Q&A 37: Food Rewards, Cheat Meals & Earned Indulgences
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode I'm answering your questions about food rewards, earned indulgences and cheat meals. I'll be sharing my perspective on whether or not you should use food as a reward and how to balance strategic indulgences that reflect a healthy relationship with food versus talking yourself into being inconsistent. Where is that line and how do you find it?
Food Rewards, Earned Indulgences & Cheat Meals
The first thing I recommend you do is evaluate whether or not these strategies (food rewards, earned indulgences and/or cheat meals) are working for you:
- Is there a whole bunch of negative emotional wrapped up in it?
- Are you limiting your results or slowing your progress?
- Are they a slippery slope? Does a treat turn into overkill or a binge?
From there, let's look at the idea of "earning" an indulgence. In the episode, we go into a whole lot more detail, but I want you to think about the following:
Would an alcoholic celebrate sobriety with a shot of tequila?
Alright, you're not an alcoholic.
But would you celebrate your child's great grades by suggesting he give himself a break from the next test? Or take a week off of school?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.8 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.8 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. |
| 0:29.5 | We are back for another Q&A episode. |
| 0:33.1 | And in this episode, what I am going to do is group together many of the questions that |
| 0:38.5 | you all have asked me via email on similar topics. |
| 0:43.4 | And the topics that we are going to be tackling today are food rewards like using food as a |
| 0:49.3 | reward for something, cheat meals, and earned indulgences. |
| 0:54.8 | Like I've been so good so I earned it. |
| 0:58.3 | I've been getting a lot of questions on these topics like when, if ever, is it okay to |
| 1:04.8 | use food as a reward? |
| 1:07.2 | Or do I ever earn an indulgence because of good dietary behavior or consistency or results |
| 1:15.1 | or progress? |
| 1:16.1 | And I'm going to keep it short because this doesn't need to be long. |
| 1:21.6 | I feel like there are a lot of people out there in the space of nutrition or fitness or |
| 1:27.8 | mindset or whatever. |
| 1:29.7 | And they kind of belabor a point and add complexity as if the only good answer is a long |
| 1:37.5 | answer. |
| 1:38.6 | And I am a minimalist. |
| 1:40.2 | I don't believe that. |
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