Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Part IV: Positive Forces that Make Your Body Want to Be Thin

success to the Gabriel Method. I’ve known Khaliah since the mid-1990s, but we connected very strongly in July 2004, when we were both the recipients of the Oneness Heart Award. I had just lost my weight, and she was scheduled to have lap band surgery the next month. We started talking on a regular basis, and I counseled her weekly while she was losing her weight. I wanted to make sure that she was adding real, live foods and omega-3s to her diet. Many people think that once they have surgery they can just drink milk shakes all day and lose weight. But what happens is their bodies go into a severe nutritional famine and this makes their body want to gain weight. She really got that, and she started to love the taste of really healthy foods. I introduced her to salads and to this day she still talks about the salad I made for her. We also talked at length about visualization and some of the real emotional issues that were at play in her life. Here’s what she had to say. Fighting from Day One Like many overweight people, my problems came right from childhood. I was on The TODAY Show for weight loss in second grade, which would put me at about eight years old and being exposed on national television for being overweight. During my twenties, I yo-yo dieted my way up from 220 to about 280. When I was approaching my thirtieth birthday, I stepped on a scale and I weighed 335 pounds. My life became crystal clear. I looked at my son, and I understood that I needed to surrender. I didn’t like the way my life had been or where it was going. I was end- lessly fighting my weight. I was thirty and still very young; young enough to get my whole life together but still old enough to reflect on how much of my life I had lost. Never in my twenties had I ever sat on the beach and let the sun touch my skin. I’d never been intimate with someone completely in the buff. And also, I wanted to be healthy for my son. So much of my life was yet unlived. I had to surrender, and I needed help. I started working with Jon about a month prior to surgery, but the point of the Gabriel Method, at

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