The Power of Cognitive Dissonance

When you were pregnant and allowed yourself to eat whatever you felt like eating. You realised that if I allow my appetite to run free, I'm really good at it just being normal,. balanced, regulated in the way that it needs to be. That was a revelation to me. It turned out as it transpired, I was a roughly self-regulating organism - who knew? But that makes perfect sense, doesn't it? And we can secure ourselves through doing things in a controlled way. We have this magical thinking that says 'I can only do this if I'll pick some arbitrary absolute number on the scales' which is so often not the case. As you know, university was a

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