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Title: Thin Within: A Grace-Oriented Approach to Lasting Weight Loss by Judy Wardell, R.N. Halliday, Arthur W., M.D. Halliday, Heidi Bylsma, Sally Rackets ISBN: 0-8499-1691-7 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Grace at Last!
Comment: At first I had a hard time with this book because it reminded me of my failures about 5 years ago with Gwen Shamblin's Weigh Down program. I left the book on my coffee table and picked it up about six weeks later with a more open heart and mind.
Wow, am I glad I did. Now I see that before, the focus was on obedience, but I could never quite make the connection and understand how eating when I wasn't hungry was "disobedient". It seemed to be all or nothing in that program.
This book gives me the freedom to change the way I eat in gradual steps. Right now I am waiting until I am hungry to eat, sitting down and eating in a relaxed way, etc. I have not fully learned to stop when satisfied but I am getting there. I feel great about the progress I have made and know the rest will come as I continue. The best part is that almost immediately, I stopped thinking constantly about food at felt at peace with myself and with God in this area.
Rethinking years of wrong habits and ideas does not come overnight by "being obedient". It comes with understanding of ourselves, how our bodies are made and with the loving, step-by-step, grace filled approach this book offers. I highly recommend it!
Rating: 2
Summary: What happened to the original version of this book?
Comment: I read the original version of this book when it was first published in 1987. If you want to avoid the religious rhetoric, check out that version instead. The old version is excellent. I give the new version only two stars because the pervasiveness of born again Christian thinking is a dissapointment and a distraction from the principles that can help anyone (not just Christians) struggling with their weight or body image. I am happy for Judy that she has found her spiritual path, but it is really a shame to alienate people who do not share her beliefs.
That said, the concepts of this non-diet lifestyle are excellent. It teaches you to listen to your body and take value judgements out of evaluating food. No food is forbidden, but you commit to eating only when you are truly hungry. As simple as it sounds, it takes tremendous commitment, time and compassion toward yourself to make this change - but if you do you wont regret it! Good luck.
Rating: 1
Summary: Christianity, the best diet ever.
Comment: The original edition of this book was an interesting and inspiring approach to weight management written in a direct and reader-friendly manner. This edition is an uneasy hybrid of religious proselytizing and weight loss advice based on the notion Christianity is the best diet ever. The theory and tips that made Thin Within so useful in its first incarnation are buried under an avalanche of quotes from the Christian Bible, and digging your way through is an exhausting task. The implication that Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Taoists, Pagans, atheists and everyone other than born-again Christians are excluded from the Hallidays' weight management paradise because they lack the requisite theology is simply offensive.
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Title: Thin Again: A Biblical Approach to Food, Eating, and Weight Management by Arthur Halliday, Judy Wardell Halliday ISBN: 0800758110 Publisher: Revell Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Faithfully Fit by Claire Cloninger, Laura Barr ISBN: 0849932378 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 19 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The Ten Habits of Naturally Slim People by Jill Podjasek ISBN: 0809229536 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 11 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Weigh Down Diet by Gwen Shamblin ISBN: 038549324X Publisher: Galilee Book Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Diet Alternative by Diane Hampton ISBN: 088368148X Publisher: Whitaker House Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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