Project as of 12/9/06 - I
am walking the path back to greater health and wellness and have found a great tool with the online
peertrainer community.
I am committed to daily visits to the site where I share notes, meals and workouts in "logs".
Logging in this way is supporting me in being accountable
and conscious of my health and fitness choices. For me, it's another expression of stepping up, stepping out
and being more visible in life, my 2006 theme for the year. This project is all
about making one choice at a time. I don't experience it as a diet, but rather a lifestyle process.
I'm learning how to shop, cook, eat and exercise. It's another way to walk my talk and one I'm committed to
for the long haul ... my life. June 8, 2006 August 25, 2006 November 22, 2006
It all started a year ago, Thanksgiving 2005.
We've all heard FOREVER that eating less and
exercising more is how weight loss and fitness are achieved and maintained.
However, I don't believe in diets (at least for me) because they are often based on denial
rather than choice, and exercise was the last thing I wanted to spend my time on. For the past six years
I had hoped that at some point in my path to success the trend of weight gain would naturally
reverse to weight loss and then to a healthy maintenance as I lived my dream.
I had been applying the art and practice of visualization for business goals for years
and it occurred to me that if it works to imagine a sales goal and reach it,
I could transfer the same technique to my goals for health and fitness and do it my way -
easily and naturally. So, during that Thanksgiving vacation, I declared to myself that I would embark on a grand experiment in 2006 to see
what I could do over the course of one year by simply visualizing myself as a thinner, healthier woman.
I've heard it said that if we state clearly what we want and believe that it is already ours,
the universe will mold itself to that image. I began by identifying my theme for 2006 to be increasing my visibility
(stepping up, stepping out). Shifts began to happen.
In May, during an Empowerment Event at my gallery, I had a revelation.
Emily Strem,
our guest speaker that month, asked us to visualize a time in our childhood we were having a lot of fun and then remember what we were doing.
She asked us to do the same thing for a time in our adolescence and then again as an adult. In the first two of these exercises,
it was exercise that I was doing - either swimming, riding my bike,
playing softball, canny-can, tennis or whatever. I was so surprised by those memories. That night, and over the course of the next few days,
I contemplated what changed from then to now when as a child and young adult I had such a love of exercise and a total aversion to it as an adult.
I think sometimes the mere asking of a question brings about change, and I felt a powerful inner shift occur within me. I started craving exercise.
I explored the option of hiring a personal trainer but found the cost prohibitive for me.
Then, about a month later, while watching NBC's Tech TV,
I saw a segment on www.peertrainer.com and became intrigued.
I checked it out and joined June 14, 2006. As a tool, the concept is brilliant. Peers supporting each other in reaching our goals,
however similar or different they are. For me, it's easy, fun, and effective. Now, six months after joining and 1 year after I began my grand experiment,
I am thirty pounds lighter and halfway to my goal. I feel great and already feel the difference in my health and my life.
My commitment to health and fitness is now a forever thing.
One choice at a time ... forever. My shift in consciousness has expanded to include a love of cooking, a love of food,
weekly trips to the farmer's market, more energy, and confidence in my ability to
create anything I want in life.
Life is good.
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