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30-Day Balance Experiment 2010 Day 13

When I said our 30-Day Balance Experiment wasn't going to be quantitative, you may want to ask: "Is that because you can't count?" For someone who used to make 100's on college math tests, I astound myself at my new math-challenged brain. In my last newsletter, I said we were "going into our second week." Well, hello! Even those of you who started later than May 10, we are way past our second week. And my point is: it really doesn't matter because what we are about is retraining our minds, our hearts, our bodies for the long run. A long, healthy, happy, run.

Yesterday I wore my new blue jeans (another pair of Not Your Daughter's Jeans) that were so tight I had a headache all day. Then I remembered. My darling husband had told me (proudly) that he had done the laundry while I was in Virginia. I checked the water temperature on our washing machine. "HOT/cold." It was my fault that I didn't change it back to WARM/cold after washing the bathroom rugs. I don't know if that was why I was so good yesterday and ate very little. But this morning I forced myself to get on the scales, not feeling thinner at all, and violà! I was 4 lbs. lighter! So I celebrated with 2 chocolate chip cookies at lunch! (Maybe underneath I don't want to be slimmer at all.) Some psychologist might say, maybe Geneen Roth says this in her book: when we are consumed with our weight, we can't work on other things.....

SPIRITUAL thought/action: "Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you will receive it and you will." Mark 11.24

PHYSICAL thought/action: Today (tomorrow) I celebrate at the ultimate level above food and drink.

MENTAL thought/action: When I couldn't sleep last night at 3:30 a.m., I read Martha Beck in O Magazine. Her article on creating a vision board reminded me of Deepak Chopra's advice to let go of our attachment to our desires. Her translation: "Let go mentally and emotionally" of our visions. (In this case, our vision of a balanced body and ideal weight). "The biggest mistake aspiring reality creators make...is continuing to push something they've already set in motion." On the other hand: "Magical co-creator or not, you still have to do stuff...to be (in T.S. Eliot's words) ‘still and still moving.' But in the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't."

The Spiritual Times