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Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
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Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Tue Jul 10 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

356.0. "Books on Mental Attitude" by AKOV03::HAMEL (Ken Hamel) Sat Sep 17 1988 18:26

    Seems that the market is filled with "diet" books .. specifying
    diets of all types.  However, are folks familiar/experienced with
    reading books which help mental attitude/self esteem/willpower during
    the weightloss process?  I tend to create my own diets (as I don't
    like the structure most published diets promote) and have done ok,
    at best.
    
    I do, tho, seem to be more successful at things which I've developed
    a mental strength for .. i.e. I know what's bad to eat (and I feel
    incredibly guilty after I've ~cheated~) and know what one should
    eat so perhaps I'm looking for a book which will discuss ways to
    change my attitudes towards food (maybe something that will convince
    me that raw carrot sticks taste as good as praline truffles :-) ..
    perhaps a little extreme) ... a book that will put the concept of
    "food" and "our daily lives" into the proper perspective. 
    
    I guess I need some mental fortification .. I've always been between
    15 and 35 pounds overweight (currently around 15) and want to
    desperately get to a point where I'm satisfied, once and for all.
    Weight has been (or I've let it become) a crutch in many things
    in my life and wish to conquer it ..  it seems that our society
    is becoming much more intolerant of this issue (overweight) .. at
    least that's been my experience (I've been {and in} relationships
    where this factor was a serious issue and distanced us over time) ...
    
    In any case, sorry to ramble .. any titles you could offer would
    be appreciative.
    
    Thanks much,
    
    Ken                                       
    

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356.1An alternative, just a thoughtCOOKIE::WILCOXMon Sep 19 1988 14:5411
Ken,  although you asked about books and food and attitude, I'd
like to throw in my 2 cents for something else I have found
extremely helpful.  Namely the Investment in Excellence seminar.
My former unit manager put all those of us who wanted to go through
it.  It was fantastic.  It really helps a person see him or her
self as worthy (i.e., you deserve to weigh less).

Don't know if Digital is into it as much as we used to be.

Liz