Dr. Peter J. Weiss

Hope­fully you read my last post and by now you’ve come to grips with the idea that you have a lifestyle ill­ness — per­haps type II dia­betes.

“Now what,” you say?  Relax, it’s very sim­ple, CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE!

Yes, change your lifestyle.  Really.  It can be done.  Peo­ple all around you are doing it.

Not every­one of course, but a few com­mit­ted souls are show­ing you the way.  Some alco­holics are learn­ing how to stay sober.  Some cig­a­rette smok­ers are giv­ing up the can­cer sticks.  Oth­ers are adopt­ing healthy dietary and exer­cise habits.

For most peo­ple this degree of change is hard.  No mat­ter, you’ve done hard things in your life before now.

You can do it again here, if you’re com­mit­ted.  Being com­mit­ted doesn’t mean that you’ll be an overnight suc­cess.  What it does mean no turn­ing back, no quit­ting.  And truly, if you just keep at it, you will even­tu­ally reach your goal.

So your home­work exer­cise for now is to inter­nal­ize these three state­ments:

• I CAN change my lifestyle.
• I WILL change my lifestyle
• I am COMMITTED to becom­ing healthy — no turn­ing back.

Once again, med­i­tate on them, speak them and write them until they’re firmly embed­ded in your con­scious­ness.

Noth­ing is more impor­tant than get­ting your thoughts in line with the changes you wish to make.  Even if you don’t believe these state­ments at first, just keep repeat­ing them to your­self.

“Fake it to you make it,” as they say.  With time you will believe them.

You can do it.