Thin from Within: The Powerful Self-Coaching Program for Permanent Weight Loss

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I:: The Essentials of Weight Mastery 7

Chapter 1—What You Need to Know About Weight Mastery 9

Chapter 2—Why It Is So Hard to Just Say No! 28

Chapter 3—Why You Crave Food, and What You Can Do About It 40

Part II:: The Path to Weight Mastery 59

Chapter 4—Getting Tough with Your Impulses and Cravings 61

Chapter 5—Adopting the Food Journal Advantage 76

Chapter 6—Cultivating a Resilient Attitude 89

Part III:: Three Crucial Steps Toward Weight Mastery 107

Chapter 7—The Self-Talk Approach to Dismantling Stubborn Habits 109

Chapter 8—Step One:: Separate Facts from Fictions 119

Chapter 9—Step Two:: Say No! to Ruminative Thoughts 137

Chapter 10—Step Three:: Let Go and Self-Trust 153

Part IV:: Lifelong Success with Weight Mastery 169

Chapter 11—Liberate Yourself from Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Sabotage 171

Chapter 12—Food Addiction or Compulsion:: Where Do You Stand? 189

Chapter 13—Beyond Weight Loss:: Achieving Lifelong Weight Mastery 204

Index 223