Thin Becomes You

Ready for a change in your weight, and your ability to lose weight? If so, “Thin Becomes You” will not only show you the way, but will get you there.

How does the mere reading of the quotes in this book actually help you control your eating with enthusiasm and ultimately move you to weight loss?

Constructed with a unique psychological approach called neuro-linguistic
programming (NLP), these quotes will “trick your mind,” so to speak, to help you change the habitual ways you think and behave.

For example, the quote, “Ignoring the fact that you carry too much
weight doesn’t change the ‘fat,’” may confuse you when you read it initially.

Why? Because you expected the quote to finish with the word “fact.” When it ends with “fat,” your mind has to do a double take. That unexpected word makes you stop and think about what you have just read.

Words with opposite meanings appear in many of the quotes. For example, “Every half-pound you lose becomes a gain” pulls a switch on the brain because you generally don’t expect to jump from the word “lose” to “gain.” The quote, “Each time you pile it on, you dig yourself a deeper hole,” also tricks the brain because you didn’t expect a switch in the same sentence. You must think harder about what you have read because the sentence doesn’t follow a familiar pattern, which allows the quote to have a greater impact on you.

I wrote the quotes in E-Prime (the language of neuro-linguistic programming), which refers to the English language minus the verb “to be” and all its various forms. This way of communicating removes generalizations and eliminates distorted, all-or-nothing thinking.

For example, if you say, “Watching my weight is impossible,” you have
engaged in distorted thinking (anyone can watch his or her weight), and furthermore, you have set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. Better to say, “I find weight watching difficult.” With this sentence you give yourself permission to consider the possibility of watching your weight, as difficult as it may be.

Another example: If you say, “I’m so fat,” you discount everything else
about yourself and reinforce your identity as a fat person. If instead you say, “I carry too much weight on my body,” you don’t put an unchangeable label on yourself. You have permission to decide to stop carrying more weight than you need.

Social scientists have discovered that if you continually expose yourself to the same information, that information creates new neural pathways and connections in your brain. It becomes a part of your thinking and your behavior. By reading and rereading the quotes laid out in “Thin Becomes You,” you will break the endless cycle of weight loss and weight gain. You’ll find yourself thinking, feeling, and behaving differently. You’ll eliminate certain behaviors and adapt new ones. You’ll change what, where, how often, and how much you eat. And you will lose weight.

Keep this booklet on your kitchen table, nightstand, or desk. Put quotes on your screen saver and hang others on your refrigerator. Read a page a day and reflect on each quote’s message. Soon you’ll discover that, indeed, “Thin Becomes You.”

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