Beck's 6-week solution will help you avoid cheating, deal with hunger, cope with stress and negative emotions without eating too much, get motivated to exercise and eliminate overeating, bingeing and resorting to old habits that often die hard.

Through an arsenal of psychological resources that include hunger monitoring scales, daily planning schedules, weight-loss graphs and motivational cards, you will learn how to make it through thick and thin without expanding your waistline.

Beck is a proponent of Cognitive Therapy, a technique that can help dieters recognize and change those sabotaging thoughts and behaviors that have packed on the pounds. For more than 20 years, Beck has used Cognitive Therapy as an instrument for helping patients fight the fat.