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Oprah, me and millions of others...

Who hasn't been inspired by Oprah at one time or another.

But Oprah's most recent outing about her weight challenges has become a personal tipping point inspiring me to start walking, talking and sharing my belief that THE TRUTH CAN SET US FREE! 

Especially when it comes to our weight, body size and overall wellness.

Oprah's openness and honesty about her personal weight challenges helps me and millions of others to get our heads on straight, and I'm looking forward to reading her most recent article about her latest challenges.

But even without reading the article for some reason hearing the fact that she's ready to open up this conversation with all us again inspired me to start two new blogs that are all based on how THE TRUTH CAN SET US FREE!

One of the new blogs is titled FULLY CLOTHED a blog that I've set up to out and share my own personal weight gain and lost story based on HONESTY first, eating and exercise second.

And my other new Oprah inspired blog is THE HONESTY DIET.

Thanks Oprah!

Think & Lose

I thought I'd seen every weight loss commercial out there but I have to admit that I'd never seen Dan Mannarino's idea called "Think & Lose".

It sounded interesting and with a FREE 30 DAY TRIAL offer I thought I'd give it a try. Don't know why they say it's going to take 3 - 5 weeks to get it but it's on it's "weigh".

THINK & LOSE web site

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HOW TO MANIFEST INSTANT "WAIT" LOSS...

Inspired and grateful for everything in my life, along with recent readings + listenings with my favorite “mental messengers”, an introductory chart reading with Eric Francis over the weekend, and wrapping my head again around the wisdom and lessons shared by Joe Vitale in his book “The Key”, I got an inspired download this morning to use the next 90 Days to clear away any self limiting blockages to CREATE, MANIFEST + LIVE EVERY DAY the life I’ve always imagined.

INSTANT "WAIT" LOSS!

"it all begins with the seed of an idea"

The Astonishing Power of Emotions

My sister Kelly gave me this book last weekend and it couldn't have come at a better time as it's opened my mind to thinking about weight loss and wellness in "weighs" I've never thought of before.

In no way is this a weight loss or dieting book as it opens your mind to better understand how our emotions affect and color all areas of our lives.

The entire book is worth it's weight in gold, but on pages 57 - 66 you'll find 10 powerful pages that truly will create a paradigm shift in your thoughts and relationship with anything you eat, your thoughts about your size, and most importantly, what you can do about it today, and then the rest of your life

Here's their intro to the book...

The Astonishing Power of Emotions
Let Your Feelings Be your Guide...

This book will help you to understand the emotions that you have been experiencing all of your life. Instead of the out-of-control, knee-jerk reactions that most people have to their ever-changing life experience, this book will put those emotional responses into a broader context. You will come to understand what emotions are, what each of them means—and how to effectively utilize your new awareness of them.

This book will help you to appreciate, and make peace with, where you are right now, even though there is so much more that you may desire. Every page you read will bring you to a greater understanding of your own personal value and will show you how to open your own doors to whatever you may desire. And as you turn the last page of this book, you will say, “I have always known this, but now, I know this!”

LEAR MORE @ ABRAHAM HICKS WEBSITE

Planet Waves Weekly

I'm a very happy subscriber to a great online publication call Planet Waves Weekly and if you caught my 1.1.08 posting you saw that my New Year's Resolution is all about HONESTY.

So I was excited to see today that Eric's First Big 8 was TELL THE TRUTH

Here's an excerpt...

Tell the truth: We seldom tell the truth; it hovers just above our conversations, just out of reach, but intruding into our awareness like a shadow we don't want to recognize. Telling the truth takes some skill -- first and most importantly, you need to tell it to yourself; then you need to make it sound like a suggestion rather than an attack. To pick the most mundane example I can think of, if somebody asks you, "Does this make my butt look big?" then your blunt assessment might benefit from a little diplomatic twist, such as, "You might want to find something more flattering."

Signs to TELL THE TRUTH keep popping up everywhere.

Thanks, Eric!

VISIT PLANET WAVES WEEKLY

Honesty stretches us...

Doing research for my next book I came across a quote from Thanissaro Bhikkhu that I thought was an interesting way to look at how HONESTY stretches us and can open pathways to our potential.

Learn more about Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Million Pound Matchup

Thanks to Jimmy Moore's Livin La Vida Low-Carb Blog I just learned that "The Biggest Loser" and "MSN Health & Fitness" have launched the MILLION POUND MATCH UP which really sounds like a great idea.

Starting January 1, 2008 and running through March 11, 2008, a public challenge has been put out to people who live all across the United States to cumulatively lose 1,000,000 pounds!

Sound like another great "weigh" to keep me HONEST in 08 as I move towards losing 200 LBS by years end.

I'm In!

CHECK IT OUT AND SIGN UP!

Erik Chopin from "The Biggest Loser 3" please email me!

Wanting to lose 200 LBS in 08 I'm sending this email out to the UNIVERSE knowing that someone out there will read it and find a way to get this posting to Erik Chopin.

If you don't know Erik's story, below is a small intro and the link to read more about him.

I've always wanted to reach out to Erik ever since I watched his amazing personal transformation back in 2006 on "The Biggest Loser 3".

So building my HONESTY AWAKENING I figure why "weight" any longer to reach out to him.

I figure who better to learn from when you want to lose 200 LBS than Erik.

Erik, I can't "weight" to hear from you!

