Woman, Food and God by Geneen Roth to be readdressed on  Oprah, Monday July 11, 2010.

Oprah again talks about why she will never diet again!

Early in the history of this blog we covered Paul McKenna’s 4 rules for losing weight and keeping it off.  They were:

1. Eat when you are hungry
2. Eat consciously
3. Eat what you want
4. Stop when you are full

In a recent recording posted on Oprah’s page, Geneen Roth walked us through 7 Guidelines that will lead us to losing weight and keeping it off.   Simply stated they are:

No matter how many articles I read or TV shows I see I continuously need to remind myself, NO MORE DIETS. Yesterday I came across a book about losing weight “Italian Style“.  Loving pasta like I do, THIS I had to see for myself!  What I discovered was that it was basically the same thing I am already do under a new name.  Hendrickson points out that the Italians have an ongoing love affair with food.  The savor it, enjoying every bite.  This exactly what I learned from my first “think and lose” program with Paul McKenna.

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.

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.

You know that moment when the picture goes from a incomprehensible blur to crystal clear?  Day 43 in Lucy-Ann’s 365 day program says it is a recap so I obviously should have read this fact before but today the words suddenly became clear and made sense. Lucy writes: