So I've been through the first few chapters of the Beck book and three days of CBT exercises

And apparently, in March, since I started it, I have lost 7 lbs. Yay! I'm hoping it will help me get over the plateau I've been on for some time. My weight goes up and down by 10 lbs but doesn't go down past that. This is just under the 50 lbs I've lost since November 2021 (20 due to a diuretic, and 30 lbs with the help of diet and Ozempic). The book doesn't contain a diet plan--that's not what it's about--but rather you can choose any healthy, nutritious diet. She has you choose a primary and secondary so you have something to fall back on if the first doesn't work out for you. My primary diet is the DASH diet, and the secondary one is the Mediterranean one, as both are highly rated for efficacy, easy to understand, and close to how my roommate, the main cook in the house, prepares food.

Here's a better picture of the book, along with a link to Amazon. Again, if you have Kindle Unlimited, it is included in your subscription.

The Beck Diet Solution: How to Think Like a Thin Person

My behavioural coach, plus a milestone

recommended this book, which is not actually a diet book, but rather a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach to helping people with their relationships with food. I'm five chapters in and I'm finding it very helpful. It makes sense. It's all about changing your thoughts and justifications into healthier ones. The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person by Judith S Beck, PhD, whose father was the one who first developed CBT. If you want the Kindle edition and you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, it is included for free.  By the way...this is my 12,000th post.  Yipee!  It took a little over 21 years, but it's a great milestone. I'm enjoying writing again.

Exactly what I've been saying!

What’s Better Than Kindle Unlimited for $120 a Year? This Free Alternative

Amazon's new unlimited book-borrowing service may bring in $1 billion a year in sales for the company. Don't be one of the suckers.

Kindle Unlimited charges $9.99 a month for an all-you-can-read buffet. For roughly the same cost of unlimited movies on Netflix or unlimited music on Spotify, you can download all the books you’ll never have time to read.

But there’s a competing service already available for compulsive book downloaders, and it’s available for free. It comes with a massive selection of books including new bestsellers, and a great app that lets you download to any of your devices: Kindle, iPhone, iPad, laptop, Android devices, Nook, Mac, PC, whatever. This miracle service is available -- get this -- at your public library.

Concerned--and I just don't get the appeal of Kindle Unlimited

Amazon Unlimited

The disruption continues, and it’s hard not to see the announcement of the new Kindle Unlimited Service as a significant challenge to libraries.

Let’s review how things stand with libraries right now. Most public library budgets took a hit during the recession, meaning they had less money to provide new content. At the same time, some of our patrons developed a preference for ebooks over print. Meanwhile, the Big Five publishers and ebook distributors together jacked up the price of new ebooks by as much as nine times, or restricted their use in various ways, while still preserving the legacy model of one user at a time. That, in turn forces libraries to buy multiple copies, and forces patron to wait—often for months—for popular titles.

Bottom line: that’s a setup that strikes at the public libraries’ primary business—loaning new materials. Still, few libraries in the United States assess taxes of as much as $100 a year per household. So if you read a lot, a library still saves you money, even if most library checkout systems are not only expensive, but cumbersome to use.

I love my Kindle, I love Amazon, and I have Amazon Prime and enjoy the perks of that. But I see no reason to spend additional money for Kindle Unlimited when I don't have time to read enough to make it worth my while and even if I did, I have access to a public library that doesn't charge me to read books, both in regular and electronic format. What worries me is that Kindle Unlimited could interfere with my library's ability to provide those services.