Your journey toward optimal health

Though your journey toward Optimal Health may begin with weight loss or losing unhealthy habits, you will likely soon realize that creating health is more about what you gain rather than what you lose. Sure, losing weight feels good, but what that accomplishment gives you is far more rewarding.

In losing weight or unhealthy habits, you regain control of your destiny. You can be more active. You can spend more time with your family. You can recapture your self-confidence. You can unlock a vibrant new lifestyle. Ultimately, what you gain is more meaningful time to spend with the ones that you love.

Being proactive about your health leads to far more rewards than being reactive, which is the basis of the Optimal Health mindset. How you frame this in your mind is important. Rather than thinking about losing weight or what unhealthy habits could negatively mean for your life, think instead about what you will gain. Since you know that your mental health is intertwined with your physical health, you can focus on all of the great things you will be able to do and experience with a greater mental presence.

Don’t think about losing weight. Think about gaining confidence and health. Don’t think about being afraid of disease. Think about adding more wonderful memories to your life. You can create new memories with the people you love. You can enjoy more of the activities that leave you feeling fulfilled. You can savor a more vibrant lifestyle. Optimal Health is truly about growth. In the long term, what you gain can be far more meaningful than what you lose.

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Joining the Thin Club - Can a fat girl really join before she loses the all the weight?

The thin club sometimes feels like it has a closed membership.  But what is the thin club?  A group of skinny girls I would think.  Women who get admiring glances, who people want to sit next to, or at least don't have to worry about being able to fit in the seat.  Your membership begins the day you make the commitment to change your life and start making healthier choices.  The day you commit to improving yourself and your body.

One of the main reasons for me to see myself in the thin club is so that I change my way of thinking.  That way as I am losing the weight, I am already picturing myself thin.  As I go through the process I am changing my subconscious mindset, and therefore avoiding gaining the weight back.  Thin thinking does not come naturally to me, it will be a process.

 Membership responsibilities include doing the mental, physical and behavioral steps necessary for permanent weight loss and all over general good health.  Members must avoid negative self talk, and instead do positive "thin" thinking affirmations like:
      I am a responsible thin club member.
      I have earned my thin club membership card.
      I like maintaining my thin body with good eating habits and exercise.


 Staying in the thin club takes work, like working on your eating habits, cutting back and replacing bad food choices with good ones.  Moving more throughout your daily routine as well as adding some structured exercise.  Banishing the negative self talk and adopting healthy affirmations.

Welcome to the thin club!

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All or Nothing - lifestyle changes for good health, diet and exercise

All or nothing.  That is sometimes my way of thinking.  If I ate something I shouldn't have then the day, week, month is blown and I might as well just pig out.....

Not anymore.  I don't know why that has been my mindset for so long.  Is it because I want the leeway to eat everything in sight?  Not anymore.

As well as avoiding the all or nothing way of thinking, I am adopting the habit of rewarding myself for the things I do right.  Yes, even the very smallest of things like, only having one piece of candy or only exercising for 10 minutes.

With the new lifestyle changes all of these little things will add up.

I am only human - and  soon-to-be much lighter human!

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