Are you ready to make the Decision?

It will change your life forever.

Millions of others like us have done it...and are doing it everyday...but first, you have to make the decision.

You have to make a decision unlike any you ever made before. I had to...over and over again, I had to make it.

And it was the BEST thing I ever did for myself!

You know what it is you need to decide...

Let me explain.

Deciding I needed to lose weight - that was obvious. I was 297 pounds, spitting distance from 300. My blood levels were off, it hurt to move, and I was miserable. So deciding to lose weight. Done. But that wasn't the hard part. I had lost weight before...50-70 pounds...you know the drill. Cut calories, workout, blah, blah, blah...lose weight, everyone says nice things. Then it all comes back. I have done it a least a dozen times before. No - there was another decision to make:

Deciding that I was a normal sized person.

Maybe that sounds confusing? But the truth is, I KNEW I could lose weight...but I didn't believe I could keep it off. I believed that I was destined to be a fat girl all my life. Why? Because that was what everyone had been telling me all my life. No matter how good I was in sports, it was always conditional...if only she wasn't so fat. Or, you are such a pretty girl, if only you weren't so heavy. You are just big-boned. You will always be heavy, etc.

Actually, my decision had to go one step further...

I had to believe that I wasn't a fat girl anymore. I had to DECIDE to be normal sized.

Normal? Size 12-14 Normal?

What exactly did that mean? And how on earth was I going to believe it when I was wearing a size 28? In my entire adult life I had never been a size 12-14. How could I change my belief about myself?

It didn't happen all at once, and it certainly didn't happen overnight...but I KNEW that if I lost weight slowly, I could keep it off. If I could change my ACTIONS, I could change my HABITS and if I could change my HABITS, then I could change my weight, permanently. But still...believing I could be something I had never been before? That took some outside help.

Let the Transformation begin -

Just short of two years into my journey, I met a woman named Mandy Evans at a beautiful retreat center in Rowe, Massachusetts. She was leading a Breakout Weekend - literally designed to help people breakout from limiting beliefs. After months of working on myself in my own head, I wanted some help...and I had found Mandy's book, Emotional Options, to be very, very transforming. After a lifetime of being the fat girl, I was changing my belief about what I was...and it was amazing.

What if I didn't have to be the big girl anymore?

What kind of things would I do, if I wasn't the fat girl anymore?

• What if I could play sports again?
• what if I could start buying cool clothes off the rack at a regular store?
• What if I could have fun and feel pretty again?
• What if all of this happened with by simply eliminating a limiting belief?

The Fashion show, the Rugby player and the wedding

Well - just 3 months after meeting Mandy, I was in a FASHION show, showing off my new, NORMAL figure. Clothes that I never could have worn before...you know, One size fits all...now fit me.

Then, another month after that, I started playing rugby again...but this time 4 sizes smaller than I had ever played before! (And I was still as good enough to play with women 20 years my junior!). Finally, I went to my sister's wedding...and saw family that had never seen me so small. I had truly changed my life.

You see, the decision to lose weight is huge...and hard to stick with - if you are battling your own beliefs about yourself. When I was the fat girl, trying to lose weight...I was doomed...because I always saw myself as the fat girl. The MOMENT I saw myself as the normal sized woman, I started to become the normal sized woman. I ate, and moved and acted like a normal sized woman... and it was real.

I am size 12 now...and soon enough I will be a size 10. That is who I am...Erin, size 10. I will never be that fat girl again...she is long gone.

What if you could be different today - what would you be?

Decide...today.