Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

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, they're stressed, 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 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 his name was Fletcher, who was teaching at that time the most important

thing to maintain your weight and improve your digestion is to chew. So he would recommend that

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