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The Law of
Attraction and Weight Loss!
I am one of the millions of people who have
always struggled with weight loss. I have yo-yo'd up and down all through my life; sometimes chubby, sometimes obese, and occasionally thin. I cannot remember a time before in my life that I was completely happy and satisfied with my weight, even since childhood.
Every time I got near my goal, my
fat thoughts, visions and doubts would creep back in and I would
find myself FAT AGAIN! On the surface I wanted to be thin and
talked down to myself for being overweight, but on a deeper level I believed that I didn’t deserve to be
thin, and I also didn’t want to give up the security and other
comforts that being overweight gave me.
I know that now.'
I was
feeling
unworthy, not trusting my own beliefs and feelings, not expressing
myself and once again putting up the security blanket that allowed me
to make excuses to not be all that I can be. I was not allowing
the wellbeing that is mine.
I used
food to shove down emotions and things that I wanted to say but didn’t because I
cared about what others would think about me. I was putting other people's
opinions and feelings before how I felt and believed.
When I had lost weight
before, it was pure willpower, a struggle, because I had not done the emotional work. I
found some motivation to go on a diet and lose the weight, but I had not done the
“attraction” work, attracting my thin body to me. I had not done the true inner work that
leads to a easy, natural lifestyle with a healthy body, self worth and
living with joy.
I
was always looking for the magic pill, the psychological
breakthrough, the miracle diet, the one “outside” thing that
would let the thin me, the REAL ME, come out! I was always
looking for an answer outside myself, when the answer lay
inside, on inner emotional work and feeling worthy and self
confident. Just going on a diet did not make me start to
express myself and to care more about how I felt instead of how
others felt. The key is in feeling worthy, self
expression, creativity, inspiration about your life and who you
really are. You need more than just a diet to do that!
You need to really change how you think about yourself,
about food, and about your body, not only change your eating
habits. That doesn’t last, obviously. You have to learn
how to become a healthy body Attractor Factor!
After
learning about the Law
of Attraction, I
made detailed lists of what I wanted, I thought about it, I FELT IT, I EXPECTED
IT, I KNEW I DESERVED IT and then I let it go and let the Universe
deliver it to me. And deliver it did!! I ended up on 10
acres of ocean front property in the most biologically intense place
on earth where dolphins and whales and monkeys and macaws abound!! I
founded and am President of a non-profit foundation working to create
a protected marine sanctuary, I created an eco lodge, created boats,
an ultralight airplane that takes off from the water, and living my dream of having dolphins and whales in my
front yard (the Pacific Ocean!) It all came together better than I could have
dreamed!
But I could not seem to apply my deliberate
creation skills to my body!!! Isn’t that ironic? I think
everyone has their strengths, some are good at making money, some are
good at being thin, some have great relationships, some find the
perfect job… wouldn’t it be nice to be all that? Well, we can!
I had created the life of
my dreams using the Law of Attraction, but had not yet turned that
inward, on my own body. What I discovered is that I had to
re-create the images I had of my body and re-wire and re-program my
way of thinking. I realized that diets only last as long as my
willpower held out. I had to find my self worth, I had to really
believe that I deserved to be thin and become more blended with my
higher self, the bigger part of me that is connected to All that Is.
I had to find my true power and apply that to being thin, not
just in other areas of my life.
I had to stop concentrating on fat and weight loss and feeling bad
because of my weight and shift my focus to my ideal body, therefore attracting that to me.
We see a lot of people who are really successful in other areas of their life, but are still overweight. Weight loss is very different than making money and using the Law of Attraction to manifest material things. Weight loss is very personally about YOU and YOUR
PHYSICAL BODY. It takes different and really concentrated work to get thin for good. For me,
manifesting material things is easy compared to losing weight!
In
June of 2005, after slipping in my bathroom and falling on my face, I
took a trip to the Bahamas where I first swam with dolphins almost 10
years earlier. When
I got back from the trip, a friend who was on the boat sent me photos.
I was shocked when I saw the pictures of myself, not because of
my big black eye and bruised face, but because of the size of my
body!! I looked like a huge blimp! I had to weigh over 300 pounds!
