You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever

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Marisa Peer
studied hypnotherapy at the Hypnotism Training Institute of Los Angeles, known as the best hynotherapy training institute in the world, she also has a background in the field of nutrition. She has spent over twenty years working with an extensive client list including royalty, rock stars, actors, professional and Olympic athletes, CEOs and media personalities and has developed her own unique style that is frequently referred to as life-changing. Marisa works extensively on television and radio, including her appearance on
Celebrity Fit Club
UK and USA, was named the Best British Therapist by
Men’s Health
magazine in May 2006 and featured in
Tatler
’s 2007 Guide to Britain’s 250 Best Doctors. She continues to lecture and run her You Can Be Thin workshops all over the world. Visit her website at
www.marisapeer.com
.

I would recommend this book to my patients or anyone who wishes to change their weight and find a healthy relationship with food. Marisa Peer is caring rather than critical and understands the complex issues involved in weight loss. Marisa works on the premise that dieting alone does not work long term for the majority of overweight people. Instead, if we change our mindset not only is it easier to become slimmer it is easier to remain that way.
You Can Be Thin
shows the reader how to achieve this change and is very different to other diet books as Marisa has a very different and unique approach that works.

Dr Chris Steele
MB ChB
GP and resident doctor on ITV’s
This Morning
Health Journalist of the Year 2007

In
You Can Be Thin
Marisa Peer offers an insightful, entertaining and caring psychological approach to weight loss and management. Achieving and sustaining weight loss involves understanding your relationship with food and knowing how to change it for good. Marisa shows the reader how to do this and how to make it last. This book will guide you to the body you always dreamed of.

Dr Adam Carey
BSc MBBChir DFFP MRC Fel, MRCOG CST Leading nutritionist and nutritional adviser to the England Rugby and England Cricket teams

 

You Can Be Thin
provides refreshing inspiration to achieve a healthy lifestyle in a simple and logical way and is in complete harmony with current medical thinking. The most important message, as always, is to define an improved quality of life for oneself. In this book Marisa’s approach, combined with her personality and humour, works with the reader to make this possible.

Dr Susan Horsewood-Lee
MB BS MRCGP

Renowned British General Practitioner

 
 
 

 
You Can Be Thin

 

 
MARISA PEER

 
 
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This book is dedicated to the memory of the very brave and very beautiful Sasha Jeffrey.

Very special thanks and acknowledgements to my amazing friends, especially Claudia Rosencrantz, who made all this possible, Daniela Neumann, Helen Barbour, Jessica Richards, Maria and Gordon Thomson and Charles Montagu for pushing me to do my seminars, for reading my manuscripts and always believing in me and this book. I could not ask for better friends. If ever there were a design for the perfect friend you would be the template.

 

To my mother Dee Saddler and father Ronald Peer and all my family, especially my very special and lovely Phaedra. To Isaac, Bree and Lucas for always making me laugh. To Cissie for everything.

 

To Dagmar Charlton for putting me on television in America and giving me the best experience and such happy memories.

 

A huge thank you to Dr Susan Horsewood Lee, Dr Adam Carey and Dr Chris Steele for being so supportive of the work I do.

 

To Sarah Rustin for being a fabulous editor and to Eugenie Furniss, my amazing agent. To Kirsteen Astor for great publicity, and everyone at Little, Brown for being extraordinary. Thanks also to my own wonderful teachers Gil Boyne, Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracey, David Viscott, Tony Robbins: all such giving people who taught me so much.

 

And finally to all my clients over the years, you have taught me as much as I ever taught you, thank you.

Every diet asks you to change, it asks you to change your eating habits until you have lost some weight or reached your ideal weight and then the rest is up to you. I am going to show you how to change things other than the amount you eat in ways that will work, so you won’t feel cast adrift as you do when diets fail. Throughout this book I will focus on the methods that really achieve a lasting effect on your body. You are going to change your attitude, your language, your thinking, your whole mindset to reach your ideal weight and stay that way for good.
You Can Be Thin
is written in a very specific hypnotic style that is designed to help you re-evaluate and re-address your entire relationship with food and your body. Just reading this book and interacting with the exercises within it will give you not only a crucial understanding of why you do what you do, it will also show you how to change forever in a way that is powerful and liberating.

