The Camp System - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0970600607 ISBN 13: 9780970600608

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The CAMP system is a step-by-step guide to a new way of eating.

In today’s increasingly dark tangle of diet programs, fads and outrageous promises, the CAMP system stands out as a clear, simple approach to defining new balance and harmony with food and eating relationships. Under the CAMP system, you can recapture control over food--control that you’ve given away or simply do not use.

There are three paths to personal power in regaining this control: Attitudes, Mindful Eating and Portions. The book provides detailed exercises and activities that give you practice on each of these paths.

You will learn to adopt a new set of attitudes about food and eating, attitudes that reshape your whole approach to food.

You will learn how to bring mindfulness to all aspects of eating. Your eating will slow down, become deliberate and purposeful. As a result, you’ll come to appreciate food far more than you thought possible.

You will learn potent strategies about portions with food and setting boundaries for yourself. With portions, you’ll challenge all your eating behaviors and rewrite your own eating rules from scratch.

Thus, the CAMP system---Control, Attitudes, Mindful eating and Portions---is the most important alternative to diets and other forms of self-torture to come along in a long time. The system is a permanent, enjoyable, life-changing approach to eating that will serve you and your life’s mission.

As the author of the CAMP System, I developed it as a result of my own health problems, stemming mostly from my obesity. At 60 pounds overweight, I had developed a herniated disk and had sleep apnea. I knew that I had to lose weight, but I knew that I couldn’t exercise (I was in too much pain) and I vowed to myself that I’d never, never go on a diet again.

This crisis point in my life led me to examine carefully my eating behaviors. I realized that the problem really wasn’t with food--it was with me: my attitudes about food, the way I ate mindlessly and the lack of any boundaries with my portions.

So slowly I began to change how I ate. I didn’t worry about what types of food I ate; indeed, I continued to eat the foods I loved. The significant changes occurred in my view of food, in how much attention I was paying to the food as I ate it, and in how I could create boundaries for myself that made sense.

Almost immediately, the pounds began flying off. It was as if my body was saying to me: “Finally, you got it right. Now I can get rid of all this excess weight, and you don’t even have to exercise to do it.”

Eight months later, I found myself 60 pounds down. My apnea was gone. The pain in my back had withdrawn. At 53 years old, I was back to the weight of my youth.

But more importantly I had changed at a fundamental, core level. My worldview about eating and food has shifted in a big way. Food was no longer my enemy. Cookies and doughnuts and fried chicken were as much my allies as were broccoli and carrots. All were welcome in my world, because I knew how to regard food, how to control it and how to bring personal power to every bite.

In 1999 I taught my first CAMP course and have since taught many more. My story is not unique. My simple message of slowing down, enjoying food, changing attitudes and controlling portions appeals to a wide audience of individuals who have given up on diets and are seeking something more permanent, more rewarding, and more enriching than counting calories and food exchanges.

For myself, I have maintained my new weight for nearly a year. I enjoy all foods and look forward to eating. I know the CAMP system can work for me for the rest of my life.

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Frederick Burggraf is a native son of Indiana, Pennsylvania, where he attended undergraduate school at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

During his career, Fred has taught high school science and has worked in the private sector as a business writer and editor, graphics specialist and communication specialist. In 1983, he received a Master’s of Education degree from the University of Maryland.

Since 1992, Fred has worked as a consultant with smoking-cessation groups, helping people quit through a program similar to the CAMP system.

Fred is the author of "Thinking Connections: Concept Maps for Life Science" (published by Critical Thinking Books and Software) and his self-published "Quit Smoking for Good: A Workbook for Success in Smoking Cessation."

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Chapter 1.

How to Use This Book

When it comes to the topic of weight control, nearly everyone wants a quick fix. We buy diet pills and sit back and wait for them to work. We drink our liquid lunches with a hope that they will melt the pounds away forever. We spend much of our lives looking for the magic elixir, the secret potion, the no-effort solution to our weight woes.

The sad and inescapable truth is that no potion exists, the magic elixir is not to be found. To manage weight and to manage it permanently requires real effort, commitment and persistence.

The CAMP system is no different. Although the system itself is rather simple and non-mysterious, its power and effectiveness will depend completely on your level of effort. Its techniques and skills require practice, day in and day out. Over time, you should see improvements in your own performance with the system, and these improvements will be reflected on your bathroom scales or on your belt as well as in your life-long attitudes about food and yourself.

If you purchased a book on how to play the piano, you might be tempted to jump to the back of the book so you could get to the keyboard right away. Such a strategy, however, would be futile by skipping all the chapters on practicing the piano, you would be terribly unprepared to understand the chapters near the end of the book. No one ever learned to play the piano for concert performance by jumping to the back of the book. In fact, no one every learned to play the piano simply by reading about it. One learns to play the piano by playing it, starting with the basics and building on them each day. Practice is the key.

The same is true with the book you re reading now. This is a book about doing. As you practice, the skills that seemed foreign or new will become second nature. So resist the temptation to jump to the back of the book. Instead, read it from the beginning. Do all of the suggestions and strategies as they appear. Take your time; don t try to rush the process. And don t skip any sections you ll only shortchange yourself if you do.

Throughout many of the chapters there are Practice sections. These are activities that will help you learn the techniques, strategies and approaches of the CAMP system. I urge you to actually do these activities and integrate them into your life. Learning the CAMP system is like learning to ride a bike: you can read about it all you want, but until you actually get on the bike you won t get very far in applying the principles and mastering the skills you want to learn.

At the end of many of the chapters is a Progress section that summarizes what you should be doing at that point in the system. Starting with chapter 4, each chapter of this book introduces a new skill or activity. By working through the book sequentially and slowly, you ll gain the skills over time and at your own pace. When you feel you ve got the main idea and skill from one chapter and you re ready for the next action of the CAMP system, move on.

Near the very end of this book is a chapter that answers frequently asked questions regarding the system. This chapter will summarize the system and many of the points made throughout the book. If you must jump ahead, this chapter would be the best way to get an overview of the system.

The CAMP system works, but only when you put energy and commitment into it. For this reason, consider making a commitment to the system for 60 days. For the next two months, no matter where you are in your life, try all the suggestions and strategies and activities. At the end of 60 days, you ll be able to make a genuine assessment of how valuable the CAMP system is to you.

The CAMP system has worked its miracles for me and many others. If you apply your commitment and energy to it, it can work its miracles for you as well.

Copyright (c) 2000 Frederick Burggraf

Details zur Ausgabe

• Erscheinungsdatum: 1600
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0970600607
• ISBN 13: 9780970600608
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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