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Thin Minded
Control Your Hunger and Find the Way Out of the Dieting Circle
At any given time, millions of people around the world are on a diet, with their eyes on one goal only—to lose weight.
In today’s world, anyone who wishes to shed unwanted weight and also remain slim must first of all work on their thought patterns. Without this, the process is doomed to fail.
In this book you’ll find a simple but powerful tool that can help you change your life—first mentally and then also physically. The book will show you how you can leave the infinite circle of dieting, learn to control your appetite and identify where it’s coming from—your body or your emotions. With time, you will realize that your eating habits have turned into intuitive eating (eating according to your actual hunger), and your emotional eating has stopped (you don't eat for emotional reasons like peer pressure, or boredom, to name a few).
One of the main ideas brought up in this book is personifying the hunger we all have inside and imagining it as a small selfish and greedy character named Gulo. The Gulo pushes us to eat as much as possible, regardless of our physical hunger or true desires.
As you collect victories over the Gulo, you’ll realize the war being waged inside you is subsiding.
Your humongous objective, losing weight—will become a reality.
At any given time, millions of people around the world are on a diet, with their eyes on one goal only—to lose weight.
In today’s world, anyone who wishes to shed unwanted weight and also remain slim must first of all work on their thought patterns. Without this, the process is doomed to fail.
In this book you’ll find a simple but powerful tool that can help you change your life—first mentally and then also physically. The book will show you how you can leave the infinite circle of dieting, learn to control your appetite and identify where it’s coming from—your body or your emotions. With time, you will realize that your eating habits have turned into intuitive eating (eating according to your actual hunger), and your emotional eating has stopped (you don't eat for emotional reasons like peer pressure, or boredom, to name a few).
One of the main ideas brought up in this book is personifying the hunger we all have inside and imagining it as a small selfish and greedy character named Gulo. The Gulo pushes us to eat as much as possible, regardless of our physical hunger or true desires.
As you collect victories over the Gulo, you’ll realize the war being waged inside you is subsiding.
Your humongous objective, losing weight—will become a reality.
77 pages, Paperback
Published January 23, 2020
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August 9, 2020
Clear, funny
Luckily, it is Sunday night so I really can say I will start on Monday. Love the idea of separating myself from the Gulo.
Luckily, it is Sunday night so I really can say I will start on Monday. Love the idea of separating myself from the Gulo.
April 9, 2020
This is better than any diet book!
It’s succinct! Yes, short but try to memorize key points for life! I will likely re-read this again and again to remind myself of the principles herein.
It’s succinct! Yes, short but try to memorize key points for life! I will likely re-read this again and again to remind myself of the principles herein.
April 10, 2022
Good Ideas for Our Times
This book is common sense counsel for our self-indulgent and over-fed society. Following the advice here is a first step to creating a peaceful spirit. Thank you, Karin, for writing ít out so clearly! Now, I’ll work to put it into practice!
This book is common sense counsel for our self-indulgent and over-fed society. Following the advice here is a first step to creating a peaceful spirit. Thank you, Karin, for writing ít out so clearly! Now, I’ll work to put it into practice!
April 7, 2020
Simple Facts
Fast, simple facts about when to eat and when not to eat. Made in easy and fun ways to remember.
Fast, simple facts about when to eat and when not to eat. Made in easy and fun ways to remember.
July 22, 2021
Thoughtful
Good ideas on dealing with food choices. Simple ideas, but very effective. Keeping it simple seems to work better for me.
Good ideas on dealing with food choices. Simple ideas, but very effective. Keeping it simple seems to work better for me.
February 5, 2020
‘Food is nothing more than the fuel of the body’
Israeli author Karin Auerbach-Hanania earned degrees in Art History and the History of Musicology, has worked in Computer Software and Information Systems Analysis, and studied Awareness Enhancement at the Center of Inter-Religious Peace. Having struggled with weight loss, Karin shares with the reader her history and her path to controlling eating in a short but very helpful book – THIN MINDED.
A signal of the quality of immediate approach to her guidance is Karin’s electing to state for whom this book is intended: ‘If you want to break the cycle of diet, weight loss, and regaining all the lost weight. If you want to stop being frustrated over food that you are not allowed to eat, even though you want to. If you want to learn to eat based on your physical needs, such as real hunger, and not because you’re controlled by emotional needs and impulses.’ At last, a coach who understands weight control by controlling impulses!
Putting aside the lists of ‘good foods bad foods’ ideas that fill the pages of other diet books, Karin presents her concept of ‘autosuggestion’ technique, supplying viable (and accessible) ideas on using the mind, rather than the calorie counter, to control eating habits. She defines Autosuggestion as ‘a physiological, technique through which people can change their attitudes, feelings, and beliefs using self persuasion, used to convince the subconscious mind of positive things or to change particular behavior’ such as ‘ to repeat positive and empowering statements until the subconscious mind accepts them as true.’
Using terrific illustrations, Karin delivers her message with clarity and humor, just the ticket for easing the reader into her concepts – concepts that work! This is a very helpful book for all those concerned with weight control, or in other words, for all of us! Highly recommended.
Israeli author Karin Auerbach-Hanania earned degrees in Art History and the History of Musicology, has worked in Computer Software and Information Systems Analysis, and studied Awareness Enhancement at the Center of Inter-Religious Peace. Having struggled with weight loss, Karin shares with the reader her history and her path to controlling eating in a short but very helpful book – THIN MINDED.
A signal of the quality of immediate approach to her guidance is Karin’s electing to state for whom this book is intended: ‘If you want to break the cycle of diet, weight loss, and regaining all the lost weight. If you want to stop being frustrated over food that you are not allowed to eat, even though you want to. If you want to learn to eat based on your physical needs, such as real hunger, and not because you’re controlled by emotional needs and impulses.’ At last, a coach who understands weight control by controlling impulses!
Putting aside the lists of ‘good foods bad foods’ ideas that fill the pages of other diet books, Karin presents her concept of ‘autosuggestion’ technique, supplying viable (and accessible) ideas on using the mind, rather than the calorie counter, to control eating habits. She defines Autosuggestion as ‘a physiological, technique through which people can change their attitudes, feelings, and beliefs using self persuasion, used to convince the subconscious mind of positive things or to change particular behavior’ such as ‘ to repeat positive and empowering statements until the subconscious mind accepts them as true.’
Using terrific illustrations, Karin delivers her message with clarity and humor, just the ticket for easing the reader into her concepts – concepts that work! This is a very helpful book for all those concerned with weight control, or in other words, for all of us! Highly recommended.
June 28, 2021
Simple book to get started in conscious eating and stopping emotional eating. Simple read as well.
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