April, 2001

by Susan James"

Welcome to stop trying to lose weight Backwards!

The '17 Seconds' is what will be addressed for success with your image and weight loss. I will also address the fact that your weight loss has little to do with food, and more to do with those 17 seconds.

A little history to help you. Who am I, and what do I know about losing weight? Well, for starters, I have done it for myself, from 196 pounds , and have stayed a size 9, and I have helped many others over my professional career.

There is a difference this time around. When I was in the Health and Fitness Arena, owner of Womens Fitness Centers, and also developer of 'Foodstyle', a weight loss consulting program, I was helping folks lose weight, but I was helping them do it backwards. Yes, Backwards.

Most were successful, but it was harder doing it that way. And what was 'that' way?

Trying to get to the root of why one was over eating, and why they did not care enough to change. Most of the conversations went on for the hour that I spent with these folks, talking about the problems and situations and relationships they had in their lives that contributed to their weight gain.

So we spent week after week talking about the bad stuff in their life, and how to change their foods and weight within that frame.

NO MORE!
As your eyes read these words, we will not be talking about your problems, your challenges. Because the more you talk about the bad stuff in your life, the more it contributes to more bad stuff showing up in your day to day.

Which for folks desiring to lose weight, works more as an obstacle than a help.

First item to consider: It is not the food.

Second item: It is not your job, your husband, your lack of husband, your kids, your lack of kids, your financial status. None of that is contributing to your issues with your weight.

It is your "thinking" that they do , that propitiates your symptoms.

We begin changing that NOW.

No more talk of that other stuff above. You are about to enter the world of making a decision about what you want for your weight, and just watching it happen for you. It is easy, and simple, but it does take practice.

*Its Easy and Simple But it does Take Practice!*

Okay, so what is the Easy and Simple part? And what is the 'But it does take Practice part?

*Easy & Simple*

1. Pay attention to what you "used to" do. (And I know you did this!)

You said: I want to lose weight, BUT I know I won't.
You said: I want to lose weight: BUT, its too hard!
You said: I wish I looked like that, BUT I know I never will!
You said: I want to eat that, BUT, I'll gain weight if I do!

Get the picture?

2. Now, here comes the 17 Second Part

According to the new "user friendly physics", for every 17 Seconds of Pure thought, it is EQUAL to 2000 hours of work action towards your desire! (Abraham-Hicks)

What this means to you is this: If you think, daydream, write down for 17 seconds what you want for your body image, why you want it, and how you will feel , you have just DONE 2000 hours of "work" (which you used to think you needed willpower and discipline for), towards achieving the body image you want.

HOWEVER, if in that next 17 Seconds or later in the day , you change your mind, and think for 17 seconds that you can't do it BECAUSE, then you have undone your previous 'work'. You have canceled the effect, you are again in neutral. In other words you are STUCK!

*And Now To The : It Does Take Practice Part!*

1. Note this: So far, in the past , you have been willing to drudge yourself, thru many diets, much pain and frustration, and not getting what you want.

QUESTION: Are you now willing to spend that time, even much less of that time, doing something that feels better and gives you what you want, which is a new body image?

2. HOW much TIME?

QUESTION: Are you willing to spend 15 minutes each day writing in your own handwriting what you want for your body and why you want it?

3. COULD IT BE THAT EASY?
Yes.

4. And why could it be that easy?
Because due to the 'user friendly physics', you are spending a combustible amount of many 17 seconds writing and feeling good about what you want for your body image.

In doing this simple 'skill', because you get better each day at defining what you want things, and circumstances in you, and around you AUTOMATICALLY begin to happen & change.

YOU WILL NOTICE THE CHANGES, and these will be changes that contribute to your body image goal, with more ease and effortlessness, than you could have possibly ever have imagined.

You don't need a new "plan", the plan and or changes will just come to you. You can use a plan, if that feels better to you. You can change your plan every other day!

THE PLAN DOES NOT MATTER! IT NEVER HAS!

We had been doing this weight loss thing backwards, and it was to HARD! It is not Hard!

See Part 2

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Susan James writes of 'User Friendly Physics' to design our lives by.*17 Seconds to Weight Loss/The Guide**
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ZAGALOG: Venue of the Manifesting Stuff of Susan James
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