1The maintenance of behavioral change over the long term is essential to achieve public 2 health goals such as combatting obesity and drug use. Previous work by our group has 3 demonstrated a reliable shift in preferences for appetitive foods following a novel non-reinforced 4 training paradigm. In the current studies, we tested whether distributing training trials over two 5 consecutive days would affect preferences immediately after training as well as over time at a one-6 month follow-up. In four studies, three different designs and an additional pre-registered 7 replication of one sample, we found that spacing of cue-approach training induced a shift in food