about whether you really need this thousand calorie meal. Think about whether it is worth it. Think about what your goals in life are and if you are willing to give up all your efforts to this point for a 15 minute meal.
   
   
4. Stop drinking soda (even diet!). This will help reduce the size of your stomach.
   
   
5. Find out a hobby that you like and do that when you feel the need to eat. I sometimes find that I eat just because I'm bored, especially when I watch television. I found that puzzles and knitting are good replacements.
   
   Here's the thing. You're not gong on a diet. You are changing your eating routine for the rest of your life. You should internalize that and figure out if it is really what you want. There is no going back.
   
   Also, this book helped me, but I never actually finished it (it unfortunately got lost when I moved). http://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1
   
   Good luck! Here's something that might encourage you: after one year and a half of working hard to maintain my weight, it suddenly got easier. My body adjusted and I actually lost weight by maintaining my regular calorie intake. So, it gets better!

Found an old face picture a few days ago. The curious case of the slowly appearing jawline. 127lbs down.

Admittedly I've been having a rather rough time not giving into cravings over the last 6 months. I'm not gaining but rather fluctuating the same 5lbs over and over. It's how dieting has always been for me. I get around this weight and the habits that have been an issue my entire life come to the surface.

Thankfully, this time around I've got the information and knowledge to keep me from getting discouraged. I've learned about calories, know exactly what is going on, accept it, and am working towards a point where things will change. I might have to keep doing maintenance for a while and that's okay. I'm going to try to raise my calorie limit for a little while. I feel a bit suffocated by it at the moment so I'm now aiming for 1-1.5lbs a week instead of 2lbs. I think I'm burnt out on eating at 1500cals and need a bit of breathing room for a while.

Mildly irritated at myself though. All evening yesterday I conquered munchies like a boss. Partner went to grab food and asked if I wanted anything... Ended up going way over my calorie limit. Live and learn but it's still bugging me this morning. I've been getting better at managing cravings so I've got that going for me at least. It's helped me realize that I have issues feeling left out if I don't say yes.

Also thank you to a certain redditor for recommending The Beck Diet Solution. It has been invaluable in helping me to realize areas I need to work on. It's the working on them part that's taking so long right now.

Also now that my schedule has slowed down I plan to get back in the gym after work tomorrow. Been 3 months away, going to be so sore.

It'll break before I do. Not hopeless anymore, not by a long shot.

Everyone falls for it at some point. I know I do. I occasionally tell myself that if I just eat a couple pretzels it won’t really matter much. Of course it does matter because they thinking leads to a lot of snacking. I’m going through this book and it’s help me remove some of this thinking and behavior:
https://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758

Losing weight is usually on my list too. Someone recommended these books to me. Maybe they have them at your library? They are about the emotional aspect of eating, which is my problem right now. My pain gets bad, I go get ice cream.

I was told there's 3 books in the series, but to skip the middle book because it's a diet book, and the psychology books will work for any diet. I hope I looked up the right two books, I just read about them this morning.

The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person

The Diet Trap Solution: Train Your Brain to Lose Weight and Keep It Off for Good

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I've been tracking on MFP for over a year and a half and I'm the same height as you- my username on there is the same as my Reddit name if you want to be friends :)

I shoot for 1550 (my pre-preg weight is 130 lbs. and I'm still in the first trimester) and I count my exercise using a fitbit charge 2. Granted, I've also been puking a bit quite often so some days I go over my goal and some days my diary says I made it, but I'm really under because vomit. Yay. Carefully tracking my weight helps, and so far it's pretty steady so I think I'm OK. And it's useful to keep tracking food anyway just to stay in the habit. Maintenance is tough as hell. 1200 is too low for us, especially as pregnant women our height. It will feel scary and weird to up your calories again, but I'm going to share a few tools with you to help.

Now, I don't know how familiar you are with the MFP app, but if you tap the "nutrition" button, and set it to calories, check towards the upper middle of your screen. It'll say "day view". Tap it, and it will change to "week view". If you're worried about going out to eat, or hitting up social gatherings where people force food on you, etc. then track your calories by week instead of just focusing on the daily. It's a lifesaver of a tool during the Christmas season so that you can budget for a few of grandma's cookies at a family gathering, then shave a few calories off the rest of your days that week.

