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I sate my appetite with ersatz, not quite ready for the real thing, or maybe too afraid to want the real thing for fear that it will get taken away again.

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What actually happens to your body when you start to get hangry?

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In the same way that bodies need water and nutrients to survive, minds need a sense of stimulation and accomplishment to thrive.

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I want to scream

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Opinions. None of your opinions matter. And all of your facts are wrong. I know a lot of things. But in any one topic there are people who know 1000x more than I do.

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The Buddhist saying goes, “we are our thoughts and we become what we think.” If this is true, and our thoughts are driven by our words, and what we say informs how we eat, then maybe, just maybe, we really are what we eat.

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It’s really easy for us to complain about stupid things that don’t really matter.

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Hunger cares not where you are, or what you have eaten, especially if it was a four-course meal. You know that as soon as you “finish eating,” you’ll be more than ready for whatever comes next. Someone’s leftovers? You’ll take it! Dessert? Do you even have to ask?

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I wonder if I’m going to faint. I am starting to feel kind of weak and a little sleepy, but on the other hand the only time I’ve actually fainted was after I fasted for a full 24 hours—less the half hour when I fainted—so I think I should be okay.

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I demand that the heartless and clueless makers of this advertisement be placed in a crate for a month and be forced to survive on a diet of only three hand-fed Snausages daily.