Plant A Geranium In Your Cranium or The Structure House Weight Loss Plan

Plant A Geranium In Your Cranium

Author: Barbara Johnson

Best-selling humorist Barbara Johnson is back - and getting back to her roots - with a candid look at life and discovering joy in the midst of trials, including her own unexpected battle with cancer. Using excerpts from inspiring articles and extraordinary letters from her mailbag, Johnson presents one big package of humor, comfort, and encouragement that her beloved audiences have come to expect.

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The Structure House Weight Loss Plan: Achieve Your Ideal Weight Through a New Relationship with Food

Author: Gerard J Musant

REDEFINE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD -- AND REACH YOUR IDEAL WEIGHT!

Obesity expert Dr. Gerard Musante and his residential weight loss center, Structure House, have helped more than thirty thousand people lose weight. A stay at Structure House costs thousands of dollars. Now Dr. Musante's innovative ideas and effective treatment methods are yours for the price of this book.

IT'S NOT FOOD THAT MAKES YOU FAT -- IT'S YOUR EATING BEHAVIOR.

During his thirty years of practice, Dr. Musante has shown that it is your relationship with food that determines your ability to reach your ideal weight. His system targets behaviors resulting from habit, boredom, or stress that lead to unstructured eating -- eating for nonnutritional reasons -- and presents concrete methods for designing new, structured eating patterns. You'll learn to isolate your unhealthy eating, recognize and neutralize the food triggers that cause your unstructured eating, and stop using food to satisfy needs other than hunger. Dr. Musante's method gets to the root of these behaviors by completely reconstructing your daily experience with food and therefore the choices you make about what to eat.

The Structure House Weight Loss Plan presents Dr. Musante's Structured Eating system. You will learn to eat nutritious food in appropriate portions three times a day -- the food that you need to meet your nutritional requirements and to reach and maintain the level of weight you desire. The Structured Eating program is presented in three sections.

The first section, "Get Structured," guides you through making the changes that willincrease success, including understanding your eating behaviors that emerge from habit, boredom, and stress; learning how the organization of your refrigerator and cabinets can lead to weight loss or weight gain; and analyzing the attitudes toward food of the people who surround you at work and at home.

In the second section, "Be Structured," you learn about food choices; meal planning, including grocery shopping and food preparation; and identifying the right kinds of exercise that will enhance your success.

In the final section, "Stay Structured," Dr. Musante shares all the secrets of lifestyle change that will help you take and, more important, keep the weight off. The strategies are both large and small, simple and profound, immediate and long lasting. Using the Structure House approach, you'll be in control of food -- not controlled by it. You'll gain power by taking responsibility -- and then you can take credit for your successes.

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Clinical psychologist Musante bases his Structure House program on the idea that it is a person's relationship with food that causes weight gain (as when one eats to relieve boredom or stress). Unlike diets forbidding certain foods, his plan denies dieters nothing. Instead, its mainstays include such time-honored principles as eating three properly proportioned meals a day composed of foods from all the major food groups and exercising. Participants plan their meals in advance (they may count calories or use an exchange system), shop accordingly, and record what they eat and--if applicable--their reasons for deviating from the plan. Suggestions for avoiding the pitfalls of dining out or entertaining as well as sample recipes for home preparation are included. Easily accessible to the layperson and full of sensible advice, this is recommended for public and academic nutrition collections.

Table of Contents:

Introduction     ix
Get Structured: Understand and Prepare for the Structure House Weight Loss Plan
The Structure House Program     3
Assess Your Health and Medical Issues     14
Get Ready for Structure     25
Be Structured: Implement the Behavioral Principles of the Structure House Weight Loss Plan
Be Structured: Structured Eating and the Structure House Diary     51
Be Structured at Home: Eating Well and Losing Weight in Your Own Kitchen     82
Be Structured at the Supermarket: Eating Well and Losing Weight by Shopping Wisely     111
Understand the Importance of Exercise     133
Stay Structured: Maintain the Structure House Weight Loss Plan
Stay Structured Away from Home: Eating Well and Losing Weight in Restaurants and While on the Road     165
Maintain the Structured Mind-set: More Tools for the Structure House Toolbox     191
Explore Lifestyle Change     218
Conclusion: Take the Journey     264
Appendices
Understanding Your Body Mass Index     275
Understanding Metabolism     278
Sample Exchange Lists     281
A Structure House Menu Sampler     288
Notes     299
Acknowledgments     305
Index     309