One Hundred Thirty Nine

Hooray! I'm finally under 140!!! just 4 more to go!

I'm slimming my middle. My middle is slim!

Actually, everything is just getting more firm and toned. It is a good thing! I think I will continue working out at PMR Elite Fitness.

I have become fascinated by the 6 word autobiographies...

I think mine is: Eat, Drink, Pray, Love. Read. Workout.

Or maybe: I read books, sleep, eat, read.

Or maybe: Workout in the morning, read, sleep.

Used to be: Work, eat, read, eat, sleep, repeat.

I do love to read. And somehow, though I tend to be brief, I keep coming up with 7 or 8 words instead of six.

Eat, Drink, Pray, Love, Read, Give thanks.

Only six words is not enough.

(I like this exercise.)

I am reader, writer, hypnotist, philolog.

Feel free to post your 6 word epitaph below!

Procrastination

 I just got The Power of Now by Eckharte Tolle and he says that we need to reduce toughts and emotions and just be the watcher or observer. I am observing right now, that I think too much. Just make a decision and stick with it.

Worrying is just another way to procrastinate.

What's Good About Menopause?

What is good about menopause...?  The obvious answer is no pregnancy worries.

The other good news is that hypnosis can help soothe many of the symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. There have NOT been many studies on this, but the few that have been completed indicate that hypnosis can cool hot flashes, improve sleep, reduce tension and irritability, and minimize negative thoughts.

This is very good news for women like you and me!

Elevate Your Enthusiasm

We are presenting The Five Most Effective Ways to Elevate your Energy and Enthusiasm today at 11 am in Tarpon Springs FL.

I'm going to recommend the SMILE method:

1. (s) SMILE! A smile is the only thing you get to keep when you give one away! And a great way to raise your energy. When you look at a face, you can see the energy if the lips are curved upward, even moreso when the lips are curved upward at the ends, and the teeth are showing. It is possible to tell when someone is faking a smile, yet a fake smile can easily turn into an authentic one, so fake it till you make it, when it comes to smiles!

2. (m) Move! If you want energy, you have to move. It is a physical law that a body in motion tends to stay in motion, a body at rest tends to stay at rest. Resist inertia, keep moving.

3. (i) Inspire yourself. I have already discussed using positive language with yourself and others (see  the article called First Tip to Melt Belly Fat). I recommend giving yourself positive messages in the morning, like "I look marvelous. I feel marvelous. I am marvelous!"
Inspire also means breathe in, so I am going to instruct the class on how to breathe like a bellows to raise your energy level. You can use breath to energize yourself or to relax yourself. "As the breath goes, so does the mind."

4. (l) Laughter. I also wrote about laughter before. A hardy belly laugh counts as aerobic exercise. So I recommend 50 minutes per day of laughing. Wouldn't that be an enjoyable way to get your exercise?!

5. (e) E is for Envision yourself as enthusiastic. What does enthusiasm mean to you? Enthusiasm is a word that comes to us from Greek and it means that God or Spirit is inside and radiating light.

I hope I will see you at PMR Elite Fitness at 11 am! A fre.e workout will follow at 12 noon.

One Hundred Forty 0ne

The scale said 141 this morning! Yippeee!

I think my scale has a mind of its own. The other day I swear it said 139.4. I got on it again to show my husband, and it said 142, so he didn't believe me. I will find a way to fix that insideous machine!

I will let you know when it comes to 136. That is still my goal.

Conquer Your Craving for New Shoes

I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.

This quotation may be a Persian proverb taken from a collection of ancient poetry by Sadi, taken from a much longer passage:

I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kfah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience, and exclaimed,
“Roast fowl to him that’s sated will seem less
Upon the board than leaves of garden cress.
While, in the sight of helpless poverty,
Boiled turnip will a roasted pullet be.”
~SADI, The Gulistan, or Rose Garden

I understand that my desire may be trivial and superficial and that my problem is of small magnitude compared to the man with no feet. But I still want shoes.

Does that make me a bad person?

Elevator to Success

Elevate Your Energy and Enthusiasm


We are presenting Elevate Your Energy and Enthusiasm on Saturday June 16 at PMR Elite in Tarpon Springs.  This will be the third monthly presentation. The presentations are informational and followed by a free workout at noon for all participants.

Please call Gloria at 727-946-1531 or Connie at 727-992-1696
     for more information.

PMR Elite Fitness and Massage is located at 40735 US 19 N.

I love my new GPS!

Finally I got a GPS for Christmas. It really comes in handy. I can go anywhere, if I have the address. Or the correct name. I am always surprised when it can't find something.

I put the name in, and it says

searching...

and a little hourglass turns and turns and turns....

If it turns for more than 30 seconds, it is not going to find it.

That's when I start cursing out my GPS. Actually, come to think of it, I curse it out quite often. I travel on US 19 and there has been a lot of construction on this road, which my GPS has not been informed about. There are a few new streets and some that moved over for the new ones.

I guess you would say the relationship is "complicated" or just a love-hate relationship.

Ask Dr. Pete

Dr. Pete the Uncover Coach would like to remark upon the current state of the economy. The US is producing cars, which pollute and kill people, tobacco products which kill us slowly, ridiculous stuff like fast food which creates addiction and bad health, education produces good factory workers, so can be unemployed after graduation.

Stop Working! You are only producing JUNK!

The rich people are making money off our backs.

He recommends a week of not working for every adult in the US except police and sanitation. 

You may protest, not working is stressful. So is working! so is driving to work!

You may not be able to pay bills , so what?

Most of us can't pay the bills anyway. It won't kill you, but it may make a point. The point is