So Much for Conventional Wisdom

Happy Monday morning! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are ready for the week! Our weekend was really busy, but wonderful, and we're flying home today. After our flight lands in Detroit, we'll have a 2-1/2 hr. drive home, so it's going to be a long day of traveling.

I want to share with you one funny thing that happened this weekend - funny, but it pointed out how very much we are bucking the national trend.

When we got to our Take Shape for Life conference and checked in, we were given a T-shirt in the size of our choice - at least that was the intent. The problem was that the company who provided our T-shirts provided T-shirts in the usual assortment of sizes. For them, the usual assortment of sizes meant not too many in size small, and sizes running through 2XXL. Since this was a conference of Take Shape for Life health coaches, guess what? We ran out of size smalls pretty quickly and we didn't have any takers for the largest sizes (although we were told they made great sleep shirts).

How sad that a company would just assume that any event they provided T-shirts for would mean lots of shirts in large, XL, and even 2XXL! That said a lot to me about the state things in this country, and it emphasized in a very unexpected way just how different Take Shape for Life/Medifast is. On this program, people not only lose weight, but they KEEP it off! You've gotta love it :-)

This program is bucking the national trend and produces results that fly in the face of conventional wisdom. I lost 120 pounds in under 11 months, even though conventional wisdom says that post-menopausal women can't lose weight. I am in smaller sizes now than I was even in my 20's (when I was at a healthy weight), even though conventional wisdom tells women my age that they will never be the size they were in their 20's. Conventional wisdom says that once you have a health condition and are put on medication, you will always be on medication and will probably need an increasing amount of medication to manage your condition as time goes by, but physicians are lowering dosages and taking people OFF of medication once they get on this program.

And conventional wisdom says that most of the individuals attending any given event will need large, extra-large, or even extra EXTRA large T-shirts; once again this program proved conventional wisdom wrong :-)

If you have any pre-conceived concepts about this program that are getting between you and your goal, get rid of them, because this program defies conventional wisdom. You don't even have to believe that the program works, you just have to do it!

Blessings!
Cheryl