Weight loss: Beware of “rewarding” yourself

If you are doing healthy things and hitting health goals, it is good to celebrate. But, you have to be careful about that because as it turns out, those “rewards” are often devasting. Here is a picture we took this week in an ice cream shop.

Want a milkshake? At this shop, it will cost you up to 2500 calories! In terms of exercise, that is roughly five hours of running or 10 hours of walking.

I can’t prove it, but my guess is that people “rewarding” themselves after a workout leads to an awful lot of weight gain.

Be careful. You cannot out-exercise milkshakes with calories in the four-digit range. I am not saying to never drink a milkshake, but you have to count the cost.