• 5 • Table of Contents Acknowledgments........................................................ 7 Introduction................................................................. 9 1. OVERWEIGHT........................................................ 15 Your Brilliant But Sabotaged Body............................... 16 Overhunger................................................................. 21 Overdesire .................................................................. 31 Protocol........................................................................ 38 Exceptions (Joy Eats) ................................................. 46 2. Never Exercise for Fast Results.............................. 50 Never Exercise for Fast Results .................................. 51 Increase Your Minimum Baseline............................... 57 Get Your Shoes On....................................................... 63 Know the Health Benefits/Risks................................. 68 Bribery......................................................................... 74 Be Willing to Suck at It................................................ 77 3. Feelings Are for Feeling and Not Burying...............81  Be Willing to Feel and Not Run from Your Feelings............................................................... 82 What Are You Feeling Right Now?............................... 87 Reacting vs. Feeling Your Feelings.............................. 93 Fat Is Not a Feeling...................................................... 98 All Feelings Come from within Us.............................102  Be a Happy Person Experiencing the Situation. Don’t Become the Negative Situation ........................106 4. What You BELIEVE Is Who You Are.....................109 Beliefs are the Foundation for Our Identity...............110 We Have Many Illogical Beliefs that Drive Us...........114 We Need to Change Our Belief Systems to Change Our Lives ................................................. 120  If You Don’t Like What You Are Feeling, Change Your Belief.................................................... 124