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I'm currently reading The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman (by Timothy Ferriss) on my Kindle (for FREE from the library!). It's interesting, but I haven't read enough to know how I feel about it yet. However, I've found one passage particularly thought-provoking ...

"We break commitments to ourselves with embarrassing regularity. How can someone trying to lost weight binge on an entire pint of ice cream before bed? How can even the most disciplined of executives fail to make 30 minutes of time per week for exercise? How can someone whose marriage depends on quitting smoking pick up a cigarette?

Simple: logic fails. If you were to summarize the last 100 years of behavioral psychology in two words, that would be the takeaway."

Is Ferriss spouting truth? Are we really that good at self-sabotage? All of us?

Uh, yes, absolutely. And I claim Adam and Eve and that dang piece of fruit as fairly convincing evidence.

What are your tried and true methods for defeating the glutton within?

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[Mom]

I would venture to say that the reason no one has commented here is that no one has a "tried and true" method for defeating teh glutton within. Now, if you question had been "What's your tried with no success method for defeating the glutton within?", you may have gotten a myriad of answers...