21 times or 21 days? I've heard days.
:-)
Boel

-----Original Message-----
From: Eva Hedin <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:27:37 +0200
Subject: Re: New to the list - Introduction

I read somewhere that it takes 21 times to establish a new habit, good or
bad. And I believe that we like what we eat - not the opposite. (A Marxist
idea, I would say. No, not a brother of Harpo!)

> After a couple weeks of eating low-carb, the sweets you currently enjoy
will
> not taste as good.  They will be TOO sweet.  I had the biggest sweet tooth
> in the world, and now can barely finish a single serving of desert if I
> decide to take a piece if I'm at a party or at my mother's house.  It is
> almost as if I am re-learning what my brain recognizes as "food"--all that
> processed garbage I was addicted to no longer gives me cravings.
section for the dogs.