Hello Dear Secret Fans,

I’ve enjoyed so many of the uplifting stories I’ve read here. Thank you all so much for writing them. I feel now it is my time to share my story with you all. Thank you also to the Secret staff and Rhonda Byrne for giving us this forum to share each other’s joyful experiences!

My story is about my body and how easily I lost weight and got in shape using the ideas presented in The Secret books and movie. I feel now that it was so easy to do. I sometimes wonder why I ever thought it was hard.

For some time I had wanted to lose weight and have a great figure, but I’d complain, put myself down and just felt a bit discouraged in general. I was kind of depressed. I had gained weight over time and felt that as a mother, this was just my lot in life. I had resigned myself to being around to make everyone else’s life easier and that my desires came after everyone else’s.

But then one day I just made a different decision. I had read all the Secret books and been practicing thinking positively and looking on the bright side more often. I had a journal on my phone where I’d write down lists of things I liked and I was trying to focus of those things more and more. I remember I had read a story here about a teen who magically got her perfect body and how she’d put on body cream and imagine having her perfect body. Her story was so real to me that I knew if she could do it I could too. I believe now that all the positive thinking I had started to do since reading the Secret, like practicing gratitude and being optimistic had attracted more and more positive thoughts and ultimately my perfect body .

One day, while standing up and eating at my kitchen counter, I looked at my food and instead of saying the usual prayer I said, ” This food is good for my body. This food will nourish me and give me energy. This is good food and I will be better for eating it.” And then I imagined myself seated on the couch, looking awesome in my workout clothes. I had been working out very little with my husband. I always wore big, baggy, old clothes to the gym to hide behind, but in my vision I had real cute, stylish clothes and a firm, fit little body.

Over the next weeks I made a vision board on my computer. I copied pictures of beautiful bodies I found online and put a photo of my head on top. I had a lot of fun doing it. I continued my new prayer over my food and I’d look at my vision board as often as I’d remember. Eventually I attracted some cute workout clothes at the usual places I shop and I started to wear them to workout. I created a few rules around food, but not the usual ones! My rules were based on trusting my body’s signals. I ate what I wanted, how much I wanted (no more, no less), whenever I wanted. So, if I wanted ice cream for breakfast, okay. Sometimes I’d have just 4 strips of bacon for lunch. If someone asked me to try something I didn’t want, I said no thank you. I didn’t clean my plate, I didn’t over eat. I just ate selfishly what I wanted and no more. Also, at the gym my rule was just walk on the running machines, as slow as I wanted, stopping if I wanted, but walk for 30 minutes totally. If I felt like getting on the weight machines, okay, but I didn’t count repetitions – how boring! I’d just do a machine until I didn’t feel like it anymore. I trusted my instincts. Also, I’d ignore mirrors. Instead of looking at myself I’d imagine myself. If I did have to look I didn’t scrutinize. I’d often just take off my glasses when in the bathroom.

So, in time, because of law of attraction, I started doing a bit more at the gym. I imagined myself looking like a supermodel on the machines. I’d put on music and felt like the musicians were singing and dancing with me while I walked. I actually started picking up speed! I still walk today, but now I’m pretty fast and go up hill. I also have a huge smile on my face! It’s gotten to be so much fun!

Needless to say, people started to comment on how I looked, especially my husband. I had to get a belt for my pants and I started to need to get some new clothes. I now like form fitting clothing because I look good in clothes like that. I’m not too afraid of those mirrors anymore, but I still make sure to talk nice to myself when I do catch a glimpse, not all lighting is perfect! The best part is when my husband comments though. That’s really nice. He says I have a fit little body and I just love it.

It’s been about a year and I can say I’ve never been happier about my body. I’ve never even liked my legs before, ever! But now I do. I love to shave them and even put moisturizer on them. I love to take care of myself more and more. I love my whole self. I’m not sure how much weight I lost, but I’m thinking it was about 30 pounds, definitely 2 pant sizes down as I’m about 5’3″.

Anyone can do this. It was so easy and so fun. It started with deliberately wanting to be happier and deliberately practicing things that make me happy; like gratitude and making lists of things I liked. That mental attitude attracted more good thoughts and I began to trust myself. I highly recommend a vision board and putting your face on the bodies you like with the clothing you like. It’s so fun and then like magic, one day it just happens! Someone will just look at you and say, “Wow, you look great!” You’ll be so happy.