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Originally Posted by mlc82  I am really lost here now... Why is not masturbating for a certain period considered "delayed gratification", but sticking to a nutrition and workout plan, much of which isn't easy, for a certain period of time in order to have a leaner, stronger, and healthier body NOT "delayed gratification" and also a bad way to strengthen willpower? |
Her point I believe is that anything can become an addiction, and when it does, feeding the addiction robs one of will power. There's a difference between managing nutrition and training, and getting so obsessed about it that it becomes a round-the-clock pleasure compulsion getting in the way of this person's conscious evolution.