There are lots of lists of people’s greatest fears.

But if you ask many women, right up there with public speaking and snakes is trying on bathing suits.

Maybe even worse is being seen in public in a bathing suit.

Now that it’s summer, the fear intensifies, because, let’s face it ladies, we’re not the lithe young things we used to be (or maybe never were). The years, lack of willpower and plain old bad habits have packed on the pounds.

Oh, it’s not that we haven’t tried. We’ve lost some and gained back more. 
And believe it or not, during the summer when being trim seems even more important is when many of use tend to gain – not lose – weight. We break out the barbeque grills or sip margaritas by the pool and quicker than you can say cellulite, we’re tipping the scales even higher.

It’s time to turn those fears around. In her book, A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson wrote:

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us,
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

We are indeed powerful. In fact, harnessing the amazing power of our own minds may be the real key to permanent weight loss.