The CAMP System: Learning to Live in Balance and Harmony with Food

By Frederick Burggraf

The CAMP system is a step-by-step guide to a new way of eating. In today’s increasingly dark tangle of diet programs, fads and outrageous promises, the CAMP system stands out as a clear, simple... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970600607
• ISBN13: 9780970600608
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: DayOne Publishing
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

If you truley believe that diets don't work this book is so worth it!

Let me first say that I have maintained a 20 pound weight loss for over 20 years, and it has been an everyday struggle. After finally getting sick and tired of dieting and above average amounts of daily exercising I was looking for something else. After reading "The rules of normal eating" and "Am I hungry" I was finally ready to put dieting way behind me and get on with my life. With this book I finally learned to eat with intention, really feel satisfied with food, not deprive my self and stop overeating. The system will really work for you if you are ready to give up dieting and food rules. I am still amazed at how little food I need to eat to feel satisfied and energized. When I was counting "Points" many times I was eating just because I "hadn't used all my points", not because I was hungry, and I was not necesarily eating foods that I enjoyed I was just eating food that fit in to "the plan" Today I eat healthy foods that I enjoy in amounts that are satisfying and I am maintaining my weightloss. The author also has a wonderful Program on CD about mindful eating which really ties everything together check out his website at [...].

A blue print for change

For those who are familiar with the diet literature this book does not give model recipes or nutritional guidance on the proper balance between carbs v. protein but is a more comprehensive treatment of the major factors which contribute to over eating. Burggraf provides the reader with a clear, common sense blue print for understanding what forces drove him and most of us to over eat and then presents a concise yet comprehensive approach to making fundamental changes in how we deal with food. For anyone who has tried to diet and failed this may be the book that provides the guidance they need - if they're willing to give it a serious shot.

A Weight Loss System You Can Live With

As a psychologist, I have seen scores of clients struggle with weight control. Although fad diets and strict calorie restriction may work in the short run, excess weight almost inevitably creeps back on. Worse, dieting is the first step in the development of many eating disorders. Frederick Burggraf's CAMP system is not a diet and does not leave its followers feeling deprived. Instead, the CAMP system is a new approach to food itself. Using Burggraf's techniques, one learns to appreciate and savor what he or she is eating. Food takes on a deeper, richer taste. In conventional diets, food is viewed as an enemy; in the CAMP system, it is seen as a blessing. Yet almost paradoxically, this approach allows one to lose weight by savoring and enjoying each bite rather than eating mindlessly. It is truly an approach to food that one can live with--in gratitude and appreciation. I recommend it highly.

A Psychotherapist's View

This is a small gem of a book for those folks who've tried everything and did not keep that weight off, long term. (Everything, that is, but the CAMP Program.) I referred one of my counseling clients to attend one of Fred Burggraf's series of four CAMP sessions after we had been working on her weight difficulties for quite a while. She had all the intellectual understanding but the principles outlined in this book helped her to begin to really practice mindfulness in eating -- plus the other parts of the program -- and she says, "that has made all the difference" -- her pounds are coming off and she knows this time, they will stay off since this is definitely not a diet program but a "quality of life for a lifetime program." So much of this practical, easily understood book is directly related to learning to think about and experience food in a new way and to eat differently. I also see this approach as a metaphor for a mindful and certainly spiritual approach to living each day to the fullest. Yes, it is primarily about achieving balance and harmony in the eating arena but if one follows the authors suggestions, it will lead to balance and harmony as a way of life. Lastly, the author serves as a role model in the best sense of that term. He depicts his own struggles with his weight and the illness that was made worse by the weight. The "participatory" development of his method is truly his special gift to the world -- by transforming his own pain, mental and physical, into health and creativity, by changing his attitudes and habits, he invites others to follow in his footsteps. Bravo! Addendum: The CAMP of the title is an acronym representing the four primary hubs of Mr. Burggraf's method. It is only an interesting synchronicity that I share the name of this book.

Finally, something that makes sense!

Finally there is a new way of looking at eating that makes sense. This book introduces a system that gives you a new way of looking at food. It's not a diet, and it doesn't involve eating only rabbit food and exercising like you're going for the marathon. Yet, it works. I was shocked after starting the program to realize that I had been rushing through virtually every meal, just shoving food in my mouth, not thinking about the taste, whether I was hungry, whether I was full, etc. The CAMP system made me slow down, and I've even started cooking again instead of hitting the nearest drive thru or grabbing whatever was around.