I'LL NEVER BE FAT AGAIN!

by Carole Livingston ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 11, 1980

Another confession from the formerly fat--an elaboration on behavior modification, the kind of program offered by Weight Watchers and other diet therapy groups. Livingston, director of subsidiary rights at Lyle Stuart, claims to have become thin and stayed that way on the philosophy that ""there is no food that is forbidden; you can eat anything if you know how to handle it."" The ""if,"" of course, is what usually trips up dieters. Her suggestions for handling food (you control food, not the other way around) include well-established techniques of behavior modification such as keeping a food diary, waiting a few minutes before starting to eat, eating slowly, eating only in a designated place and not while standing, reading, or watching television. She decries crash diets because they fail to improve eating habits. She gives no diet plan, only a pep talk--promising that if a dieter learns to trade the desire for chocolate chip cookies for a combination of carrot sticks and the desire to be thin (even giving in to the cookie craving occasionally), weight loss will follow. Dieting is more difficult than she would have us believe--partly because of the psychological pressures so well explored in Joyce Bockar's Last Great Diet Book (p. 544) and almost ignored here. Nothing new.

Pub Date: Aug. 11, 1980

ISBN: 1569801487

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lyle Stuart

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1980

Categories: NONFICTION