I just wanted to update to reflect my use of Beck's book

Mar 17, 2009

I was slowly gaining weight due to my carb addiction and being a junk food junkie.  I had to leave the gym I had joined because I fell on their property twice in one week and they cancelled my contract fearing that I might sure them.  I joined a YMCA about a year later to use their pool, but I started to have weeping eczema on my foot and was not allowed in the pool with that condition.  My problem is that the foot would start to heal but reopen after going to the pool.  So, I quit going to the YMCA.  I was gaining weight and I didn't know how to stop.  I've had my food addiction for about 40 years and it really gets me down sometimes. 

This year I went searching for a solution for the umpteenth time.  I started reading a book on behavioral modification but noted that it was written in 1990.  Knowing how theories and methodology change over the years, I wondered if anyone could recommend something more current that might help me.  I posted this question on the Main Forum in early Jan of this year and a woman who is a therapist and who is a food addict in remission suggested that I get a copy of the BECK'S DIET SOLUTION that she uses with individual and group clients.  It is not a diet.  Rather, it is a resource of techniques to use with any nutrirional diet.  The author only asks that you take the steps in order.

I got the book and read the first 4 chapters in a couple days.  I have been free from the compulsion to eat my addictive foods since 01-29-09.  I have also lost over 29 lbs in that time.  This is the first time I have lost weight in about 3 years.  The book has transformed my thinking and my life.  I am bi-polar and was alway just OK.  Now I am happy.  I was always cautious and now I'm optimistic.  I know that my illness will continue to prevent me from working and that I will be on meds for it for the rest of my life.  But, I feel like God has given me a miracle.  All I have to do is to continue to follow the exercises in the book which enable me to stay on my diet.  The cognitive therapy techniques have taught me how to deal with life without turning to food. 

I'm totally amazed at the transformation in my life in such a short time.  Bob

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