What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macrows Podcast as always. I'm your

host Mike Belner and I wanted to jump on here and do a quick episode because I made a post the other day and it is funny

how things in the nutrition space always seem to live on one end of two extremes.

And the answer most of the time lies in the middle.

And what I'm talking about is I made a post on Facebook

and basically said, what if instead of trying to find a healthy

alternative to the thing that you're craving you actually just ate the

thing that you're craving.

So it was just kind of a quick sound bite

because I've been seeing a lot of posts about,

you know, I'm craving cookies, what's a healthy alternative,

or I'm craving chips, what's a healthy alternative, or I'm craving ice cream, like all these different

posts that I've been seeing, and in my experience, and keep in mind, I mostly work with people who are coming from a chronic dieting

background so that's important to keep that in mind who are we talking about right these

things are nuanced so I've been seeing posts like that, which ultimately in my

experience with those people when they try to find this healthy alternative and constantly avoid the thing that they're

craving, what ends up happening is that they eat the healthy alternative, but it doesn't actually do the job so they end up

continuing to restrict continuing to deprive themselves and eventually they finally give in

they eat the thing they're craving, and then they have no control over that food.

So they often overindulge, over-consume.

And then they think that it's that particular food that's the issue. So let's say you know they're

avoiding cookies and then they try a healthy recipe and it doesn't quite do the

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