This clinically tested, comprehensive course based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques can provide a longer-term solution to your weight problems.You'll come to understand your own psychological blocks to managing weight and discover how to sustain a healthy lifestyle.Learn how you can: - Develop the motivation to change your eating and activity- Respond to emotional eating in a helpful way- Work with the thoughts and emotions getting in the way of change- Work out a simple, healthy and sustainable eating plan that fits with your daily routine- Find easy ways to add more physical activity into your everyday lifeOvercoming self-help guides use clinically proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical.Many guides in the Overcoming series are recommended under the Reading Well scheme. Series editor: Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper