503: No More Crash & Burn Diets with Susan Peirce Thompson PhD
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Food is so much more than energy. It’s culture, tradition, family, comfort, indulgence, guilt, and pleasure all in one. To add to the complexity, certain foods are even addicting. Today, food abundance is the norm and food costs have dropped lower than any time (relatively speaking) in recorded history. With that in mind, is it any wonder we’re struggling with weight gain, cravings and food addiction? My guest on this week’s podcast is a recovered expert in the psychology of eating.
Learn
- How food can be harder to “quit” than crack cocaine
- Why you must have a system to succeed long term
- How addiction manifests differently for different people
- How to navigate the forever-conflicted information on diets
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Susan Peirce Thompson PhD is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Rochester. She’s an expert in the psychology of eating. She is the founder of Bright Line Eating Solutions
and the author of a number of books under the same name.
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| 0:00.0 | I have studied and taught and researched and written about food nutrition my entire career. |
| 0:09.3 | That means diet and nutrition weight loss specifically and it's only really in the past |
| 0:13.6 | year and a half that I've taken a slight break. |
| 0:16.5 | The reason I've taken a break from thinking and writing and speaking so much and teaching |
| 0:19.7 | so much about weight loss and food nutrition is because as the years go on I get more |
| 0:24.9 | and more confused about what is the right path forward. |
| 0:30.5 | When I first started studying this let's say back in the year 2001-2002 I really felt |
| 0:36.4 | like it was a puzzle that I would ultimately solve. |
| 0:38.6 | I would crack the code and I would understand food and we as a society would understand food |
| 0:43.2 | nutrition and health and wellness and weight loss and weight management and I am less and |
| 0:46.7 | less convinced that there is one solution and more and more convinced that there are |
| 0:51.0 | multiple complex solutions that everyone has to decode on their own. |
| 0:56.4 | Food is culture, food is family, food is nourishment, food is comfort, food is debauchery, food |
| 1:01.6 | is energy, food is life, food is addiction, food is pain, food is illness, it's so many |
| 1:07.7 | different things. |
| 1:08.7 | I've gotten really frustrated with the idea of trying to think about what to eat and instead |
| 1:13.4 | trying to think about how to eat and I think that people are going to eat whatever they're |
| 1:18.4 | going to eat but if they learn how to navigate the grocery store and their body and their |
| 1:23.6 | meals and things perhaps there's hope and then this gets compounded and I get really |
| 1:29.3 | confused when you add in addiction and food is very addicting my guests on this week's |
| 1:33.3 | show in her opinion and her experience getting free from food is more difficult than crack |
| 1:39.2 | cocaine that's from her personal experience. |
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