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

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I have The Beck Diet Solution, the book, which is excellent, but still purchased the audio book, to listen to while driving and doing other activities.

The Beck Diet Solution is great because it explains that proper eating is skill that can be learned, just as any other skill, like skating, knitting, or tying your shoes! It dispels the mystery behind proper eating and weight control ~ why it seems that some people are successful and some are not. It then proceeds to teach you the skill of successful dieting and weight control ~ and also teaches that to truly learn the skill, you must practice it. And as you use it, you will see success ~ I have lost 20 lbs. so far, and it has been consistent. More importantly, it also teaches you how to handle the inconsistencies, which are bound to occur, and still keep you focused on your goal.

Specifically, in regards to the audio book, the reading is clear, and the quality is excellent.

After I purchased the book, I then purchased a copy for my sister as a gift. I so strongly recommend this plan that I would recommend buying this book or audio book first before starting any eating plan, as this gives you the road map to the the Land of the Thin!

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I give this book 5 stars because I too have lost about 20lbs since I learned that the culprit of my weight loss failures were my own "sabatoging thoughts". The thoughts that say to you, "This bed feels too good to get out of, I'll just work out tomorrow". Or the thought that says, it's only a small donut, I'll get back on my diet tomorrow". Dr. Beck actually tells you what to say to yourself when sabotaging thoughts threaten your best efforts. I am finally on the right track now thanks to this book. She has helped me to nip my problem in the bud. Thanks Dr. Beck!

This is the best, most honest advice you'll ever get to help you lose weight. There is no food plan here. She tells you to pick a nutritionally sound diet, as well as a back-up diet, and stick to it. She will help you change your thinking to think more like a thin person with some writing and "thinking" exercises. It's cognitive therapy, and you will learn why you should tolerate some hunger and cravings because craving something usually isn't an emergency, and your next meal is only a short time from now.

Read the book and thought I would take more from it by listening to it. Stopping to write something down - as suggested on the dvd - is not "do-able" while driving of course. The book is good - I haven't tried the workbook, but many say it is nice to have if you don't want to make your own binder to do the exercises in. This is not the "End All" of diet books, but does have some very usable, everyday suggestions.

The author only talks in the introduction, not the entire book, which oddly enough I liked the author's voice much more as compared the the person who was hired to read it. The author just sounds more personable and real.

This is worth the money! I love the fact that it addresses the psychological issues surrounding overeating, and doesn't give prescriptive advice about what to eat. I already know what I should eat, but talking back to my self-talk that says "oh, go ahead and eat it and start tomorrow" is another story.

You won't be sorry you bought this. I highly recommend the workbook AND CD.

Excellent. I lost 25 pounds in 2-3 months 2 years ago, and am keeping it off. It is very effective. I highly recommend it.

The content of this is good. There basis is cognitive behavioral modifications which makes sense. I prefer the author's voice versus the narrator. The former is more real, the latter is too peppy and Hollywood.

Also instead of always saying stick to a diet, which to me implies a temporary thing, I suggest the term food plan or "balanced food".

The CD did what I expected it to do. It started to change my mind about what my problem was. My thinking was the problem. I was the saboteur. As I listened more and more it changed the way I thought. If I want to be thin I need to think like a thin person and Judith Becks program helps you do just that.

I know that this product can help my clients if they use it, as I could even relate to many of the ideas!! It really helps you realize the extent of our internal conversations, all of the thousands of thoughts per minute, and how much we try to justify the natural tendency to entertain ourselves and expend as little effort as possible toward disciplining ourselves.

I didn't really get anything from this that I didn't already know, though based on reviews it seems to be useful for some people. It provided lots of samples of phrases to use to "talk back" to one's habitual thoughts that tend to undermine healthy eating, so if you're not good at coming up with those internal replies you might find it helpful. But it did NOT "train your brain to think like a thin person" as advertised in the title. That takes more of an inside-out, transformative shift in perspectives that was not accomplished, or even approached here. Her approach is too formulaic to get there. For that kind of fundamental shift in thinking and perspective I would recommend instead the work of the other Beck - Martha Beck's "Four Day Win" (and other works).

The Beck Diet Solution audio book was further undermined by the reading. The actor lacked any sense of genuineness or connection to the material so her delivery felt insincere and left me feeling almost patronized by the performance. Judith Beck's own voice on the introduction was far more sincere and connected, and this audio book would have been improved had she read the entire thing.