Lovin' Friday!

Hi Blog Buddies!  Hope you are all doing well and have exciting plans for the weekend.  I have to work. :(  Boo!  I have not weighed this week because this is not the week to step on a scale due to my "condition", if you know what I mean.  I will weigh and report on Monday.

Anyway, I have had a lot of thoughts about what I wanted to talk about today, as a matter of fact, I have started making verbal notes on my cell phone as I get ideas or when I hear people say things I want to address.  All of my co-workers are now apprehensive about talking around me because they are afraid they will become the daily topic on my blog.  LOL.  I have never used names friends so don't worry nobody will know you said it!  I woke up this morning at 5:30 and got my day started and I have found that when you have had little sleep and are driving to work you can often have very profound thoughts, that was the case for me this morning.  I began to think about the brain and the power that it has.  Think about it, your body cannot function if your brain is turned off.  Your body depends on your brain to make your heart, lungs and blood system work, as well as all those other bodily systems I have forgotten since I got out of high school.  What awesome power in one little organ!  The brain can tell you when you have pain, when you need medication, if you are tired, it sends signals when you are sick, it makes you walk, talk and think, isn't that amazing?  As I was thinking about thinking (I believe they call that "metacognition" if I remember correctly from my psych classes) I realized that as much power as my brain weilds there is still one organ that seems to have more control than the brain...yes, it is the stomach!  How is that possible?  I mean if your brain was more powerful than your stomach wouldn't we all be skinny?  My stomach growls and my brain begins to think about where I can get food!  So what is really controlling us?  our brains or our stomachs?  Ok, just kidding but it is an interesting thought, right?  My point of this rant is really this, if our brains are so powerful and control our thoughts and actions, why do we not do a better job of allowing it to do so?  I mean it is not natural for a person to be 100+ lbs overweight, not something a brain would make happen, right?  So then why does it?  Because even though our brains are powerful, our minds have more power!  Yes your mind, your thought process center, your CPU!  That is where decisions are made, thoughts are formed and actions are initiated.  Our minds often override our brains, for instance, I just ate, my stomach is full and my brain has said to stop eating.  My mind butts in and says, "but it tastes so good and I want to eat it."  Guess what happens, I eat it.  So my brain is engaged in a battle for control with my mind.  Who will win?  Each time is different, today my brain won!  Which is good, but who knows about tomorrow?  You'll just have to weight and see!