Then anger at myself flooded my mind and heart about losing my favorite Hermes scarf on our return trip from San Diego and the difficulty in trying to replace it. Then I looked at my study, where I am right now, and all the papers and books and mess and how mad I am about getting breast cancer again and not working on my novel and and and and STOP!!!

GET OUT OF MY MIND, you negative thoughts! You are living there rent-free and destroying the place!

What's my other choice? My other choice is to entertain my true mind (the one filled with hope, direction, and love.) I looked at the lake right outside my window- God's morning diamonds rolling across the water as a white Egret fishes on the shore a hundred feet from my computer. I thought of my almost 85 year-old mother who looks great, feels pretty good, still lives independently only 15 minutes away... of my wonderful husband who is so good to me, so funny, so smart, the love of my life...of all of you going on this journey with me and your heart-warming feedback...and the fact that I didn't go berserk and feed my terrible feelings about losing my scarf; I got on the elliptical instead! I am alive, I am on the right track of getting in touch with my body and mind and soul and heart, and I am blessed with great friends- YOU!

SPIRITUAL thought/action: "What is before us and behind us are tiny matters compared to what is within us." Oliver Wendell Holmes

PHYSICAL thought/action: Today I will choose proteins over carbs. Today I will lose my appetite for high sugar foods.

MENTAL thought/action: Today I will visualize myself over and over again at my "ideal look." (Whatever size or weight -doesn't matter- just our ideal look-not magazine model.)  

EMOTIONAL thought/action: Melody Beattie, Co-Dependent No More: Gratitude makes a home out of a house, a feast out of a meal, a friend out of a stranger." Today my feelings of gratitude bring peace, hope, and love.

See you at your ideal look.....  Lolly