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The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

#068 - Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. Never Binge Again Q&A: Emotional Eating, Social Pressures, Influence of Alcohol, Secret Eating, Nighttime Bingeing, Eradicating Powerlessness, Bedtime Rituals, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

GET TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOWNOTES: melanieavalon.com/bingetriggers 1:45 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At facebook.com/groups/PaleoOMAD/ For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome! 8:40 - Glenn's Background 11:50 - Psychology of Overeating: A Paradigm Shift 13:30 - Overstimulating The Pleasure Center of Brain 18:35 - Eradicating Powerlessness 19:20 - Will Power As A Resource 22:00 - Rules: Restrictive or Freeing? 25:40 - Perpetual State of Restriction 26:35 - 45 Binge Trigger Busters  27:20 - "You Can Just Start Tomorrow" 30:00 - "Just One Bite/Just One More Bite" 32:00 - 7:11 Breath 35:00 - Half Of A Truth And A Bigger Lie 38:00 - The Nature of Food Addiction: A Theory 41:20 - Struggling With Sweets 48:15 - Food Sedation 49:35 - Changing the Paradigm  55:05 - Changing The Behavior Before Getting To The Emotional Root Of The Binge 56:35 - Navigating Emotional Eating 1:00:30 - Struggling With Salty Snacks 1:06:40 - Nighttime Overeating 1:10:00 - Bedtime Rituals To Break Bad Habits 1:15:00 - Secret Eating 1:19:15 - Social Eating and Drinking 1:20:00 - Social Pressures To Eat Or Drink 1:21:20 - Basics of Group Psychology 1:24:40 - Unconscious Anxiety Of Groups  1:25:35 - Re-Establishing The Group 1:28:15 - Conditional Rules 1:29:50 - Influence of Alcohol 1:30: 35 - Self Sabotage 1:32:00 - Decelerating Weight Loss For Success 1:34:20 - People Who Struggle With The Process

Transcript

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People are being given the wrong advice about guidelines versus rules.

0:03.0

It's good advice. It's just that it's really hard to follow.

0:06.0

The biggest problem with it is that your pig is telling you that it's going to be just as easy to start tomorrow, but it's not.

0:13.0

If you have a craving and you indulge the craving, that craving will be stronger tomorrow.

0:17.0

Food addiction seems to be an overactivation of the feast and famine response

0:22.2

or the fight and flight response. I think food addiction is not an addiction to any particular

0:26.5

substance. The real addiction and food addiction is the addiction to impulsive decision-making and

0:31.7

emotional eating. Welcome to the Melanie Avalon biohacking podcast, where we meet the world's top experts to explore the

0:40.0

secrets of health, mindset, longevity, and so much more. Are you ready to take charge of your

0:46.7

existence and biohack your life? This show is for you. Please keep in mind, we're not dispensing

0:53.1

medical advice and are not responsible for any

0:55.9

outcomes you may experience from implementing the tactics lying here in. Are you ready? Let's do this.

1:04.0

Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon biohacking podcast. Okay, friends, the holidays are upon us.

1:10.2

I specifically planned to this episode way in

1:13.7

advance, way in advance, because my initial episode with Dr. Glenn Livingston was so popular.

1:19.6

I knew it was time to do a special listener Q&A with him right around the holidays when all

1:24.9

of those parties involving food and all the things might be happening.

1:29.5

I thought this episode might be super helpful for you guys, so please, please enjoy.

1:33.8

The show notes for today's episode will be at Melanieavalon.com slash never binge again

1:39.7

questions. Those show notes will have a complete transcript, so definitely check that out.

1:45.2

There will also be an episode giveaway for this episode. For that, just join my Facebook group,

1:49.9

IF BioHackers, Intermittentant Fasting plus Real Foods Plus Life. Comment something you learned or

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