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Arthur Agatston

Official Guide for Dieting and Weight Loss

Arthur Agatston

Arthur Agatston is the Official Guide for Dieting and Weight Loss on SelfGrowth. A cardiologist and creator of the South Beach Diet, he brings evidence-based nutrition guidance to a space often dominated by fads.

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5 Secrets for Controlling Hunger and Losing Weight Quickly

Reducing extra weight becomes far simpler for the vast majority of individuals when they have some degree of hunger control. A very effortless method to deal with hunger and cravings is to understand to choose food items that will probably fill you and keep away from meals which trigger a person to be hungry. Munching and consuming foods with proteins and dietary fiber, such as those recommended below, can help an individual moderate hunger.

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By irfan uddin
Real and Honest Ways to Get Lean Fast

I am going to tell you how you can get the body you want and the abs you desire in a short amount oftime. There are a lot of different workout gurus telling you this and that, but if there is one thing forcertain it all involves proper eating and good old exercise. That’s it, nothing flashy, no new fads, just doing the basics of these two can help you achieve your goal. There are so many people that dream of getting a fit and healthy body with flat abs. However, the real qu

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Binge Eating: Will This Cycle Ever End?

Have you ever felt like your binge eating cycle will never end? Here's a letter from my inbox that illustrates the difference between knowing what to do and being able to put it into practice:nnHi Carol,n nI took your teleclass two years ago (I think). I reflect so often on everything the class covered that it seems like it was much more recently that I took the course. nnI am much better at recognizing what situations, people or foods will trigger a binge. I am very cognizan

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By Pete Jorgensen
Lose 20 pounds 2 weeks

Learn how 2 lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks! A lot of people want to lose weight fast for an event such as a high school reunion, office party, or big event with lots of friends and family around. For these major events most of us would like to have a high speed method to lose 5, 10, or even 20 pounds quickly. There are a couple ways to approach this and I will teach you how 2 lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks by the end of this article. One is a body cleanse and the other just plain old

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Special Diet – Advice On A Gluten Free Diet

There are many ways that you can incorporate a gluten-free special diet into your lifestyle and still enjoy the foods that you eat. While many people are required to eat a gluten-free diet by medical necessity, others simply believe that eating no gluten in their meals actually provides other benefits and stick to such a diet by choice. The only difference between these two groups is that one of them needs to be much more careful than the other because a slip up can be more c

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Advice on How to Lose Weight Fast

Thinking in relation to your fat loss objectives, you really need to be specific in your attitude and how you expect to meet your objective. To lose weight fast, you must have the correct attitude right from the beginning. Don't forget that dropping weight too fast will only mean it will come back on just as quick. To lose weight fast means that you are likely either consuming too few calories, working out perhaps a bit too much, or that you are taking some sort of diet supplement.

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Pregnancy

Pregnancy, what a joy it is. Once a woman finds out that she’s pregnant, emotions start to explode; happiness, joy, love, amazement, and many other wonderful emotions that are too numerous to mention here.

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"Just say no" ain't enough to avoid holiday weight gain

The holiday season is coming up fast. For weeks magazines and newspapers have been printing recipes and alluring photographs of rich, mouth-watering goodies such as cookies, candies, dips, and calorie-laden drinks. nnThen, in the same issue, they offer guidance on how not to eat all this stuff. Pace yourself, they advise. Limit yourself to one tidbit every half-hour. Eat a salad before going to a cocktail party, so that you wont be tempted by all the snacks. Yeah, right - lik

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By Wong Darren
Cabbage Soup Diet - A Good Starting Point To Weight Loss

It is a nightmare for a lot of people when they think of diet. Losing weight is difficult and more so keeping it off. A lot of pounds challenged people are on the look out for the perfect formula to decrease the unwanted bulges and lumps on their bodies. The cabbage soup diet is a popular option to quickly lose excess weight. This diet is also called Sacred Heart Hospital Diet or the Mayo Clinic Diet. nnThe cabbage soup diet is a good starting point to weight loss according t

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Eat, Drink and Be Merry Without Packing On The Pounds

Christmas is a festive time and a good chance to let your hair down and catch up with family and friends. But it can also seriously set you back with any positive changes you’ve made throughout the year to living a healthier lifestyle. Here are some easy tips to help you get through this tempting holiday season: Eatr All throughout the year, you may have been really good with eating consciously. Try to do the same during Christmas! Eat a good breakfast and lunch even if you know you’ll be going to a party in the evening.

