Your Perfect Body Weight

TIME FLIES WHEN YOU ARE BUSY!

2008-05-04T09:10:00.000-07:00

Golly! Gee Whiz! Darn! Didn't realize that it had been such a long time since I last visited this site. I have actually been busy, but that's no excuse for neglecting keeping up with the news of my progress.

I returned home from that wonderful experience of the workshop in Los Angeles, and did learn a lot about how to conduct a profitable and informative seminar for everyone that is truly interested in getting off that Yo-Yo cycle of dieting. I have another workshop scheduled for July - either in Canada or New York - haven't decided where yet - I would love to go to Canada, but there will be no time for sight seeing, so I might as well go to New York - the flight is shorter.

My wonderful team that test drove my Take Weight Off Your Mind on-line course finished the last session and are now writing down all the things they liked about the course, what they didn't like, what could have been more productive or clear and what might well be left out. As soon as I receive their feedback, I will fine tune the program and get it out there for the general public.

I am becoming more and more educated in this technology field - there are so many wonderful people on the internet that just want to help those of us who know nothing about anything as far as internet technology goes and they have really givem me the tools to take this program public. I am now working on getting some affiliate sites to link to so they can have their audience link to my site - which will give me many more people to tell my story to. This is really getting exciting now. I have finished my e-book and sent it to my team as well as a few interested people who want to know more about my program.

I am so blessed to have the time, the energy, the health and the encouragement from those who truly care about me. Without these wonderful factors, I wouldn't be able to do anything except sit on the couch and watch TV - I did that for almost a year and wasn't far from going stark raving mad. So much for retirement without a purpose.

Well, best I get back to my learning.

Talk at ya later,

Think thin thoughts,

adinear

OFF TO SEEK MY FAME AND FORTUNE

2008-04-14T07:56:00.000-07:00

Well, maybe not just yet, but I am off to Los Angeles for a workshop provided by Peak Potentials called Train the Trainer and I will learn loads and loads of very useful information that will let me become a much better and more effective seminar presenter. Presenting seminars is somthing that I have wanted to do ever since I thought of bringing my message of Weight Management to people who really wanted to reduce their body weight to what they considered ideal weight and maintain that weight for the rest of their lives thorough the program that I developed, Take Weight Off Your Mind. I conducted a few seminars, but didn't know exactly how to reach the public and therefore determined that the internet would be the best way, but I still want to conduct effective, fun and informative live seminars throughout the country and this workshop will get me started.

I understand that the sessions will be long - they will start at 9:00 a.m. and end at 11:00 p.m. each day, Monday through Friday - but I also understand the the energy level at the sessions is so high that you don't realize that you have spent the entire day listening and learning. I'm looking forward to it.

I have finished the fourth session of my trial e-course and it seems to be going well - I am anxious to get the feedback so I can start revising and fine tuning it and get it ready for the public. I have really enjoyed doing this trial run and I think everyone who is participating is also getting some fun and education from it.

I will get back with you as soon as I return - I am not going to take my computer with me because I don't think I'll have time to do anything with it - but I am going to take copious notes and you will hear all about it over the next few weeks.

Until then, talk at ya later

Think Thin Thoughts,

Adinear

Sixteen Tons - No, Not Quite - 9,960 Lbs-Almost Five Tons!

2008-04-01T12:35:00.000-07:00

WOW! Almost 5 ton - can you imagine. Now, that probably doesn't sound like much to someone who has been lifting weights for a long time and is strong and healthy, but for me, a person who hasn't done much exercise ever, that is a lot! And you know what, I can see it in my body, even in this short period of time. I can see the muscles forming in my arms, the saggy upper arms are firming up, my stomach is firming up and I am so pleased.

Another thing that has occurred, much to her dismay, I am now taking my little (not as little as she should be) Min-Pin, She-Ra out for a walk every morning. I have let her get overweight and she is not nearly as active as she used to be. When I come home from my workout each morning, I wake her up, put her harness on her and take her for a walk. She just looks at me with those big, sad eyes that say "Why ME?" and then reluctanly starts walking. We only go for about a block now, but I am increasing the distance just a little each day until we can go several blocks. Now, for someone who really isn't an advocate of exercise, I am doing well, don't you think?

