The Overfed Head: What If Everything You Know About Weight Loss Is Wrong?

by Rob Stevens

If you are ready to stop dieting, start losing weight, and enjoy the foods you love, this book is for you. If everything you know about weight loss is not giving you the permanent results you are looking for, what can? Tapping into your thintuition. To succeed with thintuition is to think one simple thought: "I give my body exactly what it needs, no more and no less. This eating as our natural instincts dictate is the art and skill of thintuition. It is a form of mindfulness applied to eating. You can succeed permanently with it because it is in harmony with your basic nature."

144 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 2004

Reviews

[Bill · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read the free pdf version of this book. It's very similar to Molly Groger's book from the early 1980s called 'Eating Awareness Training', although he never mentions Groger's book. I agree with the author's approach; I think it's the most sensible way to lose weight. But, it's not really an improvement on Groger's book; he just re-states her ideas in a different way. Worth reading if you are sick of dieting.

The reason I didn't give this a higher star rating is because the last few pages are essentially an advertisement for the author's on-line course. It seems a bit contradictory in that he spends a considerable number of pages criticizing the hucksters of the diet industry and then turns around to sell us on his weight loss program. If all we really need to do is pay attention to our bodies, do we really need to sign up for a weight loss program?

[Kim Olver · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very quick read--only 142 pages. It is written by a guy who lost 140 pounds, without exercise. Basically, all he did was start really tuning in to his body. If he felt hungry he ate but he only ate until he wasn't hungry anymore. He didn't eat until he was full or beyond. He stopped when the hunger signals abated.

He also didn't forbid himself from eating supposedly "bad foods." Rob knows that when he has a particular craving, like many of us, nothing will satisfy but the object of that craving. I remember myself one time I was attempting not to eat chocolate. In my quest to not eat the chocolate, I ate my way through half my refrigerator and then ended up eating the chocolate anyway!

With Rob's method, I would have allowed myself the chocolate but only enough to satisfy my hunger.

As with most new information, I would recommend you read this book a couple of times. I know for me, while I was reading it and immediately after, I did really well only eating when I was hungry but over time, I began to drift back to older, established behavior patterns. I suggest you reread this quick book every six months or so. Let me know how it works out for you.

[The Other Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was skeptical about reading this book. I expected it to be yet another, "Hey, you are dieting wrong. Diets don't work but follow my diet for awesome results in ninety days!" sort of tome. It is not that at all. The author makes no claims to get you super thin in any amount of time. Just points out something very obvious in the way that dieting does indeed not work.

[Sylwia]

It starts interesting and makes me wonder... Though also wakes up a lot of doubts.

[Dona · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a great book. I gave it to my son to read and he agrees!

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nonsense.