MIND OVER MATTER: The Great Dieting Depression - Why Dieting Fails - And Why Happiness Is The Key To Long Term Weight Loss
Language: English
Published by Inkspire Publishing, 2026
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- Title
- MIND OVER MATTER: The Great Dieting Depression - Why Dieting Fails - And Why Happiness Is The Key To Long Term Weight Loss
- Author
- Shaikh, Amer; Shaikh, Dr. Amer
- Publisher
- Inkspire Publishing
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1919185852
- ISBN 13
- 9781919185859
What if your failure to lose weight was never a failure of willpower?
You have counted calories, restricted foods, ignored hunger and promised yourself that this time would be different. Perhaps you lost weight—only to regain it. Perhaps every attempt left you more preoccupied with food, more ashamed of your body and less hopeful than before.
The problem may not be you. It may be the method.
In Mind Over Matter: The Great Dieting Depression, physician Dr. Amer Shaikh challenges one of the most deeply rooted assumptions in modern health culture: that you must become thin before you can become happy.
What if the order is wrong?
Drawing upon medicine, psychology, human biology and his own experience of weight loss, Dr. Shaikh explains how restrictive dieting can activate the body’s survival responses—intensifying hunger, cravings, food obsession, stress and emotional eating while reducing energy, motivation and everyday movement.
He calls this self-perpetuating trap the Great Dieting Depression:
Restriction leads to stress.
Stress lowers mood.
Low mood reduces activity.
Cravings intensify.
Comfort eating brings temporary relief.
Shame begins the cycle again.
This compassionate and provocative book replaces blame with understanding. It explores the relationships between mood, cortisol, sleep, nourishment, metabolism, self-worth and emotional eating—and reveals why fighting your body may be preventing the lasting change you want.
Inside, you will discover:
• Why conventional diets so often produce weight regain
• How restriction can make food more psychologically powerful
• Why stress, shame and low mood can influence appetite and activity
• How sleep, nourishment and emotional safety support self-regulation
• Why joyful “playtime” may succeed where punishing exercise fails
• How to interrupt the diet–craving–failure cycle
• The eight-step Mind Over Matter method for rebuilding wellbeing
• A kinder, more sustainable path towards a healthier relationship with food, movement and yourself
This is not another rigid meal plan, calorie-counting system or short-term promise. It is an invitation to stop treating hunger as virtue, suffering as discipline and your body as the enemy.
If dieting has repeatedly made you feel deprived, defeated or broken, Mind Over Matter offers a radically different starting point:
Do not postpone happiness until after you lose weight.
Restore your sleep. Nourish your body. Reduce your stress. Rebuild your self-worth. Rediscover movement as pleasure. Create a life in which food no longer has to carry the full weight of your emotions.
You do not heal your body by fighting it.
You begin by caring for your mind.
Because when happiness comes first, healthier change may finally have somewhere to begin.
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