Suzy Prudden's
One Stop Diet Revolution
by
Suzy Prudden and Joan Meijer
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Suzy Prudden's
One Stop Diet Revolution
Copyright © 2011
ISBN: 978-1-931191-47-0
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Dedications
To my son Rob Sussman, talented artist, fabulous father and the greatest son a mother could ask for. Suzy Prudden
To Pete Meijer, Rich Meijer and Jacky Kreple – the secrets to my success.....Joan Meijer
Suzy Prudden's One Stop Diet Revolution
Introduction
Suzy Prudden’s One Stop Diet Revolution has been years in the making. It started when I opened Unlimited Possibilities, Inc. and purchased a hypnosis franchise for the Westside of Los Angeles which specialized in weight loss. I opened a number of centers – in Beverly Hills, West Los Angeles, Venice Beach, Marina del Rey, Larchmont, Hollywood and El Segundo and began to experience amazing success with my weight loss clients. While most weight loss programs can boast 2% success, and even stomach stapling has only 30% success, my clients were reaching a 68% success rate and what’s more they were keeping the weight off.
For forty years I had been helping people lose weight and get in shape as one of America’s leading fitness experts. I am recognized as the Baby Boomer’s Fitness Guru. Adding hypnosis, nutrition and supplements to the mix has been a natural extension of my work and provided the foundation for this book.
What makes Suzy Prudden’s One Stop Diet Revolution different?
The primary difference is that this is a multi media program. It works with the site www.poundsoffprograms.com where you will find Webinars that reinforce this material and guided visualizations that help you change your subconscious mind.
Guided Visualization (GV) and Hypnosis for weight loss have been on television a lot recently. The positive press has helped defuse many people’s concerns about this ancient skill. As CEO of Unlimited Possibilities, Inc., I have a great deal of experience helping people lose weight and keep it off through the power of suggestion. I have developed a number of weight loss processes, including a process that suggests to listeners that they want to exercise. These processes also suggests to listeners that they want to leave food on their plate, drink more water, eat smaller portions, eat in a certain order, make healthy food choices and add healthy fats to their weight loss program. All these processes and more are contained in the PAL.
GV is the secret weapon of losing weight and keeping it off. It keeps you motivated and suggests the healthy habits that are presented in this book. Why? Because GV talks to your other than conscious mind – that part of your brain where habits and behavior patterns reside. Post GV suggestions are the most effective way of changing the habits and patterns that have gotten you fat in the first place. It helps you make the choices to lose weight and keep making those choices to keep the weight off easily and effortlessly.
Chapter 1
Overweight is Expensive
Overweight is expensive! Not only does it cost about $5,000.00 to maintain 30 extra pounds a year – that’s maintain, not gain – but overweight people:
* Have lower self-esteem
* Have increased self-limiting behavior patterns
* Find it more difficult to obtain jobs
* Are routinely passed over for promotions
* Are generally paid less than their thin counterparts
* Make fewer sales
* Receive lower commissions
* Are taken less seriously
* Are penalized by corporations in terms of health insurance
* Are charged more for health insurance if, indeed, they aren’t turned down as health risks
* Are denied life insurance
* Are at risk of more killing and crippling diseases
* Can be expected to have more sick days and more injuries than thinner employees
* Are offered medical solutions that don’t work for their problems
* Are offered diets that don’t work
* Are charged more for clothing
* Are threatened with paying more for air travel
* Can’t travel because they can’t fit in air plane seats. Those seats have been reduced in size in order to cram more passengers into the plane.
Even in the face of a spreading epidemic of obesity, people who are overweight bear the brunt of an unspoken prejudice against them. They even bear the brunt of their own lowered self-esteem and self-limiting behaviors so they actually buy into and suffer from that prejudice. One of my clients told me that she was ashamed of her body and of her disease.
As someone who specializes in helping people lose weight, I hear too many sad stories from desperate people who sit in my groups and cry because of the way overweight is impacting their lives.
* Chefs who cannot get a job.
* MRI technicians – who pay thousands of dollars for their training – who can’t fit behind the machines they run and won’t be hired for that reason alone.
* Newspaper editors who are paid less than their counterparts.
* Teenagers who face a lifetime of social exclusion.
* Sensitive people who are brought to tears by the way they are treated by those employed to service their needs.
* School teachers who get paid less than their peers or who lose jobs because they are not fit enough to take care of the small children they love.
* Nurses given too much to do during their brutal hours on the job – whose bodies pay the price in pain for being unfit for the heavy lifting.
* Secretaries who can’t get jobs because they are considered “unattractive.”
* Lovely young men and women who have never had a date and despair of finding love.
The list is endless.
People have come to me to lose weight because they want a promotion and they’ve been told they won’t get it because of their weight. Many of my clients have been turned down for life insurance and/or health insurance because of their weight. I hear complaints about insurance premiums going through the ceiling because of overweight. And truly I see the effects of weight loss on blood pressure, triglycerides, cholesterol and blood sugar when my clients start losing weight. The justification for insurance companies is not off the walls given that in America, insurance is only concerned with their bottom line and not concerned with actually providing insurance. However there is no offered help to find a remedy. The overweight are not good for the bottom line. Strangely, the fact that insurance companies penalize the overweight should serve as a warning about their chances for a long, healthy life rather than simply as an act of victimization. Overweight is bad for the human body and it is time to make changes in the way we eat and live.
