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For how many years have we lived with the phrase "You lack willpower"?
It feeds into the stereotype that all addicts are lazy, that they are all weak and that they all lack willpower.
They lack willpower.
It can also make you emotionally uncomfortable with feelings of regret, guilt, and believing you lack willpower.
It's important to not only recognize the times you lack willpower but also avoid tempting fate during those moments.
Lack of patient awareness about pharmacists' expertise in counseling, pharmacists' opinions that obese patients lack willpower and non-adherent to weight reduction interventions, and lack of pharmacists' time were identified as the main barriers to obesity counseling.
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So there's very strong scientific evidence that obesity is not about people lacking willpower".
To overeat in such an environment may be less about lacking willpower than being set in your ways.
Eating disorders are not a choice and they aren't about "lacking willpower" or being "shallow".
The widows often remarked that they tried various interventions throughout the marriage, only to feel, deep down, that their spouse lacked willpower to quit.
One could blame the constant corporate-sponsored advertising that's perpetually shovelled down our throats, or the weight of attitudinal peer pressures, or perhaps even lacking willpower as a means of understanding this cultural permissiveness.
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