Playing Catch Up with my Blog

I started this blog 3 1/2 months after my accident and after starting Jenny Craig.

Im going to briefly summarize my journal.

One of the things I have learned, and all dieters know, is that the change that occurs has to be between the ears before there can be lasting results below the neck.

As I sat in bed, contemplating my ankle and my body, I knew I needed to change both of them and the change had to 'stick'. If Im ever to walk normally and stay healthy, I must reduce my weight and at the same time figure out how to get some exercise when I was not allowed to put any weight at all on my ankle. More about that later.

The accident occurred at a seminar I was attending, given by my brother, Steve Campbell. He has spent over 20 years reading all the research that is out there about how the mind works. There is so much information that has come forth in the last 20 years, that the way we see how the mind and brain works has been completely transformed.

Steve has written a book called, Making Your Mind Magnificent. I found myself reading and rereading it. I felt my mind open to the possibility of creating permanent changes in how I see myself and my body and therefore empower me to change what I want to change, forever. I had only to look at the messages I had been giving myself to see that they were holding me in a place of defeat and fatness.

So I transformed negative to positive. eg:

From, 'I am a yo yo dieter. I will never get thin. I give up'

To: I feel light and lithe because I exercise and eat like the slender woman that I am

From: constant fear that I will get hungry. Always carrying food in the car.

To: It is ok to be hungry at times. I am safe, I will always be cared for.

From: I need a snack in the evening or I will be too hungry to sleep.

To: I ate enough food today so I can stop eating at 6pm and I will be fine. If I think Im hungry, perhaps what I really need is water. Or I take a few very deep breaths. I 'surf' the feeling til it passes.

From: I guess I will be this way for the rest of my life. Im too old to loose this weight now.

To: I most certainly can become the weight and size I want to be. Every day is a do over. And Im doing this one over. I am never too old to change. If I make a mistake I will say, 'Next time I will do this..."

From: Relatives and friends expressing concern about my weight

To: They are celebrating my successes with me. I sense the relief in their voices when I tell them how Im doing.

In my next blog, I will talk about another book that changed my thinking about myself and my ability to loose weight and keep it off.