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Let go of all those limiting thoughts. Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.

The definition of the perfect weight is the weight that feels good for you. No one else's opinion counts. It is the weight that feels good for you.

You most likely know of someone who is thin and eats like a horse, and they proudly declare, "I can eat whatever I want and I am always the perfect weight." And so the Genie of the Universe says, "Your wish is my command!"

To attract your perfect weight and body using the Creative Process, follow these steps:

Step 1: Ask
Get clear on the weight you want to be. Have a picture in your mind of what you will look like when you have become that perfect weight. Get pictures of yourself at your perfect weight, if you have them, and look at them often. If not, get pictures of the body you would like to have and look at those often.

Step 2: Believe
You must believe you will receive and that the perfect weight is yours already. You must imagine, pretend, act as if, make-believe, that the perfect weight is yours. You must see yourself as receiving that perfect weight.

I have started a treadmill workout where I use the timing of my steps to keep my focus on a mantra I say over and over in my head. Sometimes it's... I am on the road to thin, I am, I am... and I won't quit until I win.. I am I am I am I am. Over and over... Somethines it's Christina Agulara's "You are beautiful, in everything you do... words can't put you down" ... it can be anything but the thing I find most interesting is... I sometimes close my eyes to repeat these and I hold on to the handles which will read your heart rate and when I open my eyes... the reading is 180, sometimes 190, I have even had it reach 220 and more. As soon as I am focused on the numbers they decline rapidly. I don't understand this and I even asked my husband to look and we are both puzzled by this. Does this have anything to do with the energy that I am emitting when meditating like this, I have this happen every time I get on my treadmill now and start my mantra and not look at the digital readout of my pulse rate. Also, I so enjoy the walk now I walk for 1 hr twice a day, because... I am on the road to thin I am, I am.

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Posted By: skyriver @ 09/21/2009 6:03:47 PM

Does anyone know what page of the book this is in?
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Posted By: nat! @ 07/15/2009 12:25:14 PM

if i eat and think that i am thin .. does it work? ... or i have to not eat much too ?????????????
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Posted By: justmejc @ 01/20/2009 6:31:29 PM

I have started a treadmill workout where I use the timing of my steps to keep my focus on a mantra I say over and over in my head. Sometimes it's... I am on the road to thin, I am, I am... and I won't quit until I win.. I am I am I am I am. Over and over... Somethines it's Christina Agulara's "You are beautiful, in everything you do... words can't put you down" ... it can be anything but the thing I find most interesting is... I sometimes close my eyes to repeat these and I hold on to the handles which will read your heart rate and when I open my eyes... the reading is 180, sometimes 190, I have even had it reach 220 and more. As soon as I am focused on the numbers they decline rapidly. I don't understand this and I even asked my husband to look and we are both puzzled by this. Does this have anything to do with the energy that I am emitting when meditating like this, I have this happen every time I get on my treadmill now and start my mantra and not look at the digital readout of my pulse rate. Also, I so enjoy the walk now I walk for 1 hr twice a day, because... I am on the road to thin I am, I am.