Welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.

This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life, and Weight Coach and your coach.

Today is episode number 49, and it's all about how you can change your learned desire.

I say learned desire to overeat by changing what you eat.

And it's very different because usually I'm always talking about what you think.

But today we're going to be talking about how what you eat affects how you think.

Stay tuned.

Hi there, everyone. Again, from Sunny Belize. I'm in my apartment that has no carpet, so you might be hearing echoes. And as you might remember, my microphone broke. So I'm still using my iPhone as a microphone. So if the quality is not as great as it usually is, please forgive it and forgive me. I will have a new microphone in

about two more episodes. But the content that I will be offering today is really, I know I

always say this, but really, it's going to be priceless because I'm going to get into why

the desire to overeat is a learned behavior.

And we talk a lot about that, about the brain and the neural grooves in the brain,

and that if you learn to eat to make yourself feel better when you were five years old

and you're 50 years old now, it's a pretty deep neural groove that

kind of goes on automatic without even thinking, so to speak. But also, what I haven't really talked

about because I've really been wanting to teach you more about how your mind affects everything.

But at some point, we have to talk about how food

affects what you think too. So we know overeating is a learned behavior and it can be

unlearned, but also you have to be able to change what you eat so that it makes it much easier to do it.

And what we know for sure is there are specific foods that cause the brain to go crazy.

I don't know how else to say it.

Or what we say in science terms now is we say that the brain is inflamed by the food that it eats.

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