Not everyone who struggles with unhealthy eating habits fits into one category. Everyone eats for different reasons-and figuring out what those reasons are is the first step toward being healthy without going hungry. In Psyched to Be Skinny, Doctor of Clinical Psychology Denise Wood and nutritionist Susie Garcia offer tips tailored to your specific eating "type," suggested workouts and recipes, and solution-focused and cognitive behavioral exercises-a whole arsenal of tools that will help you steer clear of unhealthy foods and eating habits, develop a more positive attitude about food, and start visualizing a new, healthier self. With Wood and Garcia's help, you can make real, sustainable changes to your daily life that will have you looking and feeling your best in no time ... and putting away the diet books for good.

Successful weight loss is mostly psychological. The psychological part is about psyching yourself to start, stick to it, and keep it off. If you only have a food plan and exercise, you won't have what you need to lose weight. But if you pay attention to the psychological side, that's when losing weight becomes a lot easier. And that's what this series is all about. If you are having trouble starting the weight-loss process, Volume 1. Psych Yourself to START is a good place to get help.

If you’ve been struggling with your weight, you know how hard it can be to lose those extra pounds and keep them off. In the groundbreaking Think Thin, Be Thin, nationally prominent psychotherapist Doris Wild Helmering and award-winning health writer Dianne Hales assert that the true key to a healthy body weight is a healthy attitude toward food and exercise. Their logic is simple: Your brain ultimately controls what you eat and whether you work out. If you change the way you think, you can change the way you behave. And you can lose weight. Using proven psychological strategies and scientifically based exercises, you will learn how to harness your thoughts to transform your behavior, body, and life. With practical advice on such troublesome issues as curbing emotional eating, motivating yourself to exercise, and overcoming diet plateaus, this book is the ideal complement to any diet and weight-loss program.

Learn the secret to losing weight and keeping it off in this “well-written guidebook that gets to the root of overweight: the way people think about food” (Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of 365 Prescriptions for the Soul). If you are constantly battling against your weight, it’s time to stop yo-yo dieting and start developing a healthy relationship with food. In Skinny Thinking you will learn how to rethink your food choices, eating habits, lifestyle, and more. Author Laura Katleman-Prue has helped numerous people—including herself—with her simple, five-step Skinny Thinking approach. “Skinny Living is a remarkable compendium of tools and information that guide readers to a healthy body weight not by providing a new fad diet, but by challenging them to permanently change their relationship with food, their thinking, and their bodies. . . . If you devote yourself to implementing these powerful tools, you will heal your body, mind, and spirit and reap the rewards of an infinitely happier and healthier life” (Alan Gass, MD, FACC, from the foreword).

Making a great start is crucial when you want to lose weight. All the help you need to get going is right here in this first volume of a three-volume set: Psych Your Diet: A Daily Dose Volume 1. Psych Yourself to START. Written by a psychologist, these three books show a woman how to make the personal changes needed for each weight-loss phase.

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a bathing suit next summer. To make the case, The Hungry Brain takes readers on an eye-opening journey through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never before been available to a general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain undermines our weight goals and transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim. Along the way, it explores how the human brain works, revealing how this mysterious organ makes us who we are.