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We have all been guilty of trying to find the easy way out.  It’s logical to find the shortest route to where you are going.  Sometimes you buy food for a party rather than make it.  Sometimes you pay for services you could do yourself to save time.
 

But there are some things in life with no easy route.
 

Bodybuilding for instance.  It’s like the quote from Ronnie Coleman.  I’m not sure exactly how it goes, but it rings to the tune…everybody wants muscles, but no body wants to lift no heavy ass weights.
 

Losing weight is the same way.  There really is no easy route.  My friend Allen (asmolenski) reminded me of this when he replied to my blog recently.  He said:
“I am amazed at how doctors and nurses I work with (people who should know better) fail to get it right. A nurse asked me for a prescription for “diet pills” so I wrote her a prescription that said “Eat Less and Exercise”.
You see, I was once the recipient of one of these prescriptions myself.  When I came back for my six week appointment after the birth of my second child, I tipped the scales at 256 pounds.  Dr. Angle sat me down and told me he was giving me a prescription for weight loss.  He took out his little pad and wrote on it “195.”  And that was all he wrote.  He even offered to let me weigh in at his office every week. 
I looked at him like he was crazy, because that didn’t seem low enough.  But he saw what I could not see at the time.  I needed to focus on small goals.  I needed to take it day by day.
He didn’t offer me pills, as he well could have.  Just like Allen, he told me to eat less and exercise more.
It would be years later, and after the death of Dr. Angle before I hit that mark.  And when I did, I E-mailed his widow to let her know. 
But in the grand scheme of things, as Allen and Dr. Angle remind me, the prescription to weight loss really is: eat less and exercise more.
Have you filled your prescription lately?

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