Thursday, March 01, 2007

What's in Your Warehouse?

The body is a funny thing! It kind of functions like a warehouse. Product comes in and product goes out. The warehouse manager's job is to keep a balance on the supplies and keep you in business as long as he/she can.

If you starve yourself, the warehouse manager says, "He we have supply problems, we better hold onto the good stuff that will keep us in operation longest!" Guess what the good stuff is? You guessed it -FAT!

The warehouse manager is a tricky dude. You can't just fool him/her with a few weeks of change in shipments. All that has been done before and the manager knows that things will return to normal and the same old same old will reoccur. So what does the manager do? NOTHING! The manger has been there and done that and has a dozen T-shirts with yo-yo's on them.

BUT, if you stay the course, the manager gets the idea that their is a new boss in town and it is time to change operations. "Hey guys, you gotta clear out the warehouse and make room for the new product. We are running out of room! Get rid of that fat, it takes up too much space - we have lean shipments coming in!"

You can help the manager get the picture by tricking it and make him believe there is a flood of orders. Send in healthy shipments 5-6 times a day and the manager will freak out and start moving fat product to make room. BUT if you don't stay the course, the manager will wise up, sit on his/her can and say, "Don't worry the boss will get over this wild hair and be back to normal in a few weeks."

Stay the course and the warehouse manager will have to change and you will see a change in the warehouse and wearhouse. It take three months of consistent change for the manager to get with it and realize there is a new sheriff in town! Stay the course and blog on Marathoners!

2 comments:

Chicago_or_Bust said...

Good analogy, Mark. Takes the physiology "gunk" out of the "I'm exercising and eating less, but not losing weight" concern.

Thanks!

Clark

Morgan D said...

Yeah, I love your analogies too...they always make sense,lol