The Placebo Diet: Use Your Mind to Transform Your Body

by Janet Thomson

Overview

Fed up with endless fad diets that never deliver the results you want, and leave you lunging for the chocolate with a guilty conscience? It's time to stop looking to crazy regimes for weight-loss solutions, and to start recognizing that the solutions are actually within you - in your own mind. In The Placebo Diet, life coach and nutritionist Janet Thomson explains that the key to losing weight is not calorie-counting but identifying and re-shaping your attitudes towards your body. This book will help you do just that, by utilizing the most powerful mind-tool we have - the placebo effect. This occurs when we have an absolute belief that something will work, which generates a feeling so powerful that it changes our physiology, often spontaneously. Using this tool The Placebo Diet incorporates a range of psychological techniques that will change the structure of your thoughts towards food, generating brand new beliefs and habits. Combined with a simple-to-follow nutrition plan that will maximize fat loss and increase energy levels, you will change not only your body, but also your entire outlook on life. Ditch the fad diets, deprivation, and guilt, and prepare to fall back in love with food and your own body, once and for all! This is an updated edition of Think More, Eat Less with all-new material focusing on the placebo effect.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401968540
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	10/19/2021
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Janet Thomson is an outstanding life coach with over 20 years experience helping people achieve their goals. With a Masters Degree in Nutrition & Exercise Science, Janet has the ability to transfer complicated information into practical tips that deliver real results. With training in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Tapping (Thought Field Therapy) and Clinical Hypnotherapy, Janet has a totally unique blend of skills and an informative, engaging style. www.powertochange.me.uk

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 How to Use This Book 1

Why Is It Called the 'Placebo' Diet? 3

The Human Brain 8

Before You Start 19

Part I How Your Mind Works

Chapter 2 How Are You Feeling? 25

Your Mind Affects Your Body 27

Turning Information into Action 28

Do You Want to Harm or to Heal? 31

Tuning in: Brain-wave Frequencies 35

Two Minds, Two Brains 37

Chapter 3 Thoughts Are 'Things' 41

The First Ever Self-help Guru 42

Where Your Thoughts and Behaviours Come From 45

Creating Associations 47

How Your Thinking Drives Your Behaviour 50

How Much S.H.I.T Do You Have in Your Life? 51

C.L.E.A.N. Thinking 53

You Become What You Think You Will Become 53

How 'I Can't' Becomes 'I Can' 56

Doing It Without Thinking 59

Chapter 4 The Chemistry of a Thought- Become an Alchemist 61

Your Thoughts Are Energetic Signals 61

Positive vs Negative Thinking 63

Say What You Want - Because You Are Listening 64

What Are Your Thoughts Tuned into? 66

The Incredible Power of Thought 67

Your Brain as a Wi-fi System 71

Chapter 5 Every Little Thought Helps 75

Lazy Thinking 76

It All Adds Up 78

Doing the 'Write' Thing 80

Increasing Your Awareness 82

Chapter 6 'Brain Juice' 87

The 'Brain-juice' Diet 88

The 'Brain-juice' Cocktail 90

Why Do We Overeat? 92

Do You Think Before You Eat, or Eat Before You Think? 93

Modelling 96

The Magic of Autosuggestion 99

Imagination Is Reality 104

Chapter 7 Mind Your Own Business 107

Using Your Imagination 108

Anchoring: Take Control of What Triggers Your Behaviours 111

Creating an Anchor 113

Positive Anchoring 116

Mirror Neurons 118

Chapter 8 Attitude or 'Fat-titude'? 123

You Can Do the Impossible at Once, but Miracles Take a Little Longer 125

Your Body Is Your Home 127

Magnetic Attraction 129

Creating a Strong Mental Attitude 129

Chapter 9 The Habit Loop 135

How Habit Loops Are Created 136

How Habits Work 138

Identifying Cues, Behaviours and Rewards, and Installing New Habits 142

The Power of Visualization 145

Look Who's Talking! 148

Chapter 10 Tap In to Your Positivity 157

How Thought Field Therapy Works 158

Part II How your Body works

Chapter 11 Hormones R Us 169

Step-by-step Weight Loss 171

The Liver 172

Hormones as Chemical Messengers 177

The Adrenals 190

The Thyroid 191

Stress 193

Feeding Your Mind 194

Gut Health 198

Chapter 12 Fat Cells or Flat Cells? 201

How to Shrink Your Fat Cells 201

Burning Fat 204

Which Exercise Is Best? 205

Taking It Slowly 208

Chapter 13 Food Matters 211

What Makes a Good 'Diet'? 212

Fats, Protein and Carbohydrates 214

The Glycaemic index (GI) 229

All About Antioxidants 230

Chapter 14 The Colour-code System 233

Green 235

Pink 235

Blue 235

Red 236

How Much Should You Eat? 236

General Colour-code System Guidelines 247

Chapter 15 Everyday Eating 249

Putting It All Together 249

The Daily Record Cards 251

Everyday Eating - Meal Suggestions 253

Recipes 255

Chicken and Crème Fraiche with Apples and Mushrooms 256

Country Vegetable Soup 256

Tofu Pate with Green Peppercorn and Paprika Sauce 257

Salmon Stir-fry with Thai Spices 258

Plaice Fillet with Mushrooms and Pak Choi 259

Chickpea Curry 260

Healthy Quick-start Two-week Plan 261

Sample Meals for the Healthy Starter Plan 265

Supplements 267

Chapter 16 Setting Your Goal 269

Creating a Strategy 270

Recommended Reading 275

Index 277

About the Author 287