The FourDay Win, Martha Beck
The FourDay Win, Martha Beck
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The Four-Day Win
How to End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace Four Days at a Time

Author: Martha Beck

Narrator: Martha Beck

Abridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2007


Synopsis

Author of Oprah’s Book Club Pick—The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self

The bestselling author of Finding Your Own North Star reveals how to change the way you eat, four days at a time!

Everyone knows how to lose weight: eat less, move more. But so many dieters who know what to do still don't do what they know. Why not? Because they don't understand the brain-body dynamics of weight loss. Now, cutting-edge research has revealed that millions of dieters following typical weight loss programs are actually programming themselves to get fatter.

In The Four-Day Win, Harvard-trained Oprah Magazine columnist Martha Beck, Ph.D., reverses this trend and teaches dieters to get lean from the brain outward. The Four-Day Win tells how to reverse the brain-body programming that makes you fat, so you can create a new, leaner and healthier body...for good.

As empathetic and funny as she is informative, Martha Beck observes that:
—Traditional dieting relies on the ability to go numb or to override physical and emotional feelings.
—Overeating is a self-calming compulsion similar to OCD -- dieters turn to food (and lots of it) when they're deprived of comfort.
—Overweight people can reverse the brain-body programming that is making them fat. Instead of attacking their bodies, they can learn to support them.

Dr. Beck helps you to think thin and end your compulsion to overeat, and includes a Jump-Start weight-loss program that will help you shed pounds in the best way, both psychologically and physically. An inspiring and enlightening challenge to everything you think you know about losing weight, The Four-Day Win provides you with an easy and fail-proof way to change your life.

About Martha Beck

Martha Beck, PhD, is a life coach and longtime contributor to Oprah Daily. She is a Harvard-trained sociologist and New York Times bestselling author. She has published nine nonfiction books, one novel, and more than 200 magazine articles. Her book The Way of Integrity is a recent Oprah's Book Club Selection.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen on June 23, 2008

After losing and regaining the same 60 lbs twice (not counting all the attempts in between), I finally concluded that the key to taking weight off and keeping it off can't be just working out and eating right. It had to be something psychological. Maybe something hardwired. Something I couldn't quite......more

Goodreads review by Susan on June 11, 2009

I started reading this last month around the time I joined weight watchers. Between this program and that, I was losing weight very quickly -- too quickly, according to the eTools on WW's website. Then I stopped. Reading, that is, and doing the exercises Beck recommends. Big mistake. My weight start......more

Goodreads review by Liz on June 23, 2012

Completely based on outdated theories of weight loss, it is a good thing that the author herself has naturally been more of an anorexic, not true "heavy." Some of her mental exercises could be useful, but the book needs to be entirely re-written with someone who understands the body in a scientific......more

Goodreads review by Helynne on January 14, 2020

"The only diet skill you'll ultimately need is the ability to create inner calm" says wise and funny author Martha Beck (325). The Four-Day Win is a down-to-earth and often hilarious read about getting off the diet carousel and establishing a lifetime of sensible eating habits. I know that certain L......more

Goodreads review by Moira on March 11, 2016

I adored this book. I'm the sort of person who prides myself on being pragmatic, so a routine that included daily meditation and the direction to do whatever my body told me wasn't exactly something I would have seen myself following a while back. I also hate (irrationally and unfairly) when people......more