Morning Musings: July 6

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

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

“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

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

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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