If you're worried about watching your weight on a chart, I'd highly recommend using the Ovia pregnancy app for weight tracking. You type in your pre-pregnancy weight and your end goal and it graphs your daily weight on a chart. It also shows a shaded grey region that is where you're aiming for in order to stay on track for your goals. Oh, and it syncs with fitbit if you use a fitness watch to record your sleep and steps ;)

For general weight tracking, Libra (Android) and Happy Scale (iPhone) are great. They take a rolling average of the weights that you type in every day to show a trend, and they predict when you'll hit your weight goal. It's nice to not have one day of constipation leave me all worried- Libra averages it in and calms me down. It will also let you know if you're on track to hit your "goal" early (i.e. "hey, lady slow down you're gaining too fast!) If you want more info, those apps are pretty popular on /r/loseit.

Next, I'm going to recommend you two books. The Beck Diet Solution and The Diet Trap Solution. These books don't tell you what to eat- they're by a well known psychologist (I showed her books to my therapist and he immediately knew who she was) whose focus is on helping people who have/had a bad relationship with food. (Note- in her first book she recommends against weighing yourself daily. She's since rescinded that advice and recommends people weigh themselves daily and use either an app (like Libra/Happy Scale) or a calculator to take the weekly average.)

Dr. Beck offers advice for things like how to give into a little bit of a craving while eating it slowly to enjoy it, which is a downright necessary skill in pregnancy. Or reminding ourselves of our goal (a healthy baby and healthy mom) before we eat. Not eating standing up. Not eating while distracted. She lays out a plan to slowly introduce these tips into our lives one at a time to naturally make it easier to eat healthier. Plus, you only have to read a few pages a day, and as a mother I can only imagine that you only have so much time to spare on that.

The "Diet Trap" book is a guide for how to survive things like parties and the holiday season. I really think that you'd find her books helpful and that they'd help ease some of your anxiety about healthy maintenance/gain. She does recommend tracking your food and counting calories so her advice isn't going to push you off the rails- it'll just give you more tools to put in your toolbox.

Last tool: /r/fitpregnancy. In my honest opinion, those ladies put me to shame, lol. It's a sub of women who work out, track CICO, etc. through pregnancy and it's not as active as babybumps, but it's still worth subscribing and searching around in there.

Hopefully all those extra tools can help!

Two resources that you may find helpful:

(1) [The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person] (http://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453687296&sr=1-1&keywords=judith+beck) I don't resonate with the word THIN in the subtitle, but having gone through most of the book - it does have helpful ways to shift your thinking, etc.

(2) Primal Potential podcast Elizabeth Benton's podcast has LOTS of info on emotional eating, self-sabotage, etc. I like that she is someone who once weighed 300+ and took off the weight.

I'm currently working my way through The Beck Diet Solution book and companion workbook. So I'm still building up a repertoire of habits. One of the best ones so far is the habit of reading my "reasons for losing weight" list as soon as I'm conscious enough to actually read in the morning. I'm not even out of bed yet, but I'm reinforcing why I want to lose the weight and encouraging myself to make deliberate choices throughout the day.

Hey, no problem! I got it off of Amazon for about 13 bucks. It is just based on cognitive behavioral therapy specifically geared towards eating and training the brain. It's been helping me, my therapist recommended it and I'm working through it and checking in with her about it. (https://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524618869&sr=8-1&keywords=beck+diet+solution+book)

In THAT case, I change my book recommendation! Read this one: https://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758

It has the power to change your life. I know, I know, it is BRIGHT pink and the cover looks so hokey and the title is ridiculous. But it's written by the daughter of the founder of CBT and it is brilliant. Everybody I've recommended it to has told me "it is like she was reading my mind. Why didn't I get this sooner?"

I am a dietitian and a good 40% of my whole practice is guiding people through that book due to popular demand

https://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848732758

Cognitive therapy is the only way. You have to be a mechanic for, you. You have to build the skills to diet and break the bad habits and this gives you the specific steps to Cognitive behavioral therapy for weight loss day by day without trying to make you a psychologist. This is the how to diet book that should be a mandatory purchase with any specific diet book. It doesn't even contain a specific diet, because that doesn't really matter.