How-To

What truly sets Charles D’Angelo’s book Think and Grow Thin apart from the others is its focus on how your mind helps determine success when it comes to shedding weight. We caught up with D’Angelo, whose book is published by our own publishing house, and asked him to provide a few mental success strategies for Clean Eating magazine readers who are thinking about dropping a dress size or two…

Create a Mental Self-Portrait
If you want to look a certain way, you need to see yourself as that person, D’Angelo says. “Create a mental picture of yourself as a lean, fit, healthy, energetic and vibrant person who wants to be healthy not only for herself or himself, but also for others.”

Don’t Use Food as a Crutch
“Everyone knows diet and exercise are key to getting fit and losing fat, but knowing that is not enough. The thing that holds it all together is conditioning yourself to think of food in the right way, so food isn’t your primary source of pleasure.”

If you’re interested in more of D’Angelo’s hot-ticket book, which is soaring up the Amazon book ladder, pick up a copy of Think and Grow Thin, $23 (Robert Kennedy Publishing, 2011), from TAGTbook.com, amazon.com and better bookstores everywhere.