I am currently writing an e-book, titled Realize Your Dreams: An Action Plan for Life Transformation. Until it is published (in about one or two months), I will occasionally share with you an excerpt from it:
I think the reason I was able to (finally!) eat healthier and lose weight was in part because I created a colorful dream collage with a written list of my desired weight-loss results right in the center of it.
The collage still serves as the cover illustration for a healthy eating binder I put together. Early in my journey I looked at the collage and read the reasons I wanted to lose weight several times a day. If I hadn’t had that visual inspiration and reminder, it would have been easy to lose my commitment and revert to my old, unhealthy behaviors. I still slip sometimes, but my collage helps me regain my motivation…
It is one thing to know and believe something, but I think the key to a successful change in life is to keep your intentions fresh in your mind every day – several times a day to begin with, and ongoing as necessary!
Realize Your Dreams 
I love this idea! I’m going to try it myself. Thank you for posting this.
I hope you post a picture when you finished. I created my collage a few years ago and wasn’t attemping to be too artistic. I bet yours would be beautiful!
My need was to lose 30 lbs. I’m in my 65th year, and my 205 lbs. (5.8″) was killing my knees and swelling my ankles and putting me on two heart meds and Crestor.
I started Labour Day Weekend. The 30 lb loss was achieved the week after Christmas and has remained the same since. Positive reinforcement did nothing. I had to declare an all-out war on sugar which led to my so-called stomach soliloquies. On Sept. 7th, I simply cut out all white sugar, period. I also cut out all eating after 5 p.m. and before 7 a.m. And when my stomach acted up, I’d say to it, “the more you complain, the less you’re getting–so, you choose.” And I continue to swim 90 min. of the front crawl, 100 lengths, 3x a week. My bad cholesterol has dropped to the point where my doctor has taken me completely off Crestor and reduced my heart meds to Micardis (at the lowest of dosages).
I want to be able to psychically respond to positive reinforcement, but my craving for sugar flicks that out of the way like a toothpick before a Category 4. So I have to haul out the tough love. Some days there’s not much love and just a lot of tough. But we are who we are. And I’m able to manipulate all positive mantras–candle in the wind–so my internal voice is that of a high school vice-principal (smile).
thank you for your lovely blog and for visiting my site.
I wish you continuing success in everything you turn your attentions to. I can see you are a guiding light to many!
Thanks for sharing your story. Congratulations for you on managing to cut out sugar — I still struggle with that one! It is amazing what a weight loss can do for your health. I’m glad you found a path that is working!
thank you for being so gracious.