Eating Junk Food -- The hidden price

You probably are very familiar with the benefits youis right. You get to make sure that other people's
get from NOT eating healthy. You get to eat foodway of thinking is wrong, and make sure they know
that tastes good, you get to be lazy and sit on theyou know they are wrong.
couch and veg out and watch TV. You get to not doThese are the hidden benefits that many people get
all the hard work of exercise. There are many otherfor not eating healthy. Benefits that, if you are
benefits that people get from not eating healthy, andhonest with yourself, you like getting as well.
many others that I probably did not list. I am notWhat I am also going to point out is the
going to list them all, because you know most ofnot-so-obvious cost of not being healthy. There are
them. I will list the benefits most people do not wantbenefits to eating junk food. But, as you know,
to admit, often, even to themselves.nothing in life is free. If there is a benefit, there is a
There are four main benefits that you probably getcost. What most people do not see is the cost, the
from not eating healthy, that you don't want toprice you have to pay for the benefits you are
admit (along with the obvious ones):getting.
1.Avoiding being responsibleThere are also tons and tons of hidden costs that
2.Getting to be right and making others wrongmost people never see. I will list some of the biggest
3.Dominating others and avoiding dominationones. This is the price you have to pay to eating
4.Justifying yourself and invalidating others.junk food:
These things are the hidden benefits. I will talk about1.Vitality
each of them in more detail, and explain what I2.An abundance of energy to do everything you
mean. You have to dig down and be honest, though.want to do
These four things are usually true for everyone, and3.Happiness
the point of my sharing them is to make you aware4.Love and closeness with others
of them, and for you to be honest with yourself5.Satisfaction and fulfillment in life
about them. Most people do not think of these things6.Healing symptoms and disease
as benefits. But if you look at them and are really7.Symptoms and disease going away,
honest with yourself, you will see the benefit people8.Relief from the suffering that goes with the
get from them.symptoms and disease
People get to avoid being responsible by putting the9.Inner peace and harmony
responsibility on the medical symptoms and disease10. Being symptom- and disease-free
care system. You live under the illusion that they will11. Mental focus, memory, and clarity (no brain fog)
create a magic pill or invent some technique or12. Being awake and fully alive every day (not just
system to make you thin and healthy without youdragging through stuff and surviving)
having to do a thing. They are responsible for your13. Being present and having the ability to be with
health, not you. It is an illusion many of us believe.people
Because then we get to avoid being responsible for14. No worry or fear
our own health and eat anything we want. We get15. Being confident in yourself
to do what we want, and then blame all of our16. Being complete and happy
symptoms on someone else.17. The ability to deal with issues that arise simply
You get to be right and do exactly what you want.and with ease
You don't have to listen to all those doctors, all those18. Having better health now, with security for
people, especially that annoying "health freak" in youryourself and your family later
family. Every family usually has one. You get to be19. More time to do what you want to do
right about being able to do what you want. You get20. Simpler choices
to make them wrong. And don't we all enjoy making21. Looking great, feeling good, reducing fat, and
someone we don't like so very wrong? We all wanthaving tons of energy
to be right and I can prove it. Have you every seen22. Being satisfied and Not being hungry all the time
someone try and prove themselves wrong? ArgueThe list goes on and on, but these are some of the
that they are not right? People love to be right andbig ones.
that includes being right with being able to eatThese are all things you do NOT get if you avoid
whatever they want for whatever reasons theyeating healthy. It is the price you have to pay to not
want.eat healthy.
You get to dominate others, and avoid others'If you are eating healthy, these same things are your
dominating you. You do not have to do what theyrewards. These are the things you get when you are
say. You can do what you want. You can probablywell. These things show up in your life as you are
even control people and make them angry by doingbeing healthy and well. So much so, that I want you
things your way, by doing what you want.to think of your own reasons why, things vital to
You get to justify yourself and invalidate others. Youyour happiness, freedom and life that you know you
get proof for yourself that what you are doing iswould get you out of bed for in the morning wanting
right. You get evidence that the way you are doing itto eat healthy.