As an example of a tipping point outline, take the following steps to achieve lasting weight loss.

1. Each day make small shifts in improving your diet

2. Each day make small shifts in taking pride in your physical appearance

3. Each day exercise using a heart rate monitor, starting slowly and building.

4. Each day read a fitness magazine for a few minutes to start.

5. Shrink Fat - Make a chart of your life.  Years on the x axis for your age, Weight on the Y axis in pounds.  Add in significant life events and weight interventions used.  Apply a full court press, all interventions simultaneously, which you have probably never done before.  For example, self help group, psychotherapy evaluation, medication evaluation, physical examination, diet, exercise with a personal trainer, lifestyle change including pleasurable activities done together and not piecemeal. 

Tipping Point therapy helps this seem manageable because small shifts are significant, every little bit helps get you closer to 32 degrees.  Your goal is not to lose x amount of weight, but to seize opportunities as they arise to make every small change you can.  Specific goal weights for health and for maintenance are helpful.  Most of your focus shifts with a TPT approach to the voyage, not the destination.  Paradoxically in many areas of psychology, you get better results this way.

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