New York Times bestselling author, weight-loss expert, and pioneer in cognitive behavior therapy Dr. Judith Beck and her daughter Deborah Beck Busis have helped hundreds of thousands of dieters lose weight and keep it off with this revolutionary approach. The Diet Trap Solution is the first book of its kind to isolate the most common ways we fail on our diets and offer concrete and practical solutions to avoid these pitfalls for good, even when it seems impossible or we simply don't feel it. No equipment, membership fees, special meals, or specific diet plan required. Instead, dieters need only use that most powerful of all resources-their minds. This accessible and highly practical guide enables us to stay on the healthy diet of our choice and not only lose weight, but keep it off once and for all.Diet programs all profess to have the magic formula for weight loss: simply eat a certain way and drop ten pounds in a week. But what do you do when your plans fall apart-your mother-in-law bakes you a surprise birthday cake. Stress at work leads to binge-eating peanut butter and chocolate. A painful breakup causes your diet to go out the window. The truth is, losing and keeping weight off is extremely difficult, especially when unexpected challenges arise. But these very problems are the surprising solution to lasting weight loss. By identifying the most common traps-stress and emotional eating; friends and family pressure; and holiday, travel, and special occasion meals-and then developing actionable escape plans that address each potential diet disaster, anyone can lose the weight they want and keep it off.