“The Beck Diet.”

Not too long ago a friend told me "I'm reading the Beck Diet Plan that you were talking about."

"Huh?  What did you call it?  You sure didn't hear about it from me."

"No, really, it must have been you, I'm sure of it."

"Seriously, I have never heard of that one.  Must have been someone else."

So another friend of mine has recently gotten the book The Complete Beck Diet for Life and begun to follow the recommendations.  She brought the book over to my house, and I had a chance to skim through it yesterday.

First of all:  I definitely had never seen the book before.  

Second:  What the heck?!?  I must have been channeling this woman (Dr. Beck, that is) the whole time I was losing weight!   No wonder the first friend thought I had recommended it —a lot of the strategies she recommends were things I deliberately set out to do, and wrote about at some length.  Briefly, there is little prescriptive emphasis on exactly what eating and exercise plan to follow, and instead a heavy emphasis on cognitive and behavioral strategies to help the dieter stick to the plan he or she chooses.

I plan to get the book and read it over myself and post a longer review later.   I could still use some help with strategies for weight maintenance.  But for now, here's the website (including a blog with motivating anecdotes) and here's the book.