EAT, CHEAT, And LOSE POUNDS! The Smart Dieter's Cheating Guide dares to reveal the secret formula for the only proven system for weight loss on a long term basis--How to eat less without serious deprivation through heightened awareness, understanding , and command of the mind. The reader is invited to look into the mind-sets of the dieter--explored over many decades by widely known psychiatrist, Dr. Harvey Widroe--and to observe the behavior and the dieting mythologies to which millions of dieters almost tragicomically subscribe. We become able to discover those thoughts and feelings in an interactive process, and to learn from the failures and triumphs of others as we assure our own dieting success--losing weight by easily eating fewer calories. Taking into account the unavoidable problems of day-to-day life that usually lead to diet failure, The Smart Dieter's Cheating Guide helps the reader develop and adopt useful, concrete strategies for successful weight loss. Unlike any other diet book, The Smart Dieter's Cheating Guide lays out the truth. Other diet books do not even mention their astronomical failure rates. Since the demands of real life distract us from the discipline of dieting, diets that force us to slavishly count calories or prepare special food invariably lead to cheating and failure. With The Smart Dieter's Cheating Guide we come to understand how many of us use denial of reality, projection and rationalization to sabotage our weight loss efforts. Then with increased awareness of how we think about eating, we come to master a few simple hard to forget principles and techniques that become part of us and enable us to achieve goal after goal in the war for weight control. Each of us develops our own system for sensible, easier food choices within the complexity and stress of real life.
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Dr Harvey Widroe is an internationally known psychiatrist who over the decades has treated thousands of patients--many with serious mental illness. Apart from his work caring for patients he has developed and helped operate a number of psychiatric hospitals. He has lectured extensively and acted as a hospital consultant througout the United States and the UK. He has also written a wide variety of scientific papaers for professional journals, a series of regular columns for an on-line newspaper, as well as book chapters and a psychiatric textbook, EGO PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT PLANNING, now a psychiatric classic. Dr Widroe has recently written the award winning book, THE SMART DIETERS CHEATING GUIDE, soon to be published in a revised and updated version. Through THE DIARY OF A MEDICAL STUDENT: HOSPITAL OF HORRORS,another award winning book, Dr Widroe brings us face to face with many of our society's abysmal attempts to deal with the mentally ill.
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The Title Says it All!,
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This review is from: THE SMART DIETER'S CHEATING GUIDE: Eat and Watch Pounds Melt Away (Perfect Paperback)
This is the "diet" book I've been waiting all my life for--easy to read, informative and above all, practical. Dr. Widroe confronts the myths and dilemmas that face a dieter. He is an author who understands human nature and gives examples on how a dieter can cheat smartly in a variety of social situations. I highly recommend this book.
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Diet Cheaters Go to the Head of the Class,
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This review is from: THE SMART DIETER'S CHEATING GUIDE: Eat and Watch Pounds Melt Away (Perfect Paperback)
Finally, a diet book that punctures the myth that the countless stream of diet books are full proof methods for weight loss. Psychiatrist Dr. Harvey J. Widroe, after many years of studying diet programs his patients had been following, invariably found that success was fleeting and failure the norm. From that starting point, he conceived a down-to-earth and sensible pathway to dieting.
"The Smart Dieter's Cheating Guide: Eat and Watch Pounds Melt Away," by Harvey J. Widroe, M.D., with Ron Kenner, makes the case that people are only human and easily given to temptation. Widroe's innovative approach, with a focus on the mindset of the dieter, allows the dieter to cheat-- but cheat smartly. This is not a crash program that excludes any one food group. Widroe allows you to have your cake and eat it, too; in lesser portions of course. But his strategy is anything but simplistic. It involves such things as shrewd restaurant ordering, and planning rewards in advance. In one chapter, How to eat Effectively, the reader is given space to write in his or her current cheating list and then devise a new, improved cheating list. There is fun to be had in candid confession. Perhaps most unique to this work are the human vignettes, where we get into the lives of husbands, wives and friends, as they confront the diet challenge and learn how to reap the benefits of smart cheating. This is a diet book for the thinking person who doesn't want to obsess over calories, nor suffer the sin of giving in to temptation. In appealing to our ability to conquer weight loss through the use of our own psychological tools, Widroe has turned an old axiom on its head: Cheaters can prosper--but only by being honest with themselves.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Cheat and Grow Thin,
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This review is from: THE SMART DIETER'S CHEATING GUIDE: Eat and Watch Pounds Melt Away (Perfect Paperback)
Finally, a diet book that lays out a sustainable plan and gets to the roots of the psychology of, first, overeating, but more importantly, learning to eat properly! The Smart Dieter's Cheating Guide provides powerful and specific psychological tools for controlling your food intake. It starts with the premise that all dieters are cheaters, and there's no use fighting it. What Dr. Widroe proposes is a fundamental shift in perception that helped me to burn calories instead of emotional energy. "Effective cheating" might sound like an oxymoron when applied to dieting, but this real-life approach carries the heft while you lose it. I really found it very helpful, and as a food writer, I'm constantly in the way of temptation.
J. M. Booe
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