When I first started RPD I was talking with my best friends mom about her heart issues and that I was going to eat raw meat. She said yuck, as people commonly do and asked why. I told her I needed to heal my body and feel better and nothing else was working. She has heart issues and eats a lot of "healthy grains" to try and help. She's overweight and stressed. I asked her if she could guarantee her heart issues to be healed would she give up all the candy, snacks, grains, etc? She said her doctors told her the heart doesn't heal, so no. I said aside from what doctors say, if it worked would you do it. She said she didn't want to give up her sweets so no.
The epitome of the human condition: I'd rather suffer with one thing to enjoy rather than give up that one thing (bad food) and suffer a little more for a short while but have greater happiness for longer. We are so focused on the present. That reminds me of a joke me and my roommates made up, the morning after a candy/drinking binge; "my present self is always pissed at my past self, while my future self never gets here"
