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Carol Anne is correct here, she is suggesting a way to deal
with the needs that must be completed in order to assure success
for someone wishing to change their interaction with food and
the way this can improve their health and appearance.  I applaud
her, and offer this as a useful model of one of the best patterns
for helping people who wish to modify their weight permanently
and enjor the change.

I pointed out the problem and Carol Anne is offering a solution
that works.  This is the method that I have also used successfully.
But, she has stated it more completely and explictly than I have
ever done in so few words.

Thanks,
Herb Martin


>What I do is change the behaviors that *lead* to weight loss:
>Making exercise a compulsion; creating the requisite behaviors
>so that consumption is carefuly metered; expanding and maximizing
>the awareness of internal body signals (e.g., most obese people
>are extraordinarily INsensitive to early warning signs of
>stomach fullness).  By "chunking down" the behaviors to those
>for which evidence can be collected in the short term, the
>subject sees appropriate feedback of relevant kinds that are
>recognized (by the subject) as leading to the goal they originally
>set.
>
>The design of an outcome is a recursive process, especially in
>"big" issues like smoking and weight loss:  Each outcome gets
>broken down into individual well-formed outcomes which, in its
>own rite, can be measured in the short term.  Sometimes, I've
>been known to provide some medium-term amnesia for the long-range
>goal to avoid the implicit sabotage:  They look back from a point
>six months after the intervention (in reality...and in trance as
>a rehearsal for that future event) and notice how far they've
>gotten toward their goal...without having to fret over it in the
>meantime.
>-- 
>--Friday                                    "Knowledge is guesswork
>   Carol Anne Ogdin, Principal Designer         disciplined by 
>   Deep Woods Technology                        rational criticism." 
>     friday@netcom.com                                 --Karl Popper