# 56 - Graduation

Wish me mazel tov. Last week I graduated from the Efrat Women's Health Center "Good Health and Wellness Course." My diploma said "Weight Loss and Wellness". And it indeed has been a combination of weight loss and understanding how to live a balanced life that will give each of us better health, IY"H, and better quality of life.
At our last group session the program's founder Dr. Tzippy Morris, nutritionist Judy Kizer and social worker Alizah Shapiro looked back at the changes we had made over the past six months.
We had all succeeded at changing many unhealthy habits and substituting them for good ones. Of course, that has taken many months of brainwashing, but we all hope and pray that those good habits are now a part of our inner selves (so that their results will show on our outer selves too).
Together we celebrated the changes we have each made in our lives, and our new healthier ideas. We celebrated the changes everyone had made in her life.
Learning to:
** Be good to yourself.
** Love exercise and healthy food.
** Think positive.
** Have positive healthy thoughts.
** Forgive yourself if you stumbled, and pick yourself up again.
** Pray for help and good health.
We are now hopefully on a path for life. We've been trained to be whole-y (semi) independent and to continue making the healthy decisions we've learned to make over the past six months. 
None of us wanted to split up, so we're going on together in a smaller format.
Wish us all luck, and IY"H, we look forward to our Efrat Women's Health Center Wellness Program Part II.