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Why You Should Avoid Frozen Foods

Those who use frozen diet meals sometimes argue that their portion-controlled nature makes them an easy way to get a healthy low-calorie meal. However, they are likely not your best option.. MultipleProblems Some such meals have so few calories that they are actually too low for most people, ...

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1 hormone that ruins healthy weight loss diets

What you eat and what you do can influence your hormones dramatically. When this happens you can either gain weight or lose weight. Avoid these key areas to make sure you lose weight with your healthy weight loss diet. Don't take for granted just how powerful hormones like these are in determining your weight loss success. Cortisol is the hormone that can be detrimental. Excess cortisol will stimulate your appetite and prompt more calories to be stored as fat, so it is very influential in your weight loss plan.

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By John Naruka
Best Exercises To Lose Belly Fat And Get Into Perfect Shape

The need to lose fat and trim around the belly region could be the dream for many, but many have faced obstacles to lose belly fat. However those that have succeeded would emphasize that this goal requires a well rounded approach requiring not only focusing on a healthy weight loss diet, but also on a good workout routine aimed at losing belly fat and looking healthy and attractive. A look at various exercises that help to lose belly fat would tell us that there is no single

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By Stephanie Pedersen
EMBARRASSMENT OR PASSION? YOUR CHOICE

Warning: This week’s article is only loosely connected to your weight or to detoxing. But I will give you a delicious recipe at the end! Have you ever had one of those rebellious weeks where all you want to do is look out the window? Or ring every friend you have? Or spend hours connecting with people you hardly know on twitter or facebook? I’m just coming off one of those weeks (well, actually an entire fortnight) right now. My distraction was (oh, I am so embarrassed ad

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By Lyndsey Lovinger
Obesity Caused by Environment

What are the biggest causes of obesity? Some may be more obvious than others (junk food and physical inactivity), but a new study suggests that environmental factors are related to the risk of becoming obese, as discussed in a recent article from Reuters . Environmental factors that may lead to obesity include such things as sleep deprivation and indoor climate control. These are causes that may surprise many, because they don’t seem to have a direct correlation to becoming

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By Faiza Zafar
6 Foods to Detox Your Body [including 5 Delicious Drink Recipes]

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, suggested that all diseases originate in the gut. Our body is naturally designed to process nutrients and fight against the toxin. But, if our body can filter out toxins, then why are we suffering from several diseases? The answer is simple: Our body is “over-worked”. We are constantly exposed to toxic environment while our bodies are not designed to handle so much work. As a result, these toxins accumulate in our body and slow

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By Mohit Saxena
Benefits of Hcg Weight Loss System

Modern health and science technology has been analyzing ways to thrive substances found in the human body to boost up our daily lives and routine. Proper dieting is the first step towards a healthier lifestyle and a better quality life. There are many different ways to control weight. One of the tool which aims only weight loss is HCG that is "Human Chorionic Gonadotropin" and it is naturally found in human body especially pregnant women. The Hcg diet is competent for everyon

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Cardiovascular Exercise Can Help You Lose Weight Faster - Weight Loss Tips

Losing weight does not need to be difficult and it is perfectly possible to get rid of excess fat and then keep it off permanently. However, this does depend on you avoiding silly fad diets or any type of crash diet. There are hundreds of such weight loss plans out there that rely on gimmicks to draw people in. You do not need to look for anything new or different because the facts about how to lose weight permanently are very straightforward and have been known for a long ti

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Take Example from Bodybuilders to Lose Weight

You may have noticed that weight loss experts refer frequently to Bodybuilding: it is for good reasons, bodybuilders are probably the Best in Class when it comes to building muscle and burning fat in order to shape their body before a competition. Their example can be very useful to any person who plans to lose weight, even without envisaging a professional career in bodybuilding.

