Recently, one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs and technology innovators Steve Jobs passed away from complications linked to his 2004 run-in with Pancreatic Cancer.  Steve Jobs was one of the founders of Apple inc. and Apple’s CE0 and heroic inspiration since 1997. He died October 5^th 2011 An extraordinary visionary and a rarely gifted business strategian. Steve Jobs helped form the American computers and entertainment culture that we take in stride in our daily lives. At Bodhi we could have helped him. We could have saved him.  Literally.

Steve Jobs’ problems began in 2004 with Pancreatic Cancer. Choosing to treat this through conventional medicine employing a technique with a less than 1% success rate, his physicians were able to extend his life a few years by managing his symptoms.  Extend his life.

The Pancreas is a small organ, about 6 inches long next to the intestine in the upper abdomen. Responsible for the release of Glucagon and Insulin, the Pancreas controls sugar levels in the blood.  In concert with the stomach and intestines, the Pancreas is also heavily involved in breaking down proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Inflammation (a rush of white blood cells convinced that there is a foreign body invasion) of one kind or another is the beginning of all cancers.

Join me on journey as I challenge all my fears and set out to lose 60 pounds! I will be doing a 30 day HCG weight loss program followed by a 12 week Bodhi Fit to lose weight and feel like the woman I have always wanted to be, or actually remember being.

I started my weight gain journey seven years ago. I got the job I always wanted in the company of my dreams. I met the man of my dreams had, two beautiful kids, bought a house, bought better cars, and created lasting friendships. In keeping with all my gains in life, I also gained 60 pounds. The latter crept into my life slowly, then 9 months ago escalated quickly out of control. All of those wonderful things I had received in my life left me to forgetting my health. I ate when convenient and I ate convenient foods. Slowly I ate more and more of the wrong foods, forgetting the foods that had helped me stay young and active, forgetting that eating well & exercise was what helped me achieve all the fabulous things in my life!

The gratitude for the things I received began to fade into the background. It was replaced with fatigue, mood swings, bigger clothes, self-loathing, a huge drop in self-confidence and my sex life becoming sparse.

I didn’t wake up one day and realize my physical body was not how I wanted it to be. It was days, months and years of me thinking, ‘I need to do something. Tomorrow I am going to get up and go for a run’, then years later it was ‘I am just going to go for a walk’. I spent countless hours agonizing about how I was going to get out of this weight gaining, self-loathing rut. I would criticize myself every time I ate a muffin when I should have had a shake for breakfast or watch T.V. when I should have done some yoga. I began not to want to see my friends as often. I didn’t have the mental energy to even play with the kids or listen as they told me about their day. All the little things to accomplish began to seem looming and impossible. I was profoundly unhappy.

That brings us to two weeks ago when I was sitting down talking with my dear friend Joanna O’neal, founder of Bodhi, telling her how incredibly unhappy I was. She listened to me and then simply said, “Sophie, you know you can do something about it” WHAT I can? Can’t I just sit here and complain and become more depressed, and watch my body grow, gain diabetes, colon cancer and heart disease? This is what I wanted to say, but instead I said “HOW”. She told me all about Bodhi, as she had done countless times before, but this time I was ready to listen! She told me about their weight-loss programs and how she had seen people’s lives radically change. How she has had patients tell her that they have an entirely new life and they LOVE IT.

I want to love my life again. I want to feel able, sexy, graceful and confident! That is why I am here. I am asking you to join me on this journey. If you want to be the person you are always planning in your head on being then please do not wait, start NOW!

I am going to spend the next 4 months relaying my journey to you. Join me on this journey any time you are ready. And trust me, you deserve it!

Essential to our sense of self and the reflection of that self we wish to share with others who are special to us, the human sex organs are heavily obsessed over, perhaps none more so than the female breasts. To lose a breast to breast-cancer is a blow that strikes a woman on multiple levels and requires strength and resilience that those who have not suffered such a loss could never totally understand. Women who have suffered this loss embark upon a journey to confront much of what fundamentally terrifies us as humans; loss of self, fear of death, fear of abandonment, sometimes a spiritual crisis, and a host of other painful roads they must not merely survive but walk down  and experience to emerge with strength, dignity and a renewed sense of self and personal power.

Written by resident Hot Girl- Michelle O.

Also known as attractive, sensual, provocative, spicy, and alluring, sexiness is an attribute many of us have and more of us want.  But what are the traits, exactly, that create sexiness and, more importantly, how can we create sexiness in our own lives?  As the new resident Bodhi Hot Chick newsletter correspondent, I will be sharing my insights and tips to achieve optimal health.   I will address weight loss, glowing skin, healthy eating, awesome exercise and managing stress, among many other topics.  My first assignment is to discuss sexy!  I am specifically qualified for this because I am sexy myself.  This fact has been independently verified by a range of objective observers along with a certification from the Sexy Foundation of Arizona.