1. Weight-Loss and Stress–and the power of getting into
Pleasure!
Have you found a correlation in your life between feeling stressed out and gaining
weight?
When you’re stressed, your body releases a hormone called cortisol which slows down
your metabolism, causing you to gain weight. And when you are stressed, this same
hormone triggers you to reach for fattier, saltier and sweeter foods.
Chocolate is comforting in the first few bites, but emotional eating to comfort stress can
lead to adding on extra pounds, which is not comforting and only adds to the stress in
your life.
What’s a girl to do? There is one sure-fire remedy for stress, and that’s PLEASURE. And
by it’s very definition, it means feeling good.
When you are in PLEASURE, or what I like to call Body Joy, you release
neurotransmitters called endorphins― and your body feels light and beautiful, happy and
free, and naturally high! Endorphins are those natural body messengers that make you
feel SO GOOD after taking a brisk walk, or dancing in the living room, or running down
the beach with a dog or child. Endorphins are your body’s natural reward system for
taking the actions that are the most healthy and truly comforting for you.
You have to understand that getting into PLEASURE is essential in your ability to lose
weight.
You know, in our cultural learning of the best ways to lose weight–we are usually trained
that we need to suffer to do it. Things like working out and dieting are very hard to

2. maintain because of the energy of depriving yourself,
of not following your body’s natural design of feeling
good to lose weight.
One of the best ways to tap into your natural
PLEASURE and your natural sensual self, is to
DANCE. Dancing and rocking your hips to the beat
and shaking your delicious booty, is a sure fire to
activate your Pleasure center.
Women’s pleasure center is in their hips–it is where
the core of our movement comes from, we feel things
in our gut, being tapped into our sensual selves makes us feel overflowing and creative in
every area of our lives.
Shaking your hips and booty just feels so good! And tapping into your natural wellspring
of creativity, pleasure, sensuality, and power gets you on your way to feeling great in your
body and knowing that anything, and everything, is possible.
It’s not about grueling workouts or riding an exercise bike for an hour–which just
conditions you to believe in the necessity of struggle, it’s about getting into joy and play
and being “in” your body.
If you are ready to experience sustained weight-loss through the power of pleasure, then
you have to check out Theresa Stevens’ free training on the power of pleasure and
happiness to help you lose weight. Visit her website here: Lose Weight By Dancing
Tapping into your body’s natural pleasure, beauty, and energy is deeply satisfying in
every area of your life. Visit Lose Weight By Dancing to learn more today!

3. What’s the missing ingredient in almost every weight-loss
plan?
There is one essential, missing ingredient in almost every weight-loss plan out there. This
missing ingredient is not the latest, greatest workout routine. This missing ingredient is
not a specific diet.
This missing ingredient has to do with how you feel about yourself, right now, in your body
and in your life.
The biggest problem with the idea of “losing weight” in general is that you start doing
workouts and diets because you don’t like how your body is right now. You want to look
different. You want to feel better.
And if you start from a place of not liking your
body and how your body is right now–any
actions that you take are not going to give
you long-lasting results. If you tell yourself, I
can only be happy in the future, when I look
and feel a certain way–you are creating an
uphill battle with yourself that you just can’t
win.
You can lose weight this way, but it’s a struggle and you’ll just gain the weight right back
when you want to stop suffering.
But if you love your body and enjoy the workout, you’re much more likely to keep it up.
That makes sense, right? And as you love your body, your body naturally will become the
body you love.
You can’t get to it any other way, it has to come from loving and appreciating yourself
exactly as you are, right now.
Most people are afraid that if they accept and appreciate their body as it is right now, that
their body will never change. But the truth is, until you can come to a place of loving and
appreciating yourself exactly as you are right now, it’s like having your foot on the gas
pedal and the break at the same time. Very painful.

4. The thing is, you CAN reach all of your health, weight, attractiveness, and beauty goals–
and the very first step is learning how to make peace with yourself exactly as you are right
now.
And I have found that dancing in the mirror is one of the fastest and funnest ways to make
peace with your body exactly as it is right now.
Essentially, you need to feel hot in the body you already have, to have a hot body!
Dancing–and tapping into your natural sensual pleasure, beauty, and grace–is such a
delicious way to appreciate all of your goddess curves, just as they are.
When you are able to find things to love and appreciate about your body exactly as it is
right now, you create a strong and grounded launching pad for all of your weight-loss,
health, beauty, and life goals.
If you want to learn more about the power of loving and appreciating your body, and how
this adds rocket-fuel to your weight-loss and beauty goals, visit Theresa Stevens’ website:
Lose Weight By Dancing
Dancing and enjoying your body has powerful results! To learn Theresa’s Top 3 Secrets
of how Pleasure and Happiness can help you have the body and beauty of your dreams,
visit: Lose Weight By Dancing

