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| The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace | 
 enlarge | Author: Martha Beck
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 200060
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.3
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
ASIN: B001810Z0K
Publication Date: December 26, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Ships immediately! Perfect and New! Has a publisher remainder mark. 1st Edition. 2006 Hardcover.
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| Customer Reviews:
 INSIGHTFUL and a Good Book even if you're not wanting to lose weight. July 15, 2008
There are philosophical quotes in here that are put into new perspective. The concept of creating your own paradise to feel free from stress and the desire to self destruct is explained amazingly. She uses a metaphor of a scientific experiment that I quote to anyone who is feeling that their day to day life is like running on a hamster wheel. If we can create a section of our day, our home, our life that stirs the emotions from inner self, we can truly feel free. I was inspired and awakened by this book.
At last! July 2, 2008
At last....here is a diet book that really isn't a diet book and that really makes sense. I do wonder, however, if it isn't illegal, immoral, or insane to keep laughing out loud while reading a weight loss book. Great writing...she is FUNNY!
Wonderful, but you must be ready for this book! June 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really do love this book. It remains to be seen whether or not it will work for me (losing that last 20 lbs for going on 20 years now!). Or rather, it remains to be seen whether or not I will get down to business and take to heart the really wonderful information in this book! I do think one has to be mentally "ready" for the information Beck presents. I'm not sure how useful the book would have been 5 or 6 years ago before I digested a library's worth of diet/exercise books. I wasn't ready for the internal work then. So I have traveled a rather long road which has led me (in desperation??) to "being ready" to absorb the wisdom in this book. After a lot of years and reading a mountain of diet books, all of which supposedly had the magic "recipe" to drop the extra fat, I've finally reached the conclusion that the answer has been in my head all along, not in the details of some exceptional, magic diet program thought up by someone else. Those programs haven't worked primarily because I haven't been able to stick with any of them and make them work. The question is always, "Why haven't I stuck with anything long enough to succeed?" This is where Martha Beck's approach just might be the answer. Boy oh boy did I identify myself in some of her descriptions. She describes her own past weight battle and it mirrors my own, so I'm already relating on that level. I like her analogies of the Dictator-Wild Child-Watcher within us (yep...my Wild Child gets loose and goes on the rampage way too often), and I find myself agreeing with the concept of developing the Watcher as a key to ultimately attaining the right weight. I'm forcing....yes, forcing myself to answer some of the questions she asks. There aren't really a lot of them, this isn't a protracted psychological workbook or anything, but after sticking my nose up at a lot of this self examination stuff for years on end, I'm finally starting to think there might be something to making yourself sit down and really think about the things that affect your out of control eating behaviors. One thing I really really like is Beck's style.....intelligent, knowledgeable, wise, and best of all, humorous. This can't be all dark and seriousness, and her occasional light and humorous comments hit the funny bone in just the right way. She's a person you instinctively know you would really like in person. She "speaks" to you in a really approachable way, and you know she's a friend. Meanwhile, I'll report back later regarding my success with this approach. I feel very positive at this point, and that's a good thing!
The answer to global fattening May 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is the answer to the global fattening epidemic. And yet - there is still a global fattening epidemic. What gives?
I think it's because - except for people like you - most human beings don't read anymore. Maybe life has become too busy - not enough brain cells to process new information - who knows? People WILL read diet books of the simple "eat lots of raisins and bacon" variety - but only if the message is extremely simple and the diet is guaranteed not to work. (Change is scary!)
This book does work. I lost 35 pounds and have easily kept it off over 2 years, getting down to my weight when I was a fit high school student. Now at age 53 I find many of my relatives think - since I no longer have belly bulge hanging over my belt - that I'm anorexic! "Fat" is the new "normal", so be prepared for that as you achieve the weight that's best for you!
As always, bless you Martha Beck!
Eric Winter
Fabulous resource for all of your life! April 29, 2008
I have purchased both the CD and the hardcopy versions. I carry the book with me everywhere. It's a great resource for dealing with ALL of lifes stressors, not just those that cause overweight. Ms. Beck once again "nailed it". I'm a huge fan!
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