Today I am putting the finishing touches on my third session of my trial e-course. The subject is a continuation of last week's Self-Image. I hope everyone is getting as much out of it as I am. Even though I have given this a lot of thought and have been working on my own self-image for a while, it is different when I plan to give the information in a comprehensive form to others - trying to convey my feelings and my experiences in a way that they can learn from- it is a great learning tool for me. I have learned more in these last few weeks of putting this course together than I ever thought I could - and in some areas, more than I learned by practicing the principles. I now know what is meant by "you can learn by teaching."

I am also working on my articles so they can be published. I wrote several articles for a friend who was going to start a magazine for women - unfortunately that project didn't get off the ground, but I still have the articles and I am rewriting them for publication. I have been doing a lot of research to learn just what needs to be done to get the word out in the "internet" public about my passion, "Weight Management" and it is a lot - but it is coming along. Soon I will get the hang of it and you will be hearing about me from several sources. I told you how technologically challenged I am - well, I still am. During my last teleconference call, I forgot to call the number that would allow me to record the session, so I had to do the entire session again, without the live interaction. I am now sitting down and spending no less than 15 minutes a day saying over and over again "Pay attention to the details", "Pay attention to the details", Pay attention to the details." And this is paying off, because I now find myself stopping before I start anything and say "Pay attention to the details" and I find that I am not redoing everything two or three times. What a wonderful thing the mind is, huh?

Guess I'll quit for now and get busy on my articles and my new e-book which will be made available to anyone who asks for it by the end of the month. Talk at ya later,

Think Thin Thoughts,

Adinear

E-COURSE TRIAL HAS STARTED

2008-03-28T10:48:00.000-07:00

Well, at last I have the e-course started with my volunteer trial group who has agreed to take some valuable time from their fun and families and listen to my presentation and work on the assignments. This is a six week course and the calls last approximately 30 to 40 minutes. I am getting excited. As soon as I get the feedback from them, I will be offering it everyone who is interested in reaching their goal weight and maintaining that weight for the rest of their lives.

As I am preparing for these presentations, many things come to mind that I could talk about in the course, but I think I will save that for my blogs, my ezines and my articles. Yes, I am going full blast with this internet communication thing. I am learning about ezines from the ezine Queen, Ali Brown, I am investigating locations to put my articles and will start an e-mail program real soon. My technology savvy still isn't where it needs to be, but I figure the best way to get it there is to jump in and do it and if it isn't right, fix it until it is.

Still exercising five days a week, and getting better. I walk about 2.5 miles a day - about a 16.5 minute mile - but I plan to get that down to 15 minutes at a 5 or 6% incline and then go up from there. I lift approximately 7200 lbs on the exercise equipment that works my legs and arms, which I do one day and approximately 9200 lbs on the equipment that works the back, abdomen, biceps and triceps, which I do the next day. I think I enjoy seeing the statistics as much or more than I do the exercising. It sounds great when I tell someone that I lifted over 4.5 tons, and then have to explain that it is in increments of 80 down to 10 pounds at a time.

Will keep you posted on my e-course and let you know when it becomes ready for market. I plan to offer it for $97.50 which will include the audios and three months of personal coaching. Oh! I almost forgot, my e-book is almost finished and will be ready for distribution (FREE OF CHARGE) within the next week. That was a lot of fun

O.k. that's all for now.

Think Thin Thoughts,

adinear

Psych, Psyche, Psyched

2008-03-17T14:25:00.000-07:00

You all know that I have started an exercise program, and it s going well, I usually make it to the Y five days a week and workout on the exercise machines as well as the treadmill or the stationary bicycle. There is one machine that I have a hard time with - it's the one that's like a bench press - where you almost lie down and then push up a the weights with the handle bar - if you don't know what I'm talking about, I can't help you, because I can't explain it any better - but anyway, I can only lift 10 pounds on this machine - all the others I have been able to either do more reps or add weight - but not this one, and I have to psych myself up for it just to do 2 sets of 12 reps. I was thinking about that today as I was approaching this machine. I literally have to talk myself into it and then visualize myself doing at least 24 lifts. One day I will increase the weight, but for now I am satisfied just to be able to do the 24 lifts.