Erik Chopin wins NBC's 'The Biggest Loser 3' by losing 214 pounds

By Steve Rogers, 12/14/2006

With a final weight loss figure that represented more than half his original body weight, Erik Chopin, a 36-year-old from West Islip, New York, was crowned The Biggest Loser's third season winner during last night's live finale broadcast of the NBC reality show.

Erik, a married Long Island deli owner and father of two, had begun the competition weighing 407 LBS. After losing 124 LBS during his stay at The Biggest Loser ranch (an all-time The Biggest Loser record), Erik lost another 90 LBS after returning home, giving him a total weight loss of 214 LBS and a finale weigh-in weight of 193 LBS -- a 52.58% weight loss percentage.

As The Biggest Loser 3's "biggest loser," Erik won a $250,000 cash prize.

FROM : REALITY TV WORLD

"The Key"can help us all get off the weight loss roller coaster!

I first hinted in this posting that I had been stuck in my own mental mud since September, but as I was reflecting over the weekend about the year that past, TRUTH BE TOLD I really think I had been pretty much stuck for most of 07.

Yes, at times I had my thinking going in the right direction but for whatever reason I never really seemed to keep my thoughts consistently on the right track, hence the reason that little by little my weight kept increasing.

Even with the great insights I learned and applied with The Beck Diet Solution.

I still think Dr. Beck's book is one of the most helpful diet books on the market, it didn't fail me, it's just that under"lying" it all I wasn't really being TRUTHFUL with myself.

Lesson learned... TRUTH BEFORE THOUGHTS.

I've always known in the back of my head that HONESTY was a key ingredient to weight loss but it wasn't until I did my first "THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE" posting back on March 25th that I really started to believe that it was true.

When I wrote that posting I really believed what I wrote, but as it has happened many times in the past, what I said and what I did were two very different things.

Obviously I understood in my gut the TRUTH of that notion, but I really believe the missing ingredient I needed to discover is "The Key".

First I read the book and most recently I bought the CD, and the more I listen to it the more the more I'm seeing that BEING HONEST with myself has been a major BLOCK in allowing me to release the thoughts that have kept me on my wild never ending weight loss gaining and losing rollere coaster ride.

As Joe Vitale says I need to get CLEAR on what's blocking me and I think HONESTY was what Joe Vitale has shared in "The Key", at least for me.

THE KEY

I've lost well over 500LBS, but I have another 200LBS to go...

I first launched www.mypetfat.com back in late 2003 after I had successfully lost over 100LBS. Simply put my 100LB weight loss success was the result of moving my thoughts more towards health and wellness. Yes I ate better and started exercising more, but behind it all I came to see that it was how my thoughts were serving me, or not, that mattered the most. And every step along the way I was using what has become known as mypetfat as a visual and mental motivator to keep my thoughts right where they needed to be.

So here I am 5 years later, and as best as I can calculate I've lost another 400LBS.

Having lost well over 500LBS I can truly call myself a weight loss success story.

Right... well yes and no...

You see it's true that over the past 5 years I've probably lost well over 500LBS, but as you can see with my weigh in this morning I've also managed to gain back almost 475LBS of what I've lost.

1.01.08 am weigh in FULLY CLOTHED with wallet and cell phone

Let me explain...

For as long as I can remember my weight has been on a roller coaster ride.

Up and down, up and down breaking through 200LBS, 300LBS and I even cracked the 400LB mark right around January 2002.

Being concerened that if I could break 400LBS on the scale, chances were that if I didn't stop what I was doing, by years end I very well could be looking at 500LBS+.

With a new mindset in place and various sizes of mypetfat by my side I managed to lose 100LBS over about a two year period. So with my weight loss success and some encouragement from my family and my friends, I decided to share my story, my thoughts and mypetfat with the world.

So by now you might thinking the same things I'm thinking.

How could someone so successful at losing well over 500LBS gain almost all of it back?

What has been blocking me for most of my life and especially over the past 5 years from once and for all walking my talk, getting to a healthy balanced shape and size once and for all?

Why would or should anyone listen to me about losing weight?

So this morning as I looked at the scale reading out loud and clear 378.2 LBS, I thought what secret, what lesson might be under the surface of what I've learned over the past 5 years that I can discover, apply and share that might be the key to once and for all open the lock to weight loss success first for myself and then possibly for others?

As frustrating and embarrassing as it is to have shared my story with the world over the past 5 years only to be pretty much right back at the place I was before I launched www.mypetfat.com, it became very clear to me this morning as I got on the treadmill for 35 mins. to get the New Year off on the right foot,

that HONESTY very well may be "what's most secret, what's most common" between the millions of us who are frustrated with riding the weight loss roller coaster.

In the sense that if we all started being much more HONEST with ourselves as to why we continually stuggle with our weight I believe we'd all be much more successful in not only getting it off, but keeping it off.

It's not the carbs, it's not the calories, it's not the diet, TRUTH BE TOLD it's our own internal conversations be they positive or negative that keep us from our goals.

So I have only one New Years Resolution this year, and that is to be truly OPEN and HONEST with myself in all that I'm thinking, feeling, eating and exercising.

And in doing so I believe that this time next year not only will I have lost an amazing amount of weight, most important I believe that learning how to become HONEST with myself just very well be the missing key to the life long weight loss success I've been searching for.

I BELIEVE THE TRUTH WILL SET ME FREE!

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