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Welcome to the Beck Diet Solution Dieters Blog! I’m Debbie Busis. Dr. Judith Beck and I run a weight loss group, based on The Beck Diet Solution (BDS) every Monday at lunchtime. This group has eleven women and you’ll meet all of them as time goes on in this blog. The women have been learning the techniques of the BDS program and have been steadily losing weight, most of them between ½ to 1 1/2 pounds per week. Two of the women have now lost over 30 pounds! All of them have been on multiple diets throughout their adult lives. Whenever they lost weight in the past, however, they always gained it back.
The women are confident that this time will be different, though, because in addition to learning how to change their eating behavior, they’re learning how to change their thinking. Each week our weight loss group learns or reviews new behavioral and thinking skills and shares their successes and their difficulties. It’s a wonderful group! We’re so proud of how everyone is doing.
We hope you’ll visit this blog every few days to see stories and updates about the wonderful women in our weight loss group—and to learn how the techniques in the BDS can help you lose weight and keep it off permanently.
***For more information about The Beck Diet Solution, please see www.beckdietsolution.com.***
March 27, 2007 at 7:34 pm |
Has this proven with women who have only had to book to work from? Or, were they always in therapy or in a group?
April 1, 2007 at 11:34 am |
I can’t wait till your book comes out on the 3rd because from what I’ve read so far about CBT in Forbes “Patient Heal Thyself”, and last night in the April issue of Oprah, “Think Like A Thin Person”, I can feel in my “gut that CBT is something that I’ve been searching for for years.
I like millions of other people have “started and stopped” every weight loss and exercise plan known to man. Sometimes I’ve stayed on them long enough to lose quite a lot of weight, and yes the weight comes right back on and more.
Well in 2003 for whatever reason I got the “aha” that it wasn’t the food I was eating that was the problem, it was my “thinking” about what I was eating that was the problem. So for about a year, pretty much just through “thought”, no drugs, no doctors, and what has now become known as “mypetfat” I went from tipping the scales at a little over 400LBS down to 285LBS and to say the least it felt great.
And it was through the realization that my weight loss success this time was more about “thought” than anything else that I really “thought” I had discovered a whole new way to lose weight.
My mantra was “fat, it’s all in your head’.
So in late 2003 I branded a medical model of anatomically correct body fat calling it “mypetfat’ and I launched a web site called http://www.mypetfat.com
I found that keeping a piece of “mypetfat” in my kitchen, at my desk, in my car really helped me much more aware of my “thoughts”, or should I say “mindless thoughts” about eating. It definently helped and helps.
There is so much more I can share, but now having shipped over 3TONS of mypetfat to over 15 countries, the core takeaway that I’ve really learned in talking to thousands of people over the past four years is that “what’s most secret is most common”, especially when it comes to weight loss.
It’s no surprise that there are millions of people out there who are still very confused and frustrated about all things weight loss. I’ve always been amazed that there is almost no information on how MUCH “thought” is connected to weight + wellness”.
Yes it exists, but it’s only cursory, but based on what I can gleen from “The Beck Diet Solution” I really beiieve your book is the “answer” that millions of us have been “weighting” for.
And you would have thought that the success of me losing 115LBS, and then having been fortunate enough to have launched an internet site that also garned such amazing global publicity, I would have been “cured”…
Not!
One example of the buzz… tons more…
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993749,00.html
Just like Oprah, and millions of others, my “thinking” started slipping and for three years I lived inside a self imposed weight loss limbo where I watched my weight start moving back up the scale from 285LBS to 300LBS, to 325LBS and there it stayed up or down 5 or 10LBS for a couple of years until recently it started heading for 340LBS+.
Then on March 24th, “enough was enough” and I decided to let go of my past, dump the blogs I had been sharing with the world that I was starting to feel were keeping me me stuck, and start anew.
Little did I know how “prophetic” my “do-over” would be as a week later I would learn of your book which is exactly what I need at this point of my journey.
I’ve already proven to myself how amazing the “power of thought” can be in losing weight, so I look forward to learning a methodolgy that will keep my “thoughts” moving in the right direction, for life!
I have a simple intention, to once and for all “walk my talk” .
I can’t wait to get the book and even though I’m sure it’ll be tough to see you any time soon because of the book release, I look forward to meeting you in person one day. I live in Central New Jersey, only about an hour away from Philly.
Until we meet I’ll be buying the book and keeping track in my new blog what I’m learning from “The Beck Diet Solution” as I can’t wait to share with my thousands of customers and ten’s of thousands of subscribers all about your book on my new blog.
http://mypetfat.typepad.com/mypetfat/
Dr. Beck, thanks so much for sharing what you’re doing with the world!
