Translate

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Splurge on your passion!

"I'd rather ________ than eat!"

Fill in the blank.  Read?  Ride a horse?  Play "Words with Friends"?  Play pickleball?  Sew?  Whatever the activity, it's your passion....particularly if you'd rather do it than eat.

So do it.  Engage in the activity that's so exciting and delightful to you that you'd rather do it than stop to eat, even when you get hungry.  It consumes your mind so totally and happily that you have no time to think about food.

Most of us have such activities in our lives, but we deny ourselves the time to enjoy them, lest we should neglect our routine responsibilities.  But if we deny ourselves too much...if we always choose household obligations over our passions...we'll begin feeling resentful.  Resentment leads to frustration and depression, and that often leads to overindulging in calories from food or alcohol.  We would have been better off to take the time to enjoy our passions instead.

Rediscover your true passions and give yourself permission to indulge in them, just as you may have once indulged in a huge banana split.  Next time you have a moment of willpower weakness, you'll remember that there really are things in your life more pleasurable than  that ice cream calling your name from the freezer.




No comments:

Post a Comment