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If you told me twenty-two years ago that not only would I be sharing a magazine cover with the lovely Maria Menounos of the Today Show (in fact, the way they designed the cover, I seem to be emerging from her jeans!) but be fit and trim while doing so, I would have fallen over laughing. Ah…how sweet it is when dreams come true. And how wonderful to remember the day I finally decided changed my life for good and started on the path towards those dreams.
But back to the present! Yes, I’m a cover girl. What a thrill to be standing in the checkout line and seeing myself looking back at me from the magazine, First for women. And Maria Menounos and I have more in common than sharing a cover. We are both weight loss success stories. She, too, has released weight (in her case, 40 pounds) and has kept it off.
As Maria knows, keeping it off is sometimes the biggest challenge. That’s why we need an approach to weight-loss that goes beyond the same diet and exercise treadmill. We need to approach the issue holistically, with self-love, and understand the underlying issues that affect our relationship to food. Otherwise those pounds will creep right back on.
Everyday, I visualize a world where people no longer hate their bodies, make them wrong, feel nothing but appreciation for healthy food and no longer struggle with the scale.
It was such thrill to be interviewed and share my story for First Magazine. Not only did I release 100 pounds (and have kept it off for 22 years) I gained self-love – that’s the only way to create permanent change. My experience made me want to reach out to others experiencing suffering and frustration with their weight and body image. I was inspired to create OnePinky.com and my body image mastery course to inspire, support, and nourish others, while helping them achieve their weight loss goals and master their compulsive eating habits. It’s not just about the weight. It’s about loving your body, who you are, your entire self. But you have to begin somewhere and you need help and support to get to where you want to go. Twenty-two years ago, when I felt unlovable and knew I couldn’t live like that anymore, I started off by loving just one of my pinky’s. Appreciating and accepting that little part of my body allowed me to start someplace until I was able to love it all.
I do not take the ability to heal for granted. Everyday I wake up feeling a responsibility to serve others who need support and love. I was shown a path and want others to find a path for themselves to own who they are and love who they are.
That is the aim and goal here at OnePinky.com and we encourage you all no matter where you are on your path to start by accepting where you are and getting clear about where you want to go. You can get there and I am happy to hold your hand while you are on your journey.
I do not want anyone to have MY life. Quite the opposite. I want you to have YOUR life. The tools and techniques at OnePinky.com will set you on YOUR HEALING PATH and you will have a healthy, strong, powerful life and a body you love if that is something you want…and you can have happy…and my favorite definition of success is HAPPY!!!! –Laura Fenamore
