Movers, Shakers and Squatters. Which one are you? In my current state, certainly I am a bonafide mover and shaker. Although, I have squatted just as well. So why start moving and shaking now? I'm glad you asked. Just because I can. Losing weight opened more doors than to just better shopping. It gave me something even greater -- energy.

Energy is defined as the capacity for vigorous activity; available power. I have so much of it now, I got my NY State issued real estate license! Sure people have asked, "Why real estate in this market?" To which I intelligently reply, "Shut up stupid." What they don't know is that to have enough get up and go to graduate from clown college would've been more than I've done in the last 20 years.

Quite simply, I was not motivated when I was fat. Even more than my physical limitations was my own debilitating self talk. I just didn't think I was worth it. Losing weight was no magic bullet, but it did help me overturn the lies in my mind, lies that said I would never be this or do that. In my old state, I embraced them as truth because of physical limitations.

Losing a few pounds was not how I made the revelation that I was lying to myself and that lies were my truth. That came with me reacting against the lie. If I started talking myself out of crossing my legs, I would cross them because I really could. Granted it wasn't graceful, and I had to hold that big 'ol leg up for dear life, but I physically could. Nobody said I had to cross them for long, but I needed the truth. I, in fact, could, I just didn't want to, cause it hurt like the dickens. Nevertheless, I had the capacity to do what my thoughts said I could not do. The truth empowered me. I took every negative thought and tested it. Some proved true and that was OK, as long as they were accurate.

If you are reading this and negative self talk is ruling you, scream! It's a known fact that yelling breaks the thought cycle. That break gives you a moment to reset. What was going to be negative, make it positive. Proverbs 23:7 says, "as a man thinketh, so is he." This leads me to the question of the day: What is on your mind? Thoughts can change a squatter into a mover and a shaker. There'll be time to squat when I'm old and gray. Till then I'll be moving and shaking.