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The Four-Day Win (Abridged): How to End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace Four Days at a Time Audiobook
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Author of Oprah’s Book Club Pick—The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
The bestselling author of Finding Your Own North Star reveals how to change the way you eat, four days at a time!
Everyone knows how to lose weight: eat less, move more. But so many dieters who know what to do still don't do what they know. Why not? Because they don't understand the brain-body dynamics of weight loss. Now, cutting-edge research has revealed that millions of dieters following typical weight loss programs are actually programming themselves to get fatter.
In The Four-Day Win, Harvard-trained Oprah Magazine columnist Martha Beck, Ph.D., reverses this trend and teaches dieters to get lean from the brain outward. The Four-Day Win tells how to reverse the brain-body programming that makes you fat, so you can create a new, leaner and healthier body...for good.
As empathetic and funny as she is informative, Martha Beck observes that:
—Traditional dieting relies on the ability to go numb or to override physical and emotional feelings.
—Overeating is a self-calming compulsion similar to OCD -- dieters turn to food (and lots of it) when they're deprived of comfort.
—Overweight people can reverse the brain-body programming that is making them fat. Instead of attacking their bodies, they can learn to support them.
Dr. Beck helps you to think thin and end your compulsion to overeat, and includes a Jump-Start weight-loss program that will help you shed pounds in the best way, both psychologically and physically. An inspiring and enlightening challenge to everything you think you know about losing weight, The Four-Day Win provides you with an easy and fail-proof way to change your life.
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"I didn't make it all the way through this one, but it's something I'm glad that I bought. I can go back when I feel like I need a little reminder. This is a great book if you have emotional eating issues. "
— Laila (4 out of 5 stars)
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“The effect is life-changing.”
— Red magazine -
“A delightful, funny and profound book on changing our emotional eating patterns. It promises to change the way you think about food forever.”
— Health & Fitness -
“Beck’s likable voice becomes even more endearing as she unfolds her ideas intelligently and with reasonable optimism.”
— AudioFile
The Four-Day Win Listener Reviews
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" Best book on the relationship we have with food! It take Geneen Roth's ideas (don't overeat), and has many brain exercises to help you shift the way you act around food. I highly recommend it. "
— Lisa, 1/16/2014 -
" More brain-science than diet-science but that's the way I like it. Besides, I've yet to read anything of Martha Beck's that I *didn't* like. "
— Selena, 12/5/2013 -
" My trainer recommended this to me. Good reminders in here. "
— willo, 11/27/2013 -
" I can't say this book has changed the way I eat, but that's on me and not the advice in this book. Just love Martha Beck! "
— Laurie, 11/27/2013 -
" Struggled with this one a bit... but had some good tools "
— Kerstin, 11/19/2013 -
" Martha's "four-day" principle is applicable to virtually any life change; highly recommended. "
— Betsy, 11/10/2013 -
" This is a really cool book. Although it's a diet book, it could really be used in other ways as well. "
— Denise, 11/8/2013 -
" This self help book extends beyond your relationship with food and can apply to so many other areas of your life. Truly powerful and well written. "
— Jenive, 10/23/2013 -
" I want to read this book when I am ready to do the activities. "
— Ginette, 10/13/2013 -
" This is a good book and helped me find a different idea to the stuggle to lose weight. I listened to the book on tape and now I'm reading it. I liked this book. "
— Janet, 8/10/2013 -
" Amazing, excellent book on changing your relationship with food. Martha Beck is pretty much a genius in all areas of life. :) "
— Jamie, 6/3/2013 -
" I love Martha Beck in general "
— Margo, 1/25/2013 -
" I love Martha Beck! If you haven't read "Finding Your Own North Star," do it! I'm just getting into this one, but it promises to be just as good. I'll check back.. "
— Kimberly, 9/24/2012 -
" I didn't make it all the way through this one, but it's something I'm glad that I bought. I can go back when I feel like I need a little reminder. This is a great book if you have emotional eating issues. "
— Laila, 5/6/2012 -
" Actually.... I didn't quite finish this one. It was good, but not enough to make me want to finish. "
— April, 10/8/2011 -
" She's the horse whisperer of food issues. "
— Victoria, 11/13/2010 -
" Amazing, excellent book on changing your relationship with food. Martha Beck is pretty much a genius in all areas of life. :) "
— Jamie, 7/21/2010 -
" Dear Martha Beck, would you PLEASE STOP trying so hard to be hip and funny? JESUS. <br/><br/>Sincerely, Vicki "
— Victoria, 11/16/2009 -
" More brain-science than diet-science but that's the way I like it. Besides, I've yet to read anything of Martha Beck's that I *didn't* like. "
— Selena, 6/19/2009 -
" I want to read this book when I am ready to do the activities. "
— Ginette, 3/19/2009 -
" Martha's "four-day" principle is applicable to virtually any life change; highly recommended. "
— Betsy, 2/7/2009 -
" Once again, Martha has made sense and made me laugh doing it. "
— Gloriavirtutisumbra, 9/17/2008 -
" This is a good book and helped me find a different idea to the stuggle to lose weight. I listened to the book on tape and now I'm reading it. I liked this book. "
— Janet, 4/29/2008 -
" My trainer recommended this to me. Good reminders in here. "
— willo, 1/15/2008 -
" This is a really cool book. Although it's a diet book, it could really be used in other ways as well. "
— Denise, 1/1/2008 -
" I love Martha Beck! If you haven't read "Finding Your Own North Star," do it! I'm just getting into this one, but it promises to be just as good. I'll check back.. "
— Kimberly, 8/6/2007
About Martha Beck
Martha Beck is a writer and life coach who specializes in helping people design satisfying and meaningful life experiences. She holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies and a master’s degree and doctorate in sociology, all from Harvard. She is currently a monthly columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine and the author of the bestsellers Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live and the memoir Expecting Adam. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.