Ken Schwarz
PhD
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all about the psychological side of dieting and weight loss Expert
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- MariasLastDiet.com
Dr. Kenneth Schwarz is a psychologist who specializes in personal change and goal achievement. He is the founder of MariasLastDiet.com, a website for women that is all about the psychological side of dieting. He is the creator of www.diettuffy.com, the psychological tool that keeps you on your diet. Dr. Schwarz is in clinical practice in Sharon, Connecticut, where is also a member of the allied health staff at Sharon Hospital.
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Psych Your Diet, Lose Weight
The holidays are fast approaching, and many women still find themselves overweight. As we all know, trying to lose weight is no fun at all. It’s just too hard. A Connecticut husband and wife have definite ideas about how to change that. Dr Kenneth Schwarz, a psychologist, and Julie North Schwarz, a writer in the field of women’s weight issues, are helping women have an easier time losing weight. Their advice and encouragement come from the psychological side of dieting and weight loss, the side that has the most power to bring about weight-loss success.
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One Fat Nation Under Food, Indigestible, with French Fries and Donuts for All
What do you think of a nation that got fatter and fatter? Just look at these statistics: 66.3% of adults over 20 are overweight or obese. This is an increase from 47.1% in 1976-1980. 32.9% of the 66.3% are obese. Obesity increased from 15% in 1976-1980. We spend $33 billion annually on weight loss products and services. $75 billion in annual medical expenses (2003 dollars) are attributable to obesity. Obesity causes approximately 300,000 deaths per year. Obesity shortens life by 5 to 20 years. At any given time, 45% of women and 30% of men are trying to lose weight.
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Having Trouble Dieting? Get the Help You Need.
Much of what we think of as “can’t stick to my diet” can be put under the heading of “can’t solve a problem”. Dieting is one of those life situations where if you can’t do it easily, there’s a problem in the way. The problem requires an effective means of solving it. There can be more than one way to solve the problem. But, at the very least, one way must be found. Once a solution is arrived at, it needs to be implemented so that it gets you to your goal—solving the problem so you can stay on your diet and lose the weight for good.
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Diet Tuffy
Diet Tuffy is the psychological tool that keeps you on your diet.
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Maria's Last Diet
MariasLastDiet.com is a website for women that is all about the psychological side of dieting. You choose the diet. We'll help you stick to it. And now there's Diet Tuffy. It's the freshest, most enjoyable diet game in town, and it's not a diet. It's the psychological tool that keeps you on your diet.
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An Internet-Based, Interactive, Serious, Game-Like Method
by Kenneth Schwarz PhD*
Research that compares diets and commercial weight loss programs finds that it is not the diet that counts; it is being able to stay on the diet that makes the real difference. “Sticking to” a regimen—a diet, or exercise program, or taking prescribed medication—is known as adherence. The problem of adherence has been carefully studied over the years in order to find out what prevents people from sticking to whatever it is they need to, want to, or should stick to.
Willpower alone is an unreliable source of energy and motivation for adherence because it is easily depleted. Instead of counting on willpower, people are more likely to adhere to their diets if they solve the personal problems that interfere when they try to diet. Some examples of such problems are low motivation, vulnerability to temptations, emotional eating, feeling deprived, negative thinking, hard to break habits, and low self-confidence.
When it comes to adhering to a diet, the dieter is usually left substantially on her own to solve these kinds of problems. Adherence helpers are not readily available the way that food plans are. This report is about an adherence helper that has recently been developed for dieters. It does not replace the diet or food plan. It is a compliment to the food plan (diet). It is universal, and can be used with any diet.
The adherence helper, called Diet Tuffy, is an internet-based, interactive e-system for women dieters. It helps a woman stay on her diet by enabling her to solve the problems that have been preventing diet adherence. Diet Tuffy guides women dieters through the following processes: problem identification, solution development, solution implementation, specific planning, plan testing, and corrective, self-regulating feedback. These psychological processes provide the basis for five fun-filled and confidence building steps.
Diet Tuffy has been developed and designed as a self-help, ehealth tool, easy to use, easy to access. It is a serious internet-based game-like guide that can be used over and over again to solve the problems that threaten diet adherence. When completed, the dieter has a well-tested, specific plan in hand to solve a particular problem that has prevented her from sticking to her diet.
*Dr. Schwarz is a psychologist in clinical practice in Sharon, CT, a member of the allied health staff at Sharon Hospital, and co-founder of MariasLastDiet.com