I want to thank you for yesterday's telephone consultation. I have a series of tunes in my head this morning, and I am whistling and singing them as I begin my day. I am somewhat surprised, as last night, after my 14-hour day was over, I was exhausted. I didn't think the six hours sleep I had ahead of me would be sufficiently restful. However, I woke up with a positive, even ebullient mood. I'm excited by the decisions I made yesterday and the commitment I made to a woman I had only just met, and that by telephone.

Behind me, as you might guess, have been numerous starts and stops on eating better, getting more exercise, adjusting my lifestyle such that I could accomplish more while having time for recreation and leisure, the making and maintaining of friendships, etc., etc.

This is different. I attribute it to several factors. First, I perused many of the pages of your very large and informative website. Second, and this is somewhat scary, what you offer me is a fairly major but comprehensive plan to change and address many difficulties: weight, diabetes, fatigue, prostate enlargement, edema, dizziness... all the things that seem to be slowing me down these days. And when you told me, in all sincerity, that I am still young at age 66, I believed you. I have had the depressive and depressing symptom of believing that I am dying. I've never been suicidal, but thoughts of death have been recurrent.

Now, these first days are critical. I know that. Ironically, last night I taught a session on the brain. One of the sub-topics is how our brains serve us and how our brains sometimes lead us in directions that aren't so helpful. That led also to talking about habituation and how hard it is to break and change habits.

You are encouraging and guiding me towards more healthy habits.

I see that you have a support message board. I will join that today. And I will place my order for the products that will get me started.

Anonymous