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Reprogramming the Overweight Mind: 7 Steps to Taking Control of Your Subconscious (Includes Bonus Audio/Data CD)

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Kelly Burris' Reprogramming The Overweight Mind is at the cutting edge and one of the most valuable assets I have come across. I should know. I tried and was successful on Atkin's. I loved the thought that I could eat food and still lose weight. But, you know after awhile, you get tired of steak, prime rib, etc. and desire a big fat carb overload. And in fact, that is what I did after losing 20 pounds on Atkins. And soon I was back to my old weight plus a few pounds. As a 55+ male, I felt frustrated and was not eager to start the climb back to monitoring my carbs. So there I was stuck. Again.

When I first encountered Kelly's book, I was skeptical. Another gimmick. Another diet. So I did nothing. And yet, something happened along the way.

I encountered a new mind set. It was NOT done consciously. But I started to look at food differently. I made better choices. I made conscious choices. I started to avoid a few of the key ingredients Kelly pointed out as being "bad" for you. I read labels and found High Fructose Corn Syrup was all over the place...even in one famous person's Old Fashion Lemonade. I stopped putting sugar in my coffee. I drank more water. I found if I bought convenient size bottled water, I drank more. All of these changes were made by me as a willing accomplice. My mind set had changed. And I had a new perspective.

After awhile, I noticed that my pants were loose. That I could bend over more easily. But I didn't pay much attention to it. After all, I wasn't dieting so I figured I was imaging it.

At one point, I decided to get on a scale...and to my surprise, I found I had lost 20 pounds. I had gone from 251 pounds to 231 without any effort. And yet, I did not feel like I had deprived myself of anything. In fact, I felt well fed.

And that is the moment I realized what Kelly was talking about. Reprogramming the Mind. Subconsciously. Indeed, I had done just that without the trauma of dieting, deprivation and all the other things that go along with losing weight. And I have no desire to go back to my old habits.

I don't know about you. But if you were like me...overweight, late 50s, less than optimistic...maybe you should consider Reprogramming Your Mind.

As the author of this book I can tell you definitively that the quotes Trisha Brudsal put in her review do not exist on the CD. You can read the first two chapters of the book or listen to the first track of the CD by going to KellyBurris.com.

Burris has my full endorsement. I recommend that all of my associates and clients get his book, do the homework and listen to the reprogramming CD. I personally have benefited from his mind fitness techniques as a individual and especially as a teacher. His methods are easy to learn and implement. They empower you from within, not tell you what to do. Burris is original and brilliant! Truly an 'Aha!' sense of this really works, when I've tried EVERYTHING.

Carol Miller
President
Encore Personal Training
Las Vegas, Nevada USA

This author may have some wonderful ideas, but the book is very poorly written. Reading it was unbearable. Where were the editor and proof-reader?! I had to give up about a third of the way through. It's hard to trust someone as an expert when he doesn't have the sense to present his ideas intelligently.

I purchased this book with a healthy amount of skepticism. First, I have been around the weight loss/diet/self-improvement arena for a long time and I had never heard of Kelly Burris. Second, this book has been out on the market for 6 years and I had never heard of it. Third, it is published by Illumine Studios, a 'publishing house' that employs between 1-4 people according to it's online merchant write up. Finally, for a book that promises '..the most powerful process for behavior change..', it doesn't seem to me that it has made much of an impact on society. And still, even with lowered expectations, I thought I could glean a few morsels from this book that might help me. And I did - a very few.

My first issue with the book - and I am echoing another reviewer - is that it is poorly written and doesn't seem to have an editor. This makes sense, as I suspect the author self-published this book. It is, in short, a very hard read. The author wrote this in a way in which he could easily understand it because, well, they're his thoughts. But an editor would have made this more readable. This is a severe drawback.

The second problem I have with the book is that it contains a lot of fluff which appears only to justify it's length. The author includes facts and figures, ideas and concepts, that just are not directly relevant to the purpose of the book. I would find myself reading and eventually asking myself, "What has this got to do with anything"?

The third and most glaring failure that I see in this book is that the author seems to want the reader to jump through hoops (and there is an almost never ending amount of them) in order to get to the point of making a behavioral change. This might work in a clinical setting but it doesn't work in a author/reader setting. At least it didn't work for me. The author uses endless interrogatives to delve into the reader's conscious/subconscious, but many of these questions cannot be answered without the personal assistance of a relevant professional. In the end, he exhausted me. I found the required answers to his questions oft times pointless and always tedious.

It is said that the best exercise is the one you'll actually do. I think the same philosophy applies to books and to any sort of weight loss/behavioral change program. This one not only failed to capture my attention. It also failed to convince me that the author knows what he's talking about, despite a very intricate program that seems to be nothing more than self-authenticating psychological gibberish.

Kelly has created a program second to none. In just a couple of days this program helped me to reprogram my subconscious and allow me freedom from nicotine and emotionally driven food. Thank you Kelly for your lifetime of work in order for this change to come about and put me back in the driver seat of my life!