Thanks Mermaid

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>

> I can relate to your cookie experience. When I first started this

process a few years ago, I

> ate chocolate chip cookie dough every day for a month. Not every

meal, but for a lot of

> meals. As Geneen Roth writes in her book, I ate the dough as though

I was making myself

> a gourmet meal.

>

> I didn't lick, scoop, sneak any from the bowl. I thoughtfully,

respectfully put rolled cookie

> dough onto my plate. Lit a candle or two, had beautiful napkins, my

favorite plate and ate

> slowly almost meditatively. I ate it when I was hungry, when it was

really what I wanted

> and stopped when full.

Thanks so much. That's exactly what I needed to hear. It's so scary to

legalize that food you've never been able to control yourself around.

I know I need to do it, though.

> Little by little I ate less and less cookie dough and wanted

something else. Kraft dinner.

> Yup. I then ate KD every day for a month. For the first time I

bought 12 boxes at a time in

> a case lot sale. Every time I'd get to 3 or 4 boxes left I'd buy

another case. These were

> two of the most forbidden foods growing up.

>

> At the time, did I feel yucky. Yup. Did I gain weight? Yuppers

again. And I'd do it all over

> again if I needed to. Now I have piles of chocolate in my

cupboards, drawers and freezer

> and don't think twice about it. Rarely do I buy KD now. I've moved

up to Annie's pasta

> and the rare times I want it, it's as a side dish to a big salad.

Not because I think I

> should, because it's truly all I want.

>

> To me, this is freedom.

>