Menopause Motivational Quotes

I thought back to a soliloquy I’d seen on TV about pain as women’s birthright. It’s not hard to catalog the dazzling torment life puts us through: childbirth and menstrual cramps and the suffocating heat of menopause. We do our best to avoid it, but men run toward it: war and wrestling and football that cracks their skulls, bruises the fragile gray matter underneath. Their bravado is just them manufacturing their own pain, trying to seem strong. But fear—fear is at least as strong a motivator as pain. Maybe the TV show had it wrong; maybe men aren’t out to experience pain so much as fear, the icy jolt of feeling alive. They crave it because they have no idea how miserable it is to feel that frigid blast a hundred times a day.

I thought back to a soliloquy I’d seen on TV about pain as women’s birthright. It’s not hard to catalog the dazzling torment life puts us through: childbirth and menstrual cramps and the suffocating heat of menopause. We do our best to avoid it, but men run toward it: war and wrestling and football that cracks their skulls, bruises the fragile gray matter underneath. Their bravado is just them manufacturing their own pain, trying to seem strong. But fear—fear is at least as strong a motivator as pain. Maybe the TV show had it wrong; maybe men aren’t out to experience pain so much as fear, the icy jolt of feeling alive. They crave it because they have no idea how miserable it is to feel that frigid blast a hundred times a day. I

hypothesis’ could provide the missing piece of evolutionary motivation for the grandmother hypothesis to work in other menopausal creatures, like us.

Overall, you want to keep your daily consumption of added sugars under 25 grams a day. It will be a challenge at first. I find that focusing on the potential negative outcomes can be quite motivating, so remind yourself of these facts about sugar: Aside from the obvious drawbacks of weight gain and mood swings, having excess sugar in your bloodstream creates a process called glycation, which stiffens our cells and thus, our tissues. One result? Wrinkles. So, maybe you can appeal to your vanity.

Overall, you want to keep your daily consumption of added sugars under 25 grams a day. It will be a challenge at first. I find that focusing on the potential negative outcomes can be quite motivating, so remind yourself of these facts about sugar: Aside from the obvious drawbacks of weight gain and mood swings, having excess sugar in your bloodstream creates a process called glycation, which stiffens our cells and thus, our tissues. One result?

Doing it all herself. I asked her how she was staying so motivated with her long days. Her reply changed how I was talking to myself about going to the gym. Sherri said, “I don’t say, ‘I have to work out.’ I say, ‘I get to work out.’” I cannot tell you how many times I have repeated this to myself since that conversation. “I get to work out.” And I love it.