The Beck Diet Solution

By: Judith S. Beck Ph.D.

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

This breakthrough six-week plan assures success by helping you to assess the advantages of weight loss, pick a sensible diet and exercise program, set a goal, line up support, and prepare your environment - all before starting any diet. This unique approach is key to preventing the downfalls that so often lead to failure.

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2007 Judith S. Beck (P)2007 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC

Critic reviews

"The most empowering diet secret ever." ( O, the Oprah Magazine)

Abridged version reduces the power of Beck

I'm not sure why a "how to" book was released here abridged since the power of Dr. Beck's work is in the very practical steps, with examples, she writes about. One of the things they removed when abridging the book was some of the activities and instructions. Without these, the book is informative but not transformative. If you're the sort of person who appreciates and benefits from getting an overview of a topic and then digging in deep, this will be a useful listen prior to working through the paper version. It's only 5 hours so it's not a huge investment. If you're going to put Beck's solution to work, you will need to get the physical version (maybe Kindle - I haven't looked at it) and read all of it and do the steps as instructed. If you do, you stand a good chance to change your relationship to food and eating and of getting your diet, whatever type it is, to stick for good.

Best ever!

Not a reviewer normally! excellent ! so several friends are on it.
trying to recall old habits but now new habits are great.

Great plan!

Great plan, it's my head that has gotten in the way of my weight loss. I've lost 25 pounds since I started this plan. Would have preferred the actual author to be the reader.

CD with the book

l love the book but I don't have access to the cd for completing it.

Great advice, bad chapter divisions

The only problems I have are that the instructions are broken into daily advice. Yet, the audiobook is not divided into the same sections. And there is repeated reference to files on CD 4 but clearly there is no CD 4.

Many of these techniques I used in the past with great success. Many are ones I ignored in the past that led to me breaking past diets. This book teaches how to make ANY reasonable diet work.

BB in NC

good way of working your head. we will see how it turns out for me

Great information poor performance

This was a tough one. The information was fantastic but unfortunately the choice made for the performance was to read it like a children's book sing-songy and condescending. It made it difficult to get through the material.

Good Advice - but sounds hackneyed.

Four points:

1. Definitely great advice, but nothing revolutionary.
2. Structure was condescendingly formulaic and almost robotic.
3. Narrator sounded like a call center automaton or a stepford wife. Groan-worthy.
4. Probably better as a hard copy. Would lack the awful narration and the formulaic structure would be easier to visualize. Her process is most likely very effective, but only if one was participating as an active reader - taking notes and writing down thoughts along the way. I think there is workbook that goes with this. I do not doubt that her program is effective - but not best translated as audiobook.

Life changing

Life altering, amazing, useful, psychological, cognitive therapy !!!!!!!

Will definitely recommend this to everyone struggling with weight or emotional eating or maintenance

They do provide the PDFs

Would you consider the audio edition of The Beck Diet Solution to be better than the print version?

When I went to the Audible website on a computer instead of on my phone and opened my library it clearly listed PDF as a download option and that had 2 files: the journal and charts and graphs.