Jon Gabriel and his Method

I've been struggling with my weight and, consequently, my health, for about 10 years now. It really goes back further than that but seems to have got a lot worse in the last few years.  

Some of you know why I've been more stressed out the last few years and I may write about that here. It will take some courage though so bear with me.

My plan is to write about the journey of discovery as I head back towards being healthy, slim and fit again.

Rather than start at the beginning, I want to talk about something new I discovered in the last few weeks. My friend, Sancha, who's known me since 1994 and seen me through the ups and downs of dealing with my weight, sent me an enigmatic email. All it said was 'Check out The Gabriel Method'.  At first, I thought it was something to do with angels and was skeptical. Not because I don't believe in angels, I do, and with good reason (I might tell you about that sometime too!), but because I am tired of trying some new method to lose weight and, having tried them all, I knew that a diet wasn't something that was going to work for me and doubted that any angel thing was going to help much either.

However, I trust Sancha.  So I looked it up on Google and discovered a website by a guy called Jon Gabriel, an American who emigrated to Australia, who lost 103kg without dieting.  Yes, it's true and not only that, he had no saggy skin afterwards either.

Of course, this intrigued me so I bought the book and CD and downloaded the files and started to listen.  What I learned in the first listen really made sense.  

He talks about WHY you get fat. He talks about the stress triggers that send the incorrect messages to your hormones to retain fat, no matter what.  No wonder dieting had never worked for any long period for me. 

He spent years studying the biochemistry of the body and, having learned that, discovered that using visualization methods while in what he calls SMART mode, makes an enormous difference if you want to change your way of thinking or being.  SMART stands for 'Super Mental Awareness Re-education Training Mode'.  Apparently, when we are in SMART mode, we can absorb suggestions and ideas much more readily. We can learn more easily and train our subconscious to behave differently.  Jon is the living embodiment of that.  

As I've been reading, I have found that everything he says makes sense and have started to gradually put it into practice.  I listen to the CD in bed at night and fall asleep to it. You're supposed to do that. It also helps me sleep really well, another bonus.

So, the journey has only started but I can see that things are gradually changing in my thinking.

I will use this space to talk about those changes and what I am learning on this interesting journey. It's also a way for me to be honest about what's going on instead of what I've been doing for years: thinking I am hiding my stress. Yeah, right!