Review of Lighten Up! Lose Weight!: A 10 Week Self-Hypnosis Program (Paperback)

Some good thoughts and ideas.But sometimes you have to decode what the author is trying to say because the editing and writing is so poor.The book seems more like a rough draft before corrections were made. It is full of dropped words, typos and sentences that seem to have been randomly cut and pasted together. Here's one example - the well-known scripture from Ecclesiastes is quoted as "a time to read and a time to sew", when the words are actually "a time to reap and a time to sow" - obviously totally different meanings.While such errors add some humor, they also distort or obscure what the author is trying to say, as well as show a lack of attention to quality.

The ideas for self-hypnosis are very basic - and mostly focused on affirmations.Some of the suggestions the author tells you to make to your subconscious mind could produce negative results, such as that sugar is a poison to your body.There are many types of sugars in many kinds of foods, including fresh fruits, vegetables and healthy carbohydrates.You definitely don't want to teach your body to react to sugars as a poison.

As a psychotherapist and healing facilitator, trained in various forms of clinical hypnosis I had hoped this would be a good book to recommend to my clients, but I cannot recommend it to anyone.I gave it two stars because some of the content is useful, and the author is well-intentioned.However readers should be cautious in the use of some of the suggestions/affirmations recommended. In general, any suggestion or affirmation that has negative wording or possible negative consequences should discarded.



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A step by step 10 week program of using hypnosis techniques to lose weight without starving yourself to death. Diet equals deprivation. Getting to your repressed emotions equals liberation - from all diets. Self-hypnosis through the power of self-talk and the power of your own mind, helps you to make better choices, by using self-hypnosis suggestions to improve your eating habits so you won't want that juicy hamburger and wonder why you ever stooped so low to eat that hormone-laden grease patty in the first place. You are already hypnotized through your negative self-talk, now you can change negative programming into life-changing "CAN-DO".
Lighten Up! Lose Weight! is a do-it-yourself project that gives you the answers to why you "yo-yo" and how stuffing and holding in anger and guilt contributes to fat.
The problem is not losing weight - you've done that dozens of times. THE PROBLEM IS IN MAINTAINING WEIGHT LOSS, and this program gets you in touch as never before with the reasons you don't, serving up interactive exercises on "checking your motive" on why you eat inappropriately.

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Review of Taming the Beast Within (Paperback)

"You are what you eat".I'm sure we're all familiar with that saying.Well, it's what this book is about. MitchWeiss takes us on a journey from our origins to the present, showing that we are the result of natural selection. As such the experiences and behaviors that ensured our survival as a species are coded into our genes and, even more intriguingly, are stored in that vast data base of our subconscious. Not all of the behaviors that ensured our survival were noble. They manifest themselves today in our aggression and in our racism: thus the title 'Taming The Beast Within'.
Perhaps the most speculative premise is the one that suggests that our subconscious may carry recorded memories of the past existence of our ancestors, that 'some of our ancestor's actual conscious memories downloaded into our head by our genetic instructions'.That would explain the feeling of déjà vu that we all experience. Even a talented child prodigy may have inherited the talents of a number of direct ancestors.
A work of such scope and depth as this would be remiss if it ignored religion. And it does not. It challenges our beliefs, our insistence that our God is the true and only one and that our neighbor's is the false one.And of course our neighbor believes the exact same thing.
These are just glimpses into this ambitious work and, in some ways, do it an injustice because you may be tempted to think that this is one of those boring scholarly tomes that you avoid like the plague.Well, it isn't.It's very accessible and very readable.The author's conversational style is engaging and seductive.He can take a thesis of this magnitude, from the atomic structure of matter to the chemistry of the brain, and present it in language that all of us will find interesting and even entertaining.
So what is this book all about.To borrow the author's own words his 'intention is to 'indict' the conventional wisdom and ideologies so that they may stand trial using common sense rules of evidence'.
Let the trial begin.I can't wait !

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Taming The Beast Within, by M.H. Weiss, is the ultimate self-help book. The logical and believable secrets of successful weight control, great mental and physical health, personal confidence and success become crystal clear as this story of life's reality unfolds.
Surely a controversial book, Taming The Beast Within attacks all aspects of the conventional wisdom and prevalent ideologies without mercy. The Author lays out a superb case for the realistic, spontaneous and natural origin of life through a believable journey from the beginning of our universe until the chaotic time in which we live. The open-minded and curious reader will find this book witty, informative, arrogant, sarcastic and charming, all at the same time.
New facts about many aspects of the origins of life, learned from recent genetic and archaeological discoveries, give real explanations to many of life's mysteries. The reader gets a logical and plausible look into the mechanisms at work behind phenomena like the sixth sense, deja vu, premonitions, hunches, intuition plus an intimate understanding of the real causes of mankind's seemingly animalistic behavior. Taming The Beast Within may well be the most important book you have ever read.

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Review of Nutrition: West meets East (Paperback)

Reading this book has changed the way I view the world and live my life.This book has helped me change my eating habits and motivated me to exercise, and now I have lost fat and am gaining muscle, and I really can feel the difference.This book is different from other nutrition books I have read because it takes into account the best from modern medicine and ancient nutrition form the East. I recommend this book to anyone that is interested in changing their lives and becoming healthier.

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This book is an exploration of both traditional and modern scientific views of the relationship between food and health, from ancient medicine to modern food guide pyramids and health risk factors. Food is not just about taste and identity, but definitely beneficial or detrimental to our health and strength. Modern medicine, while powerful and exact, still lacks many insights about traditional knowledge, about the healing power of nutrients and herbs. What we eat, how we eat, and when we eat, the W.H.W. of nutrition, affects our well-being and cultural identity. This book has been written with an ever-increasing flood of information about nutritional values, dietary supplements, and medicinal plants in mind and to ease any confusion that might exist in the reader's mind.

