The Overfed Head: What If Everything You Know About Weight Loss Is Wrong?

by Rob Stevens

Book Overview

Rob Stevens explodes the myths about dieting and reveals the truth about weight loss. If diets don't work long-term, what does? Tapping into your thintuition and never dieting again. Thintuition is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974654205
• ISBN13: 9780974654201
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Thintuition Inc
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

It's Working!!! This book/method is changing my life!

If you've been on a diet, I've probably tried it too. If you've done some cardio/yoga/pilates/weightlifting/hypnosis program to lose weight, I've probably tried that too. So I realize that if someone told you that you don't need to diet or exercise to lose weight, you'd probably freak out a little bit (just like I did). But please Give this method a chance - it actually works! I've lost 8 lbs in 3 weeks. My boyfriend has lost 10 lbs. Seriously, stop dieting. Stop depriving yourself. Start losing weight. You'll feel so much better. It's not a gimmick. It's not a diet. It's real life. It's what your body was trying to do all those years ago when it used to spit out food when your mother tried to force down a little extra.

Achieve your personal best

Is it hard for you to fit on a plane seat? Is lifting difficult? Is it time-consuming to shop for clothes? Do you miss your steak and potatoes because you're always on a diet? These are often the predominant struggles of overweight men. Many, although not all men, restrict their weight woes to the physical. This book, written by Rob Stevens, is great for both men and women, but is written from a man's perspective, with an emphasis on results. This is a straightforward explanation of how to eradicate the diet mentality from your mind and replace it with a sensible way to eat that leads to weight loss. A far cry from women's more probing titles, such as "Fat is a Feminist Issue," this book gets right down to the how-to's and nitty gritty of ditching the diet in favor of eating normal, delicious-only meals. The author calls it "intuitive eating." Rob Stevens lost 140 pounds plus, and has kept it off for seven years. This author explains in simple English why diets make you fat, how to know when you're hungry, and even why the intuitive approach will solve some emotional problems without all the therapeutic fuss. This is not a surface approach, however. With Steven's light touch, frustrated dieters will find what they're really looking for--a new way to eat. But the outcome can go deeper. Readers learn to question what they've been taught--a skill that can revolutionize lives that feel stuck. All patients who have gastric bypass surgery need to learn this new way to eat. Doctors do their best to teach a "lifestyle change" to such patients, but it's not always clear what that means, and medical professionals are understandably limited in their time. If this book were required reading for those considering the surgery, it might offer hope for true change, regardless of whether they undergo the procedure. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a simple guide to freedom from dieting. Physicians should be quick to recommend this book, especially to men, and those who love them. In addition, this book appears to be written at a slightly lower reading level than many of the non-dieting books available today, making it accessible to a broad audience. It is, nonetheless, an engaging read. Stevens perhaps best sums up the goal of his book when he says, "You have achieved your personal best when the size of your body is no longer an obstacle to anything you want in life." I have been recommending this book to the members of my Yahoo! message board for non-dieters.

Reclaiming your body

I just finished reading the Overfed Head for the second time and I liked it even better the second time. I initially read the book in the context of my struggle with weight, the second reading was to assess the book as a resource for a psychotherapy client. The book reads well and the content is sound. On a personal level I felt the author was telling me the very thing I could never understand about my naturally thin friends. I knew they ate what they wanted and they seemed satified. I could not figure out how they experenced that satisfaction. I am now having that satisfied feeling with each experience of eating. It does require practice but what a joy to practice enjoying food! On a professional level I will utilize this book with clients. The reason why I feel it is appropiate to use is the information is sound and seems to be based on a blend of positive psychology and cognitive theray principles. I work from a psychodynamic frame however, I find this quite compatable with the work I am doing. The author promotes being curious about ourselves, mindfulness and avoids transfering the responsibility for our bodies to anyone other than ourselves. The hunger and satisfaction tool is excellent. The author also alerts the reader to the positive but sometimes frightning side benefit of having the emotional issues we have been "feeding" present themselves for more direct and helpfull attention. I guess I should have said I am a Clinical Nurse Specialist in psychiatry with 30+ years of experience. This is a must read if you or someone you care about is struggling with weight control.

Just not for your eating habits.

This book discusses how diets screw with your body and your mind. Starving and depriving lead to your body going into starvation mode and your metabolism going to hell so you can't lose wait. Constantly thinking about what you can and can't eat gives you a food obsession so all you think about is food. This book is a guiding hand to lead you out of the swamp of emotional eating, unconscious eating, and food obsession. When you stop and think about it, the same can be said for shopping. You may actually need a pair of shoes, you may need four pairs of shoes, but do you really need 15, 20, or more. You have a pair of jeans that fit, do you really need 5? This book discusses how to fill a need and not to overfill a need (much like filling a gas tank but not putting so much gas into that it spills onto the pavement) Once you get a handle on this issue the weight (and credit card debt) naturally goes down. Just wait until you stomach growls, eat carefully, and stop when you are no longer hungery. When the TUMMY is happy, not when the mouth is! If your not hungry don't eat!

farewell to the last 10

Coming from a triathlon background I thought I would never have trouble with my weight. I was wrong.. Don't get me wrong.. I'm not obese. I just have come to a point in my life where that 10-15 puonds has become a part of me. All of the workouts and all of the watching closly what went into my Mouth, just allowed me to not gain any more. Then I read Rob Stevens book. the Overfed Head. I was interested in what Rob had to say since I knew he was a fellow triathlete and someone that I have watched compete in some of my very same races. What a great discovery. All of a sudden I'm still training, not freaked out about what I consume and I am starting to trim off that extra layer. What a relief to discover I don't have to shove down any more carrots and salads, if that is not what I want. What a feeling of liberation to be able to eat what sounds good and still feel in control. It's like this book gave me the green light to live again. I mean eat again. I think my body had forgotten how to listen and how to feel. I had lost a very inate concept of knowing when I was hungry and knowing when I was not. Rob Stevens laid it all out for me, inspired me and helped me become an internal, thoughtful eating machine. This book gave me the tools to guage my hunger and to really feel out what my body was asking for. I feel like I have choices and control over what I want, rather than munching on what I think I should put in my mouth. Thanks for the lessons. I feell like I am more intune and will finally be able to say farewell to those last 10, just by listening to what my body needed all along.