The One Day Diet

By Wendy Alley Pierson

Now, more than ever, people are overweight, unhappy, and unsatisfied. Our culture has made processed and fast food so accessible that it has become the norm. Diet culture reigns supreme, and we are constantly looking for a new quick fix to bad habits.

The One Day Diet isn't a fad diet; it offers a realistic approach to a healthy lifestyle. While making gentle choices for your mind and body using daily principles, affirmations, and committed actions, true long-term change will occur.

Take back your health through consistent actions, and find inner love and acceptance for yourself with The One Day Diet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685269289

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The One Day Diet

Wendy Alley Pierson

ISBN 978-1-68526-927-2 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68526-928-9 (Digital)

Copyright © 2022 Wendy Alley Pierson

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Principle #1

Principle #2

Principle #3

Principle #4

Principle #5

Principle #6

Principle #7

Principle #8

Principle #9

Author's Note

About the Author

Acknowledgment

To Malen Pierson, my creative consultant, twin flame and best friend for always believing in me, encouraging and supporting my dreams. Te amo.

Thank you to my beautiful mom, the epitome of health, beauty and class. You live forever in my heart.

To Michele Hunter, for countless hours of assistance and faith in me.

Introduction

The book you hold in your hands is a new and different approach to wellness and weight management.

By taking committed and consistent actions, you will end unhealthy behaviors by implementing mindful choices and powerful affirmations.

The One Day Diet includes nine principles to create life-changing behaviors, release unwanted weight, love yourself freely, and have control over food and situations.

Connect your mind and body to achieve a new lifestyle, have power over choices, and create life-changing habits with these tools for life.

9 Principles to Create Life-Changing Habits

Where a rule is an outside force enforced by others, society requires it to be obeyed and complied with, or there are consequences.

Conversely, a principle is internal; it is natural; it is a foundation for your beliefs; it must be built within you.

Each principle is followed by committed actions. A committed action is making a commitment to yourself, and then acting on it, rather than just thinking about it. Having the idea or intention of doing something is not going to get results. You must take action now, for now is all there is.

Where many diets fail is a mindset, the commitment to self, the consistency, the self-respect, the daily practice of self-love. While focusing on your mind and spirit with my one-day diet program, your body will have results.

You will get your thoughts on board with health, not diet culture, and finally enjoy food freedom.

For deeper self-discovery and results, a workbook is available for purchase at www.onedaydiet.live or alternatively have a pen and paper handy as some principles require action.

Principle #1

Love Yourself

When I was a child, I was a competitive swimmer—and a pretty damn good one. I won several first-place ribbons and broke and held state records for the fastest time in my age group. I was passionate about swimming; it was my life. I would wake up in the dark and go practice for hours before school and return after school for another hour or two for afternoon practice.

At this age, my coach Joe was my guru. I looked up to him and adored him more than anything. To up my game, Joe had a strategy that during swim meets, I would not take a breath until I reached the end of the pool. The motivation was that because your body needs oxygen, you automatically swim faster to get to the other side.

On the morning of my swim meet, I took a deep breath, dove into the blue water and kicked my feet as fast as I could. About halfway down the pool, my body began craving oxygen, causing my neck to instinctively turn an inch or two in an attempt to take that gasp of air. But I fought back and did not allow that quick breath. By the time I reached the end of the pool, I had succeeded in not taking a breath. Not only that, I hit the touch pad and won another first place ribbon!

Elated, I jumped out of the water and ran toward my coach for the approval I so desired. But Joe just looked at me and said, I told you not to breathe. That was it; there was no acknowledgment or congratulatory words. Dismayed, I sat confused and bewildered as to why he was upset. Not only had I won, I had done exactly as he instructed by not taking one breath.

Sitting down to speak with him and get the coaching I deserved, I learned that Joe believed that I was taking breaths. Apparently, when I was fighting for oxygen and my neck turned just enough to fight for oxygen, it appeared to Joe as though I was breathing. Desperately defending myself, I insisted that I did not, which led Joe to insinuate that I was lying.

Joe's response crushed my little soul. Losing faith in myself, I questioned what I did wrong; I questioned my own honesty and thoughts. My body and lungs knew full well I didn't breathe, but I began to put up walls, losing trust in myself and my coach.

A few years later, my family moved to a very small rural town that did not have a swim team. At first, I was a devastated twelve-year old; swimming was my life. But soon, my interest grew in other areas, and I was forced to leave swimming in the past. Surprisingly though, the small town eventually started a swim team several years later, and the coach asked me to try out.

Diving into the water, I felt alive and at home. Though a little rusty, I knew I had my work cut out for me, having gone to swimming practice twice a day. A second time, my vulnerable heart walked over to the coach, asking for feedback to which he responded, You're okay, but you'll never win the Olympics or anything, if that's what you're asking me.

Deflated, once again, by the simple words of a coach.

These are very minor bruises to a young girl's heart, I realize. They are rather insignificant in terms of the big picture, but that was my perspective of an experience—my ego's interpretation. Yet how many little moments make up our identity, our insecurities, and our fear of failure? Odds are, where you are now are made up of all these compounded moments.

The coaches have their own perspective, yet how I was made to feel was on me. Ultimately, I am the only person who can make myself feel bad or not good enough.

I share this story with you for you to dig deep and go within. Look for moments, big or small. They may be heartbreaking or something that seemed minute, such as a harsh word you brushed off or a sideways look.

Where are your insecurities coming from? A parent who said you can't do something, or a fifth grade teacher who said you would never have your art hanging in a gallery? A friend who laughed at a failure? Or is it you, constantly bad talking yourself?

Pessimistic self-talk is still an affirmation—it is just a negative one. Are you telling your subconscious horrible things about yourself over and over? It is paying attention.

When I was fifteen years old, I had a boyfriend who told me I was fat. I was at most 105 pounds, but did I believe it? You bet I did.

Have you abandoned yourself? Are you a victim of your own thoughts?

What falsehoods do you believe about yourself?

Take some time to really delve into this. Meditate and focus back on when you were a child, a teen, or just last year. Take an hour, a day, a weekend.

Was it a sibling, boss, mentor, coach, stranger, lover, grandparent, roommate, friend, or you, or all of the above?

Write down every thought, every moment that you were broken, every lie that you have been told or told yourself from three years old until now. Better yet, write a letter or letters to those people in your past or present, whose hurtful words or opinions have remained in your heart. Include yourself in this exercise—really let all your emotions out. Write down everything, even if you think it is petty or small. How petty can it be if you still remember it?

No one will be reading this except for you, so go for it. Every hurtful thing you have told yourself or been told, every belief about yourself—write this down on paper, not on your phone or computer.

Now that all that dreadful energy is out of your mind and on paper, this is the last time you will focus on what anyone else says to you that makes you feel inferior or less than you are. Understand you own one hundred percent of the power to choose, and you choose your feelings at all times. No one else has the power to make you feel bad, angry, or upset unless you let them.

To be free of past judgments and to find peace for yourself—it is essential that you respect and honor all of you, not just the parts you believe are desirable. In other words, honor the weird, the quirks,