Sex Isn't the Only Way to Have an Orgasm

"I love to pray.  I really do. It's orgasmic for me." Iyanla Vanzant recently said these words as she was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. That's it!  She knows what I'm talking about! And she knows there are other ways to achieve an orgasmic state of mind besides simply having sex! What makes me feel orgasmic?  What makes my heart sing? What pushes me into the throes of ecstacy?  So, so, so  many things! I'm a flutist, and when I'm playing my flute in a room with what I call "zingy acoustics," there's a sense of ecstasy I feel. I love to paint with pastels, and when I get a piece of art to a point where it "sings," or "zings," that's orgasmic for me. I've felt a delicious, ecstatic rush when I've seen an otter playing in a loch in the Orkney Islands. I've felt a sense of orgasmic bliss as I've stepped off a treadmill. I even felt euphoria the day my mother died, because I knew her pain...

What does pleasure have to do with losing weight? On the surface, nothing. But look a little deeper, and maybe pleasure has everything to do with dieting! When we go on a traditional diet, we immediately think in terms of "good" and "bad."  We think of "foods I can have," and "foods I can't have," or "shouldn't have." After a day or two, or a week or two, or a month or two, all we are those foods we "shouldn't have." But when we infuse pleasure into our thinking, we change.  Instead of thinking in terms of "good" and "bad" food, we ask ourselves the question, "What will bring me the most pleasure?" If the answer is a stale candy bar from a vending machine, great.  Go for it.  Enjoy it! But if you would get a deeper level of pleasure, of satisfaction from a single bite of Godiva chocolate, go for that! Or maybe it isn't even chocolate!  May it's a hot, satisfying, h...