Jay
P.S. I’m intending to not only be a “poster boy” for “The Beck Diet Solution”, I’m intending to be one of your best “mental messengers” for the book.
http://www.mypetfat.com
http://www.dormantforces.com
http://www.mentalmessages.com
April 1, 2007 at 3:25 pm |
I am about to complete my third week on this program using the book alone. I have never been able to stick to a diet for more than a few days before. This is the missing link for me and every time I feel shaky, I return to the book and do exactly what it tells me. I am down nearly 5 lbs. My method is to count calories and eat six times a day. Having a plan before the day even starts is by far the biggest help. Having specific times to eat is almost as important. My only slip was 1 small pretzel. However, I took that very seriously because I will not allow erosion to take place with the only thing that has ever really made a difference. Being able to work in some of my favorite things or a special event is also important. You can do it!
If I plateau for 2 weeks, I will shave off 100 calories and do 20 minutes of yardwork 4 times a week to get the scale to move again. That is in addition to my usual planned exercise, which is not excessive. Without the book, I wouldn’t have known how to handle it. Now I know what to do. And the yardwork is kind of fun anyway.
July 2, 2007 at 7:26 pm |
Hi!
I just came across this book and some of the blogs and I’m super excited to be starting my very first day! I’m a big believer in CBT as it helped me leaps and bounds with anxiety caused by Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
I’m recording my transformation story of my new blog: http://lifeonthebathroomscale.blogspot.com/
I’m looking forward to watching everyone else’s progress as well as my own.
Thanks again!
-Nicole
August 1, 2007 at 6:04 pm |
I just got the book and am glad to find this web site as a supplement to it. I’ve read books on cognitive therapy and on Albert Ellis’s simiar REBT and helped myself solve other problems in living. I will be checking in regularly to see how everyone is doing and to report my experiences.
January 1, 2008 at 6:08 am |
I purchased the book the day after Christmas, 2007, and I am excited by what I am reading. I have just typed my reasons for wanting to lose weight into a business card template and will print in the morning–multiple copies. I’ll punch a hole in the corner and thread together with a piece of yarn and keep a set in my nightstand for reading before bed, in a drawer in the bathroom to read in the morning, in a desk drawer by my PC, in my purse, in my car, and on a shelf in the kitchen. I want these reasons everywhere!
January 15, 2008 at 9:15 pm |
Hi,
I’ve set up a blog to help me follow the Beck Solution plan. http://www.ohwellnochoice.blogspot.com.
I went from 320lbs to 147 lbs on my own (maintaining for 5 years), but now I’m back to 200 lbs after only a few years. I need some extra help. I think cognitive therapy will help me reach my goal to lose 50 more pounds!
I’d appreciate all the support I can get, so please leave me encouraging comments!
-Zeut
January 15, 2008 at 9:17 pm |
Opps. Here’s the right address without the period at the end:
http://www.ohwellnochoice.blogspot.com
March 5, 2008 at 12:39 pm |
May 18, 2008 at 7:59 pm |
I read your book in 2007. I see a CBT to work on all my issues and even had a breakthrough. I also joined weightwatchers as my 2nd choice of diets and have sucsessfully lost over 25 pounds! I go to a group meeting each week and keep a food diary. I weighed 187 pounds and now weigh 161 pounds. I am aiming for a goal of 120 even though my lifetime member goal is 140. I love love love your book. It has helped me in more areas of my life including my eating issues. I was a bereaved parent as well as a mother of a slightly disabled son. I also found out I have a cyst at the base of my brain and currently seeking help for that. I am now a strong healthier confident and goal oriented person. Thank you so much Judith Beck.
June 10, 2008 at 12:53 am |
I really miss the Blog!! Will it ever be back? This book is the best healthy diet book in the stores!!
June 12, 2008 at 8:15 pm |
I also miss the blog. Please bring it back.
July 22, 2008 at 5:40 pm |
I bought and read your book last year! What a sucessful approach to my out of control weight. I was already trying to follow the YODA diet, but when I read Beck…I was hooked, I followed the plan, read and reread chapters and for the first time I lost 25 lbs. I was quite excited.
My mother came to stay with me for several months. I usually go through lots of stress during her visitis, stop going to the gym and just become miserable. This year was different, although I did not keep my committment to the GYM on my lunch hour, always seemed to need to do errands. I did, however, use my newly learned Beck skills and did not regain a single pound. Sometimes I went up a pound or two, but they always came right off.
Momma has returned home, I am recomitted as ever. I took my Beck Solutions out and started a new program. Even though I read the book some time ago, I feel I need to recommitt. I was able to maintain my weight loss, which proved an important thing to me….I can make a difference in my own life.
Thank you for such an awesome plan…it is part of my daily life.
Rose
August 26, 2009 at 1:46 am |
Hi everybody,
I started the “Beck diet” two days ago, but I have a problem with finding a coach. I am new in the US, this is why I do not know anybody close enough. Do you think it would also work if I find a person in the internet who is looking for a coach in return? This would mean we regularly write emails to each other to talk about problems and success we have.
Thanks a lot
Lilo