5. Meet Theresa Stevens and learn how she transformed
this…into THIS!
A lot of people want to know the story that goes with these
before and after photos. How did I became such a radiant,
confident, and beautiful woman? How did I lose weight and
how am I so thin, youthful, and fit?
And, of course, how can you have the same success story
with your body?
My answer is that DANCE is truly the secret to my success.
And let me tell you, I have come a long way, baby!
How did DANCE transform my body?
First off, let me tell you that I have a slender frame–and I
gain weight very quickly when I find myself feeling unhappy
and frustrated with life. I found myself feeling EXACTLY
that way as an over-worked high school English teacher. I
loved teaching and all of my students, but the work load
and the lack of pleasure and joy in my life was making me
put on the pounds, and not only that, I felt exhausted all of
the time.
I have learned that my body is a reflection of how in or out
of joy I am. And by the end of that year of teaching, I was
20 pounds overweight and completely miserable.
So I quit my job. I started a new business (a non-profit
called Mariposa’s Art) teaching exactly what I loved. I
started focusing on one of my talents more–playing music. I
began studying Latin and Middle Eastern percussion with
amazing teachers and performed in a steel drum band,
which was awesome. I started dating a fellow musician, a
bass player for the local Brazilian band, Sambada. Part of
every weekend included waking up early on Sunday morning and playing drums for J’ann
Rains’ beginning Samba dance class.
I learned to play the Brazilian bass drum, the surdo, and watched the dance class every
week from the sidelines. My boyfriend described the women dancing as “The Dancers”

6. and explained that we were “The Musicians.”
He always said “The Dancers” with such holiness and I started to want more and more to
be a part of this elusive group of women who wore sequined bikinis, gorgeous plumages
of feathers and danced with such joy and pride in themselves.
One Sunday morning, I just couldn’t take it anymore! I decided to take the dance class as
a dancer instead of drumming from the sidelines. A bold move! And a very painful first
experience! The class was so challenging. I had never tried moving my body in so many
new and different ways. My teacher encouraged me to feel the music in the movement
and to relate to the dance as a musician.
I cried and cried after my first class, completely frustrated. And a fierce determination was
born. I kept coming back to the dance class every week, crying afterwards every time. It is
hard to suck at something!
But the music! The flavor of the rhythm! The glide of the hips! The elusive challenge of the
intricate Samba step! I persevered and went to every dance class I could. At Sambada
concerts, I glued myself to other seasoned dancers sides, studied their butts, and over
the dedication of a year, I learned to Samba!
And then, the next challenge was to master the art of seeing myself in the mirror in dance
class.
As a young girl, like many women, I agonized over my body in middle school. I felt much
like a giraffe in middle school—with really long legs, a body that was too thin, with a
bubble butt, no breasts, and very, very large teeth. I earned some horrible nicknames
from people during those years—uugh! It took until college for the rest of my body to
catch up to all of those legs and teeth!
And when I first came to Samba, all of this self-consciousness and self-dislike was still
there. And you have to dance for an hour and a half every night staring at yourself in the
mirror. Oh god!
I decided that if I could fall in love with one small part of myself, there dancing and
sweating in the mirror, that that would be enough.
I picked my collarbones. One night at dance class, I fell in love with the smooth expanse
of my collarbones.
That initial fixation led to loving more of my body. Self-love and self-appreciation only
need a small entrance! Next, I started loving my smile, and all of my teeth! How radiating
and fantastic! And then my butt! My butt was big and round and could do such amazing
things! And my hip bones that curved outward! And my small breasts that looked great in
any dance top! And my long legs!

7. My legs and my knees were probably my greatest challenge. My knees had always
turned inward, making me a horrible runner and last picked in gym class for team sports.
I had no idea that my the spiral shape of my body would be such a blessing for the art of
Samba. The helix curve of inward knees made for outward hips with a fascinating amount
of movement! I found that my body was made for Samba—and something in me was
filled, and now just can’t help but pour outwards with such love and grace!
When I found this combination of joyful movement and loving and appreciating my body
exactly as it was, profound transformations took place. I lost the weight. My posture
completely changed. The natural beauty (that we each possess) that was covered over by
years of self-dislike began shining outwards with such brilliance.
And now you can’t get me to be quiet about it. I love sharing the beauty of Samba with so
many women around the world and inviting them to DANCE and fall in love with their
bodies, one beautiful aspect at a time.
To learn how you can shed your extra pounds and step into your unique beauty,
confidence, and grace; visit my website: Lose Weight By Dancing
Ready to celebrate the success story of your own body?
Lose Weight By Dancing

8. What the Weight-Loss Industry Does Not Want You to Know
So you, like many people, find yourself wanting to lose weight. I totally know the feeling. I
know how it feels to have excess belly fat. It makes you feel so uncomfortable. It feels
uncomfortable to bend at the waist and uncomfortable to even sit in your body.
And it’s frustrating. You feel like you give up eating certain things, only to want them
more. You feel like you go to the gym and motivate to exercise, only to feel tired and
slightly bummed afterwards.
There is something I want to share with you that
is the key reason why you can’t lose the weight.
It doesn’t have to do with what you are eating or
how much you are working out.
It has to do with how you are thinking.
Have you heard the phrase, “what you
appreciate, appreciates?” It means that the more
you are thankful for something, the more things
you will have to be thankful for. Kind of like when
you praise your husband for taking out the trash,
the more he will remember to do it.
The same is true with negative thoughts. The
more you think about not wanting to be broke, the more it keeps you in a pattern of just
getting by. They say the trick to getting money is having some. That’s a Catch 22 of sorts,
but it’s true.
What you think about and focus on, you get more of. This is the Law of Attraction in its
barest form.
So, here’s the thing: using the specific words “weight-loss” actually keeps you stuck in a
pattern of maintaining, and even gaining, weight.
Anytime you are focusing on “weight”–whether it’s “weight” you have, or “weight” you
want to lose—you are asking to keep it around and even adding some more to your
collection.
The most powerful thing you can do for yourself if you would like to “lose weight” is to
drop those two words from your vocabulary and never say or think them again.
Truly, it is ALL about focusing on what you want to GAIN and not what you want to LOSE.
So what should you focus on GAINING?

