Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

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

in my life, there’s a sixty–nine-year-old woman out there who has just been given a new lease on life. And somehow I was able to contribute to that. I felt a tremendous sense of comple- tion, like my life and all the struggles that I had gone through were for a purpose. They were not in vain. A New Lease on Life I was always reasonably overweight—always a heavy-set per- son—even as a young girl. I was about 210 pounds. I’m a heavy- framed girl, so I never looked fat. It was after I retired that I really ballooned out. My girlfriend used to call me the Michelin Man. I put on a huge amount of weight. Just after I retired, I became broader in the shoulders, and got bigger in the boobs and the legs. It took about two years after I retired for Michelin Woman to come out. I fluctuated up and down. I tried things, but nothing ever worked. At one point, I was working out every single night for about six months and only lost about fifteen pounds. Then if I stopped, I put everything back on in a matter of weeks. Then there was the normal fatigue that you get when you’re carrying a lot of weight. You lose interest in everything because you don’t want to do anything. I basically vegetated for years. Then I saw Jon on TV and something clicked. It was like “This is your answer.” I phoned up, but the book wasn’t ready yet. Periodically, I’d keep calling because I was still trying to lose weight. Then in early 2007, Jon sent me the book and the CD. I still play the CD every night. I won’t go to bed without playing the CD. It was like a miracle. After reading the book and listen- ing to the CD, I just felt “this is right,” and I started losing weight. At first, I didn’t think too much about it, but then I started getting into shape. My daughter was the first person to notice it: I didn’t have a belly that hung over my knees anymore. I don’t feel the need to eat carbohydrates, breads, cakes, and cookies. To be honest with you, I just lost interest. The CD is brilliant. I cut out a picture of a young girl with a beautiful figure and put it next to my bed to visualize it. I figured I’d focus on the major parts that I wanted to be slim: the arms, the legs, and

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