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