Nice Girls Finish Fat
Put Yourself First and Change Your Eating Forever
Introduction: Nice Girls -- Read ThisHow Is Being Nice a Vice?
Weight loss is a marathon, not a sprint -- and rare is the habitual overeater who goes on a diet, loses twenty or fifty pounds, and coasts slimly through the rest of her days. If staying trim were that easy, I'd be out of my psychotherapy job as fast as you could say Nutrishake. Instead of miraculous, overnight, permanent transformation, the stream of women I've treated for eating and weight problems over the past three decades had to struggle and settle for modest successes in improving their relationship with food and the bodies their aspiring spirits inhabit.
It isn't that they aren't motivated -- they are! -- or that they don't work hard in therapy -- they do! Their drive to eat normally and lose weight has the focus of a laser. Their diet histories could fill libraries. They've read all the weight-loss books, sat through the twelve-step meetings, swallowed the magic pills, and had their stomachs surgically sectioned and stapled. Their stories ar ... read full excerpt from: Nice Girls Finish Fat: 'Put Yourself First and Change Your Eating Forever ebook
