Short term pleasure or long term pain. Knowing which decisions in eating lead to long term success.

Описание: By Keith Klein CN CCN
Creator of Lean Body Coaching
www.leanbodycoaching.com

Hello everybody, nutritionist Keith Klein with you here today for Lean Body Coaching with my sidekicks Snickers Klein. Say hello everybody. Buddy, as you all noticed involved, heard, I, I named all my pets after junk food. That way I could be surrounded by junk food and I never tempted to eat it. Listen, I want to tell you, in 40 years of career in nutritional counseling, one thing that I've noticed, is a lot of people get themselves in trouble, uh, with making a mini decision that actually has a maxy outcome attached to it. And they really don't see the connection. You know, for example, I'll just eat this cake right now cause it sure would taste good. Yet several weeks later when they're standing in front of their mirror, the clothes aren't fitting, they're crying because there's 12 dresses on the floor and they've got nothing to wear.

they don't look back and make the connection that it's all because of the choices they made, uh, the decision to go ahead and eat the cake. and I think it's important that later on when they have to face that effect from that decision, that we start to get a little bit more real and realize that that is a direct result of our own behavior. Um, this comes back to the pain pleasure principle that I've talked about from Psychology 1 0 1, uh, throughout the program, the idea that we are, uh, motivated to move towards pleasure, and we are motivated to move away from pain. But I think the question you have to ask yourself is, didn't the action of eating the cake create pain later on? And if what you're saying is true, Keith, why do we keep doing that to ourselves? Well, again, what happens is the person becomes myopically fixated on eating the cake in the moment, so to speak, as opposed to focusing down the road on what the effects of that decision's gonna be.

And so I think the brain is so fixated on the pleasure in the moment that we get caught up in that and we're really not thinking about what it's gonna create for us later on down the line. What I would encourage us to do is to maybe stop focusing for a moment on the pleasure in eating the cake, and become a little bit more fixated on the pain that it's gonna create later on in my life for me. If I stop focusing on the pleasure and I start focusing on the pain that could instrumentally turn my choices for the day, the week of the month, or whatever, into more weight loss for myself, instead of focusing so much on the pleasure. And I think one of the questions you have to ask yourself before you grab that particular food, whatever it is, I use cake as an example, You have to ask yourself, Is this what I want to create for myself, Right?

So when you go to the gym and you work out, you're excited because you know the workout's gonna create a better body, better energy, better endurance for yourself later on. However, when you reach out for the cake, what are you creating for yourself later on? You're only really creating more weight gain, slower results, more frustration later. And as you know, in my program, I never say you can't have the cake. I try to temper that with how often we do it, um, the amounts of it that we eat and things of that nature. But remember, for every behavior that you have, there's a corresponding outcome, right? And so the outcomes could be good, it could be bad, it could be indifferent. It really doesn't matter. For every decision you make, for every action you take, there will be a corresponding outcome. And by asking yourself, Is this really what I want to create for myself?

It causes me to pause, stop, and take a look at the outcome, uh, as opposed to the momentary pleasure. Um, I watch people all the time give up long term pleasure, right? For shortterm pain, right? Or it's actually just the opposite. They'll engage in short term pleasure to create long-term pain. And that's a little bit more about what I'm talking about. You gotta stop and ask yourself, Is this what I want to create for myself? And when, and, you know, when you say no to the cake, what you're really saying is yes to being thin. Or maybe you're saying yes to maintaining that weight loss that you've achieved. So I don't see saying no to the cake once again, it could be cookies, it could be whatever creates the problem. I don't see saying no to it, uh, as the way I wanna approach it.

Instead of saying no, what I, a lot of times I say instead of, I can't have that, I simply say, You know, I don't eat that anymore. And then it takes on a different network in my brain, a different framework if you would. And then I don't feel as deprived. I don't feel like I'm really giving it up. Remember, you can eat the cookies, right? But then you can't wear the bikini, and you have to ask yourself, which is more important.