As I was thinking about this, I also wondered how many of you have to psych yourself up just to get started on a new eating program that will reduce your body weight to where you want it to be. And then,I wondered how your psyche was affected when you had a bad day and completely blew your eating program - did you beat yourself up over it and then decide that since you already blew the program, you might as well continue eating everything in sight because it wouldn't make any difference. It probably wouldn't help any to tell you that what you have just done is something that is experienced by almost everyone who has ever decided to reduce their weight.
It may not be a desired reaction, but it is a normal reaction - to beat yourself up for not keeping the faith - your faith in you that you have been building. I started to say that it was a rational reaction - but you can rationalize yourself into almost any situation - and come out on top with some sort of a acceptable excuse for your actions. If you have had a "bad eating day" put it behind you and get up tomorrow morning knowing that this will be a better day and that you can psych yourself up for a great day, free from guilt of past transgressions - because psyching yourself up is the same as looking at the day with a POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE!

You just made a mistake, and mistakes can be forgiven and learned from. Even though you had a bad day yesterday, take away from that day only the lesson you learned, and that would be "Do you know why you went off the wagon?" Do just a little analyzing and see if you can pinpoint the reason or reasons you decided you needed to stray a bit, and when you have learned what that reason was, remember it for future reference so you will be aware of it if it pops it's ugly head up again, and then forget the rest - the guilt, the blame, the shame - you just made a mistake
that will not be repeated.

So if this is the day after, psych your pshche and remember you have been psyched by your POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE and go out and slay your dragons with a free and clear mind and the knowledge that today is a new day and a better day.

Think Thin Thoughts,

adinear

I'm No Longer Hooked

2008-02-28T17:45:00.000-08:00

I can't remember whether or not I told you that I had had a very strong addiction to peanut butter and couldn't go a day without it - and when I began changing my self-image, visualizing and focusing on my new self - and most importantly listening to my body, I got rid of my addiction to peanut butter and haven't had any since. I did try a few tastes and found that it tasted rancid and didn't want any - the real truth is that I was afraid to try it again because I thought I might want to eat it everyday again and again. Tonight I had my first peanut butter sandwich since the last time I really ate any - which was over a two years ago. I ate it, I enjoyed it, and I didn't want any more. Whoopie! I know, if I really wanted to I could get back to where I really liked peanut butter so much that I would want it more often, but I will not do that, simply because I am more disciplined now, but more importantly, I do not have the compulsion to go and have more and more and more, like I did before.I am so relieved. Now, I can enjoy a peanut butter sandwich once in a while without worrying. I am so thankful for that.

This journey that I have taken from being quite overweight to now being at my acceptable weight and having no problem staying at that weight has made me even more determined to tell everyone I can about how my program works. I have stayed at my weight for around two years, which is 18 months longer than I did at anytime before. I am so thankful and so happy. Be happy with me, and if you are interested in having the same experience, I will have my on-line course available sometime in April.I will keep you posted.

I am going to the gym tomorrow very early, because I have a networking meeting to attend around 8:30 which is about 30 minutes away from my home. As soon as I am through with my exercises, I will have the final figures for the month and I will also bring up the total pounds I have lifted since I began my exercise program. You know, it is quite motivating whenI can find out just how much I lifted each day - I know is is incremental and not all at one time, but it is still that many pounds. I am excited to see just how many pounds I have lifted over the last month. The most wonderful part is that I can see where the exercise is helping each time I see myself in the bathroom mirror before I get in the shower. I can see the difference and it is great. Like I said before, I am not an exercise proponent - but it does have its place.

I will get back to you with the results tomorrow. Until then,

Think Thin Thoughts.

adinear

IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER AND SOON WILL COME TO YOU

2008-02-23T06:04:00.000-08:00

Hi, everyone. I know! I know! It's been a while since I've signed in - I've been busy! I really have been busy. I have my weight maintenance program on its way to you. I named it "TAKE WEIGHT OFF YOUR MIND". My website is now up - http:// www.takeweightoffyourmind.com and my new e-mail is up and running - NRE@takeweightoffyourmind - I just signed up for a voice mail on my e-mail - 281-668-7414, and I am 4/7 of the way done on my trail e-course. The e-course will be completed by the end of February and when my volunteers finish with their critiques I will be ready to put it out there for all of you who are interested.

