"my previous self" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It refers to a person's former or past self. Example: "As I look back on my past mistakes, I can see how much I have grown and changed from my previous self."
For insulin using participants, items 1 ('insulin means my previous self-care has failed'), 2 ('insulin means my diabetes is worse') and 9 ('weight gain') were just shy of loading onto the negative subscale (if a stringent criterion of >0.4 was applied) but loaded well when a less conservative criterion (>0.3) was adopted.
Somehow, Kyla's previous self is still locked deep in her mind.
It turned a dying friend of mine into a swollen inflation of her previous self.
But the new Dean who appeared on the campaign trail -- a jarring sight for the Vermonters who knew his previous self -- is an angry maverick.
Alternatively, maybe it's what results when the interest and concerns that accrued, successfully, to a previous self are being foisted on the new, to no avail.
But new challenges on set and in his personal life, and the demons of his past, make it difficult to shake off the skin of his previous self.
But if the literary and philosophical investigations of McKibben's previous self have to some extent been left behind with his reincarnation as a political organiser, the imaginative aspect of climate change still preoccupies him.
What distinguishes "The End of Eddy" from its autofictional antecedents is the urgency with which Louis seeks to separate himself from his previous self, a desire so intense that the novel can be seen as a kind of wake.
By the time the hijacked cell had undergone a few divisions, all trace of its previous self would have been erased; its several-times-great-granddaughters would have transformed themselves into the new species.Synthesising the genome proved reasonably easy.
