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Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli. Welcome to American Glutton. Outside of acting, my two favorite things to do are diet and eat.

I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast, we're going to talk about all of it.

Food as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel. I'll talk to experts and the average person just like you and me.

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Today on American Glutton, I welcome Gretchen Rubin.

She is one of today's most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature.

She's a highly acclaimed writer known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas from science to literature to stories from her own life with levity and clarity.

Please enjoy.

Gretchen Rubin, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

I'm so happy to be talking to you. Thanks for having me.

Something I've found for myself and I've talked to some people who have found this also has been that they have gone after stuff with the pursuit of happiness in mind and gotten the things that they believed would bring them happiness and then not been happy.

And I've found that over and over again. I lost 300 pounds and I thought that this would solve every problem I had and that I would not experience melancholy anymore and that just wasn't the case.

I'm so excited to talk to you because I feel like you're the expert on this what's going on with my mind.

Well, that's called the arrival fallacy, which is the belief that I'll be happy when I lose a bunch of weight. I'll be happy when I move.

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