Thinking Fat Thoughts

Do you ever wonder why some people can eat anything and not get fat, and yet if you even think about cookies you put on 10 pounds?  I believe the key in this statement is the word think.

 

From an early age I was taught to obsess about my weight and appearance by the example set forth in my family’s women.  They were all notably beautiful but they worked hard at it;  always dieting, exercising and never being really satisfied with the way they looked.  Some people are influenced by the opposite extreme and grow up trying hard to NOT look like their family.  In either case, these perceptions are often instilled in us while we are children and so we accept the beliefs, no matter how flawed.

 

At five feet seven inches I weighed 212 pounds in 1998 and decided that I had to do something different.  I tried every diet imaginable and have amazing will power (having given up smoking and drinking years before) but every time I would find a plan that would allow me to lose weight, I would drop a few pounds and then level out.

 

By 2007 I had managed to stabilize at 165 pounds and was consuming 1100 calories per day on a low carb, high vegetable protein diet.  I ate 6 small meals per day.  I drink a gallon of water a day.  I was playing tennis three days a week, working out at the gym three days a week and had been doing so since 1997.  I was swimming AND roller blading five days a week.  My biggest complaint was that I had no time to work because all I had time for was dieting and working out.  Despite this, my weight crept up to 168 pounds, but now I had really discovered the power of The Secret.

 

Considering the fact that thoughts become things, I decided to change the focus from being fat to being thin.  Instead of moaning to myself that “no matter what, I can’t lose weight” I decided to image myself thin.  Every morning, when I pray the Prayer of Jabez, I see myself slender and beautiful.  I know that I can attract anything that I want and believe that I am attracting this into my life.

 

Throughout my day, instead of thinking that I “cant have” what I want to eat, I say that “I only want what is good for me and will allow me to be the best I can be.” I have found that just this tiny shift has had amazing results.  I don’t feel deprived.  I don’t suffer cravings.  I don’t have the desire to reward myself with some forbidden food because I managed to lose a couple pounds.  (Ever done that?)

 

I have dropped the tennis and swimming and have more time.  I have dropped to 158 pounds and am continuing to drop to my desired weight of 140 pounds.  It didn’t take sacrifice and it didn’t take more work.  All it took to have what I wanted was the clear image of what that looks like and the belief that it is happening.  To receive the body I wanted, all I am doing is keeping my thoughts in harmony with that picture and belief.  What do you believe is possible for you?

 

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Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.