Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    One Hour Power Diet: One Hour Can Change Your Life . . . and It Only Takes Minutes
    One Hour Power Diet: One Hour Can Change Your Life . . . and It Only Takes Minutes
    One Hour Power Diet: One Hour Can Change Your Life . . . and It Only Takes Minutes
    Ebook142 pages1 hour

    One Hour Power Diet: One Hour Can Change Your Life . . . and It Only Takes Minutes

    By Cliff Thomas

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A simple principle that can start you on the path to better eating for a lifetime.
     
    Awareness is the key to change—and changing your habits is the proven method for long-term weight loss, improving and maintaining your health, and getting your body back in balance. As a surgeon, Cliff Thomas brings decades of wisdom and experience to this helpful guide that aims to put you back in control.
     
    The type and volume of foods you consume, and the frequency of your eating, affects how you feel and perform every day. By teaching you how to listen to your body and the messages it sends you, One Hour Power Diet gives you a new level of awareness—and a game-changing perspective that can transform the way you think, feel, and eat.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 7, 2015
    ISBN9781630474645
    One Hour Power Diet: One Hour Can Change Your Life . . . and It Only Takes Minutes
    Author

    Cliff Thomas

    Dr. Cliff Thomas is a weight loss surgeon with over three decades experience leading to his current day to day task teaching how to change eating habits. His previous book on weight loss surgery success, Skinny Jeans at Last: Secrets to Long-Term Weight Loss Success, has been a #1 bestseller and remains in the top 6 sellers among kindle books on weight loss surgery. Dr. Thomas has been featured in a TLC documentary, “The Half Ton Mom”, in which he and another surgeon performed the largest gastric bypass in the world. Dr. Thomas is a frequent guest on “Great Day Houston.”

    Related to One Hour Power Diet

    Related ebooks

    Weight Loss For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Everything Is A Practice

      Dec 30, 2021

      If this is the year you want to take up yoga, then you’ve made a great choice! Yoga is the perfect way to keep on top of everyday life; it’s good for your body, mind and soul. No one regrets rolling out their mat and doing a short practice, even just

      1 min read

    • Article

      Help, I’m An Emotional Eater!

      Aug 8, 2021

      Some of us stop eating when we’re sad, lonely or distressed, while some of us eat more. Emotional eating is when you use food to fill an emotional need, rather than your stomach. If this sounds like you, identify your triggers. What situations or fee

      1 min read

    • Article

      Harness Your HUNGER Hormones

      Apr 23, 2020

      Harness Your HUNGER Hormones
      5 min read

    • Article

      Take Good Care Of Yourself…

      Dec 22, 2020

      WHAT DOES SELF-CARE REALLY MEAN? It’s become a well-used term of late and, truth be told, it can mean different things to different people – and that’s perfectly OK. I believe self-care is strongly linked to your levels of self-esteem. If your self

      1 min read

    • Article

      What’s Essential?

      Jun 16, 2020

      Every woman has different nutritional needs, depending on age, diet and lifestyle. But ensuring you’re topped up with these will help to future-proof your health. It’s a common deficiency in the UK, particularly when we’re not able to get enough su

      1 min read

    • Article

      Meals That Make Muscle

      Jul 21, 2021

      If you want to build muscle, burn fat and get into the shape of your life, what you do in the kitchen is just as important as what you do in the gym. But that doesn’t mean stick to dull but healthy food such as plain chicken and broccoli. With the ri

      1 min read

    • Article

      BREAK THOSE Bad Habits!

      Nov 27, 2019

      BREAK THOSE Bad Habits!
      2 min read

    • Article

      Stop The Emotional Munchies

      Jul 23, 2020

      Asking yourself this question is important in identifying emotional eating. Make a conscious effort to decide if you’re genuinely hungry or if you are drowning your sorrows in a tub of ice cream. Stop buying comfort foods and replace them with health

      1 min read

    • Article

      “Change Begins Within”

      Dec 27, 2019

      “Change Begins Within”
      6 min read

    • Article

      My Life In Exercise…

      Jun 28, 2018

      My Life In Exercise…
      2 min read

    • Article

      BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO Meal Prep

      Jan 10, 2021

      BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO Meal Prep
      1 min read

    • Article

      Are You Emotional Eating?

      Nov 1, 2020

      Are You Emotional Eating?
      1 min read

    • Article

      Does DETOXING WORK?

