Description
Book SynopsisThis clinically tested, comprehensive course based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques can provide a longer-term solution to your weight problems.
You''ll come to understand your own psychological blocks to managing weight and discover how to sustain a healthy lifestyle. Learn how you can:
- Develop the motivation to change your eating and activity
- Respond to emotional eating in a helpful way
- Work with the thoughts and emotions getting in the way of change
- Work out a simple, healthy and sustainable eating plan that fits with your daily routine
- Find easy ways to add more physical activity into your everyday life
Overcoming self-help guides use clinically proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical. Many guides in the Overcoming series are recommended under the Reading Well scheme.
Series editor: Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper
Trade Review'In conjunction with other weight-loss approaches [behaviour therapy] was more effective in reducing weight or delaying weight regain [than diet alone or drug therapy] either at the end of treatment or at the 1-year follow-up or both'
US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
