Atria Books The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary Diet-Free Way to Totally Transform Your Body

For me, this is working and I’ll explain why – keep in mind it is not a “get skinny quick” approach. Those never work in the long run. After years and years of battling with my weight it slowly became clear to me that it’s not ALL about my calorie intake and exercise habits; weight loss is equally as much about self-love, mindset, healing old wounds and habits: changing your ‘programming.’ I realized this a few years ago, but I had no way to logically approach it and just felt stuck - stuck in a pattern of numbing myself with substances and food, convincing myself that this is just the kind of life I am supposed to lead and eventually I surrendered myself to it.Enter Gabriel Method. I bought this book back in January and read it, digested it, sat with it – the theory makes PERFECT sense. Regardless of your religion, ethics, or background this theory makes sense for everyone. (I mention this because I read some reviews where people were saying they “couldn’t get on board” with this method because it goes against their religion – he talks about past lives very briefly but there’s nothing preachy about it – but I say people just find nitpicky ways to avoid this journey, you truly have to DECIDE that you’re ready. I know because I was there.)In short, John explains that our bodies are all biologically programmed to react to threats the same way we did back in caveman days: Being chased by a predator? You better be thin so you can run fast. Long cold winter coming? Gotta pack on those pounds and stay warm. These “programs” in our mind react to our modern stresses, and for some reason our bodies are thinking that fat equals safe. This theory resonated with me because I’ve always had a suspicion my fat was my own form of protection.Here we are, in May, 3 weeks ago I finally started doing the meditations daily as you’re supposed to – morning and evening (there’s an app to listen to the meditations guided, get it!) – I think I held off for so long because I “wasn’t ready,” but after falling sick and being bed ridden I didn’t have an excuse not to try it. After a week of the meditations I felt…… good. I felt uplifted, I felt more positive, I started feeling more in control over my decisions to say “no” to hundreds of calories of snacking during my work day. I also felt less compelled to drink, binge eat, etc etc. And I have felt these feelings get stronger every day as I continue. To me that is a MASSIVE benefit, just as big as the weight loss itself. I have not weighed myself because to me, the scale takes away from what weight loss is really about – feeling good. But I will say I had a doctor’s visit this past Monday and I was several pounds lighter than the last time I weighed myself. I even had a friend tell me he thought I looked thinner. And emotionally I feel lighter too. I definitely feel change happening, and I feel like I’m in a better mindset in general. So to me that is a win.My mother has also been doing these meditations, she came to visit me (she lives fara way) and I told her she looked thinner, she also attributes this to the Gabriel Method.I would highly recommend this book – and please download the app with the meditations, it makes it so much easier. Remember that you have to do SOME of the work in order to lose weight – and by that I mean you need to make time to do the visualizations. I held off for so long because I was being too lazy to set aside the time to do the meditations, but after having done them for a few weeks now I can’t believe I ever saw them as inconvenient. The evening meditation you can do while laying in bed at night and I often doze off to sleep which has *not* proven to be a bad thing. In fact I am actually grateful because I have a hard time falling asleep so these have been tremendously helpful. I do the morning meditations maybe 4 out of 7 days of the week, I can’t always get my act together in the morning but I try to do it as often as I can.Anyhoo, I hope that helped. Good luck!

Ce livre est pour moi l'aboutissement de mes recherches sur le sujet de la perte de poids. Cela faisait quelques temps que j'avais compris que les régimes ne fonctionnaient pas sur le long terme et qu'il y avait sûrement une clef que je n'avais pas encore trouvée pour passer "de l'autre côté". Pas très envie de vous "spoiler" la lecture en vous partageant ce qui a été le déclic pour moi, mais autant vous dire qu'à la moitié du livre, je commençais déjà à dégonfler, et que j'ai dû perdre environ 3 kilos rien qu'en le lisant... J'ai toujours été persuadée qu'une grande partie (..peut-être même l'intégralité!) de nos "maux" venaient d'une perception erronée de nous-mêmes et du monde, et avec ce livre j'ai enfin trouvé la clef psychologique avec laquelle j'ai définitivement changé de paradigme : et la façon dont mon corps se transforme est la preuve que c'est la bonne pour moi. Je reviendrai plus tard pour vous dire où j'en suis à ce niveau :) Lecture à mon avis efficace pour ceux qui sentent que leur psychologie est la source d'une grande partie de leurs difficultés!

Its a power packed book. Gives your money's and time's worth and more. its packed with so much information. It helped me look inside myself and release beliefs which were blocking the release of weight. I intuitively knew that diets were not the answer and my thyroid was not the excuse. This book guided me to where the answers lie - a guided journey within and lots of to do information.

