“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” —John C. Maxwell
No matter how small the choice is before you it will affect you in some way, whether that is big or small, eventually, it will have some kind of impact on you.
Not to make you feel bad for not wishing me a happy birthday yesterday, but yesterday was my birthday. My team at Spurling surprised me with birthday donuts (now, I later found out that they were regifted donuts brought in by a morning client, but donuts are donuts). I planned to eat normally that day, meaning not eating donuts.
But life didn’t get the memo.
I had to choose. Do I eat the donut or not?
Oh, I eat that sexy little donut with its cute maple glaze on it. And I didn’t even feel bad about it.
A Play By Play Of Food Choices
This donut will not negatively affect me at the moment, in fact, it will bring my mouth and taste buds into euphoric ecstasy at that very moment.
On the flip side, this one choice took me a little further away from my goal of looking sexy.
In essence, I chose food bliss now and pushed back my future goal of looking sexy further down the road.
Does this sound familiar?
Decisions In The Moment
If you struggle with making food choices in the moment, you are not alone. Most of us will choose satisfaction now over gratification later. Even though losing 15 lbs is a great goal and will make you happy and is arguably a real smart long-term health decision, there is a cookie right at this moment that can also make you happy and you can have it now.
To make better food choices you need to live less in the moment. You need to stop and think is it worth mortgaging my future goals for this present feeling of satisfaction? Sometimes it is. I decided that it was my birthday and these nice people took the time to regift me this box of donuts so I better be polite and eat a few so they won’t feel like I didn’t like their gift. 😜
The majority of the time you will have to choose the future. You will have to pass up on having seconds and you will have to not put so much butter on your potato so you can accomplish what is most important to you.
Every choice we make, no matter how big or small will eventually impact us; maybe not now, but later. We are in some ways an accumulation of our choices.
Your Fitness Sherpa,
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