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By Sean Locke
What You Ought To Know About Fat Burner Side Effects

Fat burners are a category of supplements that claim to reduce fat by boosting the body’s metabolism. However, in the past certain fat burners used questionable and unsafe ingredients that left people experiencing bad reactions and side effects. Some of these side effects included high blood pressure, heart palpations, irregular heartbeats and even seizures. The rise of these side effects eventually mobilised the FDA into issuing warnings about several fat burner supplement

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Why Diets Alone Fail

For years we have heard, “Eat less, exercise more, and you will lose weight”. Sounds simple, right? If it worked… why are we still so overweight? According to an October report from the World Health Organization (WHO), excess weight has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese. More people worldwide now die from being overweight and obese than from being underweight. And it doesn’t look like the experts will be coming up with a solution any time soon.

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How Do Low Carb Diets Work?

Many people are confused about how low carb diets work. It doesn't make sense to them that you can eat more fat and protein than is traditionally called for and still lose weight. A low carb diet plan greatly restricts the amount of carbohydrates you consume, as compared with a traditional North American diet, or even compared with a low fat diet. While our bodies would usually burn stored carbohydrates for energy, low carb eating forces the body to burn more stored fat inst

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By Marek Doyle, Blueprint Fitness
Removing Obstacles to Fat Loss - Why Exercise is Rarely Enough

The majority of my clients come to me because they have a desire to make a change in their lives and physique; often, there will be a specific target (invariably weight loss) that jolts them into action but, in the main, I recognise a desire to improve their lifestyle above and beyond fitting into a smaller dress. With all clients, I am happy to spend the time explaining to them that making changes to their lifestyle is an intrinsic part of achieving sustained fat loss becaus

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The best ways to reduce appetite effectively

Today I will discuss several effective tools against your bitterest enemy while dieting – appetite. Do you know that apples can guarantee you the perfect state of satiety and low calorie intake? Do you know that as more you sleep so more pounds you lose? Do you know that there are some useful appetite suppressants invented by specialists in laboratories making you lose weight safe and without effort? If you said ‘No’ at least one time, you are welcome to read my blog on ways to reduce appetite effectively.

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Training at intervals?

Training at intervals? 24 July 2014 In last week’s blog I mentioned that short intense workouts that can be done when weight training (HIT), why can’t the same principles be incorporated in to your cardiovascular fat burning program? If you could burn fat efficiently in short intense bouts of exercise why spend hours on a treadmill flicking through the channels on the built in multimedia display to catch up on the soaps?? HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is a cardiovascular exercise method combining bursts of short intense anaerobic exercise with less-intense activity.r

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7 Ways To Avoid Vacation Weight Gain

Though vacation is NOT the time to try to lose weight, you don't have to add an extra notch on your belt either. n nImagine coming home from vacation to find you have NOT gained weight! It is possible and here are some tips to help you:nn 1) Indulge in Moderation. Don't use vacations as an excuse to go all out and eat everything in sight.n nTwo big culprits of indulgences on vacation are desserts and alcohol. And surprisingly enough, it's often the first few bites or sips tha

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Dieting After Atkins: Rules for Successful Weight Control

The Atkins diet is dead. It died along with bankruptcy of the Atkins company, which followed the death of Dr. Atkins. nnHas America’s romance with low carb and high protein ended?nnNot really. nnBut there is ample proof that low-carb high protein diets can be damaging to one’s health. nnAnd if there is to be life after Atkins, what can we eat? nnDr. Abby Aronowitz, Ph.D. and author of the new book Your Final Diet offers up seven new, sometimes surprising, rules for dietin

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Do You Ever Eat Fast Food?

A few weeks ago, a producer at WCBS-TV in New York contacted me to discuss a story she was working on about orthorexia. At the conclusion of what turned out to be a two-hour whirlwind of camera tests, lighting adjustments and a wonderful interview about a subject near and dear to my heart, the producer asked me a telling question. “I know you probably eat very healthfully most of the time, but do you ever, you know, stop at a fast food restaurant on the turnpike,” she asked?

