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An Uppy Downy Way of Changing Your Behaviour

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I started thinking about this strategy or NLP technique to address my own eating too many sweet things. Many of us here in Dalyan have resorted to serial baking. People who tell me they have never baked before have been baking scones, poğaca (say poatcha - a kind of Turkish bun either plain or in the case of the ones our neighbor made with white cheese and olives), cakes, biscuits and more. No flour shortage here.   Some cafes are starting up deliveries, because they can’t open yet and some others have been enterprising for the past couple of months.   As a ‘captive it’s a little hard to resist because there’s not much else to do and in addition we feel we should contribute to these people, who being self-employed need to earn as the state here does not provide for them. That said their friends do and will. It is part of the Muslim faith to care for others and to share, even if you don’t have much yourself.   This technique came to my mind and for the life of me I can’t remembe