Super Sunday!

Monday was such a beautiful day here in sunny Georgia that I decided to take full advantage of it and I mowed the lawn!!! What great exercise! I got to be outside, sweat like crazy (I've decided I should sweat at least once a day - really get the blood pumping!), did something productive, and I got a HORRIBLE sunburn in my haste to get up and get moving attitude!! :-)

Well, regardless of my sunburn - which is starting to feel much better - I am very proud of myself that I got up and moving and it felt good to look at my beautiful yard when I was done! My exercise even prompted my hubby to mow the back yard! ;)


So, as I mentioned above, my new motto is "sweat everyday"!! I have found it feels good to get your blood pumping and you feel as if you've accomplished something really good when sweating is involved!


I watched an Oprah show about the new book "Women Food and God" by Geneen Roth. WOW! What a powerful message this book has! As I've mentioned before, I am an emotional eater. This book teaches us how to overcome that and look deep within ourselves to find what it is we are trying to squash down with food, all the while we're making food our enemy. I am going out today to buy it!


This is the Product Review on Yahoo:

If you suffer about your relationship with food - you eat too much or too little, think about what you will eat constantly or try not to think about it at all - you can be free. Just look down at your plate. The answers are there. Don't run. Look. Because when we welcome what we want most to avoid, we contact the part of ourselves that is fresh and alive. We touch the life we truly want evoke divinty itself.


Your relationship with food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom, says Roth. What you want to get rid of is itself the doorway to what you want most: the demystification of weight loss and the luminous presence that so many of us call "God".




I'm not an Oprah follower but this show was amazing! I have felt - and do feel - the way many of these women do and did on the show! Know what the difference is? I'm 20 years younger than many of the women they talked to on the show - so I have a head start to win my body back!

There was a girl about my age (early 30's) who lost 100+ pounds after going to some of Geneen's workshops and reading her book - that's it! No dieting - nothing - just reading, looking within herself and learning!!! Are you riding this train with me or what??

So....that's it for now! I'm off to Borders to get this book, enjoy the sunshine of the summer, do some reading and then find a way to sweat later! Maybe a brisk walk at the park with Twisty, my loyal companion???


Listen to your body! Are you worth the $20 for this book - to finally face your inner demons, lose the weight and stop the yo-yo dieting forever??


Hugs to all - and keep on sweating,
~Heather