WHERE DID JANUARY GO?

Hello, everyone - Gosh! can you believe that this month is almost gone - the older I get the faster the time seems to fly. This has been a wonderful month, though. I got started on my exercise program, I am writing my new e-course on how to attain and maintain your perfect weight body, and have several people lined up to take the trial course and give me some feedback. I am excited about getting it going, because I personally know a lot of people who will benefit from the course, and I know there are many, many people all over the country who would benefit from this information and process. I have my computer set up to send PDFs and as soon as I get the right type of microphone I will be able to record my e-course sessions for downloading and then I will be ready to go. My website will be up the end of this month or the beginning of next month. I can hardly wait.

Since I first decided that this was my passion, I have been working toward this time and it's almost here. I started out attempting to change people's lives and make them healthier and make myself wealthier by selling some really great products for a well known multi-level marketing company. I thought I could do whatever it took to make it a success - but learned that I couldn't. I then started reading the right books and took a course or two in self discipline, self confidence and self-esteem, and learned that this was not what I wanted to do (which might be the reason I didn't do it), but learned what I did want to do - and that was to help those unfortunate people who, like me, were forever on the up-and-down (yo-yo) cycle of weight management. Thanks to the MLM company and their products, I was well on my way to my desired weight. Now I was learning how to keep it off once it was gone. What a wonderful gift this is, and I am going to be able to share my success and the process with so many others.

Yep! this is going to be a great year, and it's just started. I will have more information about program as it starts blossoming. I am excited and looking forward to each new day. Hope this day is great for you and that all your dreams are coming true.

By the way, I lifted over 2400 lbs today and it keeps getting easier. I'm not lifting 100 lb weights yet - but give me time.

Talk at ya later,

adinear

MIND OVER BODY

Good Morning, everyone. I am back from my workout at the Y and feel great - I really do. I am not nearly as sore or worn out as I was last week. This stuff really works. Only lifted a little over 13,000 pounds this week - isn't that crazy? Remember when I said that I had always told myself and anyone who would listen that I never lost any weight or inches when I exercised? Well, now I am looking at each machine I use to determine which muscle is being worked on and give my thought to those muscles - and it really works - I can feel those muscles getting stronger. By March of this year I will be reporting to you the number of inches I have taken off. In addition to lifting 13,000 pounds this week I walked about 7 miles. I can hardly wait until I walk four miles a day in 45 minutes - I can do that! The body is a wonderful thing, especially when helped out by the mind. Of course, this is what I have been saying all along, if your state of mind is positive it's working for you - you can accomplish anything. Just getting up in the morning with a positive mental attitude can make your day seem like a party, no matter how hectic it is. A positive mental attitude is extremely important if you are on an eating program to reduce your weight, or on a maintenance plan so you can keep it off. The best thing anyone who has a chronic overweight problem can do is enter into the eating program with the thought in mind that Number 1 - you want to reduce your weight down to a certain level - Number 2 - you want to keep at that level for the rest of your life. You might think you have these thoughts, but if you find yourself looking for another weight reducing program six months after you released a good number of pounds, you weren't really thinking these thoughts. But by really committing to these actions with these thoughts in mind, and never forgetting them, your eating program will make sense and your maintenance plan will be such a habit that you won't want to change it. Like I said, the body is a wonderful thing, especially when helped out by the mind. Think thin thoughts, adinear

