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 life Overcoming 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