Wholistic Fitness

Coach Ilg,

The events of the last 24 hours compel me to send you this note.

I am a 47 year old, overweight executive who has been fighting with

demons of overindulgence for the past 20 years.� I have rationalized

my situation because of my job, raising 4 children, etc, etc.� Got

your book in January, actually the second of your works I have

acquired over the years.� It all clicked for me, but the old habits

and the ego mind can be formidable foes.

In my present condition, I couldn’t even think about doing many of the

exercises or poses in the book.� I read Direct Lines and dream of

being able to accomplish the physical achievements depicted there.�

But last night, doing errands while my son was doing his practice

(soccer), I found myself running from store to store.� Can you imagine

what the other shoppers were thinking when they saw this

short,�overweight, middle aged man running through the parking lot?� I

felt so energized, I couldn?t help it!

This morning when I got up to do my practice I found that one of my

German Shepherds had a diarrhea episode right on my exercise mats.�

Ordinarily, I would have seen this as a sign to go back to bed.� I

simply picked the mats up, threw them out the door, and went on.

Finally, when getting ready for work, I began to get exasperated

because I had left something down stairs in the dining room, from

which I had just come.� Instead of cursing, my usual reaction, I found

myself just taking a deep, cleansing breath.

I would guess that many of your disciples are accomplished athletes,

and your prescriptions for building the physical body are fantastic.�

And while I cannot yet boast huge weight loss numbers or athletic

achievements, I wanted to share with you my small strides during the

last day.� For indeed, what I am experiencing is not Body

Transformation, but maybe Life Transformation, or Soul

Transformation.� For the first time in my life, I feel like I am on

the correct Path, and the Path feels good!

I felt compelled to share this with you to let you know how much I

appreciate all of your efforts in making the tenets of WF available to

us all.� I know it must be very time intensive, and to some extent,

intrudes into your own practice.� I also know you probably get

thousands of these types of e-mails, but it was important to me to

express to you directly my love and appreciation for all that you do.

Regards to you and yours.

Joe Majestic