Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Success Profiles: The Gabriel Method in Practice

you are and that you have something to share. And when you con- nect with that through his understanding, your world just opens up. Also, my children are healthier and their concentration is up. (Gabrielle has also applied the Gabriel Method nutritional prin- ciples to her own family, even though none of them have a weight problem.) They’re just better kids. And with work, I keep getting all these opportunities. They just happen. I don’t have to work at it. I don’t have to ask for it. I just think it’s from the heart space that I’m in. The weight, the income—I’m looking younger. My skin is better. My relationship with my second hus- band was always fantastic, and it’s even better now. It’s just everything. It’s like someone turned the lights on. It’s like I do have magic to share, and it’s safe for me to share it. Jon helped me get out of the way and let my magic be. —Gabrielle Hart, radio personality and performer, 37 Khaliah Ali is one of the nine children (seven daughters and two sons) of former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali. She has her own line of clothing and is involved in a lot of charity work. She’s currently the Australia Zoo’s Ambassador to Wildlife Warriors to the United States. Her book Fighting Weight (Harper Collins 2007) recounts her long struggle with obesity and her breakthrough as a result of her lap banding surgical procedure. I thought her story was important to include because I’ve talked to so many people who had lap band surgery and had very disappointing results. They lost weight for a short time only to stop losing weight, or even start gaining it back. Many of them even had their bands removed. To finally get up the courage to take a measure as extreme as surgery and then to have it not work is heartbreaking. The bottom line is that whether you get surgery or not, you still have to address the real issues if you want to be successful. Khaliah’s weight loss was truly phenomenal; she lost 178 pounds in a very short time. But she attributes much of her

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