Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Who This Book is for and How to Use it |
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How to Use This Book |
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I Can Never Accept My Body at This Weight: Is This Book Right for Me? |
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A Word about Language xii Reference |
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PART 1 YOUR WEIGHT, YOUR BODY: CAN YOU CONTROL IT? (AND WHY NOT?) |
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1 Your Body Struggle: Evaluating Your Progress Thus Far |
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What Has Your Struggle Cost You? |
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3 | (1) |
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Worksheet: What Has This Problem Cost You? |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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Worksheet: Your Body Timeline |
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What Have You Already Tried to Solve This Problem? |
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7 | (2) |
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Worksheet: What Strategies Have You Tried to Solve Your Problem? |
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9 | (3) |
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2 The Surprising Truth about Weight Loss |
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The Science of Weight Loss: It's Not What You Think |
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Why Might Dieting Lead to Weight Gain? |
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How Bad Is Obesity for Your Health? |
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Are the Health Effects of Weight Affected by Culture and Discrimination? |
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17 | (1) |
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19 | (14) |
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Worksheet: Your Dreams and Values |
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22 | (2) |
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Worksheet: Dreams and Values Map |
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24 | (1) |
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Is Accept Yourself! Right for Me if I Have to Diet for My Health? |
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25 | (1) |
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A Health At Every Size® Approach to Health |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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Worksheet: My Health Screening Results (at the Beginning of Accept Yourself]) |
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26 | (1) |
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Worksheet: My Doctor and I Brainstormed a List of Health Behaviors to Address My Health Concerns |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (1) |
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My Health Change Goal (for Readers with a Specific Health Concern Only) |
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29 | (1) |
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Worksheet: Health Change Goals and Barriers |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (1) |
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Worksheet: One-Month Bookmark Check-In |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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Worksheet: My Health Screening Results (at the End of Accept Yourself!) |
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32 | (1) |
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4 Turning Down Programming, Tuning in to Your Body |
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There Is a Reason It Is Called Programming |
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36 | (2) |
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Worksheet: My Programming |
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38 | (2) |
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Albert Ellis and The Folklore of Sex |
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Turning Down Programming, Tuning in to Your Body |
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41 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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41 | (3) |
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What Does Your Body Really Look like? |
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44 | (1) |
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Worksheet: Silhouette Tracing: What Did I Observe? |
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Worksheet: The Mindful Mirror: My Observations |
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46 | (1) |
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Is There a Bomb in Your Mind? |
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47 | (1) |
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Worksheet: Envisioning a Bomb |
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47 | (1) |
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5 From Mindfulness to Self-Acceptance |
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Building Acceptance by Experiencing |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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Worksheet: My Painful Situations |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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Worksheet: The Acceptance Mountain |
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Avoidance in the Midst of Acceptance |
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53 | (1) |
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Worksheet: Acceptance Practice #1 |
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6 Producing Your Own Programming |
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Worksheet: Acceptance Practice #2 |
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Difficulties with Self-Acceptance: Size Discrimination |
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56 | (1) |
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Dealing with Size Discrimination at the Doctor's Office |
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57 | (1) |
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Producing Your Own Programming |
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57 | (1) |
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Resources for Programming the No-Self-Judgment Channel |
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58 | (1) |
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Worksheet: How Will You Create a Self-Judgment-Free Channel and a Body Disparagement-Free Zone? |
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PART 3 CAN YOU LIVE THE LIFE YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED, IN THE BODY YOU HAVE NOW? |
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7 The Value of Feeding Yourself |
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Worksheet: Acceptance Practice #3 |
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63 | (1) |
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Worksheet: Identifying Food Programming |
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64 | (3) |
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67 | (1) |
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Experimenting with Foodways |
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Worksheet: What Do You Want to Eat for? |
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What if Food is Not Something I Value? |
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How Do I Tell if I'm Hungry? |
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73 | (1) |
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Worksheet: Acceptance Practice #4 |
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74 | (1) |
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Fashion without Self-Hatred: How? |
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Values-Driven Self-Presentations |
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77 | (4) |
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Worksheet: My Values-Driven Self-Presentation |
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81 | (1) |
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The Bathing Suit Exercise |
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82 | (1) |
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Fashion Without Self-Hatred: Resources |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (2) |
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9 Dancing with Your Body to the Life You Really Want |
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85 | (12) |
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Worksheet: Acceptance Practice #5 |
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85 | (1) |
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Dancing with Your Body to the Life You Really Want |
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85 | (2) |
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87 | (1) |
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Worksheet: The Magic Wand Revisited |
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88 | (3) |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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Congratulations on Your Valued Life! |
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Index |
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