      Dec 6, 2020

      Does DETOXING WORK?
      4 min read

    • Article

      What’s Your Motivation?

      Oct 22, 2021

      What’s Your Motivation?
      2 min read

    • Article

      Hara Hachi Bu

      Jul 10, 2019

      Hara Hachi Bu
      4 min read

    • Article

      Feed Your Immunity

      Oct 13, 2021

      Feed Your Immunity
      2 min read

    • Article

      Week: 2

      Apr 7, 2021

      Week: 2
      1 min read

    • Article

      ‘I’ll Start On Monday…’

      Sep 24, 2018

      ‘I’ll Start On Monday…’
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Pollyanna PROBLEM

      Sep 8, 2022

      The Pollyanna PROBLEM
      6 min read

    • Article

      Food For Feelings

      Jun 13, 2018

      Words CARROL BAKER You have a brand-new mortgage and your work hours are cut, your partner has cancelled a weekend away and the dishwasher has just flooded the kitchen. Before you reach for a handful of cookies or that brie calling you from the fridg

      7 min read

    • Article

      Get Your bounce Back

      Mar 14, 2024

      Get Your bounce Back
      5 min read

    • Article

      Scale Up

      Jul 1, 2020

      Weigh yourself twice a day for superior weight loss, says nutrition expert and bestselling author Michael Greger in his book How Not to Diet (Flatiron Books). Regular self-weighing is considered crucial for long-term weight control. His recommendatio

      1 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for One Hour Power Diet

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      One Hour Power Diet - Cliff Thomas

      Introduction

      If you want to change your life, change your food.

      – Yogi Bhajan

      One hour per meal can change your life.

      And it only takes minutes.

      Have you awakened from a long, deep sleep to a body you don’t recognize as you?

      So what happened over all that time? Years and years of mindless food choices, eating on the run, eating fast food and eating fast, showing love through food, the one more bite mentality, and the idea that we can dump any food into our gastric system and wake up feeling good— that’s what happened. And you know this.

      It doesn’t help that we live in a food-rich environment, and that our food has changed and is full of chemical additives.

      After years of unconscious eating, we walk into a gym and hire a trainer and expect them to guide us to fast, sustainable weight loss within weeks. We start some weight loss fad and expect it to be the magic answer.

      And we keep trying to play the game over and over. Then comes the feeling of blame. Don’t waste your time and energy blaming yourself. It will beat you up. Begin with recognizing what does not work and contrast that with what does work. Then when you recognize what works and a day comes along where you did not do well, ask yourself how you can do better tomorrow. There are no mistakes, if we learn from them.

      When it comes to getting healthy and losing weight, information and advice coming from the experts is confusing, conflicting, and often misleading. Most of that advice is based on poor science about a very complex and poorly understood system—our gut and our gut brain.

      What makes this problem worse is that the sheer volume of information about nutrition and health and weight loss is enormous. We’re bombarded with what my colleague Sam Horn calls infobesity. Too much weighty information about the topic of too much physical weight. How ironic is that? And despite year after year of receiving even good advice, we seem to be in the same place, or getting worse.

      The problems are compounded by the fact we’re all different, with different tastes, food choices, cultural traditions, and food sensitivities.

      In the first chapter of The One Hour Power Diet, we take a closer look at what we are doing, because what we’re doing isn’t working. Understanding what isn’t working allows us to move on to what does work.

      At the end of this introduction, I’ll share a simple, powerful tool that does work—one hour power, a method that takes only minutes.

      Much of what we are doing are poor indicators of success and create false expectations.

      The problem with beliefs like a 30-day weight-loss plan is sustainable, or that a measurement like calories informs us about food energy, is that they create false expectations. Expectations make us believe that by doing some action we’ll get a certain result. When we give that misleading action our energy and we don’t see the results we expect, we want to quit.

      Things that make us want to quit include:

      • Poor indicators of success

      • False expectations

      • Perception that the method is too difficult

      • Life and its day-to-day obstacles

      • Unsustainable methods

      • Resistance to change

      We will benefit from:

      • Knowing why we want change

      • Good indicators of success

      • True expectations

      • Learning how to change eating habits, which is a process, not a timeline

      • Overcoming resistance to changing eating habits

      • Simple, usable tools that teach awareness and self-experimentation to find what works for you

      • Repetition of what works, which creates new habits that work

      Ending up with a body you don’t recognize as the true you took years. Returning your body to the true you, and maintaining it, requires a lifetime of change. Reliable success indicators keep you working in the right direction. You change and improve by staying focused—that is, thinking about what you eat at every meal, with every snack, for the rest of your life. Positive change begins with connecting the dots between how the food you eat affects how you feel and perform.

