From: The 4 Day Win by Martha Beck Stage 2 ~ Contemplation ~ EASY vs CALM In order to be a thin person, you have to exchange your belief in the EASY weight loss myth with the CALM reality. EASY stands for External Authority System : You CALM stands for Compassionate, Authoritative Learning : Me You’ll lose… Read More
From: The 4 Day Win by Martha Beck Stage 2 ~ Contemplation ~ The Opposite of Fat is Love One of the easiest ways to lose weight is to fall in love. People who tumble head over heels into romantic love experience their body fat melting away. It could be that you are happy so you… Read More
From: The 4 Day Win by Martha Beck Stage 2 ~ Contemplation ~ How to Stop Eating When You Can’t Stop Eating If you’ve ever tried to diet you’ve probably had some version of the binge trance – eating until you’re sick and then feeling filled with shame, self hatred and fear. The good news is you… Read More
From: The 4 Day Win by Martha Beck Stage 2 ~ Contemplation ~ Return to the Place of Thinner Peace The fear based parts of your brain are many, varied and ancient. Alarm responses, particularly the fear of attack and starvation, improve our chance of survival in a wild state where hunger and being hunted are… Read More
From: The 4 Day Win by Martha Beck Stage 2 ~ Contemplation ~ The Dictator, Wild Child and the Watcher Yes ladies, and gentlemen, I have made it past stage 1 – pre-contemplation and now I am into stage two – contemplation. Today’s story is about the two warring factions of good and evil, angel and… Read More
From: The 4-Day Win by Martha Beck Phase 1 ~ Pre-Contemplation ~ Thinking about Thinking Our brain, like the rest of our anatomy, is made up of two halves, a left brain a right brain. There’s a big fold that goes from front to back in our brain, essentially dividing it into two distinct and separate parts.… Read More
From: The 4 Day Win by Martha Beck Stage 1 ~ Pre-Contemplation ~ The Creature and the Computer Most diet experts tell us to think of the body as a computer programmed to take instructions from the mind. Only the mind acts like a machine, your body is not a computer, it is a creature. Your… Read More
From: The 4-Day Win by Martha Beck Stage 1 ~ Pre-Contemplation ~ Body Whispering If you have ever seen a horse or dog being trained through brute force and punishment you will observe the creature become panicked and frightened. Panicked and frightened animals often lash out and attack those trying to control them. And it… Read More
From: The 4 Day Win by Martha Beck Stage 1 ~ Pre-Contemplation ~ Famine Brain Fact: Your brain is an astonishing complex and powerful instrument specifically evolved to keep you from losing weight. Fact: Because it is an evolutionary imperative, eating is highly rewarding physically and psychologically. Not eating food makes us hungry, but it also… Read More
Introduction to The 4-Day Win by Martha Beck We share a cultural belief that a combination of information and willpower should be enough to ensure compliance with any weight loss program. Eat less, move more, just do it! If this worked, we would all be thin already. Martha tell us that there is something amiss in our… Read More
The Law of Attraction and the teachings of Abraham state that what gets most of your attention will attract more of the same. But is it enough to sit around thinking about getting wealthy and expect the money to come flooding down the chimney without doing anything? Is it enough to sit around imagining my… Read More
