Of course, the issue isn’t really about cheese and ice cream. It’s about congruence.
What you believe and what you do should line up. We’re humans, so we slip. We’re far from perfect, so our performance is far from perfect. It’s expected. It’s part of the program.
I think you run into a problem when there’s too much slippage, when the gap gets too big. The threshold is different for everyone, I’m sure, and the triggers are just as individualized. The point is that we all get there from time to time, to this place of incongruence.
That’s when we have to take action. And action can be a hard thing to take. It all depends on how much incongruence you can stand.