I am still making it to the gym at least four days a week - I had so many late night meetings, that I wasn't getting enough rest so I moved my time back an hour. I am now getting there at 6:00 a.m. instead of 5:00 a.m., unless I have an early meeting,then I move it back to around 9:00 or 10:00, but still make it. Yesterday I checked out my day's activities and was tickled with myself - I had lifted 5,960 lbs. WOW! I felt good. The best part is that this exercise is firming up my body and I am looking gooooooooood!

As I said before, I'm not a proponent for heavy exercise - but this is o.k. Many of the times when I was on a weight reducing program, I didn't exercise and still managed to get the weight off, so I figured exercise was not all that important - but I feel so much better - that is important. Therefore, I am including moderate exercise into my "Take Weight Off Your Mind" program. You know, if you only walk for 15 minutes a day, your body will respond in all sorts of ways - your stamina will be greater, your heart will be stronger, your disposition will be better and your self-image will grow because you are doing something good for yourself. You can find a good "go-by" chart at http://www.healthline.com/hlbook/art-what-does-a-walking-program-look-like.
I'm now going to see what other really neat programs I can find that will help me get my message out there - this technology is mind boggling - and I have so much to learn, but it sure is fun! Until next time,

Think Thin Thoughts,

talk at ya later,

adinear

Are You Ready For Some Football?

2008-02-11T13:02:00.000-08:00

Good Morning all,(THIS WAS WRITTEN THE DAY OF THE SUPER BOWL, BUT I FORGOT TO PUBLISH IT SO I AM PUBLISHING IT NOW)

Super Bowl!! Yep, today is the last chance we get this season to see some football - well, I guess there is still the Pro-Bowl, but the Super Bowl is the one we most anticipate. I am sort of a football fan, but both of my daughters, my two granddaughters and my sons-in-law are avid fans, so I find myself watching the games just so I can be part of the family. We have season tickets to see the Houston Texans play and we don't miss a game. I don't have a favorite team in the Bowl - I would kind of like to see Eli Manning put a feather in his cap, but I would also like the Patriots pull off an undefeated season, so I guess I'll just watch and root for both teams.

Today will also be a day to made a decision to "pig out" on all the good food, especially the dips, chips, nuts, crackers and cheese, all all those other really good snack foods, and beer and whatever else there is, and that is probably what I am going to do, only in some sort of moderation. I find that since I have started really listening to my body and not eating after it tells me that I have had enough, I can stop eating and not be tempted to eat any more. Now, I was not always that way. No sireee, I could put it away with the best of them, and maybe even better. My boast would be how much I could eat and drink and still move - and my body showed it.

Super Bowl games were not the only events where I would eat myself silly - almost every meal was that way. I would get up from the table and then a few minutes later be right back there again, snacking and eating what was left. Thank goodness I learned that if I really listened to my body, it would tell me when I had had enough and then I would quit eating, go off away from the food for a while and then when I came back to the table I found that I really didn't want any more to eat and I was fine until the next meal.

This control did not come upon me all at once. I had to work on it, but it was worth the effort. I don't have that stuffed feeling anymore. That was the strangest part of not eating after I had had enough. I felt funny - sort of empty inside, until I finally figured out that it was that stuffed or overstuffed feeling that I was missing. I made up my mind that I was not going to abuse my body any longer with this juvenile behavior - eating until I popped. One of the books that I read, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles spoke of how to eat properly by chewing your food, each bite slowly and enjoying the texture, the taste and the pleasant sensation that you experience while eating, and listen to you body and quit eating when it told you to. I decided to give it a try and after a few days of wrestling with my appetite and habit of stuffing myself, I found that eating was indeed a pleasure. From that point on I have truly enjoyed my food, my new found discipline and my new, slimmer, trimmer body.

Anyone want to give it a try? Wallace Wattles book "The Science of Being Well"- it is on the internet as a free download. You can get it at this address:

Wallace also wrote The Science of Getting Rich, which was the basis used to make the film "The Secret".
So, hope your teams wins and remember you too can become a winner if you choose to.

