Glenn Livingston, The Cravings Expert - A Science-Based Way To End Your Cravings

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Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Talking points: food, addiction, cravings I've gotta say, I enjoyed this one a lot. Glenn has a TON of practical, actionable, and science-based advice on tackling cravings—and a nice dose of good humor. Grab a pencil and listen close for this one, team. (00:00:00) - Intro (00:02:26)- Why are so many North Americans overweight? (00:10:01) - Glenn on the declining quality of food (00:17:24) - Getting away from packaged food is generally more important than a specific diet (00:19:57) - Why is overeating such a thing, how do we approach letting go of that, and “organismic distress” (00:39:24) - More helpful examples of organismic distress (00:43:17) - Where does understanding a craving start? (00:54:53) - How does a craving actually get extinguished, and the “extinction curve” that they take Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. was the long time CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm which has serviced several Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. You may have seen his (or his company's) previous work, theories, and research in major periodicals like The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun Times, The Indiana Star Ledger, The NY Daily News, American Demographics, or any of the other major media outlets you see on this page. You may also have heard him on ABC, WGN, and/or CBS radio, or UPN TV. Disillusioned by what traditional psychology had to offer overweight and/or food obsessed individuals, Dr. Livingston spent several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating via work with his own clients AND a self-funded research program with more than 40,000 participants. He earned his Ph.D. is in psychology from Yeshiva University in 1991. Connect with Glenn -Website: https://www.defeatyourcravings.com/ -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/defeatyourcravings/ *** This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Become your own soulmate, whether you’re looking for one or not. Visit BetterHelp.com/ManTalks today to get 10% off your first month. Build brotherhood in person. Join a Men's Weekend Pick up my book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/ Check out some free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your Relationship Build brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world. Check out The Alliance. Enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they’re looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes, visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | and yes, even TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Dr. Livingston. Welcome to The Man Talk Show. How are you doing today? And we're really well. I'll be doing better if you call me Glenn. Okay. I wasn't sure. You know, I see the PhD. I have a buddy that is in one of my men's groups and he's a PhD. And his last name is Goldberg. And oftentimes when I'm just wanting to rub him, I'll be like, What's going on, Dr. Goldberg?
0:22.3	It's like, come on, man.
0:23.2	But, you know, the doctor stuff and all the credentials that gets people's attention, but I really prefer not to stand on ceremony, and I'd rather be more approachable as Glenn. And my nine-year-old patients used to call me Dr. Glenn a long time ago. I like that. Yeah.
0:38.3	I like that.
0:41.3	Well, we are going to have a very interesting conversation. I'm going to preface the show today with just a little precursor to why I wanted to have you on.
0:48.5	I think that in many ways, health, longevity, a lot of these things come from and are very directly impacted by
0:58.4	what we eat, how much we eat. And for me, how much I have ate has always been a bit of a
1:04.1	problem. I think I told you before the show, like my nickname growing up was the garbage disposal,
1:08.9	the human garbage disposal to my family.
1:16.3	And, you know, after a meal was done, all the food would just sort of gravitate towards my side of the table. And I'd be, you know, cleaning up the, you know, whatever other people didn't
1:21.3	eat and whatever was left on the table. And it was, you know, it was kind of fun when I was a young
1:26.7	guy.
1:36.3	But as I got in my 20s and my mid-20s, even towards the end of my 20s, I wasn't very happy with how my body looked.
1:41.6	And I wasn't wildly out of shape, but I definitely wasn't in great shape.
1:45.1	And I could never seem to strike that balance, even though I worked out four or five days a week at some one point I was working construction. And so I want to have this
1:50.5	conversation about how do we deal with things like cravings? How do we approach eating in a healthy way?
1:57.8	What's happening biologically within us that we need to know about. So I'm
2:02.1	excited for this, for my own personal benefit for a number of reasons, which I'm sure we'll continue
2:07.8	to talk about. But I think a lot of people will benefit from this. I know a lot of guys in the
2:13.0	alliance, which is the men's group that we have, have gone on a journey of,
2:18.2	we've got about six,
2:19.3	six, seven hundred guys in there now,
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