Thin from Within: The Powerful Self-Coaching Program for Permanent Weight Loss

by Joseph J. Luciani

Tired of your weight swinging up and down? Do you find it difficult to stick to a diet? You’re not alone. Every day, millions of people battle temptation as they try to drop unwanted pounds. For those who succeed, a whopping 80 percent quickly pack the weight back on.

Thin from Within delves into the root causes and reveals that diets alone—whether counting calories or controlling carbs—don’t work. Why? Because lasting results have less to do with what you eat, and everything to do with why you eat it. To lose weight and keep it off, you’ve got to retrain your brain.

Renowned psychologist Joseph J. Luciani explores the emotional triggers and ingrained habits driving overindulgence—and shares simple self-coaching techniques proven to control cravings and break the cycle of self-sabotage. Once mastered, these strategies turn healthy eating into an effortless process.

Combining insight and inspiration with powerful cognitive tools, this remarkable guide enables you to:

• Embrace change
• Strengthen your self-discipline
• Resist the lure of comfort foods
• Free yourself from destructive thinking
• Replace even the most stubborn bad habits with positive ones
• Develop resilience and confidence
• Learn from setbacks
• Fight food addictions
• And more

It’s up to you. You can try yet another fad diet and fail—or read Thin from Within and finally find your permanent weight loss solution.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Dr. Joe has been a practicing clinical psychologist for more than forty years. He's the internationally best-selling author of the Self-Coaching series of books, published in ten languages. He's written articles and been featured in numerous national magazines and newspapers, including O, The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, USA Today, Fitness, Health, Shape, and Body and Soul. He appears frequently on national TV, radio, and the Internet.

Reviews

[Wanda Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book that I truly enjoyed reading. I won it through goodreads giveaways and quickly realized it wasn't just another diet book. I came to realize I am an emotion eater.
This book helps to retrain your thought about food and helps you recognize destructive eating patterns that keep you from controlling your weight. Hopefully I can use what I've learned and quit fad dieting and change my relationship with food by changing my thoughts and choosing a better outlook on food and diet. I would recommend this book to anyone who's overweight and wants to change their eating patterns.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a worth the read. There are practical ideas to use to help gain the upper hand on emotional eating. Awareness and journalling have been working for me. For favorite quotes and review: http://wp.me/p7dDcN-rB

[debbicat *made of stardust* · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a winner!

[Vince · Rating 4 out of 5]

Luciani offers a useful review of the physics of hunger, followed by a handy methodology for self-coaching through habit change. Four stars.

[Star Gater · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had the physical book, and listened with the audiobook found on Scribd.

I made a lot of notes, picked up a few mind tricks, and some understanding on making choices. The biggest takeaway for me is Channel Surfing and the role that self-confidence plays in all choices.

I was not able to connect with the narrator who is also the author. I would have appreciated a professional narrator. I do believe in tough love as well as commonsense; however, the author was crass, unapologetic and saintly in his own quests.

For the very first time, I would recommend not even picking up the audiobook, reading on your own skipping after the first couple chapters the author's personal life (He quit smoking and changed his eating habits.)

I bought the physical book from Book Outlet on clearance for $1.99.

[Veronika · Rating 3 out of 5]

I listened to the audio version. I would appreciate a workbook, print out pdf to go with this. There were some good tips and tools to use to gain some control ocer eating, however, since I didn’t manage to take notes while listening, I couldn’t really use much of the tips when I would need them. I definitely recommend either to take time to listen to this only when you have capacity to take notes or buy written version where you can easily highlight the tools.

[Sheri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Listened to the audio version. Well read by author.
Pros: Excellent journal prompts and indepth psychological importance of journaling for self-awareness and lifestyle change.
Cons: Dragged on a bit and felt a bit too clinical at times.
No pdf link with audio from library which is disappointing.

[Ines · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book really very useful with a lot of tips, explanatory and motivating. It has been a revelation for me and would like to thank the author for having shared all the good tips with us. It would help also if there were a community and a blog repeating all the good tips. At first I could not find the pdf and contacted the audiobook provider/client support service.

[Sandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book very interesting. It had very good information in it.

[J Crossley · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this book, the idea is that when you look inside yourself to determine what is missing, you can overcome your overeating tendencies. It does seem that with stress eating or emotional eating that if we come up with alternative behaviors we would be able to lose weight.

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has really helped me change my approach & attitude towards food & myself. Very insightful and full of practical tips that readily convert to immediate actions.