My original inspiration for the site was Paul McKenna’s I Can Make You Thin TV broadcast. I was very disappointed that McKenna’s program did not allow for affiliate sponsorship in the United States but in spite of that I have continued to recommend his books and CDs for changing your way of thinking about yourself and food.  My feelings about this program haven’t changed.  I still listen to my MP3 sessions. However I have learned I need variety in my life to keep moving forward.  So you can imagine my delight when I  discovered Dr. Carol Solomon’s program entitled Lose Weight and Stay Slim Forever.  Dr. Solomon teaches many of the same techniques and practices found in McKenna’s program and you can get a great deal of guidance and insight into putting these into practice in your life by just reading her articles.

Twice in my life I’ve have quit drinking Diet Pepsi. Both times I quit cold turkey, just stopped entirely from one day to the next. In fact, the last time I quit was 3 or 4 years ago and I have not gone back diet sodas since then.

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Why I Quit Drinking Diet Sodas

My reason for quitting is simple.  I came to believe that the chemicals composition of diet drinks was bad for my health.  I was having lunch with an old friend. I order lunch and a Diet Pepsi and she starting telling me about all the reports on aspartame side effects.  I gave up the drink I had ordered and went home and did some research on the topic.

This blog is a labor of love, self-love that is.  I write it because I am learning the the lessons I write about as I write them and LABOR is definitely the right word.  Writing about this topic is hard work.  I would prefer to ignor this subject most of the time and pretend that everything is under control and in order.  It isn’t.  I find myself daily eating my breakfast or lunch with the laptop open before or a at least a book.  I really have trouble with the practice of just eating, not doing something else at the same time.  As a result, I forget to chew my food thoroughly and slowly and eat more than I need because I am not paying attention to the ‘full’ signals when they come.
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The goal of every advertisement or commercial we see for cosmetics, clothes, diets, or exercise equipment is to convince us that we need to improve our looks in order to be happy, to be loved, or to be successful. Their very purpose is to create self-doubt within us and make us believe we need to buy their product to beautiful.  Whenever I think of this I get angry! I am tired of being told I am too fat, my teeth are not white enough, my hair is not shiny enough, my heels are not high enough….and on and on.

This seems to be one of the many areas of my life that I find myself starting over again and again. For weeks or months I think I am on track and doing well then one day I look up and discover I have waundered off the path and am strolling down some side road in the dark and I have no idea how I got there.

Two months ago, my husband Chuck an I committed ourselves to an exercise program.  It was much, just 12 minutes a day doing a set work out as outlined in Joyce Vedral’s book.