The beauty of this book is that the repetition within it is designed to do all the work for you as you absorb the instructions and become fully receptive to change. This book is an amazing programme because it is not just about how you eat and your attitude to food, it is about your whole outlook on life. That is why it is so worth your time to read it and do the exercises. You might just find it’s the best investment you ever made. The hypnotic commands in this book don’t require you to do what I say; it’s not about rigidly following my advice or rules. Instead, the hypnosis triggers you to review what I say, absorb the information and then naturally implement changes, changes that are amazingly effective. By the end of this book you will have changed your entire relationship with food for the better and forever and you will enjoy the whole process, so get ready to make great changes to your body and sustain the change.

The method behind
You Can Be Thin
is unique in that it covers everything that causes overeating as well as providing the answers that offer a lifelong cure without having to diet. In addition to the hypnosis that will end the cravings for foods that cause weight gain, the programme’s steps include tests to take that identify exactly what type of eater you are followed by an effective cure for each type, as well as corresponding case histories to relate to and learn from. It includes proven habit breakers and proven psychological techniques that get results and free you from overeating and being overweight, as well as accurate advice about what to eat.

The journey this book will take you on will subtly and irrevocably change your beliefs, your thoughts and your actions relating to food. You will learn specifically and in detail exactly how to visualise for weight-loss success and discover that even scientists agree that visualisation can powerfully increase weight loss and its maintenance. You will also learn how to keep the weight off forever, something very few diet books address correctly. Maintenance diets don’t work because they are still diets, but in this programme you will learn ways to naturally speed up your metabolism and techniques that will keep you slim for life, no matter what situation you are in. By the end of this book when you come to A Day in the Life of the New Thin You, you will have achieved so much and will be able to enjoy the success of your new body as well as a new-found normal relationship with food that I and so many of my clients enjoy on a daily basis. You will be rewired to be a normal weight for life, just as you were born to be. You also have audio content which will help you keep up all the changes you are going to make. The audio content is designed to reinforce everything this book will teach you so please don’t play it until you have finished the book.

In my practice of over twenty years I have worked with thousands of clients fighting to control their weight and I have seen great and lasting success. This book offers you the same therapy and the same results from the privacy and comfort of your sofa. For years my clients have asked me to write out my programme because for the first time it is a way to change their body that really makes sense to them and it works. This book contains that effective and easy-to-follow approach. My clients swear by my methods to such an extent that I have never ever had to advertise, they all come along by personal recommendation. When people visibly lose weight everyone wants to know how they did it. It was my success in helping people achieve such dramatic weight loss that led me to become the therapist on
Celebrity Fit Club
in England and then in America. I was already known as an expert in the field of weight loss and worked with many high-profile clients from actors to singers to royalty to rock stars, and I still do.

Unlike many experts I can fully empathise with my clients as I spent over twenty years dieting and being obsessed with trying to be thinner but never quite making it. The techniques in this book moved me from someone with a weight problem and a very unhealthy obsession to someone who never gains weight. I eat more food and better food than I ever used to eat but I weigh the least I have ever weighed and have effortlessly stayed at this weight for over ten years without dieting or even thinking about it. I also no longer have the frequent headaches, sinus problems or lethargy that I lived with for years.

I wish I had known then what I know now. I wasted years obsessing about my weight, turning down invitations to dinner parties because the only way I could eat less was not to be around food. I drove my partner crazy because I would not go to office parties or functions in case I ate too much. I was scared of food and had almost no control over my consumption of it and I craved sugar and carbohydrates. I did not know how to be indifferent to food or how to have a healthy and enjoyable relationship with it, but I do now and you will too as you move through this book. I want you to have the same results, the same freedom and the same healthy body and mindset, and I know that you can.

Overeating is so often an emotional issue and dieting can’t fix that, but a form of therapy can. This book is that therapy. It’s the new and effective way forward in weight control. Following the process in this book will allow you to become and stay slim by making permanent emotional adjustments ensuring you change from the inside as well as changing on the outside. Unlike diets which we abandon when we cannot do them properly or continuously, you are not required to do anything continuously or fanatically. You don’t even have to do all of it all the time, as long as you do most of it most of the time you will succeed.

The great thing about making mental changes is that it’s free, painless and easy. The adjustments and changes I will ask you to make are often small and simple but the benefits can be huge and life changing. When you are making physical changes there is no doubt the harder you work the better the results. With mental changes the opposite applies, it does not require huge effort or constant and ongoing work, it just requires that you do it and persist in spending a few moments every day reinforcing it in your mind.