The Miracle Pill ~ By Tres Hatch
The boy stood poised to cross the street, straddling his scooter between his knees. Cheeks pink on perfect skin. He bore in his face the fresh push of boyhood advancing into adolescence in only a matter of days. As my van engine idled I noticed his elongated limbs and neck were not quite solid yet, as if sprung from a sweet chrysalis. At that instant I realized he had not seasons in this state, but maybe a day; a dot on the calendar of his life—perhaps seconds. It was fleeting, this “tween” state of boy and teen. Literally, he would change and become something different than the child his parents knew.
How precious is time? The connection was clear to me at that instant. TIME is the gift and TIME is fleeting. How dear is our opportunity to live life at the frequency most satisfying? Is there even one day to waste in the tar pit of dissatisfaction? The battle with my weight was a decades-long, exhausting fight. It drew away precious energy otherwise used in the pursuit of an enriched life. To jettison the shackles of that one-sided war was paramount to moving on and finding myself, the person I was born and designed to be—the ideal version me. Am I ideal? Not really. But do I contend with myself by eating compulsively and grappling with a fun-house mirror illusion of “health management?”
Not anymore.
That is the reason I share and lecture and write about weight loss, or more accurately, weight management. Because to change our human behaviors by changing our thought patterns is the most powerful use of agency any of us can wield. And the mind and body are connected. The soul and body are inherently tied together. Change our thinking and we change our behaviors.
I don’t have years to spare feeling self-conscious, and self-loathing. In fact, the less “self” I dwell on, the more joy I have. So, to get over myself already, and become an excellent steward of my body I begin by becoming “teachable.” Oprah coined it: the “ah ha” moment. “Get the Click” is the title of chapter one in my book because humility and openness of our hearts and minds is the common thread in life-changing moments. Truth, inspiration, and new paradigms are all gleaned while in this teachable state.
We are all designed perfectly with everything we need inside us to manage our bodies well. Nothing is missing. Nothing is broken. All the messages we need to be in perfect harmony with our bodies (and therefore generate a fast metabolism) are built right in to our little noggins. Let us be teachable, let us hear our bodies “talk” to us and tell us what they need. Listen. We only have today, with no promise of tomorrow. Sorry to burst the bubble of a safely monotonous existence, but it is true. Let us honor our incredible machines by giving our bodies what they need when the need it, in the proportion they need. Keep listening to re-activate prompts that may have been de-activated early in life. Discover today’s purpose, the essence of the phrase: carpe diem. Seize today because it is oh, so short and we can enjoy it more when we live in harmony with ourselves.
Tres Hatch is the author of: Miracle Pill 10 Truths to Healthy, Thin, & Sexy.
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