If you have not heard of FoodMatters.tv you absolutely must stop right now and think really hard about what you want most in your life with regards to you physical well being and your health. Your health is the foundation of all other things in your life, so it’s best to start here. So what do you want your health to be like? How do you want to feel every day? What kinds of activities do you want to have the option of being able to do?

Think about it then watch this:
http://www.foodmatters.tv/

Stop dieting to lose weight and start eating a good diet to gain health!

What more can I say?

That’s why when I woke up that day and the truth of my situation really hit me… that being me, being fat me… Being Fat Sucks! it all got very simple.  I no long complicated it with excuses and justifying why I was doing things to sabotage my good health and my happiness.

Get down to the truth and life becomes simple.

While visiting Sydney and surrounding areas, I came to the realization that we are looked upon as the fattest country in the world!  Are they correct?

Look around… looks like it!

There is even a beer commercial for a new 2/3 less carb beer where they send the carbs that are no longer into the beer to people who really appreciate carbohydrate: Americans!

Now, don’t get mad about it.  They are absolutely right!  We are “fatties” and we eat junk and we don’t take care of our health.  That’s the truth and that’s what Being Fat Sucks!, my book coming out in less than a month, is all about:  Telling the truth.  It’s time to start being honest with ourselves and those around us for the good of those involved.

OK, maybe I am a little on edge… it’s because I spent 10 days there, enjoying the scenery, the people, the food and the wine and now I am being honest with myself that I have a couple pounds to take back off.  I exercised every day, but it was not enough to offset the calories in that wonderful Australian Shiraz or that Kangaroo filet.

Here’s the best part:  In the past, I would have rationalized those extra pounds and they would have gnawed away at my self confidence which could have sent me into a downward spiral of complacency and lying to myself about how I really felt till I was back up to 200 lbs and everything sucked again!

Not going to happen.  Being Fat Sucks! and I refuse to go there again!

I welcome your thoughts.

Bye for now!

As I watch the amazing athletes go through Sausalito in the rain this morning I am thinking to myself, “what strength and physical agility it takes to not only ride so many miles and for so long, but to withstand this type of weather doing it!”. I realize that what they have in them is sheer determination to be, do or have anything they put their mind to!

We all have that ability to decide to do something and we all have the determination to do it somewhere deep inside us… all we need to do is find that determination. Find that determination and never let it out of your sight again.

Finding it involves some soul searching to locate it at first. You have to be really honest with yourself about how you got to this point and take full responsibility for getting here so you can change it.

I bet there are a few athletes riding in this race today who have stories of complete transformation from either injury or lack of health to being fit and strong and able to do this amazing physical endurance race.

We all have a story and the happy ending depends on you.

What is the story you are writing for the next chapter of your life?

Life in the Fat Lane

Being the last one picked by the team captain for kick ball sucks.  Not being able to zip your jeans sucks.  Name calling sucks.  Ugly clothes suck.  Being ignored really sucks.

But nothing sucks more that being fat.  Being fat sucks.  It really does.  I know what it feels like to be humiliated because no one wanted me on their team in gym class.  And let me tell you, the dates for prom weren’t exactly line up outside my door.  People have commented or whispered about my appearance an my size, and I spent years wishing that I could do anything, anything, besides try on another pair of jeans that didn’t fit.  I felt invisible, not included and not notices, when I was in a group.  Well, I guess you could say that I wasn’t quite invisible because, to be honest, it was hard to miss me.  I was fat.

Life in the fat lane sucks.  It’s a life that revolves around food.  Food was got the reason for my problems and the answer to my problems.  I used it for both punishment and reward.  My reliance on it as an emotional vice made it both my comfort and my misery.

Becoming a “big girl”, I was soon faced with self esteem issues that were directly related to my weight and my looks.  But, my weight and looks weren’t the problem, it was how I felt about them that was the most devastating.  The majority of those thoughts and feeling were self defeating and negative, creating even lower self esteem and continuing the cycle of feeling bad, eating, and then feeling even worse because I did.  The cycle repeated itself like shampoo directions, “lather, rinse, repeat”; except, my cycle read “eat, regret, repeat, eat, regret, repeat”.  There were no directions telling me how or when to stop.

Life in the fat lane slowed me down.  It killed my confidence as my weight continually subjected me to the intolerance and disapproval too many overweight people face every day.  I learned the hard way how it felt to be completely ignored by people, even if I was standing right next to them.  My opinions held little weight, simply because I was overweight.  Too often, I felt like the world had excused me from participating in life, dismissing my feeling, thoughts and presence.  And it was mostly because I was fat.

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!!!