Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

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

And although, as Khaliah said, for many people, age thirty is “young enough to get your whole life together,” we should never see age as an impediment to transforming your life. Consider the story of Howard, who is in his seventies and lost over forty pounds, and who has kept the weight off after decades of putting it on with too much beer and bad food. But for Howard, there’s something just as important as losing the weight. A Retired Angel Transforms I was doing a lot of sports, including being a competitive foot- baller, all through my life. I joined the navy at 203 pounds when I was eighteen. That was quality weight. I had legs like a racehorse. Even now I have a forty-six-inch chest, but after a few days eating nothing but Aussie meat pies, I’d put on another 7 pounds and I’d start getting called “tubby.” I stopped doing sports when I was thirty-three and weighed 224 pounds. And I probably drank too much after every game, which was another way to put on all those calories plus more. I just got heavier at a rate of about 5 to 7 pounds a year over twenty years or so. It wasn’t a ballooning, it was just the coat was getting tighter as I was getting slacker. It wasn’t that you’d notice it until you couldn’t fasten the top button on your shirt. By the time I was forty-three, I was 238 pounds; by age fifty-three, I was 252 pounds. Then there was the stress. As an accountant for some of the world’s biggest companies, I had to comply with a lot of dead- lines. And to keep working, I had to keep eating or drinking so that, by the morning, the work was all done. But some of my eating went into the early morning, which may have been a drink on one side and a snack on the other. It was the wine, beer, cheese, and cookies—and peanuts. Then in the 1960s, take-out roast chickens came on the market. This was before KFC. So after a game of squash, we’d be tearing chickens apart and eating all the bad bits you aren’t supposed to have these days. I’d wanted to retire in 2000, but I had to cope with the dot com crash. I had to start work again as a real estate agent.

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