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So there's a lot of things that make us want to overeat, snack way too much, that really interfere with intermittent fasting. You have the flavorings of the food, especially processed foods

that people have addictions to, MSG, of course, sugar, empty calories that don't have the nutrients

that satisfy us. People eat because they're bored, there's stress. But there's one more thing

that I actually forgot to mention in other videos, and that has to do with distractions.

I'm talking about when you eat and you watch TV at the

same time or you're on your cell phone. The awareness of, okay, I had enough. I'm done. I'm full.

Tends to be interfered with when you get distracted. So there's a couple different brain centers that

control taste through your tongue and then

also smell, which by the way is like 80% of taste. And so this is why if you have a cold,

your sense of taste is pretty much shot. So you have these receptors that are picking up

information, cause you to be hungry, eat,

and then the nutrient feedback loops are supposed to come back and turn off that mechanism

so you're full, so you can stop eating. So there's a couple things that you need to do if you're in

that situation. Number one, you need to, of course, not have that

junk food available in your house, very important, so you're not tempted. You also have to be,

just increase your awareness of the perception of how full you are and how satisfied you are.

But of course, it's even more important to avoid those

empty carbohydrates that will just never turn off the hunger because they're empty. But they're very

flavorful, so you'll keep eating them. Also, chewing longer is another thing you can do.

There was even this gentleman who I read about a while ago,

who I think of his name was Fletcher, who was teaching at that time, the most important thing

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