"Accepting your addictive desire to eat means being willing to feel it, without satisfying it, fighting it, avoiding it or doing things to make it go away. ... Simply allow yourself to feel it, because it's your resistance to it that makes it more persistent and more intense. β¦ [I]t's in your best interest to accept your addictive desire to eat, relaxing as much as you can and letting it be there. Remember that the only reason you're feeling the desire is because you ate addictively in the past β¦ And probably the main reason you ate addictively in the past is because you live in a food-addicted culture."
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Gillian Riley, "Eating Less, Say Goodbye to Overeating" (2005) at page 119
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