Product Description

This easy-to-follow workbook teaches readers how to differentiate between psychological and physiological hunger, and identify the thoughts and feelings that trigger the desire for food. The authors show how to keep a food diary, take a more active approach to daily life, and maintain weight loss through self-observation. This new edition discusses the pros and cons of the latest diet drugs and offers a proven weight-loss program that is based on changing behaviour. Filled with illustrations, charts, tables and worksheets that help the reader succeed, the guide is a truly unique tool.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1306346 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 338 pages

From the Publisher
A realistic approach to weight loss for the jaded dieter.
This newly revised edition of Habits Not Diets by JamesM. Ferguson, MD, and Cassandra Ferguson focuses on changing eating habits as a means of weight control. This sensible approach, developed at Stanford University Medical Center, puts the emphasis on how to eat rather than what. Habits Not Diets uses the cognitive aspects of weight management — including thinking skills, stress management, and problem solving—to help readers analyze individual eating habits, break undesirable patterns, and establish new ones. Over 20 years in print, Habits Not Diets has benefited thousands by sharing the secret to lifetime weight control.

Each easy-to-read chapter contains psychological insights, practical tips and specially-designed worksheets to deal with key aspects of eating behavior.

Step-by-step the authors show readers how to:

• Keep a Food Diary • Take a more active approach to daily life • Differentiate between psychological and physiological hunger • Identify the thoughts and feelings that trigger the desire for food • Reduce reflex response to external food stimuli • Maintain weight loss through self-observation

1 Introduction to Habit Awareness 2 Home Decalorization: What You Don't Have, You Won't Eat 3 Cue Elimination: The Signals That Lead You Astray 4 Being Active: The Difference Between Success and Failure 5 Being Active (continued): Fitness Versus Fatness 6 Maintenance: Keys for Survival 7 Behavior Chains: One Thing Leads to Another 8 The Act: Eating—Changing Your Style 9 Planning: Heading Off the Urges 10 Cue Elimination (Part Two): Switching More Signals 11 Time to Eat Out: How to Do It 12 Maintenance Week: You Deserve It 13 How We Think Is How We Eat: Think Before You Bite 14 Dealing with Feelings: Think Before You Bite 15 Stress: Excess Pressure 16 Couples: Is Your Family Fattening? 17 Problem Solving: The Key to Self-Help 18 Maintenance Week 19 Living and Personal Goals: How to Cope 20 Snacks, Cues, and Holidays: How to Celebrate 21 The End and Beginning: Here's to a New Life— and Lifestyle

"As good a book as you’re likely to discover on the subject... Inspiring." —Cosmopolitan

"Environmental Nutrition highly recommends Habits Not Diets for anyone on a weight-loss mission, as well as for those who just seek greater awareness about their eating habits." —Environmental Nutrition

Dr. James M. Ferguson, MD, is a nationally prominent clinical psychiatrist specializing in weight control and the treatment of eating disorders. Cassandra Ferguson, daughter of Dr. James Ferguson, is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz Communication program, and is currently writing for the Harvard University Gazette.

Over 80,000 copies sold!