The sequel to the bestselling Slimming with Pete. While its hugely popular predecessor treated us to the fascinating story of the first Lighten Up group, this highly readable manual gets straight down to business, communicating in a crystal-clear manner the exact techniques used in Pete's famous Lighten Up programme. It appeals for two reasons. First, it is an easy-to-handle book with many cartoon illustrations and clear, focused blocks of text. It is, simply, a pleasure to use and peruse. Second, it offers the most enjoyable and comprehensive way to "get into" the Lighten Up programme. The exercises are presented separately and lucidly, and are arranged to form a complete and easy-to-follow scheme for slimming. And what a scheme it is! So effective is this slimming programme that even The Sunday Times reviewer got "hooked"! For the first time this programme is available in the form of a completely user-oriented workbook a guide to slimming using Pete's fun and effective techniques. Will attract many existing Pete fans, and undoubtedly create an army of new ones.
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Pete Cohen has worked in the Health and Fitness industry for twelve years as a sports psychologist, personal trainer and lecturer in sports science and nutrition, and is well known for his work with teams and individuals. He is currently working as sports psychologist and motivator to Kent County Cricket Club and the British Blind Cricket Team as well as with a member of well-known athletes. Judith Verity has twenty-eight years of varied experience as a probation officer, counsellor, trainer, businesswoman and writer. In the 1980's she ran her own training and office management company, before concentrationg on teaching and publishing her ideas. Judith has a particular interest in dieting problems and has worked with many people suffering from eating disorders.
(from the Introduction): Seven years ago, Pete noticed that many of his clients had a hidden agenda they were more concerned with weight loss than fitness. He decided to work directly with this problem and set out to do his own research into weight control and dieting. When he discovered that dieting was part of the problem rather than the solution, he began to develop the Lighten Up method. He was shocked to discover that slimming was an obsession for so many people who spent their lives thinking about food and what they weren't allowed to eat. They'd stopped being themselves and enjoying life. And despite all this suffering, or, as Pete believes, because of it, only 5% of dieters ever manage to maintain their target weight.
Feeding the obsession
Dieting is obsessional behaviour. It's not normal behaviour. And most conventional diets cleverly encourage the obsession prompting slimmers to count calories, think about what they can't eat and combine food in complicated ways. Focusing on the problem like this feeds the obsession as well as the fat cells.
But we can't blame big business and the media for everything, and ultimately, our own surplus fat is our own responsibility. The first step to staying slim is to acknowledge that. Then we can change. Before Pete wrote this book he studied slim people and people with weight problems and the Lighten Up method is about the difference that makes the difference. The techniques you will read about and put into practice in this book have always been used by slim, healthy people. And by people who used to be overweight until they made positive, permanent changes in their lives.
There are no external solutions (like diets) to an internal problem. Pete is aiming to help you re-learn the knowledge your body was born with. Knowledge which your conscious mind has decided, for lots of social and emotional reasons, to override. This is hardly surprising: there's a lot of social pressure to disconnect yourself from your body's natural regulating system.
When you were a baby you ate only when you were hungry. Your stomach told your brain when it was full. But gradually, you may have been persuaded to eat for other reasons. Parents sometimes feed babies because they don't know why they are crying, and throughout your childhood you were told to finish what was on your plate or to eat because it was breakfast time, regardless of whether you were hungry. You learned that certain foods are treats or rewards and you learned to use food for comfort.
It's no wonder that food holds a vice-like grip on our emotions and that our relationship with it is complex. And often the food we eat in non-hunger situations is sweet and fattening and leaves us feeling miserable and bloated. Whatever we eat when we aren't hungry gets turned into fat and stored for later.
This book is designed to support you in making powerful changes over the next eight weeks as you start to gain more control of your life.
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