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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: When Food Is Love
- Message-ID: <98419@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:37:27 GMT
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- In article <17526@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
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- >>She (Roth) suggested that we really enjoy eating
- >>Eat in a calm place without distractions
- >>Eat anything you want
- >>Eat until satisfied
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- >That's exactly what I did for the first 25 years of my life.
- >At the end of that time I weighed 335 lbs and was gaining at
- >the rate of 1 pound per month. Just how long was I supposed
- >to continue trying this method?
-
- The original poster (or you, in your editing) left off two very important
- suggestions that Roth also makes:
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- Eat only when you're hungry.
- Stop when you're no longer hungry (not full, just not hungry).
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- I'd put money on the fact that you (or I) didn't practice these last two
- on the road to obesity.
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- The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
- if only from time to time. -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
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