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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am someone who lost almost 100 lbs so I can speak with some measure of authority, although everyone is different.

First, your OP is written very subtly in the tone of being the victim of your nature or genetics. I used to think in those terms too, and it’s extremely unhelpful. You have to change that mindset.

Second, the book The Power of Habit could help. I lost weight before I read it but I realize in hindsight that shaking my habits and cycles was of vital importance.

Third, everyone I know who has lost weight had a sort of epiphany about it. You have to ride a wave of really deciding to change EVERYTHING. If you’re bargaining with yourself (“well it’s not realistic to give up cake forever” or “counting calories obviously isn’t sustainable”) you’re not going to pull it off. [/quote]
This is a very good analysis of OP's post! I think you are right. She trained her body to crave heavy foods because that is what she gave her body, her actions caused her cravings, not her genes. This is the core of all the lack of self power no matter the issue we all deal with. It is about facing and accepting our own actions. Like when I bought 1, 2, 3, Magic or Yes, Your teen is crazy... and realized that my kids were not the problem, I was the problem! When I realized that when I go visit my mom, I blamed her for all the "wrong" doings in my childhood and I reverted to being that dumb kid because my synopsis were firing the same way as when I was a child and I had to retrain my brain to stop being a petulant teen! It is not easy, but when you realize that you are blaming your mom 40 years after for yelling at you for not doing a good job vacuuming, it really is not her, it was ME who was acting nuts and being stuck in childhood mind set. Anyway, I got off topic here, but technically it really is about changing your synopsis and neural pathways. Instead of saying I can't help it, I said I am the one that is causing this, I am like a Pavlov's dog![/quote]

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