Podcast 485: How embracing your comfort zone can actually help rewire your brain & create new healthy habits

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to bestselling author, editor and journalist Adam Bornstein about his latest book You Can’t Screw This Up, the mental health benefits of enjoying food, the science of self-perception, the power of releasing mental baggage, why most diet plans fail, and so much more!

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

2:14 Adam’s journey

3:50 The truth behind dieting & diet books

7:10 Adam’s amazing new book You Can’t Screw This Up

12:24, 20:00 The science of self-perception

20:45 How the wellness industry manipulates our emotions

21:40 How shame & guilt impact our health

24:20 The importance of setting easy goals

26:34 We are incredibly resilient!

29:24 It’s okay to eat takeout!

31:50 The power of community meals

36:30 Why we should allow ourselves to enjoy eating

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*DISCLAIMER: This podcast and blog are for educational purposes only and are not intended as medical advice. We always encourage each person to make the decision that seems best for their situation with the guidance of a medical professional.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mass.
0:10.0	I have a sweet tooth.
0:11.5	I absolutely love white chocolate.
0:14.4	Did you know that enjoying some white chocolate or any dessert or chocolate is actually
0:18.8	better for you, way better for your mental health than worrying about the effect of the chocolate
0:24.0	or the dessert on your body?
0:25.7	Well, joining me in the studio today to talk about this is Adam Bornstein, who is a New York Times
0:30.7	based in Ulfer and a world-winning writer and editor.
0:34.1	Who for the past 20 years has been the trusted boy in health as the fitness and nutrition editor
0:39.2	for main health and woman's health, editorial director Livstrom.com and Colin Must for Shape,
0:44.6	Main's Fitness and Muscle Fitness.
0:46.6	He's also the nutrition advisor for LeBron James, Cindy Crawford, Lindsay Von and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
0:52.4	We talk about his new book called You Can't Screw The Sun. Why eating take-out enjoying
0:57.7	dessert and taking the stress out of dieting leads to weight loss that lasts.
1:01.7	We take a deep dive into the science of self-perception and how changing your mind and your thoughts
1:06.4	and releasing mental baggage makes it easier to adopt new behaviors like eating healthy.
1:11.6	We also talk about why most diet plans fail and we also talk about how when you look at the map,
1:17.6	eating take-out once or twice a week won't hurt you. So let's dive into the podcast.
1:26.4	Welcome Adam. I'm so excited to talk to you about something that I really
1:30.0	is close to my heart. First of all, you talk a lot about the mind and how the mind is influencing
1:35.9	our decisions about what we eat. But the biggest thing that you are talking about in your latest book
1:40.8	is that the diet culture is crazy. I have a surprise it and that people, people, like me, the
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