This morning I posted an article on Beef Jerky Diet about how tough it is to stay the course on my weight loss efforts driven simply by a desire to stay healthy.I compared myself with that of vegans, who have an ideology and a stable of vegan friends to help them stick to their lifestyle. I mentioned that I'm of the belief that even vegans still desire the smell and look of a rack of BBQ ribs simply because Mother Nature herself planted these triggers deep down inside of us, and is something we cannot rid ourselves of. But vegans seem to use their ideology and friends to convince themselves that eating meat is sinful.
It's like a religion.
But as for myself, I have no religion. I simply have a desire to stay healthy, and that desire is often trumped by another desire, to indulge myself with BBQ ribs, ice cream, beer, and everything else.
When you have two desires pitted against each other, and no ideology and no group of friends to pull you along, how do you make one desire win out over the other?
I think it starts with discipline in our childhood years.
Parents need to teach discipline to their kids. I don't mean by hitting them, but by placing value on good habits. Teaching them the value of work and reward, the value of being fit and trim, eating healthy, spending their time outdoors instead of indoors.
That's needed to build a foundation in people, and maybe that's what we're missing.
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