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lisanussd's review against another edition
4.0
Best book on the relationship we have with food! It take Geneen Roth's ideas (don't overeat), and has many brain exercises to help you shift the way you act around food. I highly recommend it.
lucibello's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
I read the audiobook, but this book doesn't really lend itself to that because you're supposed to do exercises that last for 4 days before continuing on. I listened to the book more fluently. I really enjoyed her humor, I don't think that the techniques are as simple or as foolproof, but I think there's plenty to be learned.
bookfairy99's review against another edition
4.0
I love Martha Beck. She's Oprah's life coach, so you know she's got to be some kind of special mythical creature, right? Well--she is. Down to earth, funny, relatable, and incredibly insightful, Beck's approach to everything from finding your life purpose to losing weight is both incredibly well-researched and sprinkled with liberal doses of woo-woo. Which, frankly, is just how I like my advice doled out.
This book was everything I hoped it would be: practical, spiritual, and heavy on the psychoanalysis. I did, however, feel it lacked some critical information how to avoid trigger eating (say, at restaurants with friends, or at the movies -- which are my main overeating culprits). I would have liked more practical advice on being able to handle those types of situations, but overall I was pleased with what Beck offered in her approach to weight loss.
I particularly appreciated the focus on pleasure, acceptance, and compassion rather than deprivation, willpower and self-loathing, which is how most other diet books approach the topic. But then again, this isn't a diet book in the traditional sense. It's a mindset book, and it succeeds in achieving what it sets out to do: help you reach the sensation of 'thinner peace'.
This book was everything I hoped it would be: practical, spiritual, and heavy on the psychoanalysis. I did, however, feel it lacked some critical information how to avoid trigger eating (say, at restaurants with friends, or at the movies -- which are my main overeating culprits). I would have liked more practical advice on being able to handle those types of situations, but overall I was pleased with what Beck offered in her approach to weight loss.
I particularly appreciated the focus on pleasure, acceptance, and compassion rather than deprivation, willpower and self-loathing, which is how most other diet books approach the topic. But then again, this isn't a diet book in the traditional sense. It's a mindset book, and it succeeds in achieving what it sets out to do: help you reach the sensation of 'thinner peace'.
kdheuer's review against another edition
5.0
After losing and regaining the same 60 lbs twice (not counting all the attempts in between), I finally concluded that the key to taking weight off and keeping it off can't be just working out and eating right.
It had to be something psychological. Maybe something hardwired. Something I couldn't quite put my finger on.
Martha Beck's book showed me where exactly to put my finger, so to speak. She covered a myriad of obstacles that present themselves along one's weight loss journey.
And blessedly, she encourages the reader to adopt each healthier habit very slowly, by setting "ridiculously easy goals" and building upon them.
This, I can do. It's ridiculously easy!
I'm on day four of my first four day win.
Martha, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
It had to be something psychological. Maybe something hardwired. Something I couldn't quite put my finger on.
Martha Beck's book showed me where exactly to put my finger, so to speak. She covered a myriad of obstacles that present themselves along one's weight loss journey.
And blessedly, she encourages the reader to adopt each healthier habit very slowly, by setting "ridiculously easy goals" and building upon them.
This, I can do. It's ridiculously easy!
I'm on day four of my first four day win.
Martha, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
ecooper99's review against another edition
4.0
I love Martha Beck. She's Oprah's life coach, so you know she's got to be some kind of special mythical creature, right? Well--she is. Down to earth, funny, relatable, and incredibly insightful, Beck's approach to everything from finding your life purpose to losing weight is both incredibly well-researched and sprinkled with liberal doses of woo-woo. Which, frankly, is just how I like my advice doled out.
This book was everything I hoped it would be: practical, spiritual, and heavy on the psychoanalysis. I did, however, feel it lacked some critical information how to avoid trigger eating (say, at restaurants with friends, or at the movies -- which are my main overeating culprits). I would have liked more practical advice on being able to handle those types of situations, but overall I was pleased with what Beck offered in her approach to weight loss.
I particularly appreciated the focus on pleasure, acceptance, and compassion rather than deprivation, willpower and self-loathing, which is how most other diet books approach the topic. But then again, this isn't a diet book in the traditional sense. It's a mindset book, and it succeeds in achieving what it sets out to do: help you reach the sensation of 'thinner peace'.
This book was everything I hoped it would be: practical, spiritual, and heavy on the psychoanalysis. I did, however, feel it lacked some critical information how to avoid trigger eating (say, at restaurants with friends, or at the movies -- which are my main overeating culprits). I would have liked more practical advice on being able to handle those types of situations, but overall I was pleased with what Beck offered in her approach to weight loss.
I particularly appreciated the focus on pleasure, acceptance, and compassion rather than deprivation, willpower and self-loathing, which is how most other diet books approach the topic. But then again, this isn't a diet book in the traditional sense. It's a mindset book, and it succeeds in achieving what it sets out to do: help you reach the sensation of 'thinner peace'.
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