First of all, I want to say thanks to Rhonda Byrne for introducing The Secret and The Power to millions around the world! We love you Rhonda Byrne! 🙂

Well, here it goes…

It all started when I got arrested on October 3, 2010, for underage drinking. I was sitting in the cell wondering what the hell was going on and why I was there in the first place. Then I realized that it was ME who attracted all this because that night I was arguing with my ex-girlfriend over nothing and I kept acting negative the whole night by ignoring her, blowing her off, and not even looking at her. I never realized back then how something like that can attract something so BIG.

She finally bailed me out after sitting there for four hours, and I felt like a horrible person because I put her through that kind of mess. After all this happened, it’s been since then that we last talked.

So going back to the time period after I got bailed out, I was depressed for a whole week. I didn’t want to sleep, eat, weight train, or do anything involving me going outside and doing anything active. During this time period, I gained a lot of weight too due to my depression, because I kept telling myself, “You’re nothing, Byron, you look fat and horrible.” So each time I kept telling myself this, I got worse and worse.

The next week went by and my best friend Anthony came up to me at work one day and introduced me to The Power. He mentioned to me how it will change my life forever. I decided to take the chance, so after I got off work, I stopped by Barnes and Noble and picked myself up a copy of my own and read it when I got home. And I swear, ha, ha, ha, ha, I finished that book in TWO NIGHTS AND THOSE TWO NIGHTS CHANGED MY LIFE COMPLETELY! I started looking at the brighter things in life by writing down a list of what I am grateful for in my life, for me to read every day.

After turning my life around, things started to change around me and it freaked me out a lot; my relationship with my family got better, my best friends and I are closer than ever, my grades skyrocketed through the roof, and somehow I still believed that my ex-girlfriend was still around and I still felt her presence around me.

Everything has been going good since then, all because of a book and how that book slapped me in the face and made me realize that I was meant to live an amazing life, but I’ve been doing it wrong all along. And what about the weight loss thing? Yeah, ha, ha, I started losing weight also, but slowly and without even dieting also! For me being a bodybuilder myself, I found it truly amazing how if you love yourself so much and look at food in a whole new way, by looking at it at as a “plate of gratitude”, and having a picture of the perfect body in your mind, things DO change! Not going to lie, I printed out a picture of WWE Superstar, John Morrison, and put it next to my alarm clock for me to see every day and for me to think, “Yeah, that’s going to be me soon!” It really helps a lot. I can now eat WHATEVER I want, anytime I want, without worrying about nutrient timing, calorie control, choosing the right kinds of carbs, proteins, or fats. To me, I look at food as nourishment to the body. As long as you don’t worry about what you eat, you will be happy and your body will react differently to it too!

Even though my ex and I haven’t talked for about a month now, I still NEVER stopped believing. Every day, I always act like she’s still there. I sleep on the side of my bed, pretending she’s right next to me, and trust me guys, with this kind of mindset, it truly helps you out a lot. Without The Power in my life, I wouldn’t be who I am now.

Thanks everybody!