It was a major wake-up call. I knew I had
to do something fast. I had known I was fat, but I didn't realize I
was THAT FAT. Most overweight people do not realize how they
look to others. I only have a small mirror over the bathroom
sink. From experience, I know that overweight people have a way
of ignoring and not really seeing our bodies as they really are.
We rarely look in the mirror. We conveniently ignore the
size of our bodies. I had no idea that I looked like that. It
scared me. It shocked me.
I
decided that this time I was going to do the work, and I was going to
find ways to make sure that it was for good, not another roller
coaster ride! Not only was I tired of being fat, I knew that it
is really bad for your heart and your general health to go up and down
in weight and I certainly was not getting any younger! NOW NOW
NOW was the time.
First, I did a major cleaning of my home. I got
rid of things, I moved things and I cleaned everything out. I
think this is always a great way to start any new project. It is
like creating a vacuum. You have to get rid of old things to
bring in new things. It is moving things around and changing the
view you have every day and gives you a new outlook. It is
making room for new things to come. It is cleaning out your
mind!
I made a list of all the reasons I stayed fat.
What would I have to give up to really let go of my weight
security blanket? What was it that I was holding on to?
What was I gaining by being overweight? I was brutally
honest with myself. It was time to face the facts and decide if
I really wanted to be at my idea body weight permanently. It was
time to tip the scale in favor of being thin, to give up my security
shield I had built around me
and shed my unworthiness and the
other reasons I kept myself fat.
Time to let it all go and focus only on what I wanted!!!
One thing I have done all my life is stuff my
feelings down with food. Instead of talking and letting people
know how I feel, I would just eat and stuff it down. That
behavior was going to have to stop right now. I was going to say
what I needed to say instead of shoving it down with food. After a
while, I noticed how much easier life was when you just say what is on
your mind. I wondered why I had made my life so difficult!
I gave up blaming others for my situation.
I gave up blaming my Mom, who had been a Weight Watchers
lecturer when I was young, and was always counting calories and
telling us what we could and couldn’t eat. I ate in rebellion,
I have always rebelled towards authority and rules. I was now an adult
and could make my own choices and to blame others was letting myself
off the hook. I let it all go, and that is the beautiful thing about
using your Divine Power and the power of your mind. You just
decide to let it go, and you do it! You work your way into
different, better feelings and thoughts.
I really laid it on thick with the I am’s.
I remembered that Marilyn had told me that the strongest
affirmations we can make begin with I am. So, my journal was
full of I am thin, I am trim, I am healthy, I am happy, I am at my
goal weight, I am a size 5, etc. etc. etc. I repeated them
throughout the day, and when I was walking on my treadmill, I would
repeat, “I am a lean, clean, fat burning machine!” over and over.
It was fun! I still say I am’s when I am walking and all
through the day.
I
always kept my eye on the goal, not getting absorbed in “what is
right now”. I still had a long way to go at the beginning, but
I kept focus on that trim body, feeling it, being it, and that got me
out of slumps. BE who you want to be RIGHT NOW and stop telling
the story over and over of “what is” or you will hold that story
to you vibrationally. If you concentrate on being fat, and
dieting, you will stay there. If you feel bad and embarrassed
about your body, you are not loving yourself as you are, a key to
moving forward from there. Instead, think about your ideal body
for you! How will you feel with your healthy body? I changed my focus and thoughts to being a healthy,
trim person right now, thinking like a thin person, and therefore I
was able to attract that to me very quickly.
Besides making all the lists in my journal, I
also really worked on visualizing myself as thin,
really feeling it and believing it. One of the things I did is
when I was huffing and puffing up the steps to my house from the
beach, was I pictured myself bouncing and even running up those steps.
I really felt the feeling of being light and moving easily up
those stairs. I visualized myself in all the cute clothes I
wanted to wear. In my mind, I was already thin! I started
to act like it. I started to not walk with a waddle!
Once
I was in the feeling place, the guidance of what to eat and how to
exercise came easily because I already was being that.
