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Rigid Exercise Regimen Starts With 2-Minute Smile

A 30-day plan to harness the Law of Attraction begins with a two-minute smile designed to increase serotonin levels in the brain. Coach Joeann Fossland is getting ready to launch another Relax and Attract teleconference series based upon the works of Esther and Abraham Hicks of The Secret fame. I have attended the teleconference series three times ... it becomes more powerful each time!

Leading medical experts concur with the premise that smiling is good for one's health"

“When you are stressed and have anxiety, there’s an activation of various stress areas in the brain.  This alters the concentration of various hormones in blood.  These stress hormones have a variety of impacts on health – you feel stressed, they impair your ability to think over time, they increase cholesterol in the heart, and they change how the immune system functions,” says Dr. Bruce Rabin, director of the Healthy Lifestyle Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Joeann's Law of Attraction energy is also a special focus of No Blogger Left Behind, a blog coaching Webinar series that we co-present. It leaves me smiling . 8-))))

Developing New Eating Habits Is Adventuresome;Following Advice of My De Facto Health and Wellness Coach

My sister Linda may be the most outstanding nurse on Planet Earth. (She is shown at right on her son's arm at his recent wedding. His dad, Linda's husband, walks alongside.) I've decided to start listening to her. It's silly to disregard the advice of a fantastic coach!!!

She suggeest some changes to my diet. These changes include:

• Morning shake with skim milk, three tablespoons of flax seed, and a cup of blueberries
• 10 almonds or walnuts (more than that in one day is a diet buster)
• Substitute egg whites for whole eggs.
• Brisk, low imact exercise each day
• A baby aspirin each day

I think it is funny that this all makes such good common sense and yet it is so profound on so many levels after such a long period of neglect. Better late than never.

I see the doc tomorrow and we are going to review a plan for betterness ... I feel great ... better will be awesome!!!

The FAT Lady Still Ranks #1 on Google!

Three and a half years after The FAT Lady Blog posted a humorous story about an airport mishap and delay she is still triumphant with a first-place ranking in Google. A frequent search finds this blog top ranked, followed by 2,199,999 posts collected after a web visitor types the ever popular keywords "blogger boobs."  My older son tells me that "this information is useful trivia you do not need to share with my friends," so I ask my readers to keep this little nugget of information just between us!

Web analytics point to similar results with "plus size boobs" and also some traction in languages that I cannot identify!

Still, it makes me proud! LOL

Makeover Task: Category Cleanse MLM Links!

Despite the fact that I still get web site visitors coming through keywords like "Goji" and "Freelife" I am going to go through my archves and remove category links to those crummy multi-level marketing links. I think that Freelife makes good vitamins, but my present-day thinking has changed about a business built upon juice that is marked up a gazillion percent.

So, I will eschew the nutaceuticals and the "cleanse" products that are hawked without scientific study. I am going to stick with research-based information and clinical studies over at DrWeil.com. I expect to complete a blog category "cleanse" this week!

Makeover Underway at The FAT Lady Blog;And Then The FAT Lady Goes Out for a Walk and Swim!

WELCOME to the NEW skin of The FAT Lady Blog!

The long overdue makeover of this poor, neglected blog commences today. I kept a shot of the old skin (shown at right)for posterity. I think I like the blue template and the wider text column width. I LOVE the ease with which I can accomplish this. I have to work on a header for the top of the page, but I think that this is a good start. I have to work on some of my other blogs, work on a Clean Sweep -- remove some old links, and bring them up to speed.

This blog is going to get a lot of my bloggy attention in the days ahead as I focus on health and wellness and fitness, and it needs a fresher appearance.

What do you think about the color? I welcome all ideas and suggestions about format AND health!!!

I am going to blog at one of my other blogs and then I am going out for some exercise!

The FAT Lady Hears the Magic Click

There is a part of me that has been waiting for a magic "click" that would make weight loss an easy thing to accomplish, make me immune to temptation, and make exercise a natural part of the day. I lost 65 pounds a couple of years ago and managed to maintain my present weight, but I'm still a long way from my ideal weight.

The magic click is possible ... I heard it 10 years ago when I was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. On June 1, 1998 my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. I heard the click that day and ceased that awful habit forever.