I bought this book, actually I bought a copy for myself and a copy for a friend. After about 2-3 months of applying Jon's methods I measured myself (I don't own bathroom scales!) and I am confident that I had dropped a dress size. That was without ever feeling like I was on a diet or restricting my calories or fat intake in any way.The beauty of the Gabriel Method is that you can also find alot of free materials on the website - I advise against paying to join the forum as it isn't worth it in my eyes. The forum used to be free until sometime last year, Jon started charging to access the forum so he lost alot of very faithful followers. Now, the forums are paid membership-only and not anywhere near as lively or informative as they once were.But still, there is alot of great information to be obtained from the book and the freely accessible parts of the website, as well as watching Jon's videos on Youtube and free recordings of teleclasses on BlogTalkRadio.I bought Jon's book for a friend recently and she was so excited, but then she wanted to go back to Tony Ferguson meal replacements (if you are in Australia or the UK you probably know who I am talking about), but I reminded her that Tony Ferguson, Weight Watchers, Gloria Marshall and all those other calorie cutting/calorie watching/meal replacing businesses are only in it for the money. Their methods may work temporarily (or permanently for the rare few) but they are successful businesses because so many dieters fail and they go back again and again, blaming themselves for being lazy, for eating too much, for having no self control etc.This is where the Gabriel Method sets itself apart from the rest. The focus isn't on restrictions of certain foods or counting points/calories, the focus is on ADDING - live food (fruit/veg), protein (and yes, there are options for vegetarians!) and Omega 3 fats at every meal. Also acknowledging the real reasons why your body decided that it was safer to gain weight in the first place - often it can be a psychological or hormonal reason.For me, the primary reason I have carried extra weight since childhood is PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) - until the age of about 10 I was a normal sized kid, active and healthy. As soon as puberty hit at 11, that's when the weight started to creep on, then it REALLY piled on in my early 20's when I started taking the Pill. Biggest mistake of my life, it has ruined my body and wreaked havoc with my fertility. I am combining the Gabriel Method with a focus on foods appropriate for women suffering from PCOS and the results are showing.So if you are considering buying this book, DO IT. It might just work where other books or fads have failed.

Schon als junge, sportliche Frau mit Topfigur und einem Wunsch-Body-Mass-Index quälte ich mich in den 70er Jahren mit Diäten, da mein damaliger Partner lieber eine sehr dünne Frau an seiner Seite wollte. Ich wurde in den darauffolgenden Jahren oder besser Jahrzehnten ein gutes Beispiel für den Jo-Jo-Effekt. Jede Diät half und wurde dann in kurzer Zeit wirkungslos, nach dem Wunschgewicht kam eine Gewichtszunahme und ich habe heute 30 kg Übergewicht. Seit 10 Jahren habe ich mich mit meinen Pfunden abgefunden und mache keine Diäten mehr, habe auch keine Gewichtszunahme mehr zu verzeichnen. Dann wuchs in mir die Absicht, mich nicht einfach mit meinem Gewicht abzufinden, sondern mich auch ganz anzunehmen und wie durch Zufall kam mir die Gabriel-Methode in die Hände. Ich bin restlos begeistert zu verstehen, wie Stress-Signale in meinem Gehirn meinen Körper zum Zunehmen stimuliert und wie ich diesen Teufelskreis durchbrechen kann. Es findet ein langsames Umdenken statt und ich kann an der Ursache arbeiten, nicht an den Symptomen. J. Gabriel ist der lebende Beweis, dass es klappt und ich mache mich auf den Weg - ohne Diäten!In the 70ies, as a young and sportive woman with a slim and trim figure and a dream BMI my boyfriend convinced me that thinner would be more attractive. My path from diet to diet with first success and then adding weight - the jojo-effect - started. Decades later I ended up with 60 pounds of overweight and since 10 years I have not dieted and not gained a pound. In the cause of wanting to not just tolerate the heaviness but accept myself with that deep inner resistance to any diet I got hold of this book. Good Lord - what a revelation to understand the mechanism of diets and overweight and the impact of stress-signals to the brain. J. Gabriel is the living example of shifting and I am grateful for his sharing for a lasting transformation. It takes time and starts in the mental - no tricks, no magic, simple truth and some dedication to follow his example. Forget about diets, forget about what the world around you signals, stop chastening yourself, find a healthy way to love yourself and your body and treat yourself nice and right and find your way back to movement and body feeling by healing your mental wounds. Even if you would not lose one pound so worthwile reading it!