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See? You are exactly one of the people I'm talking about. I don't know if you ever read this, but some place, Kathryn said that it actually took about nine months before the binge/purge thoughts didn't occur much even though she never binged again after her big epiphany. This means she likely had to...

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If that's not great progress, I don't know what is!

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I absoletly LOVE her stance that her overeating was not due to all kinds of psychological problems, and that it doesn't have to be a long, torturous process to get over it. (Not that I don't go through some hissy fits sometimes.) Sure, once in awhile, you hear about someone unraveling some emotional...

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Is it being a "fast" month a pun?

Have a delightful date night!

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BTW, I limit my discussion of IF to very few people,and really try to keep it D &L on Reinhard's site. I chimed in here only because it was already being discussed. I know this site is open, so anyone might come and see my thoughts, but they would have to come here. I hope everyone will keep our dis...

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Heather, I think it's a good idea to join the monthly challenges. They tend to keep the focus narrower. You can post on the yearly thread periodically. If you need more chances to ruminate more, there's always a check-in thread. But if you can get away with simplicity, mazel tov! I'm cutting and pas...

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Jen, you're a doll. And a poet. ("Coy" moon.)

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Just had someone respond to an offer of my 29 free VHS tapes. She said she has a friend who uses VHS. I know on that site some people resell things, but more power to them, even though it is nice to think neighbors could get use out of them. But if they're more enterprising than I am, so be it.

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My older sister recommended both of those, AARP and finding a consultant/broker. I'm suspicious of brokers. Can they remain objective enough to offer the plan that's right for me and not what they get the best deal on? But I will get on this when I get a few more things cleared out of my house.

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That's why having a weight goal or something like it that is dependent on another event can backfire. Once you reach the goal, you're stuck with coming up with a new one. I see on Spark that people who've reached their weight loss goal struggle because they don't get the thrill of loss showing up on...

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I get intimidated pretty easily by the thought of using something like eBay to sell stuff. I do have a few I looked up on eBay and I think I should be able to get a few bucks for them locally. But if no one takes them, I might look into it. So many T-Tapp discs! and so expensive! A few hundred dolla...

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Thanks, Merry. I think you've tried to help me with this task before, but it didn't work the first time, and I gave up. But I didn't eat over it...

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Judith Beck has "mantras" to say to yourself at tough times. One of them I've paraphrased is "I feel so much happier when I make it a habit to stick to fair limitations I've accepted."

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Thanks! Sometimes I feel funny still participating so much here after 8 years- on some days, it's my username a long way down as the most recent poster on thread after thread. But changing eating habits turns out to be so hard for so many people, even when it makes such sense, and it's so gratifying...

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See update below.

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FP, meant to give you props for your weight loss but even more for your great month!

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Not that it matters, but the three series I have I got used. I did drink The Firm poison back before the internet, so they had a lock on our desires for slimness without a lot of bouncing around. Those tapes were $40-50 a pop to start. I got one for Christmas, another copied (but not sold) from a fr...

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I'll try that out on chair sit days. One of the best ones I ever used for triceps wouldn't work as an isometric. But I'm adding a few minutes on, either attached immediately to the one-minute, or at other times. I use exercises I've learned over the years that tax the same muscle groups. That way it...

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Yes, I live in San Diego. But it's ridiculous how seldom I've gone to the shore for almost the whole time I've lived here. The water is cold to me, even in summer. Yet I don't have to go in, do I? When I would leave work, I'd fool myself into thinking I'd go home and get some more done, but rarely d...

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Hey, give me more credit than that! No mater what people do, I think enjoying every bite should be foundational. That was one of Beck's first skills, even before formal dieting and it's been an aspiration of mine on No S. Besides, I bet you do enjoy your food even more, no? Enjoying less food more i...

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I like Hansen's stuff. She was influenced by someone I read years before I read her, Jack Trimpey. I don't agree with her insistence that people shouldn't try to cut calories, i.e,. eat less or that they eat snacks, natch. She didn't have weight to lose in the first place. Many bingers do. They migh...

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Enjoy every bite!

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I have read it, as well as having viewed multiple youtube videos. It is the nature of such books to make their case, as it is the nature of the intellectual to develop and promote his/her perspective. Longo's science is also very good. So is Guyenet's, not a promoter of fasting, but a serious resear...

