Why I Wrote the Book

I've been asked why I wrote my book Mind Over Fat Matters: Conquering Psychological Barriers to Weight Management. I spent over 20 years studying and treating eating disorders. I saw many women completely recover from their eating disorder and go on to be normal eating individuals. I realized for some time that, in our day and age, it's not just people with diagnosable eating disorders that are preoccupied with weight, size and appearance; that have unrealistic body images; that have mistaken ideas about what is the best way to be fit and lean; and that are obsessed with dieting. If my methods had been so successful with the extremes of eating disorders, they could be doing some good to the average person out there. As a psychologist, I knew how the human mind thinks and I understood that the typical diets that people are expected to follow are incompatible with the way people think, resulting in failure time after time. I wanted, not only to help people realize that their failures at dieting were not their fault, but rather the fault of the methods used which make the mind resist. I also wanted to show people how to easily set things up so that their efforts to manage their weight would not be resisted by their brain. Instead, the brain would be their ally and help them succeed finally.

My second goal was to write a book which would be concise-explain complicated concepts in simple ways. I wanted a book that someone could read in a day but that would contain all the information someone would need to be successful at managing their weight for a lifetime. From the feedback I'm getting, I may have accomplished my goal.