Overcoming Cravings and the Habit of Overeating with Jud Brewer
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever find yourself eating when you're not hungry? Perhaps it's because you're bored, tired, stressed, or sad? Do your food cravings sometimes feel unbearable? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this is the episode for you. Today we talk to Professor Judson Brewer from Brown University all about food cravings and why we eat. We discuss the neurobiology of why eating food feels so good, why it so hard to change our eating habits, and how we can begin to change them.
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| 0:00.0 | Eddie, I have a question for you. |
| 0:02.0 | Shoot. |
| 0:03.0 | Why do you think we eat? |
| 0:05.0 | I'm going to go with survival. |
| 0:07.0 | Okay, yes, but what feeling causes us to eat? |
| 0:10.0 | Well, I'm hungry. |
| 0:12.0 | I need to eat because I'm hungry. That's the obvious one. |
| 0:14.8 | Okay, yeah, but here's my other question. Do you think you ever eat not from being hungry? |
| 0:20.5 | The simple answer is yes, but if you have some more time I will go |
| 0:23.8 | into all of the reasons to eat even when I'm clearly not hungry. Okay, what are some of the |
| 0:28.4 | reasons? If I'm bored, yeah? If I'm stressed, yeah. If I have not slept well. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh my God, I know. |
| 0:35.0 | Don't get between me and the chocolate. |
| 0:37.0 | Sometimes me and then he'll be on the phone, going over a script, and he'll be like, |
| 0:40.0 | yeah, I'm on Futchicle number two. |
| 0:42.0 | Because it's like 10 p.m. we're both so tired. So when we eat food, I feel like the last |
| 0:48.1 | reason we eat a lot of time is from hunger. Like I feel like there's these million |
| 0:51.9 | other reasons why we eat. And I think there's these million other reasons why we eat. |
| 0:53.2 | And you know there's another part to it which is sometimes I just get like a craving for a certain food and clearly I'm not hungry. |
| 1:00.4 | I mean I had lunch but now I want you just see you mentioned the |
| 1:04.4 | fudgeicle now I'm thinking about it. I know for me like the weather is such a |
| 1:08.4 | trigger like when it's warm out like now I just want ice cream all the |
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