Eating Badly is Expensive
Just for a moment stop and take stock of how much junk food you actually eat in a day. Health aside, just look at the cost of the food. Do you eat breakfast cereal? Do you eat chips, cookies, cakes? How about Pizza? Do you drink Lattés? Do you eat TV Dinners and frozen foods? Do you eat processed foods which include canned, packaged, frozen foods or even bagged lettuce? How about French fries, hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, soft drinks, bagels (yes bagels), bread, sweet rolls or Danish? Tally up the amount you spend on junk food (that you actually know is junk food – we’ll get into the junk food you don’t know is junk later). Now multiply that cost times 365. How much is your habit costing you in real money…oh, and don’t forget alcohol. Be sure to include all sodas including diet soda and energy drinks. A recent study concluded that diet soda was a major contributor to belly fat (the worst kind of fat in terms of heart disease) and diets soda causes fat to adhere to cells. How much are you spending to keep yourself overweight?
On a separate page make two columns. Label each column with the subjects below. Then write down everything you can think of that applies.
Junk Food You Know You Eat
Dollar amount you pay for each item
When you have finished, total the amount you spend on junk. Then multiply by ten for the things you forgot or didn't count.
One of my clients, Danielle, ate at MacDonald’s five times a day and consumed a minimum of ten candy bars in addition to what she ate at home. Danielle was starving to death even though she was 250 pounds overweight because the food she was eating had no nutritional value. Her energy was so low, she was so exhausted and she was so unhappy in her body and her life, that she felt she needed that comfort food and those sugar energy bursts to get through her day. When she came to my office she weighed over 350 pounds and was miserable. She cried through the entire interview. I gave her a deal she couldn’t resist simply to get her in the program. I let her mother come for free so she could learn how to feed her adult daughter. Very often weight loss needs to be a team effort.
At some point early in her program, we talked about how much her overweight was costing her and the idea intrigued her. Without telling me, she decided to save the money; she would have otherwise spent on junk food. Since she lived at home and her expenses were minimal this kind of saving was not difficult for her. Every day, at the end of the day, she put the equivalent of five MacDonald’s meals (about $5.00 each if she didn’t include pie or a sundae - $25.00) and ten candy bars (about $6.50) into her jar.
At the end of one year, she had lost over 100 pounds and decided to use the money she had saved to celebrate. She poured the money out of the jar and began to count. To her amazement she had saved $12,227.50. Instead of celebrating with food – which she would have done in the past – she made a cash down payment on a brand new, deep blue, Acura sedan – the first new car she had ever owned.
Weight loss wasn’t Danielle’s only success. During that year, she also passed the exam that allowed her to become an accredited school teacher (we made a GV process to help with her anxiety about math because that part of the exam had eluded her in the past) and she got through with flying colors. She got a job that paid real money. A job that gave her the responsibility and respect that she had been craving in her workplace for years. Her students were so supportive they changed their diets to support hers – eating salads at lunch and being her buddies in eating right. Indeed we have noticed that as many of our clients change the way they eat, the people around them – their students, children, husbands, boy friends, and grandchildren change too – with stunning results.
The Prejudice Faced By the Obese
In spite of the fact that we are seeing more and more overweight people around us, overweight Americans still bear an incredible prejudice against them. If you are an overweight salesman, chances are you will close fewer sales than your slender competitor. Chances are you will receive lower commissions. Do you think it’s lost on those hiring salespeople that the overweight have lower self-esteem, a harder time getting a job, and are therefore more apt to take a lower offer? Do you think it’s lost on those people who are concerned with their bottom line that the obese can be expected to close fewer sales and earn lower commissions?
Surprisingly, many overweight people are prejudiced against themselves. Before they have tried to attain a goal, they convince themselves that they can’t have it because of their overweight. Even with proof that there are overweight movie stars, overweight models, overweight business successes, heavy people limit their lives for themselves because of their own vision of the way the overweight people in this world are generally limited. They consider overweight people who are successes as exceptions without realizing that all great successes are exceptions or there would be nothing special about them, and without realizing that they are successes because they believed they could be and went for the prize. Do you think for one moment there would be movie stars if everyone was featured in movie after movie? Since movies are about people, do you think that only the thin and beautiful have a chance to act?
The overweight take lower paying jobs. They accept that they are unacceptable in certain professions. They settle in life for less because of their weight. And worst of all, they believe that there is nothing they can do about the problem. The problem isn’t the overweight. The problem is the belief that overweight is limiting, and therefore becomes self-limiting.
There are, of course numerous reasons for overweight people to have low self-esteem. “You would be so pretty if only you lost a few pounds,” rings like an anthem in many overweight minds. I remember when Susie, an overweight friend of mine, said that her boy friend liked her exactly the way she was and Shelley, another friend, replied, “Really? What’s wrong with him?” The common insults are too many to recount, they start with “Fatty, Fatty two by four, couldn’t get through the bathroom door.” It’s amazing what thin people consider to be “helpful” in their “support” of their overweight acquaintances.
The beauty of Suzy Prudden’s One Stop Diet Revolution is it combines diet and restoring self-esteem information with a program and a product that successfully helps people overcome limiting beliefs and the habits and patterns that accompany them. This program includes diet information, nutrition, supplements, exercise, and most importantly the PAL and the programs that help you create your weight loss success.
Overweight and Illness
Hospitals used to be predominantly places where people who drank and smoked were treated for the repercussions of their diseases. Increasingly they are places where people who are obese are treated for the repercussions of their diseases. Heart disease, stroke, cancers, balancing blood sugars for diabetics and the repercussions from the epidemic of diabetes increasingly fill hospital beds.