Talk at ya later,

adinear

So Much To Do, So Little Time

2008-02-11T12:26:00.000-08:00

Hi, everyone. Sorry it has been so long since I last visited my blog. I have been busy getting everything in place to begin my e-course on maintaining wieght loss. I didn't realize that I would have to do so much, I thought I would just start writing it and putting it on e-mail and that would be that. NOT! Boy, I had to get a program that would allow me to record and have a downloadable audio for my clients, a program that would track my list of contacts, a program that would sort out the money and get it back to me, a website that would let me put other information regarding weight, weight reduction, health, exercise, nutrition, spiritual uplifting affirmations, etc., WOW! Thankfully, it is almost ready to go and now I can find the time to write a little on my blog and work on my e-book.

I have also been busy working up presentations on my program to give to health care networking groups, and others that are interested in hearing about it. It is taking off just like I thought it would, only not as quickly. I intended to have this up and going this time last year. Oh, well - the best laid plans of mice and men......

Still going to the gym. Last week I racked up a total of 24,280 pounds lifted - you know, in one instance that is motivating and amazing and makes me feel good about myself - but after I see just how much I did for that week - I think I should be tired -but I'm not, really, but it sure seems like one would be. I never realized that I could lift almost 5,000 pounds a day. Am I getting buff or what? Soon.

It's a good thing I get up and get the exercise done early in the morning. We have been having some absolutely beautiful weather here in Houston - in February, which is usually our winter month - it has been in the 70's during the day and not much below 45 at night - I really like weather like this, and like to be out and about.

Guess I'd better get back to practicing the presenation I'm going to make tomorrow morning on how to change your self-image.

Talk at ya later,

adinear

WHERE DID JANUARY GO?

2008-01-28T08:17:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-25T04:43:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-21T04:57:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-14T12:03:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-11T11:29:00.001-08:00

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?
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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?

2008-01-04T13:25:00.000-08:00

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

Last Day - First Day - Any Day

2007-12-31T10:37:00.000-08:00

I was going to wait a few days before posting another one of these, but I just received an item on my e-mail ("Weight Loss Tea" PartnerAd@partner.beliefnet.com) which is for a tea that someone has starting promoting. And yes, there are testimonials galore about how fast it worked, how easy it is, how many pounds were lost, etc., etc., etc. And I believe them - I truly do. As I mentioned before, almost any eating program you try will get rid of the excess weight - some better than others, but they all work if you stick with them - but, therein lies the problem - how many of us "stick with them"?

What I like about these ads is that they all have a free trial for 30 days, and if you are not satisfied, you will get all of your money back with no questions asked."money back guarantee" - I don't know about you, but it was more trouble that it was worth to send back the empty bottles and wait six to eight weeks to get my money back. I just chalked it up to what my daughters just absolutely hate for me to say to them "another learning experience". I've had more than my share of those, but I still bite once in a while, with the same results.

The ad that really invited close inspection by me was the one using Hoodia. Hoodia has been touted for several years as the "magic pill" and when I first started looking into it seriously, I learned that because it was a special herb and only grew in certain places, the quantity was not great enough to bring it to the market en-mass. What a wonderful pre-marketing tool. Now that I knew it was not available, I wanted it even more. Now, it seems that enough can be grown to feed the millions who really want to get rid of their excess weight, but now I don't need or want it. But, if you look carefully at the directions, you will find that in order to get the best results you must eat light, healthy meals, with lots of vegetables, get a lot of exercise and drink water. Is there a diet plan on earth that doesn't require this? Yeah, there is, the cabbage soup diet, the bird seed diet, the grapefruit diet, and those other diets that pare your choices down to only one or two items of food. But by and large they are all about the same as far as I am concerned.

I guess the gist of this is, whether you start today, the last day of 2007, or tomorrow, the first day of 2008, or any other day thereafter, you will not find that "magic pill" that will allow you to eat whatever you want, when you want and as much as you want and still reduce your body weight - It just ain't there, my friend.

