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"I want to pass on a mind trick that a friend does in order to avoid the &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; foods she craves: She pretends she&amp;#039;s allergic to them. As in, her allergy to these foods is that they cause her to gain weight. Some people get hives; she gains weight. I think it&amp;#039;s quite a funny way to enforce one&amp;#039;s will power, but I could also see it being quite effective, if you can psych yourself into it so much so that you actually believe it! I want to try it. So let me start by making a list of all my allergies:  My favorite chocolate cake  Real ice cream (not frozen yogurt)  Crispy peanut butter cookies  French fries  Two cookies I eat at 3pm almost every day  The second round of pecan pie that my aunt always insists I eat when I see her  The snitches of cookie dough when I&amp;#039;m baking  Any kind of bread  Pasta  The juice in my weekend Greyhound cocktail Peanut butter cookies at work   I kind of like this idea -- that is, if I can really fool myself into avoiding things I love because I&amp;#039;m &amp;quot;allergic.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;ll let you know if it works and if you try it, write to me at constantdieter@goodhousekeeping.com, and tell me how it went. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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