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.

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.

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.

We are finally settled here in San Felipe and I can no longer offer my travels and lack of roots as an excuse for doing or not doing what I need to be doing.

This morning my sister-in-law and I started a new exercise program… it’s the 5 Day Workout program, which I picked up at Costco a few weeks ago.  Amazon doesn’t carry it so I can’t give you a link for it here.

Having only gone through the first day, I can’t offer much of a review except to state that the first day was tougher than I was ready for.

As I write, I am sitting here munching a bowl of popcorn.  Granted it’s “healthy” popcorn, not heavily buttered or sweetened but that’s not the problem.  The problem is I am eating unconsciously and by habit, not because I am hungry and need fuel to function.  The problem is I am doing something else (reading email and browsing the internet) and not focusing in the taste of the food or the signals my body is trying to send me, saying I’m full and don’t need to eat more.