Maintaining Your Weight Loss: A Mindfulness-Based Guide to the Adventure of a Lifetime - Softcover

Levenson MD, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493598937 ISBN 13: 9781493598939

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

End the full-time struggle to keep weight off. Turn struggle into adventure — a joyful adventure. Maintaining Your Weight Loss is a roadmap for your adventure: • Access mindfulness, kindness, and self-compassion. • Learn to work with physical and non-physical roadblocks. • Invoke different kinds of Will at various crossroads: - Strong Will to stand firm against temporary circumstances - Skillful Will to know the appropriate action for every situation - Good Will to bring kindness and compassion to yourself - Find the natural calm intelligence that treats you with love. Recorded guided meditations help you: • relax • develop mindfulness • fall asleep • develop a kind, caring objectivity • develop compassion for yourself. There’s nothing to pack for this adventure. Leave behind guilt, shame, and self-criticism—their guidance has failed you in the past. Everything you need will be provided. Kindness, compassion, relaxation, and awareness naturally support your dedication.

About this title

About the Author

David Levenson, MD is an internist who has devoted twenty-seven years to helping people keep off the weight they worked so hard to lose. David co-founded the Weight Management Program at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California where he co-led the weight maintenance group and served as the program's medical director. He also co-founded Sequoia’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program and was a long-term consultant to its Pain Treatment Center. He is currently dedicated to communicating this work to a broader audience through his writing, as well as blogging and answering your questions at www.DrDavidLevenson.com

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1493598937
• ISBN 13: 9781493598939
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164