Overcoming Weight Problems 2nd Edition: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques

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This clinically tested, comprehensive course based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques can provide a longer-term solution to your weight problems. You'll come to understand your own psychological blocks to managing weight and discover how to sustain a healthy lifestyle. Learn how you can: - Develop the motivation to change your eating and activity - Respond to emotional eating in a helpful way - Work with the thoughts and emotions getting in the way of change - Work out a simple, healthy and sustainable eating plan that fits with your daily routine - Find easy ways to add more physical activity into your everyday life Overcoming self-help guides use clinically proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical. Many guides in the Overcoming series are recommended under the Reading Well scheme. Series editor: Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper

Clare Grace (Author) DR CLARE GRACE, a dietitian at Leeds Community Healthcare, has specialised in weight management for a number of years and was the lead dietitian in several NHS weight management clinics in London. Vicky Lawson (Author) DR VICKY LAWSON is principal health psychologist at Talking Therapies Southwark, and is the psychologist clinical champion for promoting the benefits of physical activity for Public Health England. She specialises in eating behaviour, physical activity and weight management. Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert (Author) DR JEREMY GAUNTLETT-GILBERT is principal clinical psychologist at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath. He has worked as a psychologist in a range of physical health specialities.

'In conjunction with other weight-loss approaches [behaviour therapy] was more effective in reducing weight or delaying weight regain [than diet alone or drug therapy] either at the end of treatment or at the 1-year follow-up or both' US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute