Last year, when I started on my own health changes, one of the areas I really needed to focus on was what I consumed. My eating plan was a mix of whatever the hell I wanted in the moment, and a lot of focus was on what was fast, convenient and just tasted good in the moment.
This led to being far too overweight, sluggish as hell and usually more broke than I should have been. When it came time for a really good extravagant meal, I either did not have the money nor the stomach to truly enjoy it.
With the changes to how I approached this, there was another valuable lesson I did not anticipate – but really should have…
Make Your Indulgences an Indulgence – and this goes well beyond just food!
Whatever it is in your life, whether food, sex, relationships, how you spend your money… any of it… if you spend your capital on cheap thrills that are fast, convenient and just taste good for a moment, you are putting yourself in a position to rarely be able to truly enjoy the real indulgences!
In many ways, you are conditioning yourself and setting your own standards quite low. When it comes to an actual indulgence, you either no longer have the capital needed or the stomach to enjoy it.
How does this apply to your life? Well, that is entirely up to you!
Take a look at what you consume… be in on social media, in your relationships, with your diet, your finances, your friendships, etc… are you applying the capital you have in a way that actually nourishes you and sets a higher standard for yourself in terms of what indulgence means?
Or are you living in a lie that tells you that those cheap thrills are indeed the indulgence? While this is often a lie told to use by society, salesmen and advertisements… it’s also a lie we tell ourselves!
Over the last few months, I have gotten away from the health focus and allowed fast food to become a bit more of an “indulgence” than it should be. There’s a time and place for fast and convenient, for sure. But when it becomes the day to day, all the negative outcome is going to come back… and I’ve gained 10+ lbs back that I lost.
Let’s face it… McDonald’s isn’t an indulgence. Neither is that shiny new thing on sale that will end up at Goodwill months later. Or that throw away “relationship” just to not feel alone for 5 minutes. Or so many other examples…
Figure out what your baseline should be and get yourself there. You may find that losing a lot of those cheap and fast “indulgences” puts you in a position to enjoy much better indulgences that you may never have dreamed about.
The choice is yours, of course. I am making mine.
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