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MariaHobbit
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan , 2008 3:48 pm
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Apparently, just thinking you are getting enough exercise is enough to make you lose weight!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=17792517

I hereby withdraw any and all weird alternative medicine recommendations that I have made in the past. My success with them was probably *just* the placebo effect. Not that they didn't work, but it was probably my belief in them that caused my body to cure itself.

Reality is malleable.

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Posted: Fri 04 Jan , 2008 4:42 pm
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That's why nothing ever works for me, I am always waiting for the axe to fall. :P




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I don't think it's reality that is malleable, but rather our perceptions of it.

((Which was kind of what the study is supposed to have proved, right? :scratch: ))

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Well...
When I want to lose weight, all I have to do is think about it and visualize how I want to look and it happens with very little effort. I do believe that our reality is malleable.

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The OG Borry
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Posted: Sun 06 Jan , 2008 8:33 pm
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It also works for muscle gain, if I remember correctly. There was a study that showed just thinking of straining a muscle as hard as you could would increase muscle a few years ago.
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The OG Borry
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It also works for muscle gain, if I remember correctly. There was a study that showed just thinking of straining a muscle as hard as you could would increase muscle a few years back.
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