If evenings didn't exist, I would be 20 pounds lighter

The first day of my four day cleanse wasn't bad....until evening time came around and I wanted pizza salad and a glass of wine, and maybe a cannoli for dessert. For years my mindset has been to eat well in the daytime and then enjoy the evening after a hard day of work. This isn't necessarily the way everybody thinks, maybe the Skinny Bitch doesn't think this way or have these tempations, but I do.

Growing up, my school lunch included a dry bologne sandwich, Lay's potato chips and milk. But at night, my mom made fantastic dinners. So was it embedded in me that I would live this way the rest of my life? .....not really.

The past equals the future only if you live there. I for one, wasn't very resourceful as a young man. I was like a ship with no rudder, floating into the ocean, the tides taking me from port to port.

You may ask, where am I going with this? Well, either you change the event or change the meaning. You know how everybody has opinions about everything? If you have ever talked to a policeman that does a report on auto accidents, you'll know that when they interview witnesses, each one of them has a different opinion on the same event. One says the car was driving north, the other says it was driving south! That's similar to how we look at events in our life. The only problem is that we usually choose the opinion that disempowers us.

So back to the first day of the cleanse. What can I make it mean to me in regards to eating a broth soup and green salad for dinner instead of my favorite dish? Well an empowering belief is that I am giving my body, that works so hard for me, a break, am cleansing out all of the bad stuff, will be more alert in the morning and can get more done, instead of cooking for two hours, I can study or watch football, or take a bath (which I did, and haven't taken a bath in months...I've showered of course).

Once I change the meaning, then I will look at the pattern behavior in a different way, and then create a more empowering behavior....and LIVE LIFE BY DESIGN.

Live with passion my friends.....