Winning At Weight Loss

If you are ready to get off the weight loss roller coaster and become a healthy person in a healthy body, Winning at Weight Loss is the program for you. This new self-help program combines extensive weight loss research with Dr. Cochrane's 28 years of experience working with overweight people. In this program you get a 328-page book and 13 recorded therapeutic imagery activities that constitute the framework of this program. These gentle, yet powerful imagery activities are recorded for you so that you can fully experience their value as you progress through each stage of your journey to your lasting weight loss goal.

As you know, any reasonable diet can be effective for short term weight loss but no diet, on its own, has proven effective for long term weight loss. In the past you have begun each new diet with sincerity, determination and enthusiasm. You have done all the right things and you have lost weight... for a while... but then something always happens. Curiously, you have stopped on this road to success and, for reasons that have been very difficult to understand, you have gone back to your former ways and your former weight. What happens when we do this? Why, in spite of our sincere desire to lose weight, do we change course and return to where we started?

Winning at Weight Loss gives you the proven imagery tools to find out what happens at that critical point where, in the past, you have changed your mind and turned away from your goal. With this new awareness, you become the person in charge. You can now use the research-validated imagery activities in this program to therapeutically respond to the part of you that has repeatedly pulled you away from your goal. In so doing you will strenghten your self-worth and clear the way for the attainment of your weight loss goal.

The written and recorded tools in Winning at Weight Loss, make it possible for you to do what it takes to become healthy on the inside and the outside. The personal change concepts, outstanding imagery activities, research information and numerous case illustrations available to you in Winning at Weight Loss allow you, at long last, to become the healthy person in a healthy body that you have always wanted to be.

Life is better when you are healthy. You can become a healthy person in a healthy body with Winning at Weight Loss.

CONTENTS

PART ONE: THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM

Chapter One: Beginning Where You Are

• Diets: The useful and the harmful.
• Nutrition: The most recent research.
• Exercise: Types and frequency.
• Physiology: Dispelling myths.
• Culture: External temptations.
• Uniqueness: You are taking care of you.
• Stages of Success.
• Lapses and Plateaus: What they are and what they aren't.

Chapter Two: Your Journey Begins

• Autobiography: The significant influences on the development of your sense of self.
• Projective Imagery: What it is and how you can use it on your journey to health.
• Rebellion: A key strength, if harnessed.
• Imagery Activity: A Choice for Hope (recorded).
• Case illustrations of people who have successfully used this imagery activity.
• Identifying the pieces of the mosaic that constitute your sense of self.
• Imagery Activity: The Theatre (recorded).

Chapter Three: Freedom From The Past

• Meeting the part of you that overeats.
• Imagery Activity: The Fishing Boat (recorded).
• Imagery Activity: The Affect Bridge (recorded).
• Imagery Activity: The Mud and The Meadow (recorded).
• Case illustrations of people who have successfully used these imagery activities.
• Your Problem Defined: Most of who you are is fine. Some of who you are prompts you to overeat.
• Your behaviors, beliefs, feelings and spirituality.

Chapter Four: Restorative Response

• Learners: The parts of you that make up your identity.
• Feeling worthy.
• The transfer of power from your learners to you.
• Growing affection.
• Compassionate perspective.
• Forgiveness.
• Faith in yourself.

PART TWO: THE TRANSITION

Chapter Five: A New Perspective

• Readiness: Courage and faith in yourself.
• Ableness: Acknowledgement of your strength.
• Imagery Activity: The Swimming Pool (recorded).
• What is important to you?

PART THREE: THE WAY IT IS BECOMING

Chapter Six: Learned Worthiness

• Worthiness and the utilization of your existing skills.
• What You Know: You have more resources than you think.
• Characteristics of those who bring their weight down and keep it down.

Chapter Seven: Self-Worth: The Foundation of Success

• The Origins of Worth: Our sense of self is a compilation of self and others perceptions.
• Genograms: Your history.
• Imagery Activity: The Journey to Self-Worth (recorded).
• Case illustrations of people who have successfully used this imagery activity.
• Self Relationship: The cornerstone of your success.
• Purpose: Your goals and values.
• The Mourning Ritual: Farewell to harmful pleasures.
• Symbol of Hope: Your guiding light.
• Imagery Activity: Your Symbol.

Chapter Eight: Building Your Future

• Imagery Activity: The White Horse (recorded).
• The future that you want for you.
• Self-Talk to keep you on your chosen track.
• Imagery Activity: I Can and I Will (recorded).
• Behavior Changes: Becoming healthy.
• Emotions: Dealing directly with your emotions rather than eating.
• Imagery Activity: A Journey in Time (recorded).
• Case illustrations of people who have successfully used these imagery activities.

Chapter Nine: Tying It All Together.

• A summary for success.
• Imagery Activity: The Weight Loss Tower (recorded).