Light Bulb Moment

Posted by Theresa on August 21, 2012 2 comments
I subscribe to a number of positive and motivating newsletters and one article I read this week asked "what was your light bulb moment that made you decide to lose weight?" I decided this is a good time to pause and answer this question.
Light bulb with plant; source: McFarland, Pyle & Stone
Two years before I started this journey with the Key Hypnosis, I attended one of those presentations on weight loss surgery with a couple friends. Mainly I went to support my friend who is diabetic. I wasn't thinking about the surgery for myself (or so I told myself), but I had been curious about the process and this gave me the opportunity to support my friend and take a closer look at this option. After the presentation, I was clear I would never take that route.

A year later, I was thinking it might be my only option, but before I took any steps in that direction my friend ran into an old high school friend and her sister. She said they looked incredible and had lost a ton of weight through Julie. My friend signed up right away and told me about it. While I was on the wait list, I went to another hypnotherapist, but by the second appointment, it was clear to me that process wasn't going to work for me. Right about the same time, the call came from Julie's office and I scheduled appointment for the end of January (2011).

We were all excited about the program. My friend started with Julie a month before me and Aime was on the wait list for a couple months after me. This program, as you can read from my postings, has been an incredible journey and a good fit for me. I won't write for my friends on how Julie's program worked or didn't work for them; each of us had a completely different experience with Julie's program. I'm grateful for my friend that she found this program and that she told me about it.

In looking back, I don't see where I had a light bulb moment before I started the program. However, I've had many light bulb moments along the way, as I understand the way food interacts with my body and as I've learned the concepts of this program from Julie.

What about you? Did you have a light bulb moment that put you on this program?

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Articles I enjoyed this week:
Some of the newsletters I subscribe to (all free, but you need to sign-up):

2 comments:

  1. Unknown9/05/2012

    Hi Theresa, I had that light bulb moment you spoke about. I was squeezed into my size 18's and felt miserable. At the hairdressers one evening, she told me of a coworker who lost a lot of weight with a hypnotist in West Springfield! I was very interested and so she promised to email me the info. The next day at work,I'm a dental hygienist, a coworker called me into her room to see a patient who had lost @50 lbs....with a hypnotist in W. Springfield. He gave us the name of Julie and we both called her to get on the waiting list. A few months went by and I was at the dermatologist checking out. I noticed the receptionist had lost weight so I commented to her. She thanked me and said she had gone to Weight Watchers. Then she pointed to another coworker and she said..."See that nurse over there? She just lost 60 lbs going to a hypnotist in West Springfield"!!! Well, I knew right then that it was fate that I go to Julie...the rest is history. I'm down to a size 8/10 and am at goal, working on maintenance. Never felt better in my life!!! So that's my story...I think running into the third person in a row that had gone to Julie gave me such encouragement that I couldn't wait to go to her classes!!!
    Susan

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  2. Merp9/06/2012

    Hi Theresa,

    My flash of insight happened last week. I was driving down the hill to the store, and having an internal snit about all of the foods I wanted and couldn't get...chocolate, cheese, etc, etc. Feeling miserable and caught up in the addictive cycle. Suddenly it was as if a movie of all of the thousands of moments in my life when I have been filled with cravings flashed through my mind. And in many of those moments I got whatever the magical food was that I wanted. And the desperation was just as deep, and of course the delusional conviction that getting whatever it was would end the desperation was just that-a delusion. Eating those foods may have lessened the desperation for a moment, but no more than that, and filled me with other kinds of desperation, over my health, self-esteem, etc. So, I figured, I may be desperate either way, but one decision hurts my health while the other doesn't, and one decision continues the addictive prison forever and the other opens the possibility of freedom. Since then I have felt much more solid in my commitment.

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