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Fingers crossed.

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You figured the egg sandwich had sugar in it, so you might as well go for the latte... Completely understand. Thank you for not helping your son. Oh, the times i have gotten work from kids and just knew parents helped a LOT or just plain did the whole thing. Awkward when it went back with a C. Thank...

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I'm decluttering and got a project thrust on me because a woman wanted an old TV I was going to take to a recycling event anyway. I decided to empty the TV cabinet of all its stuff. I won't go into all of it, just the fitness tapes/CD's. I still had TWENTY-SEVEN VHS tapes, going back to early FIRM t...

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Thanks, all. I went up a local "mountain" last night to try to see the moon rise a little before the sunset. It was hidden behind some clouds long enough that I gave up and started down so that the twilight could light the way down. (It was an absolutely stunning sunset on one of the clearest days I...

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Interesting because when I was on my Longo kick, I read that he ate two meals a day, breakfast and dinner. Then a couple of days ago, I saw something that said he ate only once a day. Given what you said, it seems scenario 1 is more likely. I know his take on protein. I've seen reviews on his book, ...

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My duty as I saw it. Now I hope it helps!

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Exactly. Curtailing the fast food is a personal decision. We all know it's got downsides, but so does reining in too soon. Wean, wean, wean!

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Right on track!

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I would also like to know what percentage of your weight 3lbs. is (you can tell me separately), how long you've been as overweight as you are, and what you think your "worst" habit was before No S. Also, you've said you don't want to count calories. No problem understanding that here! However, when ...

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All days with the same icon, except NWS ( 8) ) and failure :shock: Starting with Monday, 1/1/18 8) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :shock: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :shock: :) :) X X :) :) (X = I don't remember) :shock: :shock: :shock: Aw, shoot. Once again, I stopped keeping track when I didn't get ...

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Congrats on a gold medal month! I haven't had one of those in a LONG time, but it may be too late for me to muster the will to have one in February... Maybe I can join you in March!

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I agree with Bluebell. You do it because you are HUMAN and because your brain has made very positive associations with such habits in your past. Fifty thousand years ago, it would have kept you alive. Our brains are geared to protect us against scarcity but not against excess. It's possible that har...

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Smart goals. Check in only when it works for you.

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No neat ideas for dealing with depression. I've never found anything as simple or effective for it as No S is for eating. It's certainly not as strong as it has been, but I'm a lot more reluctant to say I feel confident about not relapsing regarding it than I do about eating. I feel a LOT less in co...

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Having a sister to help her and keep up with is a boon.

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That's close enough, but honestly, I wouldn't have made much of having a Krispy Kreme doughnut at your stage of the game. I easily ate the equivalent of multiples of them on many S days. One is not even close to blowing it, in my book. Getting to the point at which I could say that I almost never re...

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That is an astounding January! Congrats.

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bigshoe wrote: I had been so into paleo and low carb I was confused not to have an enemy. Just myself and gluttony.

Talk about laugh out loud.

If that really sinks in, especially when the body's homeostasis bias and the reward value of food makes you doubt it, I predict a testimonial next January.

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I get it. If the flour is made from the original whole grain, you don't consider it refined. Fair enough. And yes, there is sugar in just about everything, though it can be a very small fraction of the total. Much less than in a piece of fruit but without any of the bennies, admittedly. I understand...

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f&e, it IS called The Four Day Win. I actually bought it; I try to stick with library books, but I caved. I got the CD version and it was a mistake for me. 1) I really didn't like her voice/delivery, and 2) it's so much harder to go back to find sections to listen to again as opposed to read again. ...

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Thanks for the response re:shoes. Still impressive. So is losing 30 lbs.! When the time comes, you may be willing to cut back on the lattes and sweet teas. Officially, coffee and tea between meals are supposed to have just a spoonful of sugar or so. The commercial ones would likely be considered swe...

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You may hit a stretch in which the weight is never lower and get discouraged. I'm not sure why I weighed in the beginning because sanity was what I was ogoing for, but I used a technique from when I was on the Carbohydrate Addicts diet. I weighed and record every day and averaged it once a week. Tha...

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Just had to put this here. I was wasting time between meals yesterday and saw a comedian on American Idol who was from Malawi. (Africa) He said women are revered for being heavy. He claimed it was because everyone is thinking, "Where'd you get the food?" He lives in England now and also said it seem...

