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...creature. As soon as he said that, I saw it: a primitive, eyeless monster visible only to me, like the gremlin on the wing of the airplane in The Twilight Zone. When Dr. N took a sip of milk, the creature would reach out and touch the carton. When it touched the carton, I felt the fear...
...making it let go, Dr. N said. Don't let it touch the carton. It took a lot of effort, but I did it. The creature wanted to touch the milk, but if I tried, I could stop it. When I did, the fear went away. I practiced that - letting the creature reach for something, making it stop, making it back away. The better I got at controlling the creature, the easier my phobia was to control. I even talked to it. I asked it what it wanted and why it wouldn't leave me alone. It wasn...
...talked to are pretty simple and should work for anyone if they've worked for people who spend their long working hours surrounded by amazing food they're forced to keep tasting, people who talk, think and read about flavor all day long, people who--forget about a carton of ice cream in their freezer--have a pastry chef in their office...
Change did not come easily for Stratta. "That carton was the perfect portion of Häagen-Dazs," he says. "Serves eight? No, it serves one guy who really likes ice cream." Stratta decided to get off sugar, fatty meats and carbs after his suit wouldn't fit for an awards reception, sending him into a big-and-tall shop. "I was a size-20 neck. I was mortified. I was like Alex the Neck," he says. In 18 months, he went from 270 lb. to 190 lb., which is below his high school weight. His new rules include starting...
Bakr simulated their work with M&Ms, gummy fruit snacks, and a foam egg carton. The M&Ms were spread out on the foam carton and represented atoms, and the gummies were impurities...