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Of Bears and Weight Loss: How to Manage Triggers, Lose Weight, and Enjoy Getting Fit [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 256 pages, aukštis x plotis: 215x139 mm, Illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-May-2023
  • Leidėjas: Apollo Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1954641222
  • ISBN-13: 9781954641228
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 256 pages, aukštis x plotis: 215x139 mm, Illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-May-2023
  • Leidėjas: Apollo Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1954641222
  • ISBN-13: 9781954641228
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Filled with colorful anecdotes, personal stories and scientific evidence, the psychologist, stand-up comedian and bestselling author shares the life-changing techniques he used to lose 100 pounds to help readers embrace change with humor and harness the power to see their goals through to completion.

Psychologist, stand-up comedian, and best-selling author Dr. Brian King reveals the techniques he used to lose one hundred pounds, and provides guidance and humor to make your weight loss journey a healthy, sustainable, and even enjoyable one. 

Dr. Brian King studied neuroscience and psychology before touring the world as a stand-up comedian and public speaker. Yet despite giving life guidance to others, he was carrying an extra one hundred pounds, taking up too much space in airplane seats and keeping the opposite sex at bay. 

When Dr. Brian committed to change, he embraced his understanding of human behavior and mindsets to reframe his approach to a healthy lifestyle. Now having lost most of the weight, he uses his signature combination of humor and neuroscience to delve deep into mindfulness, stress, habits, willpower, diet, exercise, and much more to guide readers in losing weight and keeping it off.

This highly anticipated follow-up to Dr. Brian’s renowned stress management guide, The Art of Taking It Easy, is equally destined to help readers worldwide live better, longer, more active lives—and make your skinny jeans your everyday ones. Dr. Brian's unique, encouraging guidance brims with colorful anecdotes, personal stories, and scientific evidence, and is complemented by wisdom from a wealth of other experts—in various health fields as well as comedy—who have also triumphed in their weight loss journeys. 

Whether you are looking to shed those final five, the COVID fifteen, or the weight of another adult, Of Bears and Weight Loss offers life-changing tips and instructions that will have you embracing change with humor and the power to finally see your goals through to completion. 

Inside you’ll find:
- A comprehensive guide to developing the right mindset.
- An understanding of how factors such as poor sleep or impulse control could be sabotaging your goals.
- Guidance on how to know what diet and exercise program is right for you.
- The motivation to change and instructions on how to sustain a healthy lifestyle.
- Revelations on why diets fail and how to embrace sustainable change without going hungry or spending all night in the gym.
- Support for balancing weight loss goals with busy lifestyles, work, parenting, and social commitments.
- A wealth of humor, deep belly laughs, and scientifically-sound, evidence-based know-how.

Recenzijos

Praise for The Art of Taking It Easy:

King's particular approach is original and refreshing. He combines a winning balance of accessible science, engaging stories, and comic relief to drive home a compelling message. Shelf Awareness

Psychologist and comedian King (The Laughing Cure) explores the science behind stress in this witty, informed guide. The author uses a bevy of running jokes and punch lines to enliven technical explanations for how and why people experience stress. His metaphors of coming across a bear in the wild as well as being stuck in traffic are also used to great effect to explain a variety of stress responses, such as perceiving a threat and feelings of powerlessness. Reframing thoughts plays a large role in Kings advice: Stress is simply a reaction to a perception of threat...being able to consciously redirect choices made by other areas of the brain is the key to living a less stressful existence.  He also provides breathing exercises, plans for maintaining physical health, and useful advice for setting attainable goals. An interview with a former paratrooper and a harrowing story centered on his brothers van breaking down while traveling provide particularly helpful examples of how ones mindset can make all the difference in a highly stressful situation. Kings enjoyable guide to living with less stress will be of help to any anxious reader. Publishers Weekly

