I am really enjoying re-reading Fred Pescatore's Thin for Good. The 21st chapter is Additional Mind-Body Excercises and I thought I'd pass them on in this forum.

His program goes into the psychology of weight loss - which few other programs even touch on - which will enable you in your quest to be thin for good, just like the cover says! It works if you work it!

This is from the introduction:

During my years as Associate Medical Director of the Atkins Center, I realized the paradigm needed to change. I do not want people relegated to counting carbohydrates their entire lives - a new obsession that for some people has replaced the old obsessions about counting calories or fat grams. The problems with the old low-carb diets were especially evident with women, who found that eating all that meat wasn't enabling them to lose the weight they wanted.

Pescatore acknowledges that there are unique differences between men and women, and outlines specific dietary plans for different stages in women's lives.

Thin for Good: The One Low-Carb Diet That Will Finally Work for You
Fred Pescatore
ISBN: 0-471-36267-0
Hardcover
304 Pages
April 2000

Here's the first 25 Mind-Body Excercises:

1. Use the power of your mind to your advantage.
2. Know you will succeed.
3. Be happy with any weight loss
4. Be committed to the program
5. Have no expectations.
6. You have the power to make this fun.
7. Don’t let anyone defeat you
8. Trap into the positive energy of the universe.
9. Speak about the thinner you
10. Alert others to your new nutritional lifestyle program
11.You are only as successful as you allow yourself to be.
12. Don’t sabotage yourself.
13. Be the “I” in diet.
14. You are in control of what you eat.
15. Commitment is not a momentary thing.
16. Rid the house of the food you can’t eat.
17. Create the future.
18. Turn all negatives into positives
19. Learn something from this experience.
20. Know you will not cheat.
21. Be happy with your health gains.
22. Commit to weight loss
23. Expectaions lead to disappointment
24. Disappointment leads to failure.
25. You have the power to make this successful.

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Karen