The Four-Day Win End Your Diet War and

Eat Less, Move More. We all know this simple truth about how to lose weight, but why don't we do what we know? Cutting-edge research has revealed that millions of dieters are programming themselves to get fatter by failing to make the brain-body connection.

Martha Beck PhD. is a life coach and monthly columnist for O, the Oprah Magazine. She is the best-selling author of Steering by Starlight, Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live and the memoir Expecting Adam

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Why Are You So Damn Fat?	p. 1
4 Days at a Time	p. 9
How to Be Skinnier in 4 Days: Changing Your Body, Now	p. 20
The Transtheoretical Model and the Piggly Wiggly Problem	p. 24
Precontemplation
The Polar Bear Effect: Why Resistance Is Futile	p. 33
This Is Your Brain on Diets: The Fattening Way to Lose Weight	p. 40
The Body Whisperer: Getting Your Subconscious Mind on Your Side	p. 48
The Creature and the Computer	p. 56
Thinking about Thinking about It	p. 65
Contemplation
The Most Important Weight-Loss Skill in the History of the Universe	p. 75
Learn to Return to the Place of Thinner Peace	p. 82
How to Stop Eating When You Can't Stop Eating	p. 90
Make Love, Not War: Living in the Place of Peace	p. 97
How Not to Be a Big Fat Liar	p. 104
Not Always So: From Fathead to Open Mind	p. 112
Beware the Permanently Helpless Dalmatian Reptile	p. 119
Researching Your Life: Your Weight Lifeline	p. 128
Preparation
Fat Rat Park: Identifying Your Natural Environment	p. 145
The Three B's: Building Your Own Rat Park	p. 155
Fat Is a Social Disease: Getting Support for Your New Life	p. 162
Eat Whatever the Hell You Want: Preparing to Eat Less	p. 170
Bury a Bunch of Bones: Developing Abundance Brain	p. 185
Trash the Treasure, Don't Treasure the Trash	p. 193
Flavors for Flouting Famine Brain: Weirdly Compelling New Diet Research	p. 200
What's My Motivation?: Making Moving Easier	p. 207
You're Getting Verrrry Sleeeepyyy...: Avoiding Burnout	p. 216
You Need New Moves: Preparing to Move More	p. 225
Packing Your Parachute: Preparation Checklist	p. 235
Action
Creating Your Daymap: The Second Most Important Weight-Loss Skill in the History of the Universe	p. 243
"Move More" Daymap Adjustment: Edging into Exercise	p. 250
"Eating" Daymap Adjustment: Feeding Your Soul	p. 258
I Will Fight No More (and Eat a Bit Less) Forever: Actually Losing Weight	p. 265
Maintenance
Trim-Tabbing Along the Middle Way: Staying Thin No Matter What	p. 279
Relapse
Getting Back on the Horse: Relapse and Recovery	p. 291
Celebration
Determination Yields De-Termination: Celebrating Freedom	p. 301
The 4-Day Win Jump-Start Weight-Loss Program	p. 309
Index	p. 346
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