Read the Shrinking Critic
Another book I found in the running is The Incredible Shrinking Critic. It’s a how-I-lost-the-pounds kind of book and good reading. Reading about how someone else lost weight always inspires you to lose weight.
A gist of the book from Chris’s book review:
- Lasting weight loss is about strategy, not willpower (plan for contingencies).
- Weight loss is a by-product of healthy living, not an end in itself.
- Being connected to a healthy lifestyle to some degree at all times is more efficient in the long run than being “perfect” a fraction of the time.
-Act as if you believe in yourself, and it will become so.
- Weight loss isn’t about numbers, it is about change.
- You’ve reached your goal not when the scale hits the sweet spot but when you embrace the behaviors it takes to keep you there.
- Unwise, better, best: Losing weight involves a series of choices along a sliding scale.
Barnard is a film critic and she has style: “Most people who successfully lose weight report a click, a turning point. One minute, losing weight seems impossible, unthinkable. You’d rather go down fighting with a piping hot, lightly salted, tender-crisp clutch of fries in your defiant fist. The next minute, you’re the Zen master of weight loss.”
Bernard’s tryst with food triggers and food angst is detailed here.
I’ll say check it out!
Jami Bernard, fat pants, trigger foods, film critic, weight loss, New York, weight watchers
June 12th, 2007 at 9:00 am
I enjoyed that article and now I want to pick up the book. I like the “unwise, better, best” approach–that seems productive without being overly strict, you know?
As the article closes, though, it really is true–eat less, exercise more. There’s really no other way.