Take It Off and Keep It Off

Are you tired of the endless seesaw of weight loss and weight gain?

Do you want to change the attitudes that undermine your efforts to be a slim person for life? You are not alone. This yo-yo syndrome happens to nearly everyone who “diets.” The good news is that there is a better way.

Based on the principles of Overeaters Anonymous, Take It Off and Keep It Off provides you with the information that has helped thousands of people take off excess weight permanently. Instead of focusing on just the physical aspects of weight loss, this book will help you actually change your thinking about food and yourself. The author, who has maintained a 50-pound weight loss for sixteen years, stresses that a diet is only a temporary solution, and that in order to overcome your overeating, you must view the problem as spiritual and emotional as well as physical.

Take It Off and Keep It Off is filled with inspirational stories of men and women who have lost from 10 to more than 100 pounds and in doing so have found new happiness and self-respect. You’ll share their challenges, fears, joys, and most important, their successes. You’ll learn the recovery methods they used—including sharing life and food problems with others, choosing a “food sponsor” or guide, and writing down thoughts and feelings—which allowed them to open up to life again (something many overeaters have forgotten how to do).

Take It Off and Keep It Off also discusses the overeater’s nightmares and how to handle them: identifying personal eating stressors, handling restaurant and party eating, filling the hours that used to be spent eating, and welcoming the new, thin person you’ve become.

Anonymous, a veteran of many fad diets, understands the pain of being out of control with food. “It’s group support and sharing with other overeaters that made a difference for me,” she says. “Despite the challenges that come up, I no longer use food to fill my emotional hungers. Let this book inspire you; I once was where you are, and if I can do it, you can, too!”