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A review by ecooper99
The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace by Martha N. Beck
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'.