For twenty years I was in and out of brutal relationships on both personal and professional levels. My weight gain was substantial, and I could never quite achieve my true desired goals. I always felt as though there was something holding me back. While there were always significant events to escalate my happiness, I was continually failing to satisfy myself.

The jump-start to the ‘new me’ actually began in the front row at a Donna Summer concert, where I was pulled from the crowd to join her on-stage to perform “On The Radio”. I came alive that night in front of a screaming crowd and my wide-smiling mother.

Surfing to Donna Summer’s website the following day, I was devastated to see a picture of myself, as my shining moment should not have been my fattest. Thus the quest to do something about my weight was initiated. Several months went by and nothing happened, though a pair of white denim jeans, fifteen years old, were hanging in my closet. ‘I will wear them again,’ I kept telling myself.

With a desired weight in mind, I altered, almost unconsciously, my diet plan, and watched the pounds melt away without doing anything but walking three miles a day.

On March 25, 2006, I dreamed about a former co-worker from the early ’80s. We had a major blow-up back then that was violent, and I was the perpetrator. In the dream his face was inches from mine. I woke up saying out loud, “Get the hell away!” His glare into my eyes from that dream stayed with me for a week. Then I discovered his e-mail address after several Google searches. Uncertain how he was going to react by hearing from me, I held my breath until the next day when his reply arrived in my Inbox. He was so kind, and recollected my favorite band, which was not what I was expecting. I was so humbled by it, I wept considerably.

Shortly thereafter, I took it upon myself to fill him in on the two decades we did not communicate, and apologized for my behavior. Inexplicably I dropped 25 lbs. Literally overnight, and the white jeans fit!

After a year’s worth of correspondence, I finally made the trek west for a face-to-face apology.
Not only did my weight disappear, and stay off, but all the negative factors I was harboring disappeared, as well.

I did not have a logical explanation for these events, but upon reading The Secret, I discovered that I was working in the capacity of how the Secret functions. Because of it, I have a decent friend from the past due to the necessary act of Forgiveness, my figure is far more desirable to myself, and life is perpetually bringing about new elements of increase.