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Moonbeem's Progress

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moonbeem:
 I have been doing this diet for about one week.  It is amazingly effective.  Some of it may be due to the power of suggestion.  I started the diet as a true believer, I guess.   I enthusiastically read the book in one sitting, exclaiming with every page, "That makes so much sense!"  I have been so enthusiastic, in fact, that I have been doing all of the "Extra Credit" steps as well.  I have lost about three pounds, but actually FEEL 10 pounds lighter.  I know that is in my head, but something about this diet makes me feel so positive, makes me feel that the light at the end of the tunnel is very close.

I mostly do the ELOO because even though it is yucky feeling to swallow, it is more quick and efficient than sipping at sugar water. It has also had a noticeable skin softening effect. I do the sugar water when it is the only thing to do, like when I was out of town over the weekend. It was very easy to use the sugar packets at the coffee station in the hotel.   I take 2 tablespoons in the morning an hour AFTER breakfast (I have to eat to get the morning taste out of my mouth) and 2 tablespoons in the late afternoon.

Not only has this helped me control my appetite, but it has stopped the progress of the drinking problem I had been developing.  It is kind of weird, but I realized that I was not drinking to get drunk, but every night I was drinking things like white russians or apple martinis or wine, and I would not stop until I was terribly buzzed. This was even though I was irritated about getting drunk; I just liked the taste of some liquors and wished I could hold my liquor or stop drinking. Since I have been following the Shangri La plan, I have noticed that I barely finish a drink , and I think that all the sweet drinks that I had been drinking had flavor calorie associations.  Now I think it is funny---I wonder how many "drunks" are not actually "drunks", just hungry!

mjohnson121:
Huh, interesting theory about associating alchohol w/calories and that being part of the "attraction" to drinking. Of course, due to alchohol's other properties, I'm sure there is more at play than just flavor/calorie association, but that could certainly be part of it.

-Mark

moonbeem:
Yeah.  I don't think that it would apply to all problem drinkers, but possibly to quite a few.

In regards to alcohol's other properties, I have a feeling that I am not the only person who ever went after a mild buzz and ended up more like,  "$%@*^*@^#*@^!!!! Why am I drunk again?!?!?!? I don't even like it!"

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