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Michael Prager’s Followers (4)
Michael Prager
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Fat Boy Thin Man
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published
2010
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4 editions
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Reason 4 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide
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2007
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5 editions
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Reason 5 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide
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published
2010
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5 editions
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Reason 2.5 Power!
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published
2003
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3 editions
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Reason 6 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide
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published
2012
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Sampling and Soft Synth Power!
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published
2004
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2 editions
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Propellerhead Record Ignite!
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published
2010
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3 editions
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Reason 5 Power! The Comprehensive Guide, 1st ed.
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published
2010
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Reason 4 Power!
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published
2007
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Locating People in the Digital Age
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“Black-and-white thinking is the addict's mentality, which can be a bar to recovery when one is still active. But an addict who finds the willingness can then rely on the same trait to stay clean: "Just don't drink," they say in AA.
How's that going to work for an addicted eater? Food addicts have to take the tiger out of the cage three times a day. I've read that some drinkers have tried "controlled drinking," and it hasn't been very successful. Eaters don't just have to try it; they must practice it to survive.
Having a food plan is an attempt to address that, and having clear boundaries is a key to its working. But the comfort of all or nothing is just out of reach.
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I'm saying that food addicts, unlike alcoholics and may others, have both to try for perfection and to accept that perfection is unattainable, and that the only tool left is a wholesome discipline.
The problem is, if we had any clue about wholesome discipline, we wouldn't be addicts.”
― Fat Boy Thin Man
How's that going to work for an addicted eater? Food addicts have to take the tiger out of the cage three times a day. I've read that some drinkers have tried "controlled drinking," and it hasn't been very successful. Eaters don't just have to try it; they must practice it to survive.
Having a food plan is an attempt to address that, and having clear boundaries is a key to its working. But the comfort of all or nothing is just out of reach.
...
I'm saying that food addicts, unlike alcoholics and may others, have both to try for perfection and to accept that perfection is unattainable, and that the only tool left is a wholesome discipline.
The problem is, if we had any clue about wholesome discipline, we wouldn't be addicts.”
― Fat Boy Thin Man
“Somehow along my path, I devised a second way of divining God's will for me, which I'm sure isn't original. When I'm not certain what God would have me do, I reframe the question to, "what would love do?" Intellectually, equating God and love seems fair, and it has never led me astray or failed to translate.”
― Fat Boy Thin Man
― Fat Boy Thin Man
“THE RELIABLE WAY OUT OF OBESITY IS VIA PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. This point has been lost on the hundreds of folks who have railed against my arguments for food addiction in periodicals, so I"m eager to make it here: No one but me put the food in my mouth. Even if I had grown up imprisoned in a crawl space under the basement stairs (I wasn't), even if tragedy has befallen me every 15 minutes since (it hasn't), I"m still responsible for what I eat. If my food is out of control (it was), then I'm responsible for finding, requesting, and accepting the help I need.”
― Fat Boy Thin Man
― Fat Boy Thin Man
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