Are you struggling with weight loss motivation? Do you keep telling yourself that you want to lose weight but you don’t take action?
Last week I shared with you that by doing the exercises in my Loving Yourself Thin series, I gained some motivation to get back on a healthy track with my personal weight loss and fitness goals. Well there’s something else that I’ve been doing that has helped me immensely: for the past three Sunday afternoon’s, I’ve been tuning in Lighten Up with Richard Simmons on Sirius Satellite Radio. Up until now I’ve actually never been a follower of Richard Simmons, and I haven’t used any of his weight loss programs
Richard is very compassionate with the people who call in (or who he calls) for help and motivation, and at the same time, he is very real with them. It’s not unusual for him to call someone out saying, “you really don’t want to lose weight, do you?” Every time he has asked someone this, the response that I’ve heard so far is, “no, I guess that I really don’t”. On the other hand, there are many people he talks to that truly do want lose weight and are ready to get moving, get the weight off, and get healthy.
I really like that while being very loving and compassionate, Richard Simmons gets real with his callers, stressing how important it is to put yourself and your health first, to love yourself, and to lose weight for your health.
If you’re looking for some weight loss motivation, you can listen to Richard on the Sirius Stars station from:
- 12pm – 12am EST each Sunday
- 12pm – 3pm EST you will hear a rebroadcast of the previous week’s show,
- 3pm – 6pm EST is the live show
- 6pm – 12am EST – rebroadcasts.
If you don’t have Sirius yet, you can purchase a radio here, or you can sign up for a free 3-day online subscription trial (you could sign up on Saturday or Sunday to make sure you can listen to the Lighten Up show during your trial period). They have an online only membership that you can purchase and you do get the Sirius Stars station online (the channel Richard Simmons is on), but you do not get all of the Sirius stations online.
Besides Richard’s show, there is a whole slew of excellent programming on Sirius. I’ve owned a Starmate for almost 2 years, which automatically includes an online membership, and I just love it. You have a large selection of ad-free music channels, in addition to the talk, news, weather, entertainment, and sports channels (and more). I also bought a home kit to go with my radio, so I can listen in my car, at home using my radio, or online anywhere.
If you already listen to Lighten Up with Richard Simmons, or if you end up listening this Sunday, I’d love to hear if you gain some motivation for your weight loss, health, and fitness goals from his show. I’ll be listening again next Sunday!
Dear Richard,
I am writing to you about my sister. She is very overweight, and a couple of weeks ago, said she didn’t think that she would get out of the house again. Her legs swell up, get very red, and sometimes develops open sores.
She is very smart, is an R.N. that worked at Children’s Hospital in St. Paul, MN. but hasn’t been able to work for several years. I have metastatic cancer, and wish that she could get on the road to recovery before I leave this earth. She and her husband have three adult children. Glenn is menatally disabled, lives at home, and will be 30 years old this summer. Claudia is a graduate of a local university with majors in Spanish and physics, and an MBA in education from another university. I’m impressed. She has two very young daughters. Sarah the youngest, is almost 22 years old and lives at home and works at Ikea. My sisters husband diesn’t work, but spends alot of time working with Glenn.
I have talked to her about different weight loss programs, but she always has an excuse or reasons for not joining. At one time she mentioned that the only person she would be interested in talking with was you. I don’t know if you ever write e-mails of encouragement, or what could be done to get her started, but anything would be appreciated. She doesn’t know that I am writing.
Incidentally, several years ago, I was working in the bakery at Aamodt’s Apple Farm when you were there, and our picture was in the newspaper. Thank you for your time, Sharon
Hi Sharon,
This is JoLynn, the author of this blog, but I can point you in the direction of how to contact Richard directly. 🙂
You can click here to send him an email, or you could call him on Sunday’s when he broadcasts live on Sirius. If you don’t have a radio yet (hey, get one, it’s soooo worth it even if all you do is listen to Richard on Sundays! 😉 ), you could still call him between 3pm and 6pm EST on Sundays. Now I can’t say that he will always broadcast (like on some holiday weekends they might not), but 9 out of 10 times he’s there.
Just call 1-888-4-102-102 during that time to get on air with Richard. He’s just wonderful, although I bet that he’ll want to talk to your sister herself instead of you, meaning that she needs to be ready to be helped, know what I mean?
I sincerely hope that everything works out for your sister, and for you!! It’s clear that you love her very much and only want the best for her. Let me know how it goes if you end up getting in touch with Richard! 🙂