Blue Dolphin: I just re-read your post and am even more appreciative. Truthfully, I do feel that I am making progress in some way in a short period of time--I look and feel better, so something is right. And I have in fact been doing MB but with a slightly wider stance than the counselor intended. I've felt intuitively that it was okay, but have worried about the advice I got. I am curious, though what you mean by "Ending up in the floor at Baskin-Robbins." Do you mean that you craved ice cream, gave in, and literally passed out from it? Do you think that giving in to a craving for, say, chicken, could produce a similar response? How does one know if one will get sick from a bit of butter, like your patient, or if something like butter is "the problem" and whether it is early enough in treatment to impede progress? I hope this is clear. I appreciate your advice. Though I don't know you, your advice seems sane, balanced, and thoughtful.
--Meeso