I contend that unlike drug dependency, acquired deleterious food habits are in a completely different category and must be dealt with differently. This is the same core methodology used legitimately and effectively in the treatment of drug or alcohol dependency. Beginning any weight loss program requires motivation to achieve a goal (which I call “Stage One”), but the Immaculate Consumption Program goes far beyond other diets in its overall emphasis on permanently altering eating habits and enhancing your personal responsibility for your eating choices and behaviors.īecause every commercial diet, in essence, considers being overweight an illness, these programs rely on rigid rules and restrictions to break the “addiction cycle” and avoid relapses (i.e., episodes of “falling off the wagon”). Immaculate Consumption© furnishes a self-help program for life-long weight loss and weight management that celebrates the uniqueness of the individual. I certainly did for almost 30 years, and the majority of my patients during my subsequent more than three decades of clinical practice have described identical feelings. If you’re fat and have failed to lose weight and/or maintain your weight loss, you probably have bought into this idea. Our culture has created the belief that if people would only acquire willpower and self-control, then they would not have a weight problem. Commercially marketed diets exploit a core concept that has been foisted on overweight individuals, one that perpetuates feelings of humiliation, shame, and embarrassment about the inability to regulate their food intake. In the world of dieting, obesity is thus considered a “disease” that must be healed, and the weight loss industry has lavishly benefitted from this perception. After the “sickness” is cured, everything must be done to prevent relapses.The selected program should provide a systematic method for “recovery” from the illness.

If the patient is overweight and has been unsuccessful in losing weight, it’s the patient’s responsibility to seek treatment for his or her “illness.”.This medical model is predicated on the following principles: The book reveals that every commercially advertised and mass marketed diet is based on the medical model that is used to treat diseases and addictions. The system represents a major paradigm shift in the field of weight reduction. Immaculate Consumption© examines the dynamics of a highly effective and scientifically proven weight loss methodology and provides the reader with an accessible and easy-to-understand and easy-to-master system that makes sustainable weight loss attainable.

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