I'm going to ask you a bit of a funny question. Why is the desk the mother of the chair?

When I first heard this question, I came up with all these different reasons why the desk was the

mother of the chair. The desk was like the bigger one in the office. The desk had been there

longer. The desk was where the responsible things were

done and the chair was the fun things and the chair was more of like the fun supporting character.

But that question is actually meaningless. The desk isn't the mother of the chair. The desk is a desk

and the chair is a chair. But if you came up with things like I did, it's an indication that our brains are meaning machined.

And our brain's trying to fill in answers for why things are the way that they are.

My name is Chelsea and I've lost 40 pounds on a plant-based diet.

And I've been able to keep them off for the last six years.

It's actually seven years now. My daughter is eight and she had her

birthday last week. She has a party tonight and we're going rollerblading. And it's funny that I've been

doing this podcast for about four, five years now. And I keep forgetting how long to say that I've

been losing weight because it keeps

creeping up. At some point soon it's going to be 10 years that I've kept off 40 pounds which is

actually going to be longer in a very quick time frame than the years that I struggle to lose it

because I struggled to lose weight for over a decade. And a big reason for that

was because of the meaning that my brain made on why I couldn't see results and why I couldn't

get consistent. When we don't know why something is the way that it is, our brains make the best

guess they can. They're constantly looking for things to make sense.

But it doesn't feel like a guess, it feels like truth. If you've ever been in an argument

with a spouse or like a good friend or maybe a co-worker, normally in that argument, you're

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