One of the games that I played with my mind was to picture myself as Barbara Eden's I Dream of Jeannie. When I found my thoughts wandering to things that were not part of creating my Divine Path, I crossed my arms, blinked my
eyes and made those thoughts go away and replaced them with
thoughts of things that I wanted. I became my own Jeannie, Master of my Thoughts! Games like this can really help you to keep your thoughts on your
dreams and not on mind chatter that can be destructive to your success.
It is important to keep this fun and use tools that you
can relate to and work for you!
One thing
that really motivated me and something that I was not willing to put
up with was my knees. I could feel my knees going under all that
weight, and walking up and down the stairs to the beach was getting
harder and harder. I thought about what life would be like if I
could not make it up and down those stairs in the future and instantly
decided that that was not going to happen. Getting down to the
beach was not something I could give up.
I
learned that I had to change negative thoughts into positive thoughts.
I had to imagine myself bouncing up and down the stairs. I
visualized it and felt it as I walked up. And now I do bounce up
the stairs!
After
losing the weight and being able to keep it off, I really wanted to
help others do it too. I thought about what I had done, and from
that I developed a plan
for others to follow using the word DIET as an acronym:
D
- Desire, I wrote down all my desires around
being thin, i.e. I wanted to wear cute clothes, I wanted to feel good
about myself, I wanted to feel healthy, etc. It is very
important to create passion and desire for your new body and healthy
weight.
I - Intuition, I used
my intuition and inner guidance to find the right food plan and
products that would serve me and my body. I did not listen to the
experts, I listened to me and my body! I became very in tune
with my body's needs, not cravings. I made friends with my body.
E - Emotions, Food is
always an emotional thing, we all have things tied to it, whether it
is starving kids in Africa, stuffing your feelings down with food,
using food to keep people away, feeling unworthy of having all you
desire (this is a BIG ONE!), etc. I identified these emotions I had
around food and how I used food to feel better and then worked my way
into new associations with food. The most important key here is feeling
worthy of being at a healthy weight.
T - Thoughts, I
changed my thoughts about my body, about myself, and replaced these
thoughts with new, healthy, positive thin thoughts! I visualized
myself as thin, REALLY FELT IT and soon, I WAS!
I also changed my thoughts about food itself, what is good foods and
bad foods and re-wired my beliefs about how food affects my body.
That's
the super short version, but that is what I did and how I lost 170
pounds. I have now developed it into what I now call THE I AM D.I.E.T.
to help others do it too! It is about finding your self worth and
becoming who you really are! It is about tipping the scale of your
thoughts and emotions to being thin, because if you are overweight,
there are thoughts and feelings that are holding yourself there!
You are gaining something by being overweight and the trick is
to find those things and change the balance to healthy emotions and
thoughts that will make weight loss easy and fun and most importantly,
to last a lifetime.
Now part of my Divine Path is to share my experiences and help others learn
to use the law of attraction to not only lose weight, but to create
the life of our dreams. I am publishing my book, Becoming
Thin, have written
my new e-Handbook, and am working on several other multi-media
projects to inspire YOU to become All that you can be!
It is my desire to show people that they really can be thin and stay that way, once they decide that is what they really want. That is the
first step, making up your mind that you are ready. Then it is just up to you to re-create your life in the thin body that you desire.
You learn to re-wire your thinking and change your habits and beliefs,
little by little, until you become that which you desire.
I AM
AFFIRMATIONS
My book tells my story of learning about and using the Law of Attraction to create the life of my dreams, what happened when I stopped consciously creating my life, and the exact steps I took to finally lose the weight I had been fighting my whole life.
I then give you step by step instructions to lose weight and create
the life of your dreams!
The most important thing to remember that you deserve and have the right to be thin, healthy and happy RIGHT NOW!
Be happy where you are RIGHT NOW, for it is your stepping off place into SO
MUCH MORE!!! Did ya get that? BE HAPPY NOW NOW NOW!!!
My book and this website will give people all the tools they need to not only lose weight, but to create the life of their dreams. No one wants to be just rich, or just thin, we all want it all and we can have it! It is already Divinely Yours!
Many, many blessings to you all!
I am with you on your path to creating the life of your dreams!