Eighteen Thousand+ Pounds

Yep! I made it to the gym today, the first day of my second week. I am improving every day - I can feel it - Boy! can I feel it. I have muscles that I didn't know were there. After my workout today I asked the computer what my results were for the month (I know, I've only been going for a little over a week, but that time frame wasn't available) and the computer told me that todate I have lifted over 18,000 pounds. Now, if anyone had told me at any time that I would lift over 18,000 pounds in less than two weeks, I would tell them they were crazy - that is over 9 tons, and that doesn't include the 20 minutes a day I walk on the treadmill. That's amazing, isn't it? Think what it will be in a month. There is no doubt in my mind now that exercise will help my body build muscle, and still reduce it's size in inches and weight. It's funny, but until I could see with my own eyes just what I was doing to improve my body, I still had a reluctance to really get involved with a steady diet of huffing, puffing, sweating and walking with wobbly legs - but now I think it is a good idea. What I have actually done is change my attitude. Before, I thought exercise was not necessary to reduce my weight - so I never did it on a routine basis, and seemed to release the weight without it. And, I'm sure that I could do that again, if I had any weight that I wanted to release,, but, what I do think now, is that the exercise is one of the keys to maintaining that weight reduction - which is what my main goal is. I want to maintain my current weight and never have to go on a diet again. Exercise is only a small part of maintaining your weight - attitude about exercise, about your body, about your eating habits - that is a major part. Your attitude can determine how you will feel when you get out of bed, how your day will progress, how healthy you are, how happy you are - attitude plays such an important role in one's life. A Positive Mental Attitude could solve the problems of the world, if everyone practiced it. You don't have to solve the world's problems, you only have to consider yours and then consider how a change of attitude could help in any situation you find yourself in. When you wake up tomorrow, try this. First, give the upcoming day some thought - if you believe that they day will be a good one and that you will not allow anything or anyone spoil it, your day will go amazingly well. Let your activities unfold in your mind, and picture yourself handling all situations with ease and enjoyment. Now, as you get out of bed, sing a happy song to yourself, something like "Oh What A Beautiful Morning" or "It's A Wonderful World" or some other song that makes you happy, and then go out and meet your world - you will be surprised how such a simple little action like this will change your entire outlook on life. Give it a try! Talk at ya later, adinear

A speech on fat cells

Good afternoon, all. Today was the first day of my new exercise routine and I did get to the gym. However, I guess a drank too much coffee before going to bed because I could not get to sleep - and laid away until around 4:30 a.m., which was the time I was going to get out of bed and get to the gym - didn't happen. I finally went to sleep and woke up around 8:30 a.m. and then got to the gym. I did my treadmill - walked a whole 1.2 miles in 20 minutes (I used to walk 4 miles an hour and will again, as soon as I get my body back into shape) and lifted the weights, which told me that I lifted 3,600 lbs. today - that should do something, don't you think? Now, I am going to change the subject. I am a 15 year veteran of Toastmasters. If you don't know what Toastmasters is, it is an international organization that helps anyone and I mean anyone, become competent and maybe even professional speakers. The organization is wonderful because it affords a comfortable and friendly setting to learn in and while the fear of speaking is always with you, you learn to overcome the fear and make great presentations in a short period of time. Wednesday night I am going to give a speech on "How Fat Cells Work". In researching this subject I learned a lot. I learned that while you may be born with a predetermined number of fat cells, these cells continue to multiply until you reach puberty and then level off UNLESS, and that is a big UNLESS you find yourself becoming quite overweight and then the cells can divide and multiply. I found it most interesting and somewhat disconcerting to learn that the fat cells never go away. Once a cell is born, it never dies, it just deflates and goes off in a corner hoping that the body will start eating more and more and fill it back up again, which is what happens when we release and regain weight. My speech reveals several more facts about fat cells and how they affect our bodies, but what I would like to do is give you my opening paragraph - it will make you think twice before eating again - This is taken from a great little book (hard to read, but really very good) written by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1875 and entitled "THE PHGYSIOLOGY OF TASTE". Are you ready? O.K., here goes: “Man is omnivorous; everything that is edible is at the mercy of his vast appetite; hence, as an immediate consequence, he must possess powers of degustation proportionate to the extensive calls due to be made upon them. Sure enough, the machinery of taste attains a rare perfection in man; and to be convinced of the fact, let us watch it in action: As soon as an esculent substance is introduced into the mouth, it is confiscated, gas and juice, beyond recall. The lips cut off its retreat; the teeth seize it and crush it; it is soaked with saliva; the tongue kneads it and turns it over; an intake of breath pushes it towards the gullet; the tongue lifts it to help it on its way; its fragrance is enjoyed by the sense of smell as it goes by, and down it plunges to the stomach, there to undergo further transformations; and throughout the whole of this operation not one particle, not one drop, not one atom had escaped the attention of the apparatus of taste.” I didn't realize how violent eating was until I read this. I kind of feel sorry for the food I eat. I am going to have fun with this, though - I am going to provide everyone at the meeting with something to eat, maybe a cookie, maybe a Hershey Kiss, something, and will ask them to pop it in their mouth while I read this passage. That should wake up everyone for awhile, don't you think. I am really enjoying researching, detecting, uncovering, disclosing all these neat things about food and the body and how and why it affects each of us the way it does. You know, it could be possible that everyone in the world could be obese, or everyone in the world could be thin, trim and beautiful - it is mostly determined by each person's decision and their thought process about food and themselves. I find it facinating. Until next time, talk at ya later, adinear

