Mellin - The 3-Day Solution Plan: Jump-start Lasting Weight Loss by Turning Off the Drive to Overeat

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FOR MY FAMILY

Mackey and Papa, Haley, Joe and John, Steve and Viv, Sarah, Lisa, and Michael

Praise for the 3-Day Solution Plan

The Solution Plan is the whole package! I not only lost weight but also feel healthier and happier. The Solution is just what I needed, physically and mentally.

Annie, Prescott, Arizona

After a lifetime of searching, I have found a solution for my overeating! Thank you!

Kathryn, Vancouver, B.C.

Finally, a plan which eliminated my cravings. I even passed on chocolate, without regrets! Thank you! Thank you!

Lee, Huntsville, Oregon

I feel this is my solution to permanent weight control. It focuses on the real reasons Im overeating and a detailed plan to combat it.

Jackie, Los Angeles

Thank you for a great way to jump-start not only a diet but a new way of life.

Janice, Knoxville, Tennessee

The Solution helped me be a mindful eater rather than an unconscious eater. Its what I needed.

Laurie, Nashua, New Hampshire

Ive tried Weight Watchers (twice!), South Beach, and diet pills. This is the first plan I ever tried that made me believe I could solve my weight problem once and for all!

Joanna, Philadelphia

My drive to overeat decreased a lot. I lost about four pounds over the three days. Sometimes I still wanted a cookie, but I didnt eat it!

Frank, Cincinnati

The best I have felt in years.

Selma, Seattle

By the end of the third day, I had lost six poundsand thats without doing the plan perfectly!

Diane, Cincinnati

It really does turn off the drive to overeat! No more fruitless attempts to control myself. I felt like I was enjoying food for the first time.

Jennifer, Eugene, Oregon

I have been binge-free for the entire past week for the first time in years.

Carol, Austin

I used the 12-step approach for years, but this is far more powerful. The drive to overeat is gone.

Dave, Detroit

By the middle of the third day, I felt physically as if there was an aura of well-being surrounding me and a glow of health I havent felt in many years. Thanks!

Christine, Oklahoma City

Wow! I want to share this experience with everyone I care about! Finally, something that teaches me how to keep the weight off!

Sharon, Boston

In three days, I felt healthier and more at peace with myself and the world.

Lisa, Cincinnati

It was so easy to follow and so rewarding that I didnt want it to end! This is how I want to experience every day of my life!

Jeanette, Denver

My husband and I did it together. In my thirty some years of marriage, we have never felt as close and intimate, plus we both lost weight. Thank you!

Christine, Richmond, Virginia

What a way to live each day!

Jason, Cleveland

Most of us know its not about the food, but that doesnt help us discover and change what its really about. Finally, a program that allows us to fix whats really been going on.

Judy, Phoenix

Even though I kept second-guessing myself, I was amazed at how fast my body responded. Not to mention the body-soul connection. Thank you!!!

Jane, Mountain View, California

What a great feeling to awaken to a spring in my step and my thoughts turning to what creative things I could do for the day... instead of what I was going to have for breakfast!

Kathy, San Diego

I didnt have any sugar cravings. I had so much energy. I knew clearly that I wanted a lot more of this!

Ken, Gainesville, Florida

Wow! I feel free, light, and I have such energy! I want to have this be my life.

Chris, Austin

I felt so energized on this plan, and Im balanced for the first time in years. The drive to overeat was turned off in three days.... And I lost five pounds!

Christine, Oklahoma City

Using this plan, I was less likely to overeat. It really works!

Matt, Spring field, Illinois

It felt very comforting to be on the three-day plan. I felt a sense of emotional structure that is usually missing from my day-to-day life.

Barbara, Sonoma, California

I found out that my emotions controlled my eating more than I thought! Once I made the connection, I felt free to eat responsibly! It was liberating!

Val, Comox, B.C.

I found a peace in those three days that grows stronger as I continue to use the tools.

Angelica, Walla Walla, Washington

The three-day plan is three days of fun and energyand I lost six pounds!

Jennifer, Eugene, Oregon

I was the happiest I have been in years during these three days! This plan really works!

Cara, Ontario, Canada

This is not a diet. This plan goes to the heart of why we overeat. I felt cared for and guided into my own wisdom!

Jacqueline, Kansas City, Missouri

I couldnt believe that I didnt crave chocolate for the entire three days! Thats a miracle!

Lee, Ontario, Canada

It feels like a light has been turned on inside my body. I have more energy and vitality than ever!

Lyssette, Los Angeles

Thanks for helping me discover the power of real feelings!

Ron, Eugene, Oregon

I was amazed at how confident I felt after just three days. The drive to overeat just vanished!

Emily, Long Beach, California

Who knew losing weight could feel so good and be such fun?

Karen, Providence, Rhode Island

What a wonderfully creative program! Just what I needed to lift my spirits and lose some weight!

JoAnn, San Diego

I lost four pounds in three days. Taking some time for myself was such a great idealong overdue!

Doug, San Mateo, California

The plan freed me from focusing on food, what to eat, when to eat, and put the focus on where I feel it needed to beon the why.

Deidre, Westwood, New York

Ive finally found what Ive been looking for my entire life: the power to stop overeating!

Ann, Salem, Massachusetts

Introduction

WHEN I WAS twelve years old, devouring three cinnamon rolls for my after-school snack and worrying incessantly about the size of my thighs, my mother put me on a diet. I gained five pounds immediately.

Dieting made me hungrier!

That experience fueled my interest in nutrition. Enough so that when a physician erroneously told me in my early twenties that I couldnt have kids, I turned to find my lifes purpose in promoting health through good nutrition. Plus, I thought that knowing more about nutrition might just solve my own struggles with food and weight. So I went to graduate school in nutrition science, but even after that experience, my own issues with food didnt magically disappear. Part of me was still that little girl who craved cinnamon rolls and had terrible things to say about her thighs. Knowledge was clearly not the answer.

As fate would have it, a position in adolescent medicine on the faculty at UCSF enabled me to train in other disciplines and gave me the clinical experience and intellectual nourishment to reflect on the true roots of weight and eating problems. Many people Charlie Irwin, Carl Greenberg, Vilia Frost, Susan Johnson, Marion Nestle, Marna Cohen, Mary Crittenden, and many othersguided my learning. I applied these ideas to treating adolescent obesity and developed The Shapedown Program, which launched in 1979. At the time, the program was not all that different from most family-based diet, exercise, and behavioral programs. The results were similar, too. There were always one or two star pupils in every group, but how did the rest do? Not all that well. I knew that there was a missing link in weight control but I didnt know what it was.