To achieve your goals, you need to budget. Whether it be weight or finances, without a specific goal, there's no value in budgeting.
Free will isn't free, it requires budgeting.
Budgeting is letting go of something with less value now for the expectation of something of greater value later.
If you want flat belly, you need to budget your food intake and rebalance your diet so there's less carbs in it. I've discovered this simple [algorithm] works for me.