Review: An interesting book that teaches you how to be gentle on yourself when losing weight
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2013
What I really appreciated and learnt from this book is the typical cycle that we go through when it comes to weight loss, how it often doesn't work and how we can use a better approach.The author expertly illustrates how pain, suffering and frustration is created in the first place, through making a lot of effort to lose weight, when in reality all we are doing is being hard on ourselves. The harder we are on ourselves, the harder we need to work to make ourselves feel better; often the approaches we use to do are even worse for our health.The book proceeds to explain and motivate that what is needed to counter this type of self-created pain is acceptance that the `being hard on yourself' approach does not work and instead, learn to use our powers of thinking, choice and attitudes to be kind on ourselves. This is an interesting book and well worth a read.