tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post5195775059531692872..comments2024-03-28T14:22:37.153-07:00Comments on mole: Twinkling of the TreatsDalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-55485921839735914612012-07-05T21:22:49.621-07:002012-07-05T21:22:49.621-07:00My observation is that what I want most in the wor...My observation is that what I want most in the world, after having something delicious, is more of that, and right now. If I am somehow able to wedge a half hour between firsts and seconds, it goes away. Usually. Then the other trick is to allow yourself anything in the house, but the bad stuff you have to note down on your calendar. The joy of not having the bad marks on your calendar seems to be as strong and self-enforcing as the bad stuff. When it isn't, of course, I go for the whole bag. On the theory that you can't gain ten pounds in one day.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-45077257082330761712012-07-05T08:15:45.477-07:002012-07-05T08:15:45.477-07:00Julie -- :-)
The Sapolsky book is ten years old! ...Julie -- :-)<br /><br />The Sapolsky book is ten years old! But -- I don't know what rock I'd been living under -- I didn't know it existed till a month ago.<br /><br />Zhoen, I love how sanely you two live! It's an inspiration.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-88945068684647489672012-07-05T08:11:20.810-07:002012-07-05T08:11:20.810-07:00Am & Sabine, yes, I think that's the route...Am & Sabine, yes, I think that's the route I'm going to have to take -- these foods just don't exist for me. There's no point in trying to have a casual once-in-a-while relationship with Heathcliff. It doesn't work that way.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-87346211769098993062012-07-05T08:07:32.176-07:002012-07-05T08:07:32.176-07:00Hah! And so many people convinced that you're ...Hah! And so many people convinced that you're a nice woman, Marly! :-)Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-48885004093983717762012-07-05T07:53:18.235-07:002012-07-05T07:53:18.235-07:00Oh, you are making me feel just a tad guilty about...Oh, you are making me feel just a tad guilty about the few pounds I gained on book tour. In fact, I think I will go and eat the last Cadbury ice cream bar dipped in chocolate in the freezer and so get it out of the way...<br /><br />There. It's in my mouth now...marlyhttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-32857237363809664122012-07-04T16:41:39.265-07:002012-07-04T16:41:39.265-07:00Fascinating observations, especially in connection...Fascinating observations, especially in connection with the differences and similarities between us and the great apes.<br /><br />For the first 37 years of my life, I could not stop eating scarce (yes, that's what my mind and body told me --that's it <i>exactly</i>) energy-dense foods once I started eating them. Not having them in the house <i>did</i> made a huge difference, as Zhoen noted.<br /><br />What I found, though, was that if I ate a certain category of treats under other circumstances, they would still trigger craving, and that I would start to toy with the idea of bringing them back into my house. For me, it has been easier to just not eat those foods at all once they were out of my house. The world is full of delicious food that doesn't have that effect on me. By not eating a certain category of treats at all, I am absolutely free of that horrible gnawing craving. <br /><br />I don't feel that I am depriving myself of anything. It's not that way at all. <br /><br />I don't think of those foods as foods for me anymore. They are someone else's food. Someone with a different body chemistry. Someone who can take one bite and walk away. As you put it so well, they are foods that don't <i>belong</i> to me. <br /><br />In another way, those foods are something like beautiful works of art. Some of those foods are quite lovely to look at, artfully designed for consumption, but I wouldn't eat them anymore than I would eat a painting. I can look at a painting with appreciation and not have eat to it to feel filled. <br /><br />As long as I don't eat those foods at all, I am free of craving. That's my experience for the last 25 years. I love food. I can eat plenty of food that I deeply enjoy now without experiencing craving. <br /><br />Thank you for sharing your experience in the last two weeks. Sounds like a major breakthrough to me.amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212213177713917828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-30183422896677590632012-07-04T15:03:08.767-07:002012-07-04T15:03:08.767-07:00Let's rig cameras, and watch Martha cleverly n...Let's rig cameras, and watch Martha cleverly never glancing towards the hiding places. <br /><br />All so sadly true here as well, save for a more vestigial ownership circuit. Alas those chocolate minis, intended for after-school kids. And thanks for heads-up on new Sapolsky.JMartinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-47556103898794165052012-07-04T14:16:42.659-07:002012-07-04T14:16:42.659-07:00I am with you all the way. I find it extremely dif...I am with you all the way. I find it extremely difficult, if not downright impossible to not finish anything made from milk chocolates (easter bunnies, santas, toblerone in all sizes, Swiss 500 g bars...) and I am amazed and a bit disgusted with those very prim people who can nibble just that one bit and put the opened packet back in a cupboard.<br />My brain and my body totally agree that milk chocolate must be eaten, never mind the aching teeth and the havoc it creates in my intestines.<br />The only really sane option is to pretend it doesn't exist.Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-39865642725094506282012-07-04T11:50:37.396-07:002012-07-04T11:50:37.396-07:00Yeah, just never buying sweets at the grocery stor...Yeah, just never buying sweets at the grocery store makes a huge difference. We rarely ever make desserts, usually only if we are having company over.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.com