Skinny Thinking

Five Revolutionary Steps to Permanently Heal
Your Relationship with Food, Weight, and Your Body

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW YORK – If we could discover the missing piece to the weight-loss puzzle, then America would no longer be the “fattest” country in the world. Obesity in the United States has become epidemic and, according to new data released in January 2010 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 34% of adults are obese, which is more than double the percentage from 30 years ago. (1)

After 35 years of torment, author Laura Katleman-Prue successfully ended her struggle with food. By teaching herself to go on a “thought diet” and using inquiry to challenge the misguided food thoughts that had kept her eating and weight issues in place, she healed them for good. In her new book, Skinny Thinking: Five Revolutionary Steps to Permanently Heal Your Relationship with Food, Weight, and Your Body (Morgan James Publishing, April 2010. Amazon.com: $19.95; also available in bookstores. ISBN: 978-1-60037-749-5), she shares the five simple steps that worked for her in an effort to help others see the whole truth about food and what’s been going on in their relationship with it.

Although other books have addressed the physiological, psychological, and even some spiritual aspects of eating issues, Skinny Thinking is the first and only book to identify romantic thinking about food as the root cause of overweight issues. In a nutshell, it’s “Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie meet food!”

Katleman-Prue believes that food is the most emotionally based of all the addictions. If people don’t learn to break their emotional tie with it by going beyond the mind and emotions, their weight will keep yo-yoing indefinitely. They will continue to look to food to give them things it was never designed to provide, such as comfort, reward, excitement, companionship, or entertainment. Skinny Thinking teaches readers how to break this tie with surgical precision—and to replace their old, destructive relationship with food with a healthy, new one.

Diets don’t work because, by their very nature, they’re temporary. People lose weight on a diet, but when the diet is over, they go back to eating their favorite foods, and the pounds pile back on. According to Katleman-Prue, “The bottom line is: changing your diet only works if you change your thinking at the same time.”

People are looking for a quick fix. They buy in to the promises of the diet du jour and perhaps hit their goal weight, but then their weight bounces right back up again. Katleman-Prue guides readers through the process of fundamentally and permanently changing their relationship with food by changing the way they think about it. By following the Five Steps, readers will finally be able to stop yo-yoing, heal their relationship with food, and reach a healthy, natural weight that they’ll get to keep for the rest of their lives.

The Five Steps are:

The First Step: Wise Thinking – This step focuses on creating an entirely new, healthy relationship with food and ending emotional eating. It teaches you how to think differently about food, and provides strategies to help you stop wearing a path to the fridge. It also helps you see the whole picture of food and contains 18 different kung fu exercises to help you defend yourself against cravings and emotional eating.
The Second Step: Wise Food Choices – Through wise food choices, you learn about choosing what to eat with health in mind, and the difference between eating and entertaining yourself with food.
The Third Step: Wise Eating – This step teaches you how to eat from a place of presence, balance, and calm rather than from a frenzied, out-of-control, mechanical, or can’t-get-enough-of-this-heavenly-substance-called-food place. It helps you adopt new ways of eating that will guide the course of weight loss and serve you well for the rest of your life.
The Fourth Step: Wise Living – The fourth step explores how the way you’re living and expressing yourself might be keeping your natural happiness from you. It focuses on helping you begin to align with your true self and learn a new way of being, living, and expressing yourself from the heart.
The Fifth Step: Wise Relationship with Your Body – Accepting your body and choosing to change it from a place of love and acceptance is the focus of this step, and is the core difference between the Skinny Thinking approach and the dieting approach. The key is to notice where the impulse to change comes from. Diets focus on goal weights: Skinny Thinking focuses on health and happiness.

“In order to permanently heal eating and weight issues, we have to do two things: change our diet and change our relationship with food,” states Katleman-Prue. “We have a tendency to overeat when we’re not paying attention. The key is bringing more awareness to food thoughts, eating triggers, and the experience of eating itself. Once we do this, we begin to see the whole truth about food and to let go of our illusions about it: then, the way we think about it changes.

The Skinny Thinking Challenge takes 5 minutes a day for 91 days and includes
a FREE Chapter of Laura¹s Book and the 20 Kung Fus ­ How to knock out your
emotional craving crazies – to help to end weight struggles for good.
Participants can sign up at www.facebook.com/SkinnyThinking.

About the Author:
Skinny Thinking grew out of Laura Katleman-Prue’s desire to heal the eating, weight, and body-image issues that plagued her for 35 years. She discovered that the root of her problem was the way she thought about food, and that changing her diet was irrelevant if she didn’t also change her thinking habits. By teaching herself to go on a “thought diet” and transform her relationship with food, she experienced permanent healing. This motivated her to write Skinny Thinking and to lead Skinny Thinking Workshops to help others heal their eating issues as well.

Skinny Thinking
Five Revolutionary Steps to Permanently Heal
Your Relationship with Food, Weight, and Your Body
(Morgan James Publishing, April 2010. Amazon.com: $19.95; also available in bookstores.
ISBN: 978-1-60037-749-5)

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