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The 3-Day Solution Plan: Jump-start Lasting Weight Loss by Turning Off the Drive to Overeat [BURST:] Lose up to 6 pounds in 3 days!

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This book shares a remarkable amount of information on the science behind weight gain and the reasons we turn to food - seemingly beyond our control.

Anyone who has dieted knows that you can have all the information in the world at your disposal and still not be able to change your behavior around food permanently. This book explains why this is so and what you can do to make the changes that you need to make to address emotions and work with the feeling brain (something we all left behind as adolescents).

The author's style is very relaxed, responsive and especially, knowledgeable. A very easy and informative read.

The 3 day plan really does offer a means of seeing what life can be like free from the drive to use food for comfort. More importantly it provides the tools to make this happen. The website support is also a really great option for additional follow through!

After 30 years of feeling ruled by food I finally feel newfound freedom.

Wow! My husband I and did the 3-Day Solution Plan together. It was amazing. There was more food than I wanted -not diet stuff but real food.

What I learned was that I could change my lifestyle, get more intimacy and at the same time lose my desire to be obsessed with food.

It is worth the effort to learn to live in another way. I can rewire my limbic brain and learn how to relate to myself and others which in turn magically calms my desire to eat more than I need.

Can't believe it!

I bought this book about a week ago, and am very excited to get started on it. Even though this is a weightloss book, and I do need to lose weight, I bought it because it talks about a way to get past the addictive behavior, the negative self-talk, all of that, by 'checking in' with yourself several times a day before you go too far down that spiral of self-destructive behavior. I've tried it a couple of times and it works! I encourage people to take a look at this book because the approach IS different than other diet books. But, it is not very well laid out or edited. There are several times where I have to re-read a sentence, because she's written it in such a convoluted way... instead of getting to the point, she gets too wordy, and you lose your momentum as you're reading. Also, there are, as I understand and I can't be sure because the bad format of the book, 3 main components to the 'solution', but then there are several part to each main component. And it's nearly impossible to figure it out, or remember it, unless you take notes. She talks about White Stuff once, and then doesn't mention it until several chapters later, and you have no idea what it is. Same with Masterful Living... This book needs to be re-released in a waaaaayyyyy better format, so that you can easily read about each part to the Solution, and follow it easier. The little cutout cards at the end of the book are helpful only to copy them down on your own piece of paper. Having said all that, I still recommend that people read the book - I think it's a sensible, innovative program, if you can just get through the book.

This was just the information I had been looking for. After following the 3 Day Plan I couldn't believe how great I felt - and I lost weight. The science behind why we overeat was truly revealing - now I understand much better why I can't just "make" myself do things - afterall, if behavioural change were easy we'd all be perfect. The information (methodology) for creating the behavioural change is included and is remarkable. There's also a website where you can visit for additional information and support. I can finally make sense of what I've been battling for the past 33 years and I have found a way out of the mire - I am so grateful for what this has brought to me.

My wife and I got on this diet more than a year ago. We both so instant results and we felt good doing it. You have a lot to do to first week(s), but you see and feel the results, so it keeps you going. I was only a few pounds overweight, but I wanted to find a diet that could get me down to a healthier weight and look a little better in my clothes. Don't be fooled by the title of this book, the best part of this diet is that it gives you tips to run your life from here on in, and I'm still following many of the basic principles. Well done.

I was hoping this book would address psychological issues that drive us to overeat and offer suggestions to change. Instead it offered a very unrealistic lifestyle change of working only 6 to 8 hours a day, stopping every hour to examine one's feelings, taking an hour to exercise daily and an hour to do leisure activities daily. If only this were realistic.....

This in some ways is similar to Thin Within, but with some scientific jargon, and a very annoying style of writing.

And a diet. Sorry, when someone is telling you what to eat, and when, yes that IS a diet! That said, it is not as extreme as some diets go. The recipes are decent. However, the author contradicts herself by saying you can eat what you truly want if you really "need" it, but if what you would like at that moment is what most consider junk food, shame on you.

The author's 3-day plan is probably fine for someone who lives alone and works from home--if you have a family and/or work outside the home, you might want to take a 3-4 day weekend away (and good luck with that).

This book is okay, but Thin Within is much better. Thin Within does not ban foods, gives you more time to establish new habits, and is more about focusing on you and what you can do for yourself. The 3-Day Solution Plan spends 'way too much time on the "my life is awful because of other people and that's why I overeat" blame game.

Borrow from the library first.

I have been struggling with my weight and overeating for all of my adult life. During the 3 Days of the Solution Plan I felt stronger than ever that this is the 'solution' for me. I feel absolutely certain that this approach will blow 'diets' out of the water.

While this book did touch on all aspects of life - self-nurturing, healthy exercise, toxic foods, etc., and offered some handy info; it remains a diet book nonetheless. The author's idea of a 3-day plan is to supress or limit the amount and types of food consumed during the 3-day period - i.e., a "diet." While the foods on the plan are "real", the 3-day food plan is typical of Atkins, South Beach, etc. I found other books to be much more helpful resources to overcome the root cause of an eating disorder.

I am quite please with this book. It made a lot of sense to me. Laurel Mellin talks about how to come to a solution in your life that assists one with more than a new way of eating. The book speaks about how we can change our thinking on the other things in our life which in turn effects the what, when,and why we eat the things we do.