How to pronounce “abstainer” in English

So it's very important to know if you're an abstainer or a moderator.For abstainers, it's easier to do something not at all.It's easier to give it up altogether.

And you can just learn to control yourself.And the abstainer's like, I'm gonna eat the whole thing!Don't bring it in the house!

is very very helpful. A woman posted to my blog saying "I always tried to be a moderator because I thought that's what you should try to do, but I realizedI was and abstainer." I decided to abstain from flour and sugar.I lost 47 pounds, and it wasn't even that hard for me.

And that sounds harder because it sounds more extreme and more rigid and more demanding.But if you are an abstainer, it's easier.It's the lazy way.

Well I needed to have an orderly environment. How was I going to resist temptation?Well I needed to be an abstainer. Or how was I going to put these certain – these values into action. I was gonna keep a one sentence journal.So the last point I want to make is, having done a happiness project myself, I really think everyone could benefit from having a happiness project.

And the strategy of abstaining is interesting because it's a strategy that works extremely well for some people and does not work at all for other people.So it's very important to know if you're an abstainer or a moderator.For abstainers, it's easier to do something not at all.

I can give things up cold turkey, but I cannot indulge in moderation.And so that's what I call the abstainer, moderator split.Abstainers can give thing up like 100%, like I don't eat cheese, I never order desert in a restaurant. Moderators say "I can have 2 Hershey's kisses,

It's easy to give something up altogether.It's much, much, much harder to try to be moderate if you are the abstainer personality.So one thing I really found helpful in the book is understanding to change our habits, we must figure out ourselves.

And so it's really important to know whether abstaining works for you or moderating works better for you.So how many people here, hearing this description, think that they're abstainers?How many people think they're moderators?

You can have a lot to pick and choose from.And the strategy of abstaining is interesting because it's a strategy that works extremely well for some people and does not work at all for other people.So it's very important to know if you're an abstainer or a moderator.

But a moderator likes to have just a little bit.And so it's really important to know whether abstaining works for you or moderating works better for you.So how many people here, hearing this description, think that they're abstainers?