The JPost has an article describing a book by Dr. Zipi Ha’etzni about losing weight and keeping it off and how the problem is not in the stomach but in the head.
A man named Avi consulted Dr. Ha'etzni after regaining some weight he had lost.
“I’m a mess, the world’s a mess and my future is even more so,” he told her. Avi recalled that a few days before, he was at the supermarket and saw a couple looking at him and whispering to each other that ‘it is too much.’ He thought they were saying he was obese, but in fact, upon getting closer, he heard them complaining he had put more than 10 items of groceries in his shopping cart even though he was in an express line.
Noting his lack of self-confidence, Ha’etzni asked if something good happened to him in the past week, and he remembered he had been appointed to head a new project at work and even won a small sum with a lottery ticket.
“This story illustrates a central idea in cognitive psychology, mood congruent memory, in which people tend to pull out memories that suit their current moods.”
Read full article: http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=266995
Aish.com has an article about a husband whose changed way of thinking saved his marriage.
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