Take a Walk on the Bright Side!.

Well, the time came to get a new computer after having spent hours and a few too many dollars wrestling with detecting the problem, virus scanning and ultimately installing a new hard drive during the holiday at the end of 2009. Kept me out of the fridge though!

So here I am in February and the same things start showing up: slowing of the system, “not responding” messages and just plain freezing up! The truth reveals itself to me louder than ever: “Lisa, it’s time to stop spending time and money on fixing it and just buy a brand new computer!”

So I did and I am absolutely elated!

My curiosity is, why does it sometimes take getting hit over the head or another such profound awakening metaphor to make us move in the direction that is ultimately forward? Why are we so quick to fall back into complacency and futility?

Of course I am relating this to weight and health, you know that right?

I was talking with my wonderful partner of 10 years last night and we were pondering why it is so difficult for people to change their behaviours that no longer work for them and adopt new behaviors that are better suited for the current situation including their new dreams and desires for their life. In talking about it I realized that most people just want to stop one thing and begin another the next day. It just doesn’t happen that way!

I'm no good at this game! I can't even hit the ball! This game is no fun and frankly... I quit!

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I have been thinking and reading a lot lately about changing my thoughts and how powerful that whole concept can be in making tremendous life changes.  Especially having to do with our relationship with food… but more about that in a minute.

The fact of the matter is, The Secret has taught us that what we think about can greatly contribute to what we create in our life.  Then we learned that you can not just think something into existence.  You must take action to make it happen.  That makes good sense.

So now let me through something new and exciting into the mix that will illustrate the concept even more.  Think about a radio.  At the lower end of the tuner are the stations like 88.1 FM and at the upper end are the stations like 106.5 or whatever.

Now here’s the idea… our feelings and thoughts can be placed on a scale similar to the tuner of a radio.  So when we feel down, depressed, beating ourselves up, etc… those feelings and thoughts would be in the lower range of frequency or vibration.  Then the happier, joyful, self confident thoughts and feelings would be where?  Of course, on the higher end of the tuner.

Then the real important part to believe is that wherever you are on that tuner or wherever your thoughts and feelings are at on a vibrational level, you will be mingling with other things on that same frequency.  So if you feel lousy and you keep running  in to things that keep you feeling lousy, could it be that at the level you are vibrating, that’s all you have access to.  If that is the case, then all you have to do is change your thoughts to a higher vibration and see what you start bumping into up there!

Ask yourself, what is the best feeling thought I have access to right now?, and change your thought to that.  You will automatically increase your frequency for the better!

It just makes such good sense to me.  I tried it today when I was out walking and the thought of something that has been really frustrating me lately came back into my mind.  I stopped, checked in and could feel that I was feeling worse than just a few moments ago, so I changed my thoughts and I felt better.

Now, think about the times when we reach for food because we are lonely, angry or bored?  What if we could proactively change the thought to something that felt better and made it much easier not to eat something that will ultimately make us feel worse about ourselves anyway?  Do you see the magic in this?  It will take practice and effort, but how much effort is it every day to fight the urges, bad thoughts about ourselves and inner conflict?  Doesn’t even compare when you put it like that hey?

What a great tool to keep joy in each and every moment possible!

Happy New Year to us all!

Hello!

Because when you hear someone say “ex”-husband or “ex”-lover or “ex”-roommate… do you think they are coming back?  No!  It’s done, it’ over, bye-bye!

If I say, I used to be fat, or I lost weight… that even sounds like it’s temporary.  When you lose something you long for it’s return… right?  When you used to be something, it’s usually something you value, like I used to be a marathon runner, but I can’t do that anymore… but you would love to return to that time in life… right?
Well, can I be perfectly honest with you? I never, ever, EVER want to be FAT again!!

The pain associated with being fat is something I do not want to experience in my life ever again.  The shame, the self loathing… and it’s not just when I was topping the scales at 200 lbs!  When I was 30 lbs overweight, I still looked at myself in the mirror with  judgment and disgust.  Hard as I tried to accept myself… I was always trying to cover up my fatness with clothing or being funny to be liked or just not going to events so I wouldn’t have to be seen or even worse, have to find clothes that don’t make me look fat!

Now, I am an ex-fat person…  Big X!

My mission in life is to create a whole network of ex-fat people who walk, talk and act like people who refuse to return to a life of pain, sadness, and shame. People who are no longer willing to be quiet about the huge problem fat is in a person’s life and in the lives of everyone they know and love!

In our society here in the US, we are conditioned to sugar coat the truth about health problems, money problems and even relationship problems.  We don’t want people to know we have problems or to upset them for fear they will think badly of us.  Am I right?

NO! In this country obesity is on the rise and no one is screaming about it… I am here today to scream about it.  Fat is not in!  Fat is ugly!  Fat is unhealthy!

It is so much easier to stay skinny than anything being fat ever was!!!

All adults:  133.6 million  (66%)
Women:  65 million  (61.6%)
Men:  68.3 million  (70.5%)

My mission is to bring FATness out in the open as a permanently reversible situation and form a strong, reality based group of people who want to become ex-fat people also!  In that process, introduce, mentor, coach and assist people who want to be thin and healthy to add the nutritional cleansing and replenishing program into their life to allow them to experience the unbelievably carefree, fun, confident, healthy lifestyle that goes along with losing the weight and maintaining it for a lifetime!

To learn more, enter your information below and you will be emailed a link to a website that will tell you more about it and help you decide if you are finally ready to make a permanent change and enjoy the benefits of being healthy both physically and mentally.

My intention in writing this book is to help people start talking honestly and frankly about the many ways being fat is killing our people emotionally, physically and psychologically!!!