A New Day

As we come closer to the end of this year, I feel rather melancholy. I have spent almost an entire year thinking about creating a way to reach people like me who would like to learn how to make their lives happier. Thinking certainly isn't doing, is it? So, at the end of the year, I finally get around to "doing" it. I received a wonderful gift for Christmas this year from my daughter, Pam and Doug, my son-in-law - an i-pod. As I said before, I love this world of technology. The first thing I did was get out all my old c.d.s and load them onto my computer so I could get them on my new i-pod. Today I starting listening to some of the albums that I had forgotten I even had - one being some albums by Jana Stanfield. After listening to all three albums that I have, and becoming saturated with inspiration and love, which is what she is all about, I now am ready to start the new year. The lyrics to one of Jana's songs, "Wings of Eagles", so fits my mood today. "Deep inside me there’s this longing like a bird that needs to fly I’ve been captured by indecision but I was born to sail the sky. And I will fly on wings of eagles. I will sail on wings of change Unencumbered by the past, I face the new day unafraid Life is rich with possibilities. This is my moment, my time to shine. All it takes is a leap faith and on wings of eagles I will fly. There’s a stirring in my spirit telling me I’m free to fly. There’s a small voice, I can hear it telling me it’s time to try. And I will fly on wings of eagles. I will sail on wings of change, Unencumbered by the past, I face the new day unafraid Life is rich with possibilities. This is my moment, my time to shine. All it takes is a leap faith and on wings of eagles I will fly. I am ready to let go of the fear that held me back. I am ready to spread my wings and make a difference that will last. And I will fly on wings of eagles. I will sail on wings of change, Unencumbered by the past, I face the new day unafraid Life is rich with possibilities. This is my moment, my time to shine. All it takes is a leap faith and on wings of eagles I will fly." Is that not beautiful? It gives me courage today to push on toward my dream of helping others who really have the desire to release unwanted excess body weight and learn how to keep it off for the rest of thier lives. First, let me tell you a little about myself and my journey to success in this area. As I stated before, I have been on practically every diet known to man, and got rid of the excess pounds I wanted to get rid of, only to have them come back again with some unwanted friends. I think I have three or four Lifetime Weight Watcher Pins - you know - the ones you get when you have achieved your weight goal and kept it off for a certain period of time. When I reached my maximum weight of 195 lbs. it scared me and then when I went to the doctor for my regular check up and he told me that my blood pressure was too high and I needed to start taking blood pressure medicine, I had thyroid problems and would have to start taking thyroid medicine, my chloesterol was too high and would need to take medicine for that and that I was overweight and needed to lose weight. Well, I knew that, but the other - that is when I really started getting scared. I was not a pill taking person. I was extremely healthy - "was" being the operative word. But, that was when I woke up to the fact that I was ruining my health with my poor eating habits and just had to do something about it. And I did. I found another eating program (that's a more acceptable way of saying "diet") that got most of the weight off - but I still hadn't found the secret to keeping it off - not until I read some very insightful books and learned that my problem was not with the foods I was eating, or the amounts. Of course, only common sense would tell you that if you put more into your body than you used up your body would expand to hold the excess - but that still was not the problem. The problem was in the way I thought about food and myself. Once I had accepted that fact, I was then ready to move on to the steps that needed to be taken to change my thinking. A few simple steps was all that was necessary to change my entire preception about myself and my body. During the next several weeks, I am going to share with you my experiences regarding these changes. But, for now, I want to wish you all a Happy Ending to 2007 and a very Happy beginning to 2008. Happy New Year! Talk at ya later! adinear P.S. By the way, I no longer am on any medications. Because I got rid of those excess pounds, my blood pressure and chloestral went down and my thyroid went back to normal. That is one of the successes I have found in my quest for a "Perfect body weight".