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The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace
By Martha Beck
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'The Four Day Win' by Martha Beck
From The Publisher:
Not a conventional diet or exercise program, The Four Day Win combines evolutionary logic, psychology and neuroplasticity (the ability of the brain to restructure itself, which suggests ways to reshape our bodies) with strategies and success stories—plus large doses of humor and an insightful, straightforward approach—to teach the principles required to reverse weight issues.

Drawn from hundreds of hours interviewing weight losers, Dr. Beck reveals:

  • Why willpower-based dieting is doomed to fail.
  • How to step out of the conflict between the rule-making "Commander" (who bans all our favorite foods) and the rule-breaking "Resistor" (who gives in to cravings) and reach the "Watcher" (who is our happiest self).
  • What the latest research into the mind-body connection reveals about how our emotions affect our eating.

Breaking down the weight loss marathon into four-day intervals, Martha Beck provides effective strategies for changing the behaviors that make us fat. And if there is a relapse, readers take comfort in knowing they are just four days from turning it around.

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