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Moving Beyond the One Size Fits All Diet

As a physician who has treated overweight patients for twenty-one years, I learned long ago that no two people require the exact same weight management approach. And yet each year, “one size fits all” diet books fly off the shelves faster than a World Series pitch enters the strike zone. Whether it’s the latest low carb or low fat craze, all readers receive the same lists of good and bad foods that are sure to melt the pounds away. You know the drill of losing weight, f

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What are the Causes of Anorexia?

There are many types of eating disorders. One common eating disorder is anorexia. Anorexia is an eating disorder that is characterized by the behavior of not eating. There are theories about the causes of anorexia, but no one knows for sure why some people develop it. Some people develop anorexia after they begin dieting. This dieting turns people from a desire to be skinny toward a desire to have control over a specific aspect of their lives. Some people believe there may be a genetic link that makes a person more likely to develop anorexia if there are environmental factors in place.

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Coffee holds a secret about how to eat healthy

Healthy weight loss tips are not found in fad diets or bland diet food. They are found in the supermarket. Simple and common ingredients like green tea, cinnamon, coffee, and hot red pepper are all useful in healthy diets. These healthy eating hints are all backed by research. Let's start with coffee and see what science has to say about eating right with this diet food.

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How Women Can Avoid The Holiday Weight Gain

Most women gain 7-12 lbs during the holidays. Here are 10 tips to help you stay lean and fit and still be able to indulge during those hectic holiday weeks: 1. Create a plan ahead of time. Before the holidays sneak up on you, create a plan for incorporating fitness and good nutrition into ...

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By Joanne Thambyah
Some Fascinating Oolong Tea Advantages

Japan and China are well known as being cultures who believe in using the tradition practice of drinking tea as a way to ensure your health and well being are protected in the long term. The many ingredients which are present in oolong are well known in improving your health internally. Once you understand just how it works it can be a part of your daily routine and help you to properly manage your weight. You will be assisted in burning fat and it will also help you to have

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By Lyndsey Lovinger
Weight Loss Tips: Small Changes Make a Huge Difference

Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States. Is it based purely on genetics? Some obesity may be impacted by genetics, but the truth is, a lifestyle can be adjusted to be more healthy and small changes are key to successful weight loss. In a recent USA Today article written by Susan Bloom, experts offer tips to parents on combating childhood obesity. Dr. Paul Schwartzberg, program director for pediatric residency at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, ack

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By Charlene SanJenko
Reshape Your Body – Rapid Redesign Recipe for Turkey Meatloaf

Check out this delicious recipe for Turkey Meatloaf which will help you to BE PREPARED for your busy week and provide you with the fuel you need to energize and RESHAPE your body! Most people can't seem to lose the excess body weight they want to lose because they are not prepared. I tell clients that weekends are for food preparation. During the week when life is it's craziest is simply for food assembly. One of the keys to successful weight loss and re-shaping your body i

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Are You Eating In Secret and Gaining Weight?

Consumption Guilt is the feeling that overweight people feel when they eat very high calorie, pleasing foods that they know they should not be eating. Often this occurs in secret. Eating in secret seems to make the “forbidden food or drinks even more desirable. This behavior often gives the food more power over people than the food deserves. Besides unintentional weight gain, there are many problems that this kind of eating can cause.

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Lose Weight and Keep it off Permanently Without Fancy Diets

For years the experts have been telling us that diets do not work, and my experience in the field for almost twenty years confirms that. Yet every year several new fad diets and supplements emerge, claiming they have the answer, and making people rich.nnAny diet will help you lose weight, there is no arguing that. I have several personal friends who have lost significant weight on the new low carb diets. Whether you can lose weight on a diet has never been the issue. I worked

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Rapid Weight Loss With Detox Programs

Many of the different rapid detox programs out there are aimed at those people who have drug or alcohol addictions or something of that nature, or even those who have been recommended to undergo a detox by a qualified medical professional. A weight rapid detox program is something different. While the basic intentions are the same, the overall intention of the weight rapid detox program offerings are different. Rather than just cleanse the body of something specific, these pr

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The Fallacy of Vegetarian Diets

A study of the diets of 22,000 people over five years found that all of them gained weight, but those who switched to a vegetarian diet gained the least amount. Over Four Pounds in Five Years On average, study participants gained just under 4.5 pounds over the course of the study. None of the ...

