The Four-Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace [Paperback]

Martha Beck, the womanPsychology Todaycalls the best-known life coach in America shatters the myth that willpower is an effective weight-loss tool and introduces a revolutionary approach to lifetime leanness based on a series of 4-day wins that work with any weight-loss program.

This paperback edition of Four-Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace includes a workbook where readers can complete the book's many exercises, making it even easier to follow the program!MARTHA BECK, PHD, is a life coach and monthly columnist forO, The Oprah Magazine.She is the author of the bestsellersFinding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Liveand the memoirExpecting Adam.CHAPTER 1

WHY ARE YOU SO DAMN FAT?

Not that I think you are. No, no, no. Why, in those pants, with the light behind you, you look positively willowy. But even if you were large enough to have a gravitational field involving four independent moons, and I happened to notice this (unlikely, since I'm completely blinded by the solar glare of my own self-consciousness), I would never, ever ask you a question as cruel as this chapter title. Nor would you say such a thing to me, were the tables turned. No, you're only that rude and nasty to the one person you can never escape--yourself.

How many times have you accused yourself of excessive heft and inappropriate texture (squishy)? How many times have you asked, Why am I so damn fat? I'd try to estimate the number for myself, but I don't think it's possible to count that high. I think that if I programmed my computer to calculate the answer, it would explode.

Anyway, it doesn't matter, because pretty much everyone who asks the question Why am I so damn fat? already knows the answer. After all, it's in every magazine and about half the books ever published. While the details of each diet or exercise regimen vary from publication to publication, the basic message of all thl3+