I heard the click again this week and I am fully confident that I will reach my ideal weight in 2008 and maintain that weight forevermore. I am very excited! Here's the story:

Monday: I attended Joeann Fossland's Relax and Attract teleseminar based on the Law of Attraction. We are working with a 30-Days-to-Turn-Your-Life-Around workbook. Joeann is offering a free download of the book at the registration page ... it's worth a click! I worked with this book a bit following a business planning retreat in Hawaii, but did not finish the work and I did not focus on weight previously.

Tuesday: I commenced Day One of the program. There is a "Placemat Exercise" that asks, "What I intend to do" and "For the Universe to handle."  This exercise gave me some trouble the last time I worked with this program. The following is a copy of an e-mail exhchange that followed the first class:

Fran: "This was a very good call … quite interesting…  still don’t quite get that give-it-to-the-Universe thing. Stumps me every time."

Joeann: "Are there any parts of your life you'd envision differently ( perhaps weight, the web tech situation..those kinds of things)?  Intentionally asking the universe to handle it can get it handled without you needing to pay attention.

Fran: LOL …I am happy to let the Universe handle the sucky tech issues. Good idea!!! Weight is definitely in MY column.

Joeann:  Hmmm...what if it wasn't?

Fran: That would be called “denial.”

Joeann:  OK, that is one possible way of looking at it, but is it working? It feels sorta upstream. What if letting go that it is your job and giving the universe the instruction of how you envision it in a perfect world. I love today's quote...

Fran:  "Where is that quote? I’ll bookmark the web site. I’ll take your advice and turn the weight thing over to the Universe … The Universe can’t screw it up any more than I have. call it a leap of faith …"

Joeann: "The quote I was referring to was the Day 1 quote from Abraham.  'The Universe can’t screw it up any more than I have.' (This sounds a little upstream!!!!)"

Following this e-mail exchange I put the word "weight" on the line marked "For the Universe to handle." What happened after that stunned me. I heard the click! I have a new consciousness about every morsel of food that I place in my mouth! I have renewed energy! I am walking more, and I am FEELING thinner.  I puzzled about these things last night and here is my conclusion:

The Universe is perfect. We let perfection rule that part of the day that we subordinate to the care of the Universe. We become partners with Perfection!

I think that I am going to start turning more things over to the Universe!

How Does Your Phallic Garden Grow?

There are some wonderful benefits attached to virtual self-employment, especially if your home office has a desk with a window that has a view of a garden and the Tucson foothills. My own garden is evolving in interesting fashion. The photo above shows a lush garden half and a birdbath.

The other half of the garden was rather barren. A recent guest (unnamed Tucson-based coachy REALTOR-type person who blogs and Twitters) recently delivered a bucket of cactus cuttings for us to plant. The night-blooming serius blooms ONCE a year ... late in the evening, and shares a wonderful, short-lived perfume.

I can hardly wait! In the meantime, I have the most phallic looking garden in the neighborhood! (See below.)

Power

I use words to issue love and gratitude and share ideas and knowledge.

30-Day Business Plan Using Law of Attraction

On a recent trip to a business planning retreat in Hawaii I received  a bunch of worksheets and workbooks to compile numbers and gather thoughts about my vision for the coming year and for the rest of my life. I crunched numbers, wrote a poem and relaxed.

One of the resources, How to Change Your Life Around in 30 Days Implementing Law of Attraction to Deliberately Create Health, Wealth and Love is showing some remarkable results each day and I approach mid-afternoon of Day Six. Today's theme in my [personal plan is LOVE ... I find that is a magic ingredient in the latest batch of bread that is rising on the patio ... what a nice day when every little chore and task is an act of love.

Relevant Link:

A Reinvention Chorale (Poem PDF)
Business Planning Runs Deeper than Numbers Alone

Happy V-Day!This Is A Menopausal Rant

For the life of me, I am NEVER going to understand all of the hullabaloo surrounding the V-Word and assorted synonyms. Today is the 10th Anniversary of  the "Vagina Monologues." Jane Fonda is in hot water over a slip of the tongue on the Today Show. It is utterly amazing to me that the airwaves are full of ED ads and nobody even BLINKS an eye. There are no "acceptable" synonyms online for the word VAGINA!

Relevant Link:

Even The Wall Street Journal Cares About Vaginas