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• You have to honor your new consciousness of well-being by eating a wide variety of foods—basically anything that tastes good to you (whether it’s healthy or not). But you’re going to temper it by controlling the amount you eat along with the frequency with which you eat it.
• It’s a 3-step process—Reframe your goals from weight loss to health enhancement, Eliminate binge eating through desensitization and Reduce the volume and frequency of problem food consumption through innovative delayed gratification techniques.
• You name it I tried it. They all worked. But the suffering, the deprivation, the constant vigilance and oh, my God, the math, THE MATH! I had to count those calories, weigh these products, measure those foods, calculate the fat, subtract the salt, divide the carbs, move towards this, away from that, it was exhausting.
• And it was never about what foods to eat or avoid or which exercise regimen worked best. It was always about one thing and one thing only: Moderation. Portion control. Eating whatever you want but staying within the confines of reason.
• There’s only one problem: Moderation is often more difficult than dieting. It requires you to navigate the psychological obstacles to self-restraint, like managing urgent cravings, mastering the skill of delayed gratification, recognizing satiety, and dealing with wildly disruptive psychological phenomena that keep us from eating moderately, like t...