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COURTESYPHOTO The Red Bluff Elks Lodge presented a $2,000check May 15to the Senior Nutrition Center to help pay for the Senior Meals on Wheels program. This is the second year in a row that the Elks made this contribution. Pictured, from le , are Pat Craig, past exalted ruler, Juanita Rajanen, head of the Senior Nutrition program and Red Bluff Elks Exalted Ruler Sharon Stone. ELKSLODGE SUPPORTINGSENIORS The Ellison-White Chau- tauqua system that closed a week's program in Stockton last Friday made a big hit in that city, if we are to judge of the newspaper accounts that havegoneoutfromtherecon- cerning the events. The best proof perhaps that the pro- gram was satisfactory is the fact that 600 season tickets were guaranteed for next year. The Stockton Record in speaking of the work of Nels Darling, the community builder, has the following to say: "Nels Darling is a live wire — a pressed down, shaken together, running over op- timist. Not given to fulsome flattery, but a man who speaks straight out from the shoulder, who tells you that he likes you and why, and also tells you what there is about you that gives him pain." — May 29, 1915 100 YEARS AGO... A warm tonic for boosters The next diabetes sup- port group will present speaker Thao Le, a phar- macist at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. His topic will be "Diabetes— Numbers & Your Meds". The meeting is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 1, at the Coyne Center in the Columba Room on the cam- pus of the hospital. Feel free to invite family and friends. The group meets the first Monday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the Coyne Cen- ter, which is across the road from the main entrance of the hospital with parking both in front and to the side.There will be no meet- ing in July. For more information, call Gail Locke at 527-5290. DIABETES SUPPORT Grouptohearpharmacistspeak For years, I've quipped, "Losing weight is not rocket science. Shut your mouth and move your feet and you'll drop the weight." The diffi- culty is all the "men- tal noise" that gets in the way. Anyway, I've been proven wrong, as it appar- ently is rocket science. Let me explain. I coach folks all across this vast land that find me via the internet or through referral. Of course, if they don't reside in the commu- nity I call home, our ses- sions are via phone. Conse- quently, it's unlikely I've met them face-to-face, or even know what they look like. Most times, unless it comes up in conversation, I am un- aware of their vocations, as my purpose is to help them guide them past the pitfalls of shedding weight or chang- ing another habit they don't like about themselves. With that as backstory, after calling my client, he asked me to hold while he shut the door to avoid dis- turbing his co-workers. This prompted me to ask, "What do you do for a living?" "I'm a rocket scientist," he said, "I study [something I couldn't even begin to un- derstandaboutsolarwinds]." After getting past my ini- tial geek-fest about really working with someone who is doing what I would have loved to do (if I was willing to have been a better student in college of course), we got down to brass tacks about his progress; which had hit a rough patch. Most people who are losing weight — at a healthy and sustainable pace — drop maybe a pound a week as a long-term aver- age. He had only shed about 16 ounces in three weeks, and was understandably dis- appointed. However, what smacked me was how he handled this unhappy slow down. Many of us, when the weight isn't coming off as expected, "freak out." There's no other way to say it. Bad news at the scale triggers all man- ner of horrific thinking: our entire weight loss will be re- versed and we'll never "get there." This activates an ex- aggerated emotional reac- tion, which begets the dam- aging belief, "It's not work- ing. Why bother?" That, in turn elicits the urge to go back to how we used to eat, which of course puts on the very weight we were losing (albeit slowly), causing a self- fulfilling prophecy. Rocket scientists, or at least this one, apparently think differently. He said, "I'm not getting the results I expected." "I understand," I replied. "How can I help?" "I don't think you can. I just have to analyze the vari- ables in the equation and ad- just them as to alter the out- come." "What do you mean?" "Apparently, if one is to judge by results, I'm either eating too much or not ac- tive enough — or both. So, I will increase my activity to 10,000 steps a day and mon- itor the consequences. If that works as planned, I should be on my way. If not, the next stepwouldbe trim caloricin- take. Does that sound like a plan?" "Uh, yeah." It did. And it does. See, that's the thing. Los- ing weight is just another ob- jective, and with every goal comes a plan. For example, should we decide to drive across the country, we don't just willy-nilly hop in the auto and head out. We figure outwhatweneedtopack,de- termine a route, and locate lodging. Those don't ensure the strategy will work as ex- pected. After all, roads close, weather happens, suitcases get lost, cars break down. We don't like it, but we adjust as necessary until we get where we're going. Planning is not a pana- cea for success. "Stuff hap- pens" all too often. Yet, just like any journey, when we hit a detour, we don't just park there and live. We adjust and move forward. After all, losing weigh is not brain surgery. Scott"Q"Marcusisa nationally known weight loss expert for baby boomers and the CRP (Chief Recovering Perfectionist) of www.ThisTimeIMeanIt. com. Get his free ebook of motivational quotations and one year of his highly-popular Monday Motivational Memos at no charge by visiting his website. 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