I am lucky, I have worked on my plan for a long enough period that I don't have to look for the latest and greatest diet on the planet. I went to the Texans football game yesterday (I live in the northwest part of the Greater Houston, Texas area) . My daughter Kathy and her husband Karl have season tickets, so we go to all of the home games. Normally I don't eat anything at the games because I really don't want most of what is available. I really don't want it, but yesterday I was hungry and ordered a foot-long all beef hot dog with all the trimmings. I ate most of it and was o.k. with that, but when I got home last night I felt absolutely horrible. I was bloated, I still had that stuffed feeling I always used to have when I ate too much, and I felt almost ill all night long. That's how far I've come. There was a time when I could have eaten all that, plus a fully loaded chocolate milkshake, french fries, a beer or two and still want dinner when I got home.

Since I have been following my program religiously, I have weaned myself off of large portions of food, most fried foods, most sugar laden foods and most breads. Notice I said "most"? I have my sweets, my breads and my fried foods whenever I want them, but they really don't taste as good as they used to. The one important thing I learned about a good maintenance program is that if you stay on it long enough, you lose your taste for what you once considered "must have" foods. Hamburgers are greasy and tasteless to me, milkshakes are too sweet, as are most desserts that have sugar, breads are too filling and nothing tastes like I remember it did when I was eating those foods all the time. But what is really great about my plan is that I have no desire to eat these foods. I committed to a perfect body weight when I started my last eating program, and really worked on my frame of mind while I was on the plan - I didn't want to get back up to 195 lbs or any other weight above what my current weight is, so I changed my way of thinking about food and about myself - and it worked - for me.

Anyone can reach this point if they really want to. I'm told that DESIRE, a true, unrelenting, compelling desire, is the first step to having what you really want. I have that desire and it has worked for me. I end this year as I did the year before, with a "HIP - HIP - HOORAY - I'M AT MY PERFECT BODY WEIGHT (THE WEIGHT I FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE WITH) and beginning the next year with a continuation of my success.

Happy New Year!

Talk at ya later.

Nida

A New Day

2007-12-28T10:53:00.000-08:00

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".

Design Your Own Body

2007-12-27T10:35:00.001-08:00

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a young teenage girl who was 5" 7" tall and weighed a delightful 135 lbs. Like, I said, it was a long time ago. That young girl matured, married, had two daughters and learned how to turn that 135 lb. body into a 195 lb. body. Now, it wasn't easy. There were a lot of ups and downs - more ups after the downs, however.

She became what is now known as a Yo-Yo dieter - that was long before the name was coined. Over approximately 40 years, she had tried almost every diet known to man, and they all worked. She got rid of the extra weight each time she dieted, no matter which diet she chose - yes, even the "Cabbage Soup" diet, which almost did her in. But, true to the name, what went down soon came back up, just alike a yo-yo.

Then, one day, in fact it was the day she got on the scales and that 195 figure jumped up and hit her in the face, she decided that she really, really was going to do something about the weight. But, this time she was going to find a way to keep it down - for the rest of her life, and she found the secret. So you see, this story really does have a happy ending. There may not be a handsome prince who swept her off her feet and took her to the castle to live happily ever after, but there is a built in Genie who has shown her the path to follow to find that perfect weight body and keep it perfect for the rest of her life, which is as far as she is concerned is as good as a castle filled with riches and a handlsome prince. Who knows, the handsome prince may not be far behind. Not only that, she now knew that since she had found a way to maintain her perfect body weight, she could now be the Genie that could pass the secret on to anyone and everyone who was interested.
You have probably guessed that I am that once young, slim, trim girl and I have many stories to tell, which is why I set up this blog. I love this technological world - a year ago I had never heard of a "blog" and now I have one. The end of the year seemed like a good time to begin a new activity, so I will have the entire next year to share my journey with you, and get you on the track to your perfect body. Before I sign off today, I want to let you know what my definition of a "perfect body" is. It is not what you see on TV or in the magazines as those thin, beautiful models who wear those beautiful, revealing clothes - it is someone who is pleased with the way they look no matter what size they are. Your perfect body weight is whatever feels good to you. No one else's opinion matters - just your's. So, whatever feels good to you is what you are striving for - cause, if you're happy, everyone else around you is happy.
Talk at ya later.
Nida