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by Lois Trimpey, M.Ed.
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Fatness:
The Small Book
LCSW
by Jack Trimpey,
&
Lois Trimpey, M.Ed.
The Companion VolumeforAny DietBook
Lotus Press, Box 800 Lotus CA 95651
First Printing, August, 1990
ISBN: 0-934373-48-5
Contents
Foreword 5
1. To The Fat One 7
2. On Being Fat 27
3. How Do I Gorge Me? 39
4. Voices and Visions 45
5. Our Unmiraculous Recovery from Fatness 63
6. Eating Correctly 91
7. To The Thin One 105
8. Your Fatness Group 109
9. Confidential Questionaire 123
Appendix A: Two Examples: The Four Questions 125
Appendix B: Discussion ofthe 12-Step Approach 129
Appendix C: Rational Recovery: Sexual Abuse 141
Foreword
This, we believe, is a unique book. It is written as a self-help
book for people with eating disorders, particularly overeaters, yet
it contains no information on what or how much food to eat. You
will find no nutritional advice or charts about calories, fat or
cholesterol content, and nowhere insidewill you find speculations
about the mysteries ofhuman food digestion and metabolism.
In these pages, however, you will find a plan for weight
control that is revolutionary in its simplicity and clarity. Fatness:
The Small Book (which may be referred to as TSB.Fat) directs
dieters toward a new understanding of self, so that the reader can
finally move ahead with the very important business of losing
weight. TSB.Fat could be considered the lengthy introduction or
first longchapter to any good diet book, for its principles provide
thepsychological basis for successful weight control. TSB.Fat is
billed as the companion volume for any diet book in recognition of
the special diets that are required in some medical conditions, and
in recognition of individual preferences in diet. We know, for
example, that vegetarian, low cholesterol diets are conducive to
weight loss, but that does not mean that anyone should become a
vegetarian. To the contrary, the "correct eating" described herein is
one that includes whatever one sensibly chooses to eat — but, of
course, in moderate amounts. It is your responsibility to educate
yourself on you own dietary needs; you have an incredibly large
number of books available to draw upon at bookstores and
libraries, and your family physician will gladly provide you with
specialized information based on his knowledge ofyour body.
This book makes a convincing argument for weight control
through self-control. It is written for people who are skeptical of
traditional approaches including Overeaters Anonymous, diet
centers, and many supervised weight reduction programs, and it
offers a fresh start for anyone who has tried everything in a quest
for weight control, yet still is unable to achieve and maintain a
desired weight. Rational Recovery is not a sugar-coated pill. What
you will read here is direct and decisive; you will be moved to act
instead ofcontemplate.
TSB.Fatness is based on the rational-emotive therapy (RET)
of Albert Ellis, Ph.D., President, Institute for Rational-Emotive
Therapy. Virtually everything in this volume is derived from the
seminal works of Dr. Ellis, who also wrote the Introduction to
Rational Recovery from Alcoholism: The Small Book, by Jack
LCSW
Trimpey, (1989 Lotus Press). For that reason, individual
references to Dr. Ellis' works are omitted in this edition. That
Small Book, titled to take issue with "The Big Book" of
Alcoholics Anonymous, introduced a bold, new alternative to the
nearly universal 12 step spiritual healing program of Alcoholics
Anonymous, and within two years triggered the formation of
Rational Recovery (RR) groups for alcoholics and other substance
abusers in most American population centers. As a result, it is
becoming widely known that it is unnecessary (undesirable for
some, perhaps) to submit to a Higher Power in order to overcome
drug or alcohol dependence.
Now, in TSB.Fatness, the central principles of Rational
Recovery that areso useful to substance abusers have been applied
to overeating, and RR-Fatness groups are beginning to form
around the country. Rational Recovery Systems (RRS), an
auxiliary of the American Humanist Association, is devoted to
implementing a worldwide network of scientifically-based self-
help groups. RRS is supported entirely by thesale ofthe literature
published by its publishing arm, Lotus Press. That is why the
price for TSB.Fatness may be higher than for other comparably-
sized books.
Your responses to reading TSB.Fatness will be appreciated, as
well as any interest you may have in developing an RR-Fatness
project in your own community.
LCSW
Jack Trimpey,
Lois Trimpey, M.Ed.
