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Appreciate this genuine post, Gabriel. Congrats on your progress.

Particularly enjoyed your inclusion of emotional wounds as often overlooked piece. So true, as we deal with those, many symptoms go away.

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Thank you!

I'm convinced the emotional side is talked about less often because it's a lot harder to profit off fixing. (As far as I'm aware there isn't a supplement for it 😅)

Even worse, people really don't want to touch on root and/or systemic causes of serious problems across the board.

The way I think of it is that everyone wants to shout "the wheels fell off the bus" but very few want to hear / act on why.

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Yes, again many people have vested interests in not solving the emotional issues that are the root of excess eating, spending, drinking, drugs, gambling, smoking....I would even say the system is designed to actively exacerbate these emotional issues.

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Thanks, this is very helpful

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Proud of you mate. I was really sick and depressed in the middle of last year so I started walking up and down a hill every day - rain or shine. It's really hot now so I call my walk the 'death march' lol. I'm swimming as well which is much nicer, but still gritting it out on the death march. Makes me appreciate winter a lot more. Super impressed with your introspection and humility.

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Your courage is truly inspiring, thank you for sharing your journey.

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General Tso's Chicken! I haven't made that in ages. Looks great!

I loved your distinction between habits and compulsions. I've thought about addictions in there too. The best way to change a habit is gradually but that backfires with an addiction because you keep making it harder on yourself every time you do a little bit. I'm speaking to myself here, not you. The psychology of feeling deprived is also very real. My oldest daughter, Veronica, has done a program called Noom that she likes, where she focuses on 'eating more water.' So it's the water content of foods that she tries to balance out. But there's no morality imposed on it.

I've said that no food found in nature is inherently evil, only misunderstood.

Cassandra says that everyone has a go-to deadly sin that only you can identify. She says for her that sloth beats gluttony because even if she's really hungry, she's too lazy to get out of bed. So I think that by your measure, that makes her very efficient ;-)

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"I've said that no food found in nature is inherently evil, only misunderstood."

This I totally agree with! Misunderstood is a great way of saying it because I think there's a great deal of confusion in general. I still know I've only scratched the surface on the nutrition discussion.

Eating water is something I need to consider more. I've been leaning on celery for the raw fiber!

Re: Cassandra

This is a big problem for me, I've played around with eating later because it will get me out of bed 🫣 Dealing with this is still a work in progress.

General Tso's chicken is one of my favorites, didn't turn out great but I hope to master it someday!

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Hiya, I've been reading about ozempic. It mimics the full feeling you get from fibre, found of course in fruits, veg and legumes, though also from resistance starches, such as in pasta that's been allowed to cool (wholegrain of course!). When we eat sugar or a high saturated fat meal, they're not evil, but they not only spike insulin with subsequent blood sugar dip or bypass the liver and get dumped into fat cells, they're absorbed so quickly we don't get a full feeling, and keep eating. Eating fibre we get the release of GLP without the side effects of drugs.

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Ps another thing that they don't want you to know is that the fibre in, particularly, legumes is broken down into butyrate, which feeds symbiotic bacteria, colonocytes and protects the gut lining. It also makes us feel satiated and fantastic. Bacteria in our guts switch human genes on and off and control our cravings. We want the kind of bacteria, such as plant loving Prevotella species, that work with our health and not against it.

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