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It is the learned habit that popcorn must go with a movie\u2014even if you are not hungry.<\/p>\n<p>The more we control when we eat, what we feed ourselves, and please our own desires, the stronger the desire eating is. The reverse is also true\u2026 the more we wait on God, look to God, please God\u2014 the less we will please ourselves, and the head hunger will die! But for most who thought they needed to diet, desire eating has grown so over the years that it might even have turned into a ravenous, head- strong, willful, and self-loving monster. It feels like a magnetic force to the refrigerator that controls you rather than you controlling it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/weighdown.com\">Weigh Down Works!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you begin to wait for true physiological hunger, you discover that there is another feeling of hunger. It is your own \u201cI am not hungry, but I want it anyway\u201d will. 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