You probably are very familiar with
benefits you get from NOT eating healthy. You get to eat food that tastes good, you get to be lazy and sit on couch and veg out and watch TV. You get to not do all hard work of exercise. There are many other benefits that people get from not eating healthy, and many others that I probably did not list. I am not going to list them all, because you know most of them. I will list benefits most people do not want to admit, often, even to themselves. There are four main benefits that you probably get from not eating healthy, that you don’t want to admit (along with obvious ones):
1.Avoiding being responsible 2.Getting to be right and making others wrong 3.Dominating others and avoiding domination 4.Justifying yourself and invalidating others.
These things are hidden benefits. I will talk about each of them in more detail, and explain what I mean. You have to dig down and be honest, though. These four things are usually true for everyone, and point of my sharing them is to make you aware of them, and for you to be honest with yourself about them. Most people do not think of these things as benefits. But if you look at them and are really honest with yourself, you will see benefit people get from them.
People get to avoid being responsible by putting responsibility on medical symptoms and disease care system. You live under illusion that they will create a magic pill or invent some technique or system to make you thin and healthy without you having to do a thing. They are responsible for your health, not you. It is an illusion many of us believe. Because then we get to avoid being responsible for our own health and eat anything we want. We get to do what we want, and then blame all of our symptoms on someone else.
You get to be right and do exactly what you want. You don’t have to listen to all those doctors, all those people, especially that annoying “health freak” in your family. Every family usually has one. You get to be right about being able to do what you want. You get to make them wrong. And don’t we all enjoy making someone we don’t like so very wrong? We all want to be right and I can prove it. Have you every seen someone try and prove themselves wrong? Argue that they are not right? People love to be right and that includes being right with being able to eat whatever they want for whatever reasons they want.
You get to dominate others, and avoid others’ dominating you. You do not have to do what they say. You can do what you want. You can probably even control people and make them angry by doing things your way, by doing what you want.
