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Most of our life is spent resisting, reacting, or avoiding our negative emotions. This is exactly what we do when we overeat. We react to our urges and avoid the negative aspects of our lives by turning to food to comfort us and dampen these unpleasant feelings. On Day 20 I discussed the crucial skill …
Yesterday I discussed feelings and how they drive all of our actions and desires. Everything we do or don’t do in life is because of how we think we’ll feel by doing it. We go through our days with so many different emotions, but most of us don’t actually know how to feel them. We …
Feelings are one of those things that people either seem to be very in tune with or very distanced from. For those of you who are not in touch with your feelings or just don’t care, I promise you, this is really important stuff, so you’ll want to pay attention. Feelings are the reason we …
From an evolutionary standpoint, our human brain was designed to be motivated by three main things: Seek pleasure Avoid pain Be efficient This is what we call the “motivational triad”. This makes a lot of sense if you think about what we had to deal with in order to survive back in the days of …
Up until this point I have been addressing the symptom of the problem of being overweight which is overhunger and overeating. Now I want to turn to addressing the underlying cause, which is overdesire. Our desire for food comes from several places, including the release of dopamine in the brain. It also comes from our …
Those of us in medicine are very familiar with the “pain scale” concept. We routinely ask patients to rate their pain from 0 to 10, where 0 is no pain and 10 is the worst pain that you can imagine. When someone tells us their number, it gives us a very concrete idea of what …
Over the last few days I’ve discussed that there are two main issues to address when trying to lose weight. There’s the food you actually eat – that’s the what. Then there’s the timing of the food you eat – that’s the when. Today I’ll be focusing on the second part, or the when. In …
Here is a little review from some of the previous days. Being overweight arises from overhunger and overdesire, both of which cause us to overeat. I will focus on strategies to reduce overdesire in the last section of this month’s reboot. This last week I have been focusing on strategies to reduce overhunger. Overhunger is …
On day 8 I talked about taking care of the complete you by giving yourself the gift of planning your meals the day ahead. Hopefully you have been practicing doing this over the last several days. How is it going? Has it been hard for you or not too bad? I know when I first …
Yesterday I discussed some of the key players involved in weight, particularly the hormones insulin, leptin, and ghrelin. I gave a very basic outline on how changes in these hormone levels in our body can result in weight gain. The truth is, just like most diseases that impact humans, obesity is a complex and multifactorial …