9. Here’s where I created a new word to express what you want to GAIN, and that’s
BodyJoy, baby!
BodyJoy is a delicious state of being where your body, mind, and spirit are deeply
connected.
Little kids are in BodyJoy very frequently. They practically dance everywhere they go and
they take great pleasure in running up a hill, catching a cricket, or eating when they are
hungry.
Being in BodyJoy is natural.
As adults, we usually separate our mind, body, and spirit. We read books to grow our
minds, we go to church to fortify our spirits, we go to the gym to strengthen our bodies.
When you focus on getting into BodyJoy, you feel fantastic! You feel energized, young,
peaceful, loving, passionate, focused, and expansive.
So how do you focus on getting into BodyJoy?
I have found that DANCE is the fastest and most powerful way to get into BodyJoy. It is
like plugging yourself directly into an energizing electric outlet. And dancing just feels SO
GOOD!
Dance celebrates the art of learning through PLAY, which is essential to cultivating
BodyJoy.
If you want to learn more about BodyJoy and about the essential need to focus on
pleasure, joy, happiness, sensuality, beauty, and dance to have a hot, fit, toned body,
please visit my website: Dancing To Lose Weight
I personally can’t wait until I can use different language to market this material. But right
now, everyone on the Internet is searching for how to “lose weight.” Like 80,000 people a
day.
If you want to learn more about focusing on what you want to GAIN, come spend a few
minutes with me here in my super engaging video: Lose Weight By Dancing

10. Attention Zumba dancers–want to learn how to shake your
hips and booty?
Do you love Zumba, but do you know that you could get more out of the class if you could
just “get” the hot hip and booty shaking dance moves?
Dance teacher Theresa Stevens saw a real need here, and created a fantastic dance
program called “How to Shake Your Booty in 30 Days!”
Theresa shares, “As a Zumba Instructor and a lover of all-things Zumba, one thing I
noticed is that most people who dance Zumba pretty much shuffle through all of the hot
hip and booty shaking Latin moves.”
“People are having so much fun dancing, but most of my students have wished that they
knew how to shake their hips and booty.”
“They knew that if they could ‘get’ the dance moves, they would have more fun dancing,
they would lose more weight, and they would feel more successful and even more
committed to Zumba.”
Most people who dance Zumba, LOVE Zumba. But because Zumba is focused on making
the dance/work-out feel like a party, there are no specific directions on how to get your
hips and booty to undulate and shake while you dance.
Because the choreography is hot and repeats with the verses and choruses of the music,
most people feel really successful in “getting” the basic steps. But they miss out on
getting the flavor, the delicious feeling of looking confident, feeling sexy, and looking
graceful while you dance, and the maximized weight-loss and health results.
Latin dance is “poly-rhythmic”–meaning that within the basic steps, there are lots of micro
movements, the most delicious of which is knowing how to shake your hips, shoulders,
and booty!
That’s why dance instructor Theresa Stevens created the program “How to Shake your
Booty in 30 Days!” To teach Zumba dancers and instructors exactly how to shake their
hips and booty. Theresa is a gorgeous and inspiring dance teacher and she definitely
knows how to “break it down” and make each student feel successful!
Here are what a few of her students have said about her program:
“Now I understand the movements I am doing in Zumba. I was just following but now they
make sense. I am having a blast! And now I finally know how to shake my booty!”

11. “Before I met Theresa, I felt stiff while dancing. I wanted to get more moves in during my
fast-paced Zumba classes, learn more about the sexy Samba, as well as lose a bit of
weight. Since dancing with Theresa, I can move faster, I feel more fluid in my movements,
I lost several pounds, and I have more range of motion in my body. Feeling more sexy
and alive was an added benefit. Thank you, Theresa, goddess-teacher extraordinaire!”
Plus, Theresa’s “How to Shake Your Booty in 30 Days!” DVD also comes with a bonus
DVD that Zumba dancers and instructors WILL NOT want to miss!
Theresa can teach you how to dance Samba!
Many people try to learn Samba as a complicated foot dance and are very frustrated as a
result. Theresa teaches you how to dance the elusive and gorgeous Samba dance
through connecting with your core, inner thighs, and hips.
Not only will these DVDs empower you to have more fun, feel sexy and alive, and meet
your weight-loss and health goals in Zumba; you will lose weight and tap into your natural
beauty and grace as you dance with Theresa. Just click here Lose Weight By
Dancing for more information.