I think I was fourteen or fifteen when I first became dissatisfied with what I saw in the mirror. I am not sure where the seed of discontent came from.

I attended an all girls school and we wore uniforms and I don’t remember there being any emphasis on our figures in that environment. We didn’t even have a gym or shower room but somehow I decided I was fat and needed to diet. Looking back I now realize that my weight was just about right for my height.   I had by then reached my full height of 5’8″ and weighted 155. Not poker thin but well within a healthy range. However, at 15, healthy was not my objective. Gorgeous was.

The longer I am involved with blogging the more I find my various blogs tend to overlap each other.    I’ve been watching Sue and Steve videos on marketing and low and behold I came across an earlier series they did on weight loss and importance of having the right mindset.   I shouldn’t be surprised to find this video on weight loss and changing our mind set.  What Sue is saying fits right along with my other favorite weight loss gurus (Paul McKenna, and  Carol Solomon).

It’s true, Ophah said on Wednesday, May 12, here’s her Ah Ha Moment.

Talking about her latest book, Women, Food and God, the scuttlebutt is that Geneen Roth inspires Oprah to claim “I’ll never diet again.”

Women Food and God

Geneen Roth's masterwork, Women Food and God explores the relationship between how we eat and how we see ourselves in the world.

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When we come to that point where we understand once and for all that dieting just makes us gain weight, then we can quit living our lives as a fat person and release the thin person inside.

Marna Goldstein Thrall has discovered this truth and shares the first steps to learning to accept and love ourselves and letting go of the fat self-image we have held on to for so many years.

This week Chuck and I are on the road and hoping from one house to another visiting friends and family.  We brought along our weights and exercise guide and have been pretty faithful to our routine but I do find it more difficult to eat well when we are visiting with others.  There is a lot of tendency to grab something quick and easy and other folks don’t necessarily cook what we would.