Preface ix
Bonjour de Montreal
Chapter 1 Three Books
1(24)
The Ship That Almost Passed Me in the Night
8(6)
Fat Tales: Bringing Sexy Back
14(3)
A Promise I Intend to Keep
17(6)
The Best Things About Losing One Hundred Pounds
23(2)
Chapter 2 Two Simple Methods
25(22)
Consulting the Expert: Bodybuilder Andrew Ginsburg
29(6)
Fat Tales: That Doctor Comedian
35(3)
Consulting the Expert: Chef Suzi Gerber
38(9)
Chapter 3 Studies of Eating and Screwing
47(72)
Consulting the Expert: Occupational Therapist Sarah Bollinger
57(6)
Two Pounds of Fat
63(16)
Fat Tales: Time to Bring the Doughnuts
79(5)
Sorry, but the Bear Is Back
84(15)
Of Berries and Worms
99(5)
Stress Eating Over a Caterpillar
104(4)
Shark Mode
108(6)
Eating or Screwing?
114(5)
Chapter 4 The Eye-Opening Event
119(28)
The "Not-So-Secret" Secret
123(14)
Fat Tales: Popcorn for Breakfast
137(2)
Old Habits Die Hard
139(2)
Fat Tales: Time to Wear the Big Boy Pants
141(4)
The Worst Things About Losing One Hundred Pounds
145(2)
Chapter 5 Not That Kind of Bear
147(8)
Fat Tales: Eating Like Olympians
152(3)
Chapter 6 The Right Place at the Right Time
155(30)
Getting Those Last Few Steps In
164(3)
Speaking of Europe: German Comedian Thomas Nicolai
167(10)
Fat Tales: The Adventures of Daddy Pig
177(8)
Chapter 7 Check Out This Bunch of Losers
185(70)
Comedian Mark Schiff Lost Fifty Pounds After Some Inspiration from Jerry Seinfeld
186(9)
Comedian Steve Mittleman Lost Fifty Pounds and Has Kept Most of Them Off for Thirty-Seven Years
195(4)
Comedian AC Valiante Has Lost Fifty Pounds Since the Start of the Pandemic
199(2)
Writer and Comedian Jonelle Larouche Lost Thirty Pounds by Giving Up Alcohol
201(2)
Comedian Trevin Verduzco Has Lost Eighty-Five Pounds with the Help of a Weight Loss Clinic
203(4)
Comedian Mark Evans Lost One Hundred Pounds Thanks to Intermittent Fasting
207(3)
Comedian Kieran Atkins Lost Forty-Five Pounds by Overcoming Impulsive Behavior
210(5)
Comedian Jennifer Anderson Lost Eighty Pounds by Kickboxing!
215(4)
Comedian Erik Escobar Lost Over One Hundred Pounds Because He Had a Toothache
219(5)
Comedian Dave DeLuca Lost 110 Pounds by Walking Throughout New York City
224(7)
Comedian ANT Lost Almost Seventy Pounds After Trying Nearly Everything
231(6)
A Few Words About Medication
237(1)
Nashville Hot Chicken Restaurateur Austin Smith Lost Over One Hundred Pounds and Still Eats His Own Food
238(5)
Sometimes Its Really Good to Talk to Others
243(6)
Fat Tales: Just Call Me Papa Button
249(6)
Chapter 8 My Boots Were Made for Walking
255(8)
Fat Tales: A Father and Son Thing
257(6)
Chapter 9 Sarah's Struggle
263(10)
Fat Tales: The Day After Thanksgiving
270(3)
Chapter 10 Au Revoir de Montreal
273(2)
Epilogue 275(6)
Acknowledgments 281
Dr. Brian King trained as a neuroscientist and psychologist and for more than a decade has traveled the world as a comedian and public speaker. By day he conducts seminars, presented nationwide and attended by thousands of people each year, on positive psychology, the health benefits of humor, stress management, and healthy living. By night he entertains audiences in comedy clubs. Dr. Brian began performing stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009, and since then he has performed hundreds of shows around the world. He has a bachelors degree from the University of Texas, a masters degree from the University of New Orleans, and a PhD from Bowling Green State University. He is the author of The Art of Taking It Easy (Apollo Publishers) and The Laughing Cure. Dr. Brian hails from New York City, but is regularly on the road with his wife and young daughter or at their homes in Montreal, Canada, or Dallas, Texas.