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Review of Thera-Diet (Paperback)

A very good program that helped me understand and change my eating behaviors. A lot of these principles can be applied in many areas of improving life through changes. Excellent hypnosis audio.

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Don't read this book unless you serious about losing weight. This program is different in that it utilizes a non diet based approach. Unlike the majority of diet based programs that often have high failure rates, this program raises awareness of the internal self belief system and its influence on ones eating behaviors. There is a reason that you have been disappointed upon losing weight, only to regain it over and over again. Now a true life style change will emerge upon recognizing the influence and reframing those self harming internal beliefs that effect ones eating behaviors. This book can also be a resource for the Lap Band & other weight loss surgery recipients. This is an eating behavioral modification program that will impact your life. Now you have discovered the power to set yourself free from the imprisonment of fat and live life to the fullest. As an Added Bonus, one can download a motivation hypnotic audio program onto a blank CDR disk. This can be done from my website with any computer. This will assist in motivating a person to adhere to my weight loss program.

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Review of Forget That Diet And Eat What You Need: The Tao of Eating (Paperback)

I HATE diets because they transform eating into an exercise in deprivation and discipline, obsession and distraction, failure and self-hatred.I LOVE this book because it transforms eating into self-discovery, pleasure, adventure, the freedom to feel, savor and experiment.Whenever the thought of eating, or not eating, becomes stressful for me, I re-read a few sections to remind myself of the sort of relationship that I have discovered I want to have with food, and to re-establish that relationship.

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The cover and title assume two things, firstly that the author has had a cancer experience and secondly that the book is positive and somewhat humorous in nature. Both analogies are correct. Then we see that the author puts the word "Adventurer" after his name. Those three simple observations sum up this book. Sean Boru's autobiography is rich in texture, the texture of life and all the events (adventures) that he has experienced. From his birth in 1953 to early 2004, Sean takes us on a roller coaster ride around the globe, from emigrating at five from his native Ireland, to travelling later in life to the Seychelles, Africa, Madagascar, Norway and Holland, where he worked and lived. He has experienced drug addiction, divorce, a shooting, making and losing two fortunes, being imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, two bankruptcies and a kidnapping in the Comoro Islands. The book reads like a novel, but the great stories are all true, they are funny, yet often dramatic and are backed up with wonderful photos. As the chapters unfold we get to know the real Sean Boru; Sean holds no bar,to all his pluses and minuses, he reveals his vulnerability and his strengths, his humour and his serious side. All these adventures, as he calls them, helped him at the age of 46 to battle Lymphoma cancer, not once but three times in four years, he then got Diabetes from the treatment and beat that as well. He is awaiting a Stem Cell transplant, an immune system boost, as the book goes to print in March 2004. Sean is full of positive charged energy. He hopes the reader will learn from it, how to achieve their dreams and overcome any adversity. Whilst being treated for cancer, Sean changed his lifestyle, and in five years he has not only overcome bad health, but is now an accomplished actor with many stars as friends and he has worked with some of the top A-list stars on some of the best known films. The book is full of adventure, positive thoughts, humour and hope. As the text on the cover says "A remarkable true story of an extraordinary life", from which we can all learn.

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Review of A Thinking Person's Step by Step Guide to Weight Loss & Exercise Program (Paperback)

I really enjoyed reading this book and found it refreshingly helpful.It provided an approach to dieting and exercise that I had not thought about before.I liked that a "system approach" was examined to meet the challenge of changing one's lifestyle as well as an emphasis on team work for succcess.I took the suggestion of tracking my progress and that proved to be informative as well.This is so much better than individual motivation and guilt that are used in most diet and exercise books!

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This book presents a groundbreaking approach to keeping up with weight loss and exercise plans. The method described - and shown to work based on empirical results - is radically different from traditional methods that single-mindedly emphasize personal motivation. Instead of promoting the establishment of overly ambitious goals, the selection of diet or workout "buddies," and the pairing of idealized outcomes with guilt trips as an ultimately destructive carrot - stick combination, the book sets out effectively to demolish these common and frequently toxic approaches. In a calmly reasoned, analytical way, the authors identify decisive elements in each person's environment and show how seemingly small changes in our surroundings and habits lead to lasting results.

Among the many innovative angles presented in the book are recordkeeping tools that bring out patterns hidden in our lifestyles and help us distinguish between real improvement and insignificant blips. After walking the reader through the steps of their unique strategy, the authors offer a full case study that brings the facts and figures to life. The book closes with a discussion on the pitfalls of the self-improvement movement when taken to unhealthy extremes and reiterates the sensible approach that defines its entire content.

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Review of Measured Success! A Diet and Exercise Strategy Based on Counting Calories (Paperback)

Having listened to the weight loss hype and fads that the media puts out, having tried some of it and failed, weight loss seemed hopeless....until I read this book and Ed Coates' other book called "Diet & Exercise:Uncomplicated!"I have been putting his simple method of calorie counting into practice and have been losing about a pound a week or so - So far, 8 pounds gone!I am so grateful to Ed Coates for his easy - no-nonsense- approach to weight loss and for giving me the motivation to just DO IT! If you really set your goals and count your calories and stick to it - you will have success just as he says in the book!It's really very simple to do.

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Diet and exercise are no secret for weight loss. But how much, how little, how often... how do you know? Measured Success! provides the answers, the strategy and the results!

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