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Have you seen some of my posts? I binge on them all the time. That was a great feat at your parents'. It sounded like you were not swayed by the volume of food nor by possibly your mother's entreaties to eat more. (or maybe just a little.) I think not only are humans wired to like plenty, but Americ...

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That's great that you don't need to post. It means you are getting to life without dieting!

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Those are small. (I am the official arbiter. :wink: I thought I eat small! levictoria, try not to get too influenced by other people's breakfasts at this point. Honestly, that sounds like a diet head question. Behind it is Should I (big I) be eating less? Will this get me where I want in the time I ...

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You may be surprised how well you can fit No S into the holiday. If people are being snacky, I sip a civilized coffee or maybe a hot chocolate (pushing it) as a nod to the environs. For meals, I really savor the non-sweet but delicious foods, but might keep them to a little more than half my plate s...

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How wonderful that she has the means for such a great opportunity. I assume it's close enough for you to visit.

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Not just your opinion. You don't need to know how many points are in anything. You'll figure out with a fair amount of practice over time what was too much about two hours after the meal. Unless you try to take a shortcut.

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Ouch! Here's to a speedy recovery.

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I'm taking the liberty of adding this to the thread "Why did you leave? Why are you back?

And welcome home.

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I think (not that my opinion counts) realizing you don't have to give in to HALT is even more important than getting takeaway food to a minimum. It's a lot more uncomfortable and therefore has even more of a payoff. You might consider having a separate kind of notation on a calendar (or a separate H...

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I believe Reinhard talked about a small glass of juice and having that be possibly sobering because you would see how many oranges it took. but there may be one on an orange alone, too. He also was discussing whether orange juice was a sweet. Not unless it leads to more and more. And it also seemed ...

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Nice to meet you! To many happy months and years here with us.

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Thanks to you, I've gotten in 22 minutes out of 31 since 12/28. If you take off the 9 weekend days (though not kosher since it IS only a minute :oops: ), that's an average of all the N days, though I did miss some weekdays and "worked out" on some S days. I even got out of bed one night to do the ex...

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RE: victories, I'll say! Would whole wheat be refined? Just wondering because of the corn tortillas... which I, too, eat while limiting bread of any kind to only a few times a week. I do sometimes miss the artisan whole wheat bread from Trader Joe's. But it had that effect of making me want to tear ...

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MOST people are marshmallow 1. Otherwise, we'd all be accomplished athletes, scientists, performing musicians, etc., and we'd watch a lot less TV sports, dance, and singing because we'd probably be DOING rather than living vicariously. So let's be judicious about the 2-marshmallow pursuits. We can't...

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Just for clarity, I don't use the Konmari method. It's a mishmash of Flylady, a teeny bit of KM, and lots of me. I got stalled by getting caught up in wanting to have a chance to offer things in my neighborhood (I've gotten some useful stuff for free. Want to make the gesture). I have to tell you, w...

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Excellent strategy. I respect weaning a lot, especially when you've got a sympathetic tribe to keep kindly beckoning. Martha Beck reported that small changes that make just enough of a difference, sometimes just in the satisfaction of the discipline, are great groundwork for gradual changes and some...

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I believe the incentive of being sick of physical discomforts is a much better motivator than weight loss for appearance. And if you do have health conditions, well, that is what "diets" are for. In your case, just these modifications to your eating will be a big step, Your doctor will probably be f...

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Both nice benefits.

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Ah, you've found the benefit of non-sweet N days. Martha Beck wrote a book about 4-day wins, that is, practicing a modest habit for 4 straight days minimum. You might take a break and do it again, sometimes until it's the norm. One more day for NoS adds a nice measure of smugness. And I really belie...

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What a great, civilized save!

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I'm not sure you realize just what a big deal it was for you to stop mid WTH. (It's actually the term the researchers cam up with originally, though in formal situations, they call it "counterregulatory eating" and it's MUCH more typical than modest reactions, such as stopping before it sets in. (Ma...

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Do your best to cut those ties between down feelings and manufactured (and eventually sugar/fat/salt of your own making) foods. No one can promise you anything on any eating plan, but it was my experience that I felt a profound sense of gratitude and pride the more I did that, about equal with close...

