Thank you all for your support, and suggestions and recommendations on weight loss, both here at the forum and via e mail.
Well, for one thing, I am not treating this as a weight loss effort or weight loss goal, because it is not that at all. I realize that I am living in a body that is not fit to live the lifestyle I want to live. Also, even if I wasn’t looking to live an active mobile lifestyle, my body is not that of a healthy person.
So my goal and intent is to create a body that is healthy and fully functioning in the ways Nature has intended human bodies to function. So, while I will achieve weight loss in the process of creating that ideal body for me, that is not the primary focus or goal.
I have enrolled in my friend and mentor Marilyn Jenett’s , I Create My Body Audio Program. It works on changing your thinking at a subconscious level. It is based on the same principles that her prosperity program, Feel Free to Prosper is based on, which I took a few years ago, and found it to be very effective. So I will keep you posted on how it works.
One thing is for sure, I am not treating this as a weight loss effort. It is a lifestyle change that I am seeking to accomplish. I have been on various weight loss programs and have had success with some of them, but, then the weight comes back. I guess something about the human psyche. When we lose something, we try to get it back. Been there, done that. Not doing it again.
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Posted in Life Style Design.
Tagged with Feel Free to Prosper, Healthy Living, I Create My Body, Marilyn Jenett, Weight Loss.
By Rasheed
– July 8, 2010
The last time I was here I left you hanging while I went for a walk. That was four days ago.
No, I haven’t been walking for four days straight. But I did go for a walk the last four days. It was a measly quarter of a mile in 12 min the first day. My wife said, “Back already? you call that a walk?” Today, I passed the one mile mark in about 20 minutes.
While I was walking, a neighbor asked if I was planning a BBQ? I told him that I was planning on going to work. He looked at me as if I had lost it. I just smiled knowing that I can just as easily decide not to go to work today. Or tomorrow, or any other day for that matter, while he will be back to his 9 to 5 job singing “It’s another Manic Monday” tomorrow.
When I got to the restaurant where I work, I wished everyone a Happy Independence Day and someone said, “A happy forth to you too.” That got me thinking (I know, old habits die hard). In the last 36 years since I arrived in the USA, I have very seldom heard anyone refer to it as the Independence Day. It is always referred to as the 4th of July Weekend.
Is it because most people don’t really feel that they are truly independent? Or is it because they don’t really know what independence means in order to celebrate it?
What do you celebrate? Independence Day, or 4th of July?
Posted in Life's funny lessons.
Tagged with 4th of July, 9 to 5, Independence Day, Manic Monday, Nine to Five, Success.
By Rasheed
– July 4, 2010
What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? I’d type faster. ~ Issac Asimov
I saw the above quote on my son’s Google Homepage, and it got me thinking. What would I do? Unlike Dr Asimov, I am not tuned into my life’s purpose, let alone living it. Heck, for the most part, I am not even focused on it. I am not even sure if I know what it is, even though my mentor, the illustrious Barbara Winter, insists that I do. (You ALWAYS know your life’s purpose. you may not be aware of it, but you always know it)
The more I thought about it, more I realized that I was wasting my life away. I decided to do something about it. And what better way to start than to get your act together, so you can put it on.
First things first, if I am going to be gone in six months, I sure wouldn’t want my loved one to carry any more burden (literally) than they have to. When I checked this morning upon waking up, I came in at 184.2 pounds in my birthday suit. That’s about 45 pounds more than I would like to carry myself or have my loved ones to carry after I’m gone. (Note: I am a Muslim, and in our tradition of Islam, the loved ones literally carry the coffin on their shared shoulders to the grave)
So I am taking it upon myself to lighten the load, both on my living legs and upon my loved ones, should I be gone.
So here are the vital statistics at the beginning of this journey with six months left in the year 2010.
Current weight: 184 lbs.
Current waist size 38+” I say that because, I barely managed to fit into a size 38″ pants which my wife bought for me last month, that I insisted were too big for me.
So how do I intend to do this? Stay tuned while I go for a walk and try to figure it out.
Posted in Life Style Design.
Tagged with Barbara Winter, Focus, Goals, Issac Asimov.
By Rasheed
– July 1, 2010
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