3 Prerequisites for Successful Weight Loss

 Yes. Many clients, patients and readers using my methods have said so. But there's a catch. I screen my clients, and I make sure they meet the prerequisites before I'll work with them. In my book, I make sure readers know about them.

Since 1985 I have been helping people solve their weight problems with a therapeutic method I developed as a behavioral therapist.

As a clinical counselor, I specialized in tough habitual behavior and addictions, and I put my clinical training to work on obesity, solving my own problem first. I lost 140 pounds after 25 years of dieting failure, and I've maintained my ideal body weight since then, for almost 30 years.

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Soon after discovering the method, I started training others. I've been very successful helping chronically overweight people lose weight permanently, and I am convinced that anyone can succeed with permanent weight loss.

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However, there is a big but. Before you can expect to be able to solve your weight problem, there are several prerequisites that must be met.

1) Get honest about yourself and weight control.

For years, I could not accept the truth about myself and weight control. Early in my dieting career, I learned about calories, the calories in what I liked to eat, and how I'd have to change. It was so hideous that I could not live with it.

There had to be another truth, another way! There was no way I could live a life without the freedom to eat what I wanted, when I wanted. I used to say things like, "I really don't eat that much." I pretended that I was not the cause of my weight problem. I looked for magical ways to solve my weight problem.