Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

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Jessie’s Law

T here are two levels at which you can look at weight loss, and most people are looking at the first level, the level of your metabolism—calories in, calories out, diets, pills, surgery, fat burning secrets, behavior modification, the whole endless list that fills book stores and libraries. All these ideas operate on the same premise: that you somehow have to drug, cut open, disci- pline, control, fight, or otherwise force your body to lose weight. That’s where all the research is, and that’s what every- one’s focused on. But as you now know, there’s a higher and much more rele- vant level to weight loss, and that is the level of your body’s “ideal weight”—how fat or thin your body desires to be. The problem is that the things that force your body to lose weight are not the same things that get your body to want to be thin. In fact, they usually have the exact opposite effect. So if you want to lose weight easily and sustainably, and be done with diets and discipline forever, you simply have to get your body to want to be thin. To illustrate how this works in real life, let’s look at the story of Jessie and how his experience con- tributed to forming what I call “Jessie’s Law.” Jessie Jessie’s understanding of metabolism and calorie control were nonexistent. Jessie had never even been to school, so he couldn’t read or write, and while he was quite smart for a housecat, he wasn’t exactly a rocket scientist either. Just entering his young

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