Of Bears and Weight Loss

Psychologist, stand-up comedian, and best-selling author Dr. Brian King reveals the techniques he used to lose one hundred pounds, and provides guidance and humor to make your weight loss journey a healthy, sustainable, and even enjoyable one.

Dr. Brian King studied neuroscience and psychology before touring the world as a stand-up comedian and public speaker. Yet despite giving life guidance to others, he was carrying an extra one hundred pounds, taking up too much space in airplane seats and keeping the opposite sex at bay.

When Dr. Brian committed to change, he embraced his understanding of human behavior and mindsets to reframe his approach to a healthy lifestyle. Now having lost most of the weight, he uses his signature combination of humor and neuroscience to delve deep into mindfulness, stress, habits, willpower, diet, exercise, and much more to guide readers in losing weight and keeping it off.

This highly anticipated follow-up to Dr. Brian’s renowned stress management guide, The Art of Taking It Easy, is equally destined to help readers worldwide live better, longer, more active lives–and make your skinny jeans your everyday ones. Dr. Brian’s unique, encouraging guidance brims with colorful anecdotes, personal stories, and scientific evidence, and is complemented by wisdom from a wealth of other experts–in various health fields as well as comedy–who have also triumphed in their weight loss journeys.

Whether you are looking to shed those final five, the COVID fifteen, or the weight of another adult, Of Bears and Weight Loss offers life-changing tips and instructions that will have you embracing change with humor and the power to finally see your goals through to completion.

Inside you’ll find:

A comprehensive guide to developing the right mindset.
An understanding of how factors such as poor sleep or impulse control could be sabotaging your goals.
Guidance on how to know what diet and exercise program is right for you.
The motivation to change and instructions on how to sustain a healthy lifestyle.
Revelations on why diets fail and how to embrace sustainable change without going hungry or spending all night in the gym.
Support for balancing weight loss goals with busy lifestyles, work, parenting, and social commitments.
A wealth of humor, deep belly laughs, and scientifically-sound, evidence-based know-how.

About the Author

Dr. Brian King trained as a neuroscientist and psychologist and for more than a decade has traveled the world as a comedian and public speaker. By day he conducts seminars, presented nationwide and attended by thousands of people each year, on positive psychology, the health benefits of humor, stress management, and healthy living. By night he entertains audiences in comedy clubs. Dr. Brian began performing stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009, and since then he has performed hundreds of shows around the world. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas, a master’s degree from the University of New Orleans, and a PhD from Bowling Green State University. He is the author of The Art of Taking It Easy (Apollo Publishers) and The Laughing Cure. Dr. Brian hails from New York City, but is regularly on the road with his wife and young daughter or at their homes in Montreal, Canada, or Dallas, Texas.

Praise for The Art of Taking It Easy

“King’s particular approach is original and refreshing. He combines a winning balance of accessible science, engaging stories, and comic relief to drive home a compelling message.” —Shelf Awareness

“Psychologist and comedian King (The Laughing Cure) explores the science behind stress in this witty, informed guide. The author uses a bevy of running jokes and punch lines to enliven technical explanations for how and why people experience stress. His metaphors of coming across a bear in the wild as well as being stuck in traffic are also used to great effect to explain a variety of stress responses, such as perceiving a threat and feelings of powerlessness. Reframing thoughts plays a large role in King’s advice: ‘is simply a reaction to a perception of threat…being able to consciously redirect choices made by other areas of the brain is the key to living a less stressful existence.’ He also provides breathing exercises, plans for maintaining physical health, and useful advice for setting attainable goals. An interview with a former paratrooper and a harrowing story centered on his brother’s van breaking down while traveling provide particularly helpful examples of how one’s mindset can make all the difference in a highly stressful situation. King’s enjoyable guide to living with less stress will be of help to any anxious reader.” —Publishers Weekly

Format Hardcover

Price $22.99

Publication Date May 09, 2023

ISBN 9781954641228

Page Count 296

Trim Size 5.5 X 8.6 inches

Printed In the United States