Mind your diet
Subtitle: the psychology behind sticking to any diet
By: Melinda Blackman
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Philadelphia, PA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781436309233
Subjects: Diet; Psychological aspects; Food habits; Weight loss
Description: Goal of book is to provide you with the life-long mental tools to adhere to your diet plan. Points out several marketing techniques that thwart our efforts toward having a balanced daily diet; shows you how to apply psychological techniques "the right way" to help you stick to your diet plans and live a healthy lifestyle; and helps you learn to control the many situations and thoughts, related to eating, that our parents helped to control when we were children.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: You and your environment; title: Going public with it; title: The mental gastric bypass procedure; title: Food fantasies; title: "No" is the operant word; title: Call in the reinforcements; title: The mood-food connection; title: Mind games; title: Portion distortion; title: Planning ahead for headaches, havoc and dining out; title: Stocking your kitchen for you and non-dieters; title: Exercising control; title: Several glasses a day will keep the fat away; title: Sleep on it; title: My mentor; title: DIET (Do I eat this?).