Celebrating President's Day with Pain!

Celebrating President's Day is fun...but is pain fun? I recently had a in-clinic medical procedure done that was extremely painful. Given a topical anesthetic but still very painful. What if there was no pain? Could we survive? The short answer is no. Pain is a messenger that something is wrong. Pain lets us know when there is no pain. Without pain we would not be human. Animals feel pain, but I often wonder if plants do. Are plants screaming in pain when we pick them? I don't think so but some people think so. We do what we can when we need to. Pain is a great motivator, and that's what I'm alluding to here. Without pain, we probably would never get on a great eating plan to lose weight. It's that pain we feel when we try on clothes that used to fit but don't anymore. That's painful. We then are motivated to really do something about it. Going through the painful-ness of a situation is perseverance. And perseverance produces results. Results make us happy and we travel to the planet of NO PAIN and that's where we want to be.

A lifestyle change

Sister sister tells me she wrote a great new diet book. It consists of only 2 pages, and the pages state:
Eat LESS
Move MORE
So that's it. That's all there is. We had a great chat yesterday and it's wonderful to know there is someone out there who really really really wants you to lose weight for your health. I'm trying, but summer only comes once a year and I want to enjoy summer as well. I did lose 20 lbs. and that was good. I do exercise. I wonder what the secret to losing weight is? There is no secret, it's eat less, move more and maybe some hypnosis?

My daughter calls it a lifestyle change, not a diet, and she's 8 yrs. old!