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Shrink Yourself: A program that helped me finally break past my weight loss plateau

by Justin Carboneau

June 11th, 2010

As I’ve said in some of my recent blogs, I went through the 12-week Shrink Yourself program a few years ago, and it helped me to finally break past my “plateau” weight of 185 and lose another 30 pounds.

I wanted to share a quote from Dr. Roger Gould, the creator of the Shrink Yourself program:

In the Shrink Yourself program, I will help you unravel your pattern of emotional eating, the same way that I would help you if you were a patient in my office.

When you turn to food for comfort, or when you overeat, you may not even be hungry. You are probably just feeling a gnawing, nagging emptiness that makes you reach for something to fill you up and over time you have found that food is the easiest answer.

Week by week, we will get to the bottom of what that emptiness is about; we will uncover what exactly you are trying to fill with food.

From years of work with my patients I can tell you that you don’t need another lecture about what to eat or how much to eat; so I won’t give you that. Each week is designed to provide you with an insight and they all build on one another so that you arrive at your own conclusions about what YOU need to stop overeating.

For me, alcohol was the biggest thing that I had to cut back on. Not only was it accounting for so many empty calories, but at the same time, it weakened my willpower and I would end up eating more junk because of that.

When I went through the Shrink Yourself program, I actually stopped drinking alcohol for a period of about 6 months, which is something that I never could have done by willpower alone. I used to drink almost every day. It was essentially an addiction…The Shrink Yourself program helped me to make the psychological changes I needed to be able to not only avoid alcohol and other junk foods, but also to deal with the reasons I was driven to drink and overeat, in healthy ways.

I owe a lot to the Shrink Yourself program and I highly recommend it to you if you have struggled to get to your goal weight.

I have also decided, in honor of the Shrink Yourself program and my Mission: Six Pack Abs quest, to abstain from drinking alcohol until at least the end of the month. I don’t drink nearly as much as I used to these days, but when I do, I feel that it’s holding me back from reaching my six-pack abs goal.