The Beck Diet Solution

imageI’m an emotional eater. In fact, I’m a food addict. I don’t say that in a cavalier fashion, as someone who might say “I’m addicted to these brownies” or something. I genuinely have a problem with using food to avoid or stuff emotions, just as an alcoholic, drug, sex or gambling addict has with their drug of choice. Sadly, food is not my only addiction, but I’ve been in therapy for several years dealing with my primary addiction, and I’ve been sober from that for 2 1/2 years now. Unfortunately, getting sober in my primary addiction has led to an increase in my secondary addiction-food. One resource that I’ve found to be very helpful is The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person by Judith Beck. I’ve had some really good results from other cognitive therapy, and I find the exercises in this book to be incredibly helpful in changing my thinking about food, and they’re pretty easy and not very time consuming. This book works well with any diet because it doesn’t tell you which diet plan to choose, it focuses instead on dealing with your own distorted thinking around food, and learning to change that thinking to have a healthier relationship with food. If you’re struggling with staying on a diet because of emotional eating, whether it’s eating due to depression, boredom, stress, grief, or any other emotion, you may find this to be as valuable a resource as I have. I fell off the wagon back in August of 2008, but I’m starting over on Weight Watchers and in order to reinforce the changes in my thinking and hopefully get the weight off and keep it off, I’ll be posting about my progress through this book.

Posted by Matt on 01/06 at 09:58 AM
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Found you thru comment on Doug Ruhs Penn video. I’m on my way back into therapy after a couple year hiatus. Really need to get back to different thinking on food. Sounds like you and I have a similar attachment to food. And since I don’t drink, smoke, or control people anymore, my outlet(or inlet) is food. Huge stress eater.The book sounds interesting. In anything, renewing your mind seems to be the start to reform. Wish I could keep that idea more in the forefront. Good luck. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

Posted by Joni Ruhs  on  01/07  at  06:13 PM

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