Weight Loss & Weight Management

No one is above the laws of biology and conditioning, and the creature you inhabit may have developed an excessive appetite for food. You are not responsible for your genetic predisposition or your prior conditioning history, but now that you are an adult you are responsible for acting in accord with your interests and principles. Following a healthy lifestyle is certainly the responsible way to go, but extricating yourself from the patterns of perception, thinking and behavior that have been strengthened through practice for a long time requires more than simply making the decision to do so.

Weight management is a far more impressive challenge than most people realize. Because people misjudge the nature of the challenge they tend to be demoralized by their failure to achieve good long-term outcome. Because they feel incompetent at managing their weight many people seek external help in the form of diets, weight loss programs, and even professional treatment. These approaches tend to be iatrogenic (that is, the treatment causes additional problems).

Using an external agent to help you control your behavior does not provide a path to good long-term outcome, because when the external source of control is not available there is nothing to stop you from following the path of least resistance. Understand this: There is no external salvation from a problem of dependence.

Good long-term outcome requires an irreversible change to occur within you. This web site is dedicated to helping you discover what you want this change to be and how to make it happen. The author, as well as those who love you, want your core motivation, rather than local stressors and temptations, to be the primary determiner of your real-time behavior and hence of the details of your biography.

A wide range of information and tools are available free of charge by following the links in the right column.

• Tina's musings provides a female psychologist's perspective on women's issues and relationships. Bill's PIG Review provides summaries of the professional literature on topics pertaining to the Problem of Immediate Gratification.
• The "Listen Now" section contains two free hypnotic inductions that you may download for use on an MP3 player to evoke states of focused attention and relaxation respectively.
• Other invitations to experience phenomena directly (rather than conceptualizing them abstractly) are presented throughout this web site. They are designed to help you develop your capability to exercise will. The procedural skills you will develop by accepting these invitations will enable you to make the irreversible changes required to achieve good long-term outcome.
  
  

---

"If one remains as careful at the end as at the beginning, there would be no failure."