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By SelfGrowth Contributor
A Martial Artist Step by Step System to Achieving Goals

OK here it is, in a simple, easy to understand format! I have used this same system (notice I call this system "A step by step approach that is set to getting somebody from point A to point B! Not just article of what I/people think may or may not work e.g. guess work...). OK here it is, in a simple, easy to understand format! I have used this same system (notice I call this system "A step by step approach that is set to getting somebody from point A to point B! Not just arti

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By Shaun Michael
Boot Camp Workouts: Tips and Benefits

The requirement of boot camp fitness training is no more limited to the fitness fads. It has now become the best way to maintain good health in return of a very nominal cost. More and more fitness enthusiasts are joining boot camp sessions to stay in shape. Good health and fit body is a boon. Ask them who have never been able to be at peace with their obese bodies leading to complicated physical complications. Weight loss may sound easy but it takes a lot to shed those extra

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By Seth Czerepak
Achieving Healthy Weight Loss: How a Stronger Self-Image Can Help

If you or someone you know has ever had the “yo-yo” experience when it comes to achieving weight loss, this might be one of the most important things you’ve ever read. There’s a missing link when it comes to achieving lasting results in anything in life, and that one thing is your self-image. Ever since Dr. Maxwell Maltz made the breakthrough discovery that the self-image was the driving force behind a person’s behaviors, motivational experts have changed their focus from wor

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By Seth Czerepak
Healthy Weight Loss and the Impact of Your Self-Esteem: The Missing Link

If you’re ready to become leaner, sexier and more energetic, you’ve probably already considered the physical things which you need to do to accomplish it. However, we all know there’s an ocean of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it! After all, if we all did the things we knew were needed to get into shape, we’d all look like finely chiseled Greek statues....we’d probably also be rich and working a job that we loved. But the reality is that something co

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By Lyndsey Lovinger
Weight Loss with Weight Watchers New Points Plus

Weight Watchers recently announced their new Points Plus program, a big shift from the regular program and a change in point value for most foods. The most significant change? Fruits and vegetables are now zero points, which essentially means they can be eaten in unlimited quantities with no penalty. A recent article from Time magazine, written by Andrea Sachs, asks the question: is the new program going to be better for weight loss efforts? Weight Watchers' president, David

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By Madhu Matii
YOUR BODY IS A MASTER COMPUTER AND YOU ARE THE PROGRAMMER

Remember when you sat down on that couch last night, next to that eccentric standing lamp with bright light on, right after that very late multi-course dinner, and dozed off? It was very close to midnight when you finally turned off that TV --while the violent movie with that dramatic sound that could scare the devil rolled on--and went to bed. Well, my dear, you had just updated your whole-body-function program! The following updates have been successfully downloaded: 1. I d

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How To Help a Family Member Who Displays Bulimic Symptoms

Do you have conce s about a family member who is displaying bulimic symptoms? It may be hard to know if a loved one is suffering from an unhealthy relationship with food. This is mostly due to the fact that they may be ashamed and hiding their eating from family members. This is a very common aspect of bulimia. You may even wonder if this is what is going on as some people who have bulimic symptoms are not under weight. To learn more about how you can help a family member, you should first become familiar with typical bulimic symptoms and warning signs. What is Bulimia?

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How to Motivate Yourself to Stick To Your Diet - 3 Amazingly Simple Steps

If you are completely frustrated because you can't stick with a diet long enough to see results then what you are lacking is not willpower, it is motivation. Starting a diet is easy, it can even feel exciting at the beginning because weight generally drops quickly the first week. The problems ...If you are completely frustrated because you can't stick with a diet long enough to see results then what you are lacking is not willpower, it is motivation.

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By Lori Burger
Drinking Brown Sludge Equals the New Me??????

When I saw my fellow health coach, Stacy, advertise her cleanse, I was intrigued and repelled all at the same time. I was intrigued because everyone I knew was cleansing to get rid of the holiday pounds and repelled because I knew about cleanses and detoxes (and what I knew I didn’t like). A few years back (still in my days of Diet Cokes and Venti skim lattes with 2 Splendas) I had been persuaded by one of my fellow Wall Street colleagues to cleanse with her. It was only a 3

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