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Millen, what you realized about S days is exactly what they are supposed to be. The early practice of wild eating can calm down on its own as members "get it" or even just slide into it without a lot of attention. (Not me, by the way, and fair number of others were/are in my boat. Hence the podcast ...

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Thanks for asking. It actually passed from fun into tolerating a very unpleasant physical experience. No one's fault and one I hope never to repeat at least without being in a hospital because it's a disease I didn't bring on myself. But in terms of company, it was great before that, plenty of laugh...

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I don't want this info to send you on compulsive eating after being ill, but researchers on fasting for longevity (and also to improve the efficacy of cancer treatments) have found that eating a lot less or even total fasting for short periods- ill or not-acts to dismantle inferior cells in the body...

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I don't know how I missed hearing about your father. Much sympathy.

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Sounds very fair. Doing great.

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I'm REALLY impressed about the Indian buffet! and glad for any other changes that are important to you. I find that once I got honest about what went on my plate- I have general guidelines about how much dense food is needed/acceptable- the scale pretty much followed it, so I have weighed only spora...

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I guess you are in the minority! If you don't miss having bigger meals later in the day, no problem.

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Takeaway food alters just about everybody's behavior. It taps into primal desires that are all about the wanting, not the satisfaction. It doesn't mean you have to chuck it altogether. Just knowing what you're dealing with can help. At some point, it may be a good time to add in the habit of savorin...

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Hi, Doll! Here for the long haul.

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Well, if that criteria works for you, go for it. Have you listened to any of Reinhard's podcasts on how to choose habits to work on? He has a good one about trying things for a month, but sticking to it for that long before deciding what might need modifying. I need to review it myself. There's on o...

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How cute about the teapot. Where is it made? Probably not France. I think I may have seen one in a Ross store and considered getting it just for the fun of it. But something changed my mind. Went to a party last night and got kind of, well, wasted. It completely negated my ability to wander around a...

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How did you navigate the auntie situation? It was an S day, no? Or you have a mod?

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I call using something like the apple â€œeasing inâ€ to the habit. Reinhard says the hardest thing about having something like an apple is that then people might fill their plates with something else more dense because they feel theyâ€™ve gotten their fruit quota in. But you sound very realistic.

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A few weeks ago, a friend was asking me a few questions about my eating in such a way that I could tell she thought it was a diet thing, something I was doing and not living. Even though she has known me the whole time! She's seen my drop and maintenance, but she somehow has the idea that it's becau...

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I knew about the marshmallow test. That was the metaphor I meant, though I guess the better term is allusion. That example is brought up in so many books/articles I've read on willpower. I think I even saw it on film in a training or in class at work. As an adult, I want to believe I would have been...

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Happy New Welcome Back!

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Glad to have you. You've got only today, Friday, before the Sweekend! Then only eight weekdays before the end of January. You can do it!

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My only goal was to counteract my semi-binge eating. I wasn't sure I could lose weight, and wasn't convinced I needed to for health's sake. When I did lose some, it was in the back of my mind that I might be able to get back to my high school weight I wasn't particularly thin but I also wasn't a car...

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Nearly the whole human race overeats sugar when given the chance. Oh, you can see exceptions. But that's all they are! Exceptions, and damn lucky, too! I know that book and the site you refer to and there is a lot of possible value there. but use them as addenda to No S. Neither one of them truly un...

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Who really knows why we overeat after events? My reading these days makes me wonder why we don't overeat even more than we do, given excess cheap high-desirability food available. Once eating gets paired with the countless events/situations it can, the pattern can be stimulated at almost any repeat ...

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ZD, you do realize that failure to change overeating habits is the norm? That most people now will overeat right up to the end, unless they get old enough to lose their appetite? Some of them will do it in the face of some pretty uncomfortable conditions. I say this because I got the sense that you ...

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Eating at events or even out with others was often paired with my eating again when I got home, though mine was always when I was alone. It usually felt VERY weird- not exactly hard, more weird- when I stopped doing it. But sometimes it was hard, too. BEST time to reprogram!

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THAT was long? That would be me just getting going. Bluebell, it might be asking a lot for your old habits NOT to take a run at these new ones. The brain feels threatened and will engage its strategies. Only your decision to stick with it can build the neural network to override the habit track.(Gil...

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