Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Success Profiles: The Gabriel Method in Practice

weight, so it just came off really easily, really effortlessly. I didn’t have to try. I had the energy to get back to exercising again . . . I got back into that mode and now I’m much happier. Jon helped me realize that it was important that I look after myself. He also said that, at the end of the day, my husband didn’t need to come home to a cranky, tired, frazzled woman because that would just put more stress on his life and on our child’s. He said that if I were looked after, I could look after them better too, and that did a lot to get rid of my guilt. Now I really feel that I’m back in balance and that, by doing the best for myself, I’m doing the best for my family too. —Susan Correia, marketing executive and mother, 40 Sue ultimately lost 34 pounds in just a few months once she realized that she had to nurture herself as well as her child and husband. Having a child is hard enough, but being pregnant and dealing with a relationship break-up at the same time—a situation that unfortunately is not all that uncommon. This the case with Gabrielle. Gabrielle Hart contacted me in August 2007 to do an interview for her radio program. During the interview, I remember her having one of those “Aha” moments, where she said, “It’s all making so much sense.” She called me four weeks later and said that something had completely shifted in her life. Here’s her story. Gabrielle’s Magic As a teenager, I was naturally thin. It was only really after my pregnancies that I started putting on weight. I was two months pregnant with my second child when I left my husband, and I put on a lot of weight with the stress of it all. In 2000, by the end of my second pregnancy, I’d put on about 55 pounds. I weighed about 190 pounds, then I had the baby and was down to 180. But I kept putting it back on, and going up and down. There was just this cycle. It was ridiculous, and I felt as if I was getting diabetes.

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