Welcome back!

You’re going to have to put up with baby pictures for a while. This new grandbaby of mine is a major source of inspiration. I do believe the experiences of our lives contains all the tools we need to progress. We do, however, have to tune in to them. When I thought about an inspiration for you today, innocence came up.

Innocence

When you look at an innocent infant, and you realize that you once were one, you know that at one time in your life you did not think that you were fat, or chubby, overweight, or obese.  Somehow, someway, that idea was introduced to you.  And you innocently accepted the fact that it was true, whether it was true or not.  In my case, I accepted it and it was not true.  As a baby, I was normal sized, but because I got nicknamed Patty Fatty, there was never a time in my life when I didn’t think I was fat.

Did something like this happen to you? I flashed back on a memory I have of trying to explain my largeness to a group who hoo-hawed the idea that my parent’s influence had anything to do about it. I remember leaving the group with a face burning with anger, and now that I’m writing about this for you today, there IS some blame there.

I know that my grandbaby, as with all children, will undergo the influence of his parents, as I did mine, as my kids did, as you did. And we all survived.  We can go back and correct the ideas we once thought were true.  They might be more compounded as we add to them in our own growing up process.  I know that I added a whole lot of details about food being fattening and about exercise being necessary, neither one of which is really true, or we’d all be obese and we’re not.  I mean, a law is a law, right?  And if it’s not a law, then it’s just an individual belief - and a wrong belief for this obesity concept.

If  you can begin to think like a newborn and simply enjoy the food you eat without adding all other kinds of things - like ideas about weight gain - your life would be more pleasant.

Love,

Pat

When you are in - shall we call it -  “weight loss mode”, there’s a whole lot else going on beside the mental diet and the mental exercise, isn’t there?  Or are you still doing the same rut - using food to diet?  Has that worked permanently in the past?  Just wondering why you might be doing the same thing and expecting different results?  Go ahead, smack me.

I noticed that my daily work routine involves a whole lot that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with mental dieting, or does it?  I have a worker bee at my house.  He told me he knew how to install a block wall.  I have been out there supervising every single block that goes down.  He is clueless and we have a language problem on top of it.  So I find myself irritated.  Not with him, with me.  Somehow, I have taken this whole thing on me.  Why don’t I speak his language?  Why didn’t I want to spend more money and hire a contractor?

And then I wondered this:  “I’ve hired contractors before.  They are frequently as inept as this man is, so the only difference would be spending more money.  And why can’t HE learn MY language.”  But I did notice that my first line of thinking is to blame me.  I wonder how many of us obese women do that?  Please tell me that I’m not the only one!

If I were to diagnose this using my metaphysical skills - you do know I’m a metaphysics teacher, don’t you? - then I would say this is an overboard sense.  It inflates a sense of guilt inside of me for what I see the bottom line to be “I am not good enough.”  Do you do that?  Have you ever slowed yourself down enough to look inside that intently?  I have a sneaking hunch we might have that in common.

I know that correcting this type of thing inside, mentally, is part and parcel of the correction needed to lose weight through mental means alone.  If  you see  yourself creating any kind of mental burden, isn’t that a weighty sense?  Might’nt that be part of your difficulty?  Just an idea I thought you’d find interesting, tasty and helpful.

Can’t resist an opportunity to tell you that the 3rd class in the tele-series is being taught on Monday, April 6th at 6 pm PST.  It’s entitled:  The Power Within You. If you’d like to discover what that is and see yourself in a whole new light, you can Sign Up Here.

Love,

Pat

When I named the 2009 Project “Don’t Diet With Me in 2009″ and I explained what it meant back in January, I frequently look back and wonder if I did an adequate job of explaining myself.  Today, when I began to write, I felt compelled to go over some basics again with you to help you understand why dieting from a mental perspective is permanent and effective, and dieting from a food and exercise basis can never be.

14 days till Our Baby Arrives!

These days, our family is in an excited countdown waiting for our first grandchild/nephew!

It’s on our minds even when we are blogging! 

Back to mental dieting.  The word “diet” comes from the root word “day” and means the food you eat in one day.  Mental dieting, then, would mean the thoughts you think in one day.  Why the stress on “mental?”  Because, my loves, you are mental beings. You think, therefore, you are mind because only mind can think.  That would make you a mental being.

When you were born, every action you took was preceded by a thought. It was there alright, but because that action is invisible, very few seem to have noticed it, only it’s subsequent action.   It happened like this when you were a baby:

WORDS FROM PARENTS: Come on, little one, walk to mama.

THOUGHTS INSIDE YOU: I want to walk to mama.

SUBSEQUENT ACTION: You walked to your mama.

Now here is the great news:  You are still following this same pattern, only now, your parents are out of the picture.  You’re flying solo.  It happens like this:

THOUGHTS INSIDE YOU: I want to lose weight.  I’ll join XXX weight loss group and then I’ll lose weight.

SUBSEQUENT ACTION: You join the group and BECAUSE YOU ARE THINKING YOU’LL LOSE WEIGHT, you lose weight.  Trust me, it has nothing to do with the weight loss group.

Basically, you could save yourself a heck of a lot of money by NOT joining the weight loss group, by not buying the pills and potions and food, and by simply THINKING YOU’LL LOSE WEIGHT, you’d lose weight.  Why?  Because this is a mental universe and you are a mental, thinking being. I hope you’ll forgive my capitals.  I’m not shouting.  I just want you to see the important parts, ok?

This is the reason Oprah cannot keep her weight off.  She does not address the mental portion of the equation.  She does not correct her underlying thinking that food will cause her to gain weight.  She manipulates effect (food and exercise) but she doesn’t address the cause part (her thoughts.) Hey, I tried to tell her.  I sent her a copy of my book because I personally find it painful to watch her re-gain and lose that weight over and over.  And now, I’m sharing this information with you.

If any of this resonated with you today, it would make my heart leap with joy!  I am teaching all about this in my teleclasses.  Won’t you consider joining us and get yourself out from under this miasma each of us has innocently created?

Love you,

Pat