Rena Greenberg - The Right Weigh: The Six Steps to Permanent Weight Loss Used by More Than 100,000 People

Words of Praise for The Right Weigh

Its all hereeverything anyone needs
to know and do to lose weight and keep it off
joyfully and healthfully. This book is a treasure!

Christiane Northrup, M.D., the author of Womens Bodies,
Womens Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

America is suffering from an epidemic of obesity,
with no limit in sight. The Right Weighoffers a way out
a natural, sane approach that takes into account body, mind,
and spirit. This perspective is vastly needed if we are to
learn how to live in harmony and balance with food.

Larry Dossey, M.D., the author of
Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words

Rena Greenberg hones in on one of the deepest causes
of overweightour thoughts about itand helps us to
dismantle those thoughts. The Right Weighprovides
help that many people have been praying for.

Marianne Williamson, the author of
The Gift of Change and A Return to Love

If you do not feel loved, you will find addictive,
self-destructive behaviors to replace the feelings you seek
to experience. Rena Greenbergs guidance can help you to
reparent yourself and nourish the Divine child within you
in ways that will lighten your mind, body, and spirit.

Bernie Siegel, M.D., the co-author of Help Me to Heal
and the author of 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

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Copyright 2005 by Rena Greenberg

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Editorial supervision: Jill Kramer Design: Tricia Breidenthal

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews without prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Greenberg, Rena.

The right weigh : six steps to permanent weight loss used by more than 100,000 people / Rena Greenberg.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4019-0687-0 (tradepaper)

ISBN-10: 1-4019-0687-7 (tradepaper)

1. Weight loss. 2. Nutrition. 3. Health. I. Title.

RM222.2.G722 2005

613.7dc22

2005020456

ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-0687-0
ISBN 10: 1-4019-0687-7

11 10 09 08 6 5 4 3
1st printing, December 2005
3rd printing, May 2008

Printed in the United States of America

This book is dedicated to my Creator,
with the deepest gratitude.

CONTENTS

How the Right Weigh
Program Came About

M y wake-up call came when I was 25 and mysteriously started to feel chronically exhausted. Prior to that, Id been healthy, energetic, and enjoying my youth fully. However, I didnt have any concept of taking care of myself. I was highly addicted to sugar and caffeine in any formrich carbohydrates, alcoholic beverages, and an unlimited supply of coffeealthough I was only about 15 to 20 pounds overweight because I exercised excessively. I certainly didnt know about listening to my body or eating, resting, exercising, and living in a balanced and moderate way.

I went from one doctor to another in search of an answer to my condition, and tried to will myself back to health with various diets and exercise routines, to no avail. Finally, after being advised by an acupuncturist and a physical-education teacher that my heart rate was irregular, I walked over to the hospital nearest to my home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, certain that there was nothing physically wrong with me. To my surprise, I was whisked right into the ER and told that my heart rate was 30 beats per minute and the only thing keeping me alive was my age.

I was taken directly to the cardiac-care unit, where the chief cardiologist announced that I had the heart of an 80-year-old. Because it was an emergency situation, he attached a temporary pacemaker to my heart through a large vein that originated in my thigh. But before he left for the weekend, he gave strict orders to the resident doctor and the nurses to leave the device shut off so that he could see what would happen to my natural heart rhythm.

Late the next evening, I started to feel extreme pain in my chest that was radiating down my left arm. The resident doctor (who appeared not to have slept in days) took little notice and gave me a drug that caused my ears to ring but had no effect on the pain. After he left the room, my pain grew stronger. The nurse on duty told me that she couldnt go against the doctors orders and turn the pacemaker on, even though I was begging her to at that point.