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Morning Musings: July 11

Jul 11, 2024

Another place where this programming really applies:  Airports and Vacation Mentality.  Anybody besides me start their vacation eating in the car or in the airport, so that by the time you even get there you are already thoroughly derailed?  Somehow […]

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Morning Musings: July 10

Jul 10, 2024

The food industry is onto our addiction and is capitalizing on it.  The real hook, apparently, is the perfect combination of sugar fat and salt – the exact amount that will over-ride your ability to say no, literally breaking your […]

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Morning Musings: July 9

Jul 9, 2024

The food industry knows that we are easy targets.  Read Kessler’s book The End Of Overeating.  Want to know the simplist but most effective tool they use in the myriad of ways they help us to eat more?  They simply […]

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Morning Musings: July 8

Jul 8, 2024

So, when I am visiting a restaurant for the first time, I try to ask myself, “Do I need yet another place in my repertoire where I have made it really hard to eat well?  I don’t know about you, […]

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Morning Musings: July 7

Jul 7, 2024

When I go someplace new or try a new restaurant for the first time, I am aware that I am programming a future history of associations with that place.  I don’t even have to be trying, but it is going […]

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Morning Musings: July 6

Jul 6, 2024

Our brain makes these sort of desktop shortcuts of associations, especially with smells and foods. We now know that you actually develop physical brain pathways that cement these new associations.  So when I am establishing a new restaurant option, it […]

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Morning Musings: July 5

Jul 5, 2024

And I think we often don’t give enough importance to the bigger picture: creating associations in our minds with certain places and foods.  We start out a blank slate about a new place.  We chose what to write on that […]

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Morning Musings: July 4

Jul 4, 2024

“I don’t care” usually happens at the end of a long chain of stimulus – often in the face of the food stimulus itself; too late to stop the train. Another case in point:  Another client could trace a bread […]

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Morning Musings: July 3

Jul 3, 2024

I have never seen anyone with a weight history be able to indefinitely manage food stimulus without eventually caving.  I have seen fellow strugglers (not me) go amazingly long times on psych and willpower for sure, but never indefinitely.  Something […]

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Morning Musings: July 2

Jul 2, 2024

For me, allowing crap in my house is essentially choosing to binge – just at some future, as of yet unspecified date.  Of course, that is not what I say to myself when I buy it and keep it.  I […]

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