To Exercise or Not To Exercise

I know it's been a few days since I've visited this blog, but here I am now, ready to tell you about my new exercise program. You will recall I told you I was going to start an exercise program at the Y - beginning last week - welllllll---it didn't quite get done. I decided to wait until I had been evaluated by the trainers and set up on their new computerized machines, which ended today - so- come rain or come shine, I will begin my exercise program Monday. No sense in hurrying, huh? . The process of getting evaluated and the machines programmed entailed working ont the machines to determine my range and how much weight I can handle - Boy! I really am out of shape! It is going to take me a long time to get to where I can do much. One of the cool things about the computerized machines is that at the end of your session, when you log out it tells you how you did. I only spent a few minutes on each of the lower-body weight machines today and when I logged out it told me that I had lifted over 3,000 lbs I thought this was just a joke that the machines were playing, but when I added up the amount of weight I used for each machine and the number of reps I did - it came to that amount. I wasn't too tired until I found out how much work I'd done. As I mentioned before, I am not an avid physical exercise person - and I have told myself that no matter how much exercise I do, I never release any weight and not many inches - well, since I've learned just how powerful my mind is and how much auto-suggestion plays in accomplishing anything, I am going to keep track of the inches and the weight and see how much I can knock off with a positive attitude and a belief that it will do these things. I have had excellent results in reducing my weight and keeping it off by using this method, so I believe that the exercise will do me a lot of good. I don't really need to release any more weight, but I won't gripe if I do. I can hardly wait to firm up my underarms so that they don't flap in the breeze when I raise my arms, and I will finally get rid of the residue of the bulging stomach - most of it is gone, but what is left is due, I'm sure to lack of muscle control. I'll keep you posted - cause if it works for me, it sure will work for anyone else out there who is not an exercise proponent. Talk at ya later, Nida

Am I getting better and better?

Each day, as I do my self-improvement routines, I end each one with "Every day and in every way I am getting better and better." and I believe that, but sometimes I wonder where the improvement is. As I said before, I am just figuring out how all this technology works, I still have problems with it. I received a nice response to one of my blogs and can't figure out how to respond - but "Funny Face" don't despair - I will get it figured out.

One of my friends just contacted me after reading my blog and told me that because the background color was too dark and the print was too small, it was difficult to read - so I am attempting to correct that.

Since the holidays are over with for a few months, it's time to settle back down into a routine. One of the things we all have to think about is what do we want our routine to be. I surely don't want to get back into the routine I had a couple of years ago of eating everything in sight and wondering why I have to diet every six to eight months - and I won't. That will not be a routine for me ever again.

My routine now is to listen to my body and when it tells me I have had enough food, I quit eating and I feel great. It's funny, but when I first started doing this, I felt like I still needed something to eat because I didn't have that awfully cramped, full feeling in my stomach - but as I gave it some real thought, I realized that I wasn't hungry and didn't need to eat any more. Soon - sooner than you might think, eating less was something I could do very easily and I felt great - and I began to reduce my body weight, without going on a structured diet.

Listening to your body is one of the secrets to eating less and weighing less. Another secret is to imagine how you are going to look when you have reached your goal weight. This is called visualization and it works really quite well. Just form a picture in your mind of how you will look when you reach your "perfect body weight" and keep that picture in your mind - especially when you sit down to eat a meal, or each time you have a snack - or go out to eat. With that thought in mind and listening to your body, you are on your way to your perfect body.

Getting back to my routine is not going to happen, because I don't like the routine I was in last year. My routine is going to change and for the better. I enrolled at the Y for their exercise program. Now, I'm not a big fan of exercising, but ever so often I get the urge to do so. One comment I have made to myself and to anyone who was around was that I have never lost a pound from exercise - and I haven't. But------- I am not going to say or think that any longer. From now on, each day as I exercise I am going to picture how I will look once my body responds to the toning and how much smaller my waist and hips will be. In spite of getting rid of my excess weight, I still am not happy with my measurements - and I know from past experience my thoughts will govern my actions which will govern my results and I will be able to say "Exercise does help reduce weight and body size" - That will be my new routine.

Anyone care to join me - I will be at the Y at 5 a.m. until 7 a.m. every weekday

Talk at ya later,

adinear