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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
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- Subject: Re: When Food Is Love
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:01:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.170557.17862@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:
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- >Most compulsive overeaters wouldn't know hunger if it bit them on the
- >butt.
-
- Great metaphor.
-
- >My own personal philosophy is much along the lines John suggests above.
- >I try and eat three square meals a day, I don't eat sugar, and I have
- >learned to tolerate hunger. Like Steve and John (but for different
- >reasons), I'm not confident that I could eat what I wanted, when I wanted.
-
- I'm aiming toward three meals a day, too, less if I'm not hungry (though
- I'll still eat something small, just to avoid bingeing later on). I like
- a lot of what Roth says, but I find I prefer to limit the number of times
- a day that I eat. I'd rather let the hunger build up a bit rather than
- just appease it the minute I feel it. If I really must eat between meals,
- I'm going for fruit most of the time.
-
- And I know I've got emotional reasons for overeating; it isn't just a
- "gee, maybe there's something else going on" thing for me anymore; it's
- definite. Even the well-known diet programs are catching on.
-
- Maybe the most powerful combination is indeed a diet with an inner
- inventory. Right now, all I'm ready for is the modified Roth thing. Down
- the line, who knows? As John succinctly put it, one day at a time.
-
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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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