Dear Julie:

I was responding to your post just before mine: “I also stick around because of temptation. I suck when it comes to temptation. I always do what I want in the moment”. My response was, elaborated here, that if let’s say you want to eat a whole cake this moment, after you are done eating, you will have many moments when you will feel bloated, uncomfortable. Let’s say you eat cake whenever you want, you will have many moments in a few months when you may feel distress over gaining weight. So there are future moments where people suffer the consequences of choices made.

anita