I’m always a little sad when the baseball season ends.  Baseball has a consistency other sports do not; games fill practically every day from April to September.  Baseball means summer.  The World Series marks the coming of cold weather and snow.

Though my faves, the Yankees, weren’t in the World Series this year, it was a hard-fought, fantastic post-season.   It even had a few weight loss lessons, if you looked close enough.

The St. Louis Cardinals were the last team standing.  They came back numerous times, particularly in a do-or-die nail-biter Game 6 where they were down three times and came back anyway.  It wasn’t enough to tie the game in the 6th inning, Texas came back with a wicked 7th inning and the Cardinals ran up against their very last out of the game before MVP David Freese, a little-known Cardinal playing among big stars, hit a line drive that tied the game again.

But…

Texas came back in the 10th, scoring two runs.

It could have been time to fold!

No one would have been surprised if the Cards limped off the field second best at this point, but again, with one out to go before Texas sipped champagne, they tied the game.  An inning later, MVP David Freese showed up one more time, hitting a homerun to win the game in the 11th inning.

So, you may be wondering about the connection to weight loss, specifically permanent weight loss, which is the only kind of weight loss I discuss in this blog.

Well, if you’re going to be successful long-term in the battle against excess weight, you’re going to have to be the David Freese of your life.

You’re going to have to come back EVERY SINGLE TIME you’re behind.  You’re going to have to show the world and yourself you’re never giving up. The powerful team opposing you, like those pesky Texas Rangers, are going to be in your head, ready to mind-game you to defeat.  You’re not going to have a famous name or make millions from hitting a little white ball.

Your victories will be comparatively quiet.  Most of the time, no one will be cheering when you fight back.  In fact, no one may even be aware of your win over that donut, or see the homerun you hit at the buffet table.

But, this is your life.  And possibly your health.  It’s more important than the World Series.

The Cardinals’ key weapon (that I’m sorry to say my Yankees didn’t possess) was DESIRE.  To make anything happen, especially permanent weight loss, you’re going to need to match that kind of desire.  The good news is that desire can be manufactured – right inside you.  You are a human desire machine.  Start your engines!