      Do you want change? Why? When you know the why, the how becomes much easier.

      Spend time becoming clear on why you want change. Is it so that you have more energy to play with your kids or grandkids, or to travel, or to return to your favorite sport? When you recapture the true you, you are more ready to give your unique gift to the universe. Your life purpose will blossom.

      The One Hour Power Diet is focused thinking that creates change.

      Anyone who has lost weight and began a life of feeling good did it by changing eating habits…for a lifetime.

      Awareness is the key to all change.

      Maybe we should start listening to our body and measure food energy, not by the inaccurate calorie method, but by how much energy we have one hour after eating.

      Our bodies talk to us. It’s time we start listening. The One Hour Power Diet gives you some tools to learn how.

      Start with this:

      Ask why you are eating just before you eat: for nutrients, for pleasure, or because of an unmet need like lack of love or lack of fulfillment→ Then 1hr power: one hour after eating, rate how much energy and mental clarity you have, as well as how your body feels in general→Visualize the type of food you ate and serving size: one serving=one palm size meal, two servings=two palms, three=three. Start realizing that certain foods and how much you eat make you feel good and certain foods and volumes make you feel bad. Track both the feel-bad choices and the feel-good choices.

      Again:

      • Answer why you are eating before you eat

      • Check in with yourself one hour after eating—that’s the One-Hour Power check-in

      • Note the serving size of what you ate, your palm as a guide, and log the type of food you ate

      • Rate how you feel

      • Develop your own personal feel-good/feel-bad database

      • Choose feel-good most of the time

      Repeating what works over time creates a new habit.

      This book is loaded with perspectives that create awareness and keep you focused and moving in the right direction, and tools that build repetition.

      You’ll find information about a revolutionary tool and how to get it for free—a unique phone app that helps you develop your personal feel-good food-awareness database.

      Remember: the ultimate measure of success is feeling like the real you … not the you carrying extra pounds, too tired and foggy-headed to live your passions.

      One hour per meal will give you power.

      We have been brainwashed.

      Do you wonder why we keep doing the same things with the same results—that don’t work—be it war for peace or the new magical diet for weight loss?

      Are you open to the possibility that our thoughts have been conditioned, and in a sense brainwashed into believing that something we’ve tried before will work this time? Same story, same results, over and over. The problem with our food choices is we have been conditioned through marketing and hype and weak science to believe we should eat in a certain way.

      It’s your time to change. Now is the time to find lasting solutions, not short-term results. Now is the time to do something different. Now is the time to give up our loyalty to these conditioned thoughts.

      This chapter helps you re-examine the dogma that keeps you going down a path that doesn’t work and embark on a path of success. Success through awareness.

      If you want to change, you must change your thoughts. Think of this chapter as the beginning of a journey. A journey that may change the way you think about food and food choices.

      So we will look at what we are currently doing, and the science behind what we do, and take a closer look at expert advice. Usable, reliable, expert advice comes from experience, not from weak science. So we’ll take a bit of a detour in "Chapter 2: Experience Is the Foundation of Expertise" and examine my experience so you develop trust in my guidance, trust to believe in a perspective that’s a bit different. Then maybe you will trust me to show you what to pay attention to, what things mean, how things work, how to advance, and how you might find the real you, not the you with a body overweight and out of balance.

      In beginning this journey, understand that we have become food information-oholics, because we’re starving for information that will work.

      We commonly hear someone talk about the amount of calories in this or that, the number of fat grams in this or that, the number of sugar grams in this or that, and so on.

      The bad news is most of the information we accept as dogma is scientifically inaccurate and often misleads us into believing if we do X then Y will happen. This creates false expectations.

      False expectations make us want to quit.

      It’s better to find what works and not quit.

      Almost every day we hear, This study proves X. Later, we hear, This study proves the opposite of X. We feel confused and confusion makes choosing a path and sticking to it difficult or impossible. The only way you will have long-term success is to stick to a path that works for you.

      Often these studies claim results in the name of science, and that’s where the confusion begins. What is science?

      Science is a process of experimentation where we discover reliable rules to predict an outcome. It requires

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1