In my vernacular/jargon, Bao3shan1 (宝山) means street-by-street defense.

• slogan: When I lose grip I don’t Give Up control. I continue to exercise self-restraint under severe pressure.
• slogan: damage control. At this very moment, some level of self-discipline can limit the calorie impact.
• slogan: stop the bleeding

If you never lose a battle, then you are not struggling enough and your goal is not challenging enough, or you are very harsh and depriving yourself completely.

Losing control doesn’t always happen in a big binge… It could be a single chunk of creamy cake. It could be small as an egg tart but at the wrong time. Out of a thousand (healthy) adults, each will lose control and give in to food temptation once a while. What can we do? Avoiding temptation is always better, but we will face the temptation some day. Therefore, My strategy is mostly on damage-control. Here’s a vivid illustration of damage control —

On History channel, I watched a documentary about Second World War U-boat bunkers (https://www.historynet.com/frances-u-boat-bunkers-survived-the-war-and-thrive-today.htm). Huge Tallboy bombs were able to penetrate one layer but not another layer of the K3 bunker. This Tallboy vs K3 story parallels the bao3shan1 battle.

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