Think and Grow Thin!: Your Shortcut to How I Dropped and Kept off 10 Sizes. Secrets to Mastering Your Self-Esteem, Self-Reliance, and Self-Talk!

By Conni Blanchard

This moment is ALL you have and ALL you will ever need to shape your future! Rewiring your brain by retraining your thoughts and habits is possible using my MTM Methodology:

M: MASTER Self-Esteem: Learn to raise your standards as you learn that you cannot outperform your self-image. You have dignity as a miraculous human being. Your body is a machine and it will respond when you make better choices.

T: THE Imagination, Self-Reliance: You are your own best coach. Learn to teach your body ahead of time what your compelling future will feel like! Learn to reach for the feelings of what it would be like to feel healthy and abundant to draw those states of being into your life!

M: MOMENT, Self-Talk in the Now: Your subconscious cannot reject any idea you give to it. Learn to reach for better feeling thoughts and words to describe yourself in the 12-60,000 thoughts you have each day! Learn to combine a clear intention with an elevated emotion to improve how you think, act, and feel by determining what you really, really want!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Apr 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765228012

Conni Blanchard

Conni Blanchard, president of Master The Moment, Inc. was a deeply emotional eater who rewarded and punished herself with food for decades. She transformed herself by learning to master the moment. By retraining her thinking, she dropped 10 sizes and her body went from being her worst enemy to her best friend. As a mentor for Emotional Eaters, a catalyst for real change, she shares her authentic life experience to restore self-worth, a sense of dignity, and hope for women who suffer from poor self-esteem, no self-reliance and debilitating self-talk. She currently lives outside of Boston, MA with her husband. This year they proudly share the milestone of their daughter’s college graduation.

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ISBN: 979-8-7652-2800-5 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022907850

Balboa Press rev. date:  04/26/2022

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DEDICATION

This is dedicated to my mom who shared this valuable life lesson with me as a teenager when my hormones first started raging: There will always be someone greater and lesser in the world at everything you choose to do, so only compare yourself to you!

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Introduction

PART I

M: MASTER Self-Esteem: Learn to raise your standards as you learn that you

cannot outperform your self-image. You have dignity as a miraculous human

being. Your body is a machine and it will respond when you make better choices.

DESIRE – My story

DESIRE – Napoleon Hill’s strategy applied to emotional eating

FAITH – My story

FAITH – Napoleon Hill’s strategy applied to emotional eating

AUTOSUGGESTION – My story

AUTOSUGGESTION – Napoleon Hill’s strategy applied to emotional eating

PART II

T: THE Imagination and Self-Reliance: You are your own best coach, you know yourself

intimately better than anyone else knows you. Learn to teach your body ahead of time what

your compelling future will feel like. Practice living in a state of grace, reach for the feelings

of what it would be like to feel healthy and abundant to draw those states of being into your life!

IMAGINATION – My story

IMAGINATION – Napoleon Hill’s strategy applied to emotional eating

ORGANIZED PLANNING – My story

ORGANIZED PLANNING – Napoleon Hill’s strategy applied to emotional eating

DECISION – My story

DECISION – Napoleon Hill’s strategy applied to emotional eating

PART II

M: MOMENT, Self-Talk in the Now:

PERSISTENCE – My story

PERSISTENCE – Napoleon Hill’s strategy applied to emotional eating

THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND – My story

THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND – Napoleon Hill’s strategy applied to emotional eating

THE SIXTH SENSE – My story

THE SIXTH SENSE – Napoleon Hill’s strategy applied to emotional eating

Afterword

Endnotes

INTRODUCTION

I was a deeply emotional eater who rewarded and punished myself with food for decades. I have transformed my mind and body by learning to master the moment. I have retrained my thinking to focus on my choices in 5-minute windows, 24 hours at a time. As I learned to retrain my thoughts, behaviors, and habits my body has transformed from my worst enemy into my very best friend. As I develop the courage to step onto the global stage to share my message, my mission is to be an authentic mentor for emotional eaters everywhere and a catalyst for real change! My message is powerful and it is real. I must share the important news that there is an alternative to deprivation dieting, excessive exercise, and nonsense. I am sharing my authentic life experience to restore self-worth, a sense of dignity, and hope for women who suffer from poor self-esteem, no self-reliance and debilitating self-talk. Starting 40 years ago, my only crutch for my emotions was eating. My body grew to be bigger than ever, for me, and I felt awkward because my outside appearance was so far off how I felt inside. My self-esteem had plummeted. I was desperate to find a way to stop hating the way I looked in the mirror since I felt uncomfortable all day every day. For years, every morning I used to criticize myself and I punished and rewarded myself with food throughout my day. Each night I fell into bed feeling worse than when I woke up which was a vicious, painful cycle. I knew that I had to work on my self-esteem, for starters. I tapped into my powerful imagination and I learned self-reliance the hard way. There was no internet to seek out support when I started my journey. I loved the insights in the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. In 1937, the book came out and he never renewed the copyright license. This is my true story of how I adapted the concepts of his book of valuable lessons to my own personal journey of inner transformation from an overweight teenager obsessed with food and with pleasing my parents to dropping and keeping off 10 sizes, living with renewed energy and hope for my future. Over time, I structured my steps to success into my MTM methodology for you to follow in order because they are cumulative, which is exciting! Your starting point is to grasp that your brain is a record of your past. Your life experiences, thoughts, behaviors, and habits got you to this moment. The secret for you to succeed on a different plan back to your true self requires you to pay attention to your choices. You must give yourself permission to reach for a better feeling thought. Allow yourself to lean into your compelling future rather than dwelling on the past. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you make a change but sometimes you can just decide that enough is enough and you understand that you deserve to feel better now! Rewiring your brain by retraining your thoughts and habits is possible by following my