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Personal Narrative: How Dieting Changed My Life

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I started with negative thinking at age 13, absolutely sure I would gain weight like my mom. I proceeded to gain forty pounds dieting over a ten-year period, then gave up hope and decided that I 'd just love and accept my body the way it was. Motherly and "approachable". Then I remembered that imagination trumps willpower every time! So I went to work with my mind, imagining my new slim, strong, radiant self, and didn 't worry about dieting. Every time I looked in a mirror, I said to myself, "I look just at least a millionth of an inch thinner today. And I made sure I believed it. I lost the forty pounds, and have kept it off over 25 years! Not only that, I refuse to think "old" and people peg me for 15 - twenty years younger than I am. If

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