Getting There Staying There - Softcover

Klein, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970943903 ISBN 13: 9780970943903

Publisher: Thomson Publications (MA), 2001

Synopsis

Formerly obese, Jennifer Klein found genuine long-term weight loss success only after abandoning diets forever! This health focused, first person narrative provides refreshing new weight loss insights and lots of guidance. People who struggle with their weight are different. Klein explains why. The book's many before and after photos testify to Klein's years of struggle and her personal, triumphant, 70 pound weight loss. Often humorous and always real, Getting There Staying There will relieve and inspire every frustrated, chronic dieter.

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About the Author

Having successfully lost more than 70 pounds, Jennifer Klein was chosen to participate in a weight-control behavioral study at that University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

For more than seven years she has professionally coached weight loss, one on one. Through her business, Gain Control Not Weight, she has given hundreds of clients the confidence and skills to lose weight and become fit. She is a certified personal trainer and a certified nutrition specialist. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts – Boston with a degree in English and women's studies.

In 1995, she was featured as a Success Story in Shape magazine. Her weight loss accomplishment was also profiled in First magazine in1998. She was twice invited to appear on NBC's Real Life and has produced and hosted her own local television program. As a lecturer, she has addressed weight loss topics at health clubs and major corporations. Boston's News Center 7 lists Jennifer Klein as one of its weight loss information resources.

She lives in the Boston area with her husband.

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Chapter 1
Why We’re Different

All or Nothing at All

I was invited to a wedding. I was worried. Social situations where food is involved always make me nervous. Very nervous. I have several “trigger foods,” foods that set me off and lead to out-of-control eating. Cheese is one of them.

What if they serve cheese?

As I left for the wedding, I gave myself a strict order: No cheese. Cheese is my number one trigger food. I didn’t dare eat it. I simply couldn’t have it and that was that.

I felt in control, confident—until I saw the gigantic, golden pyramid of cheese at the buffet.

“Okay, one piece. Just one,” I told myself.

It tasted sooooo good. I began to bargain with myself. One more won’t hurt. Then, I promised myself, I will stop.

The next thing I knew I had entered the “numb zone.” I was no longer in touch with myself—my body or my brain. I was spiraling out of control. One piece became five, then ten. By the time I stopped I had eaten nearly forty cubes of cheese. Forty cubes!

Would I ever have a normal relationship with food?

Here’s the surprise. This episode, this feeding frenzy, this out-of-control event, took place after I had lost more than seventy pounds, reached my ideal weight and maintained it for more than eight years.

Ten years ago I weighed over two hundred pounds, though I’m only five feet two. Today, though I’m at my ideal weight, I still occasionally have out-of-control episodes with food.

Hunger Meter

Everyone is born with a “hunger meter,” the name I’ve given the inner gauge that’s supposed to register hunger, fullness, and everything in between. Mine is defective. It generally operates in extremes. I know “starving.” I know “stuffed.” I don’t know genuine hunger. I know when I should stop eating and I know when I’ve eaten “enough,” but I don’t always stop. And, when it should, my hunger meter doesn’t register “full.” I often don’t recognize the difference between “wanting” food and “needing” food.

I used to think this problem was unique to me. But after six years of coaching others, I learned that all of us who struggle with our weight have the same problem.

We all have a defective hunger meter.

When I started my weight-loss business I was nutrition focused. Just show people what to eat, I thought, and you’ll solve their weight problem. Just help people learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy food.

But client after client told me the same thing, “I know what I should eat, Jennifer. I just don’t know how to stop!”

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomson Publications (MA)
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0970943903
• ISBN 13: 9780970943903
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 147