2. Will this choice bring me long-term fulfillment OR will it bring me short-term gratification?
Certainly a good question!! Not that there's anything wrong with having a hot chocolate every now and then. But if my long-term goal is to lose weight or eat healthier or whatever... then choosing a DQ Peanut Buster Parfait (yum!) isn't necessarily contributing to long-term fulfillment! Or if I want to travel to Spain in 2012 and do the Santiago pilgrimage... and I keep watching TV instead of jumping on the treadmill... well... short-term gratification definitely is winning out. So that is the question to ask... She also makes a distinction between instant gratification and instantaneous gratification... Really, is there any instant gratification, where it's gratifying and it lasts? Or is it all instantaneous, happens in the moment and when the taste of it wears off, there is guilt and bad feelings and beating oneself up??
Sigh... a good question to ask during Cheezie cravings... or ice cream cravings... And sure, I might know that what the good choice is... and yet I still have to choose it. It really does come back to those unspoken committments... am I really committed to a healthy body and lifestyle... or not!!
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