Getting There Staying There is an honest, entertaining, self-help weight loss book, written by someone who's been there. Author Jennifer Klein recounts how she found success only after changing the way she thought about weight loss and abandoning diets forever. This health-focused, first person narrative provides brand new weight loss insights and lots of guidance. People who struggle with their weight are different, and Klein, now a weight loss coach, explains why. An assortment of before and after photos testifies to Klein's years of struggle and her personal, triumphant 70 pound weight loss. Often humorous and always real, Getting There Staying There will relieve and inspire every frustrated, chronic dieter
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Having successfully lost more than 70 pounds, Jennifer Klein was chosen to participate in a weight-control behavioral study at that University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
For more than seven years she has professionally coached weight loss, one on one. Through her business, Gain Control Not Weight, she has given hundreds of clients the confidence and skills to lose weight and become fit. She is a certified personal trainer and a certified nutrition specialist. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts – Boston with a degree in English and women's studies.
In 1995, she was featured as a Success Story in Shape magazine. Her weight loss accomplishment was also profiled in First magazine in1998. She was twice invited to appear on NBC's Real Life and has produced and hosted her own local television program. As a lecturer, she has addressed weight loss topics at health clubs and major corporations. Boston's News Center 7 lists Jennifer Klein as one of its weight loss information resources.
She lives in the Boston area with her husband.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter 1
Why We’re Different
Why We’re Different
All or Nothing at All
I was invited to a wedding. I was worried. Social situations where food is involved always make me nervous. Very nervous. I have several “trigger foods,” foods that set me off and lead to out-of-control eating. Cheese is one of them.
What if they serve cheese?
As I left for the wedding, I gave myself a strict order: No cheese. Cheese is my number one trigger food. I didn’t dare eat it. I simply couldn’t have it and that was that.
I felt in control, confident—until I saw the gigantic, golden pyramid of cheese at the buffet.
“Okay, one piece. Just one,” I told myself.
It tasted sooooo good. I began to bargain with myself. One more won’t hurt. Then, I promised myself, I will stop.
The next thing I knew I had entered the “numb zone.” I was no longer in touch with myself—my body or my brain. I was spiraling out of control. One piece became five, then ten. By the time I stopped I had eaten nearly forty cubes of cheese. Forty cubes!
Would I ever have a normal relationship with food?
Here’s the surprise. This episode, this feeding frenzy, this out-of-control event, took place after I had lost more than seventy pounds, reached my ideal weight and maintained it for more than eight years.
Ten years ago I weighed over two hundred pounds, though I’m only five feet two. Today, though I’m at my ideal weight, I still occasionally have out-of-control episodes with food.
Hunger Meter
Everyone is born with a “hunger meter,” the name I’ve given the inner gauge that’s supposed to register hunger, fullness, and everything in between. Mine is defective. It generally operates in extremes. I know “starving.” I know “stuffed.” I don’t know genuine hunger. I know when I should stop eating and I know when I’ve eaten “enough,” but I don’t always stop. And, when it should, my hunger meter doesn’t register “full.” I often don’t recognize the difference between “wanting” food and “needing” food.
I used to think this problem was unique to me. But after six years of coaching others, I learned that all of us who struggle with our weight have the same problem.
We all have a defective hunger meter.
When I started my weight-loss business I was nutrition focused. Just show people what to eat, I thought, and you’ll solve their weight problem. Just help people learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy food.
But client after client told me the same thing, “I know what I should eat, Jennifer. I just don’t know how to stop!”
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Me Too! That is what I kept thinking as I read.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Getting There Staying There: How Looking at Weight Loss Differently Changed My Life (Paperback)
I'll be the first to admit, I was a bit intimidated to start reading another weight loss/health related book. I figured I'd be told once again I have to eat only tasteless foods worth "2 points." I'm one of those people looking for the effortless weight loss plan of eating nothing but chocolate chip cookies.Just a few paragraphs into Getting There Staying There, I was thinking "me too." This book made me realize I'm not the only person that dreads dieting, thinking the day is ruined if I start it off with something unhealthy like a fattening muffin. Jennifer's book has taught me to understand that I can recover from any "muffin" mishaps. I was so surprised at how much I could relate to in this book, it almost made me laugh aloud at times. More importantly, it has motivated me to start taking the first steps (once again) towards a healthy lifestyle. Only, this time I'm confident my steps will continue to move forward. I am trying to figure out how to tell my family and friends to read it without offending them. Hopefully, with a little time they will see improvements in me, and ask about how I got 'healthier' so I can tell them I learned from reading Getting There Staying There. I definitely recommend reading this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You have to read this!,
By Jon Murphy (North Andover, MA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Getting There Staying There: How Looking at Weight Loss Differently Changed My Life (Paperback)
I first went to see Jennifer in 1997 when I was only 12 years old. I was desperate; my weight had ballooned to almost 300 lbs (that's right, 300lbs as a seventh grader). I'll admit, although the program made perfect sense to me, I didn't have the maturity level as a twelve year old to implement Jen's teachings into my life, and I failed again and again. Jen was incredibly patient with me; I think she saw in me the power to change myself that I didn't know I had. During the summer of 1999, I had finally had enough; summer clothes just didn't work. Not only were they tight, but I looked awful. I was interested in girls, but they weren't interested in me. And worst of all, I knew my health would be in serious jeopardy if I didn't do something. So I started really paying attention to Jen when we met for our weekly sessions, and as I began changing my lifestyle, my eating habits, my exercise habits, the weight came off. I'm now 17 and I stand 6 feet tall and weigh 220lbs. I have achieved a level of confidence now that would only have been a pleasant dream two years ago. I'm happy with the way I look and my cholestorol and blood pressure have gone down, which are really the best effects of my weight loss. I'll be honest with you; losing weight is possibly the toughest thing you will ever do in your life. But Jennifer has a program that actually works (!!!) and that you can live with for the rest of your life. I strongly urge you to read this book; if you're serious about a life change, and not just going on a diet (which don't work by the way, I've been on enough to tell you this, you need to change your entire way of eating and exercising) then this is definitely the book for you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
what a great book!,
This review is from: Getting There Staying There: How Looking at Weight Loss Differently Changed My Life (Paperback)
I really enjoyed reading this book. I flew right through it. I had lost 155 pounds following a different plan and watched as some of my hard lost pounds crept back on. I had changed my lifestyle and lost the weight slowly so I began to get really frustrated with myself over losing my weight but not my obsession with food. Reading Jennifer's book made me realize that I have been doing things right by thinking long term and making the healthiest choices possible. I changed the outside but the inside may never change. I may never lose my obsession with food. I just have to learn to be at peace with myself about not always being perfect. There is no time limit on becoming healthier. She also gave plenty of helpful tips.I laughed at some of the things I read in Jennifer's book. I kept thinking - has she been following me? This book is well worth the read. You wont be dissappointed.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
