Losing It?: The Psychology of Losing Weight and Never Finding it Again

By John Whitney

Book Overview

Losing It? The Psychology of Losing Weight and Never Finding it Again is a step-by-step guide to solving a weight problem once and for all -- without dieting -- as well as author John Whitney's personal story using this technique.

Whitney was inspired to lose over 100 pounds after attending a course on the Cornerstone life management method in 1983. Using this approach, the author solved a lifelong weight problem, maintains the weight loss to this day, and even managed to do something previously as unimaginable as running The New York Marathon.

In addition to assisting with the Cornerstone seminars, Whitney has written Losing It? to make the concepts available to a wider audience. He has maintained the weight loss for over 20 years without dieting, and continues to follow the Cornerstone Concept today.

The Cornerstones provide the infrastructure to lose weight permanently and the tools to re-invent yourself, as you truly want to be. If you have tried endless fad diets only to find yourself more miserable than when you started, Losing It? The Psychology of Losing Weight and Never Finding it Again provides the solution you have been seeking -- without dieting

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595315739
• ISBN13: 9780595315734
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Not a quick fix

This book has got to be the best I've ever read on the topic of weight loss. It addresses the actual issues behind being over weight, treating the over weight as a symptom of deeper issues. Beware, its not for any one that is looking for a quick fix, but it is the only book I've ever read (and I've read many!) that can actually offer a long term solution. Probably more for the person who has done many diets and is ready to consider the root of the problem. Its very exciting and gives real hope for an over haul on your entire life.

Great book!

Very thought provoking. No magic fixes or 'secret formulas' -- just getting to the root of the matter within. I liked the question about "Would a thin person eat that?" Of course, they would! The big difference is "Would a thin person eat this NOW, and THIS MUCH!" Honest answers will product honest results. I was sitting across from a thin co-worker at a company outing when a package of big cookies was passed our way. My old paradigm said "They are free, they taste good, everyone is alloted at least one etc." So,I took one. My thin co-worker said "No thanks, I'm good." After all, we had just finished lunch. THAT'S the difference......

It's almost like the book was written to boost me

Absolutely fantastic, having been fat and having tried all of the fad diets, I'm relating to every word, relationships, respect, clothes, self worth, virtually every word applies. It's almost like the book was written to 'boost' me at this exact time in my life, I will keep losing weight, my epiphany was clear, the paradigm's have shifted, and I've run in to some resistance from society, not that they wanted me heavy, but the new energy level is not always going over too well. I'm down 66 pounds. Health, energy, everything about size and self worth is improved.

It does work

I am a 40 year old male who has been using (what I have always called) the "Journal" method for the past 12 years - something I thought I had "invented" myself. The secret is having the Journal (writing down such things as "had a "quarter-pound bag" of jelly beans" etc. was, for me, more than I could bear!). Self discipline is essential. Anyone who is disciplined and who uses a Journal FAITHFULLY, Will succeed. When I would contemplate a chocolate bar, and then remember that, later, I would have to enter that in my diary, it just was not worth the effort for me to eat, and then write it down. At 40, I am in better physical shape than ever in my life. The Journal and Self Control ... it does work.

I feel that a new me just arose

I love it and to my astonishment it is so truth and real. As I was reading this I thought of various ocassions that I went into our cafeteria here at work and saw skinny people getting anything they wanted on the menus and I thought "Why can't I eat everything like they do and still look great", but then I went off getting my soups and salads and other "healthy" items. It's like finding a light bulb that was in me turn bright and shiny, but throughout all this time It was just off. Yesterday I thought "this is easy" but even this morning I had a difficult time starting out the day and rating my hunger between 1 and 10. To my amazement I found out that it is not as easy as I thought because first of all I have no concept of this feeling (the hunger and full levels). But everyday I will 1)think of 3 agreements and try to keep them 2)Be active for 20 minutes and watch my pulse rate 3)rate my hunger from 1-10 4)Take 10 minutes each day to relax and destress my self. I feel that a new me just arose and for the first time I was yielded in the right direction. Thank you.