Planets in Retrograde -- The Basics
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The Astonishing Power of Emotions
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	Why You Must Find Some Low-Carb Friends Part 1 by Jim Stone The Low-Carb Way
Astrology, Tarot, and Self Improvement for the New Age.

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Why You Must Find Some Low-Carb Friends
Part 1
by Jim Stone

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I want you to imagine that you've been low-carbing for just a week. And, though it was hard at first, you got through the hard part. But carbs still tempt you at times.

So now you find yourself at a big family dinner. They have quite a spread laid out in front of you. There is turkey and there are veggies. That's the good news. But there are also sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls, and waiting in the other room are pumpkin and dutch apple pies.

You haven't said anything to anyone in your family (except your sister) about your diet. In fact you're worried what your family would think if they found out.

You plan to just take a little of everything, and load up on the turkey and veggies, and try to look normal, pushing the food around on your plate inconspicuously.

Then your sister says, "Vivian is doing a low carb diet -- like that Atkins thing." A sudden hush falls over the room. Then they start in. Isn't that dangerous? All that fat -- your cholesterol will go through the roof. , you're not really doing that, are you? Here, have some more mashed potatoes.

To prove you're not crazy you have a bite of mashed potatoes. Then, after dinner, when dessert comes, you have "just a sliver" of pie.

You think you did all right, but the carbs start to do their dirty work. You start to fixate on the pie. You can't get it out of your mind.

When no one's looking, you sneak another piece into your hand, and make your way outside with it. You stand in the corner of the garage with your pie, like a teenager sneaking a cigarette. You chow down, and have a moment of desperate satisfaction. You spend the rest of the night plotting how to get more pie.

You tell yourself it's over. You're off the wagon. It will be very difficult to break the addiction again. Maybe it's not worth it. You're just doomed to be overweight, and that's that.

So, what just happened here?

Well, let's look at a little bit of human motivation theory. We all have three big sources of motivation for our actions. These sources can cooperate, or conflict with one another.

First, we have our ANIMAL URGES. In the days when fruit was scarce and seasonal, it paid to gorge when one ran across a fruit tree. By gorging on carbs our ancestors could quickly store a few pounds for the coming winter. This was very good, and often meant the difference between surviving and not.

So part of our animal nature is to have a sweet tooth -- an urge to eat carbohydrates. And especially, once we've eaten some, to positively gorge ourselves on them. But now carbs are superabundant. That useful urge now leads us to pack on the pounds week after week -- not just in the late Summer.

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