About The Book
- Read about The Thinderella Lifestyle Change Program
In The Thinderella Syndrome, Dr. Dennis Gage, M.D. tells his readers to "forget about magic potions or fairytales," as well as harmful "yo-yo" dieting. Instead urges the author, look at a method that is realistic. There cannot be merely one type of obesity, he states. Actually, there are many. While each dieter might have a different combination of eating patterns that cause weight gain, the author's balanced and comprehensive approach can apply to each case. Over the past twenty-two years, literally hundreds of his patients have been helped.
Dr. Gage designed his Red Alert System where he assigns his patients a Red Alert Number which is defined as the present maintenance weight plus up to three to five percent of body weight. If patients hit their Red Alert Number, they are required to contact Dr. Gage and re-establish the patterns that worked for them. Dr. Gage says that if his patients don't initiate his Defensive Eating Techniques and The Red Alert System, the majority of his patients regain weight.
Here is a book that offers behavioral, nutritional, and cognitive techniques as the components of a healthy lifestyle. Behavioral techniques include: Slowing down technique, Place of eating technique, Physical activity in everyday lifestyle, shopping and storing, visual cues: modular food, banking, plate, and utensil size, restaurant eating, and more.
The Food Record
The Food Record measures far more than just a blueprint of one's eating behavior. Food records test one's willingness to diet. People who are willing to do them are generally more motivated and willing to make changes. Food records give a clear, precise picture of how a person's eating habits interact with his or her environment in everyday lifestyle.
Here is a simple format of a food record: Speed of eating, Place of eating, Describe the position, Associated Activity, Alone or with whom, Mood, Amount of food, Describe the food in detail, Estimate calories, Cognitive consequences of the ingestion, Weight graph of your week-by-week weight, Measurements, Monitor your physical activity, Leisure activity.
The record outline is of great importance. Though, all records are of help, the more defined the eating behavior is, and the more parameters and interactions that are considered, the easier it becomes to shape a particular behavior. Most fad diets have you practice an enforced lifestyle. The weight loss may occur, but there is no structure supporting this weight loss. People don't have patience and believe the "the faster the pounds roll off, the better the diet." It is this very type of thinking that will never permit the true shaping of behaviors to occur.
To learn more about the book, click on the links below:
- Women's Digest book review of The Thinderella Syndrome
- Read about The Thinderella Lifestyle Change Program
- Scarsdale Inquirer newspaper article: "Doc wants to end dieting as we know it"
- Information about The Thinderella Syndrome from Google Books
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