When the wheels come off

Lets all take a moment to play with our imaginations...close your eyes, take a deep breath, and clear your mind.
Okay, now imagine this if you will; you wake up in the morning totally refreshed with no alarm clock. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and all is right in the world.
Your children make you breakfast, traffic is light on the way to work, and you even have a few minutes to spare to drink a cup of coffee outside near a honeysuckle bush that has attracted Hummingbirds. What a great start to your day.
Stay with me here! You go into your office and smiling all the while you prepare the report your boss asked you for with ease and triumphantly prance in to hand it over.
Your boss greets you warmly as you hand in the report, you chit chat and then you return to your desk to move on with your glorious day.
Now imagine that your boss calls you into his or her office. He or she politely thanks you for the joke and asks for the real report, you point to the report on the desk and wonder what the big deal is about the flat, smelly dog turd inside the folder. " What am I supposed to do with this?" your boss asks.
Now your boss isn't all that happy, becoming upset with this clearly disrespectful prank, your boss yells at you, threatening to fire you if you don't make this right.
You are literally panicked, how could this have gone so wrong? Your day was going so well, its a dog poo, so what? You just throw it away and move on right? Its not a report and I didn't do my job, but, so what?
Well, now your day is starting to ruin because your boss is yelling at you, you get fired, you cant pay your mortgage, you lose your home, you are forced to live with your sister who smokes like a chimney and your spouse leaves you because you are irresponsible...etc..get the picture?
What does this have to do with nutrition?
What if your boss was your stomach? What if the dog poo was the "harmless" prank you play on it every time you sneak a doughnut, or a Rockstar energy drink, or lets be real, junk foods containing hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, chemicals and who knows what all else ( actually we do know and that's the issue!) that make you sick and fat and depressed.
Every time you prank yourself into thinking its fun or yummy or harmless to cheat often you run the risk of being shut down, maybe your spouse wont really leave you because you ate the deep fried Snicker bar at the fair but your pancreas might eventually, which is something you are also dependant on for the basics.
Your body is the you in this story, going about its business, having a great day and then along comes the dog poo, the ice cream, the bread or whatever and ruins the whole day.
I am not saying lets never enjoy anything forbidden ever again, but, maybe a cheat and a treat aren't the same thing?
A treat shouldn't leave you dehydrated from vomiting after ingestion, that's a cheat. Cheating yourself out of a whole day of feeling good mentally, physically, and spiritually.
This post is not meant to judge or scorn, I have my moments the same as the next person. I want you to think about the mechanisms that drive the boat. I want you to think about the long term in relation to what your goals are.
Once or twice wont hurt, but we all know math. One plus one over enough time can sure add up.
Maybe we should all make a budget for the body like we do for our bills, what we can and cannot afford? It might just save your life.
Meredith