Review: Reinforcing your willpower to resist food craving
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2012
As a recently diagnosed diabetic, I've had to get serious about losing weight and keeping it off. I've been fairly successful, but it's the between-meals snacking that threatens to undo my successes. Linda Schneider's little book "Mind Over Mouth" looked promising, with some tricks to help cut down the snack cravings, so I checked it out. She's come up with twelve techniques to help reduce the automatic eating that makes dieting so difficult.Some of the tricks involve physical actions such as drinking a lot of water. That's a no-brainer, since most books on weight loss recommend this, but the author's ideas on when to drink and how much to drink may surprise you. Other tricks involve conjuring up the mental imagery to reinforce your willpower. Technique #4, "That's Disgusting," sounds gross - and it is - but that's the point of it. Technique #10, "Smellicious," is counterintuitive, but if it works as well as the author claims, it would make it a lot easier to walk by a bakery or donut shop!In the back of the book are some additional techniques that didn't make the top 12, but some of these may be useful for some people. I've used one of these techniques ("Bargain with Yourself") with some success. There are several other techniques that are worth trying.As a reminder, the book includes a link to a printable "Mind Over Mouth" chart that lists the 12 techniques with brief summaries of each.The bottom line: A very helpful collection of practical techniques for reducing food cravings and reinforcing your willpower to resist them.