Anything the FDA recommends, I now do the opposite. Health and Beauty Mastery by Julian Bannett book exposes so many shocking truths. I completely changed my habits.
The one aspect that makes food addiction different and more complex than all other addictions is that its the only one where you can never completely stop. Imagine trying to coach a heroin addict back to clean living but telling him "oh by the way, you're going to still have to shoot up three times a day for the rest of your life. Just don't shoot up a fourth time!" No wonder obesity is rampant.
Feels to me that food is simple primitive biology - stress and anxiety implies scarcity (biologically), and your body wants as much calories as possible to survive scarcity. I think its no more complicated than that. As to addictions, that is fascinating. I never gamble and have no interest in drinking or drugs but I do over eat even when I'm not at all hungry - I'm self aware, but its still hard to stop. My "hack" is simply to have no junk food in the house.
I stopped overeating since starting tirzepatide. Doesnt matter what UPF environment I am in. My level of willpower hasn't changed, I can now apply it to something useful.
I seem to remember reading an interview with Jared Harris (actor) who said about his famously alcoholic, hellraising father Richard Harris that he just didn't get hangovers and as such there was no immediate physical downside to his drinking. All upside.
Truth is, you can make an average day in your life better with processed food. Maybe it's an average Tuesday night, but order pizza and it removes the tedium of just another night and replaces it with a high point for the day. Repeat this several times a week and suddenly you are obese.
Your comment is very insightful. I always felt certain foods are the highlight of my day and knowing I was going to have them at dinner and after dinner. Nothing else does this for me; not alcohol, not sex, not gambling, not drugs.
I lost 60lbs probably 20 years ago and I'll never go back. I meal prep for every day of the week to make things simple for me. I'll have Sunday lunch with the family after church other than that I'm extremely regimented. For me if I eat bad it makes me think how much excersizing I've blown. For me it's just not worth it.
I have been asking myself this question all my life as a food vulnerable person but nothing else tbh. Problem with food is that you need it to live and it is ubiquitous.
If you look at the fact you get to have it, unlike cocaine or alcohol, we must eat food to live. So we get to have, enjoy and manipulate it,instead of having to quit.
I got very drunk and vomited the first time I drank at 17. It was awful. I went on to drink and get drunk regularly through my 20's. I still drink every day, but never get drunk or even tipsy anymore. I also became withdrawn at the age of 17and started overeating for the first time in my life. I went on to struggle with weight gain and loss into my late 40's. I am now 64 and very healthy and fit, but I overeat processed foods every Saturday. I don't think it's about early experiences. I think it's genetic/physiologic.
I overeat no matter what diet I’m doing. When doing carnivore, I was eating 6lbs of fatty beef and a block of butter a day (only stopping because I knew I had to). Similar when trying semi-keto, I’d be eating already too large portions of meat (hence too much protein to consider it a strict keto diet) and adding upwards of 400g of fat, and just pounds of non starchy vegetables (which again, would still have been too much carbs for a strict keto definition) When doing Plant Based, I would eat a meal of 2x15oz cans of beans with 10-12oz of steamed non starchy vegetables (again, only stopping because I knew that this quantity is already ridiculous). And during episodes of junk food? Do NOT ask. For me, I dont think it has anything to do with seeking to achieve a certain level of nutrition like protein or fiber, it’s just pure volume. I hate it.
If I don't get enough sleep, the cravings start. That is physiological, not emotional. And the reason I didn't get enough sleep is most of the time not for an emotional reason. I might have been watching something really interesting and didn't go to sleep until late, for example. Stress causes overeating, but not always. Stress can drop my blood sugar and then I get hungry. Or like a heavy smoker trying to quit or an alcoholic, trying to quit, if I start on a delicious piece of cake, my mind will make up reasons to keep eating it. I'm happy at that time, not stressed out, but I just couldn't stop the rationalizations about why I shouldn't eat that cake. But I don't drink, or smoke, or do anything harmful except overeat if I don't use my tricks/hacks.
Last night I had bad carb cravings and I'm not sure why. I had no stress. I gave in to 2 'low carb tortillas'. Then I mitigated it by going on the exercise bike in the basement and did a slow pace for like 45 minutes and afterwards drank 2 cups of water with magnesium and a little low salt. Before I went to bed my blood sugar was 124. This morning I woke up and my fasting was 98. I knew I had to do all my hacks or risk catching a cold. Blood sugar on the high side lowers my immunity and the children I teach are all getting sick right now. At 6 am I had a 3 egg omelette with feta cheese for breakfast and homemade bone broth Chinese style with Napa and tofu and coffee and cream. At 8:30 am I had a 30 gram protein drink. For lunch at 12:30- a can of sardines and a 30 gram protein drink. I got home not hungry. My blood sugar was 80. My hacks of high protein and not over-stretching my stomach worked.
Love to drink. 40 Years Old now. When i start i go for four days, a liter Vodka and a six pack a day. But after it's hell for four days. I can't do That shit anymore. I crash so bad
Anything the FDA recommends, I now do the opposite. Health and Beauty Mastery by Julian Bannett book exposes so many shocking truths. I completely changed my habits.
thanks
Absolutely. Self comforting is one of the major reason we overeat.
Lol
Excuses 😂
The one aspect that makes food addiction different and more complex than all other addictions is that its the only one where you can never completely stop. Imagine trying to coach a heroin addict back to clean living but telling him "oh by the way, you're going to still have to shoot up three times a day for the rest of your life. Just don't shoot up a fourth time!" No wonder obesity is rampant.
For me -- I overeat when I have Low Physical Energy - when I'm I tired because I didn't sleep well (for whatever reason).
Feels to me that food is simple primitive biology - stress and anxiety implies scarcity (biologically), and your body wants as much calories as possible to survive scarcity. I think its no more complicated than that. As to addictions, that is fascinating. I never gamble and have no interest in drinking or drugs but I do over eat even when I'm not at all hungry - I'm self aware, but its still hard to stop. My "hack" is simply to have no junk food in the house.
4:55 the Matthew Perry addiction story goes back even further than the anecdote mentioned. He was given barbituratws as a baby for colic.
I have avoided very successfully my overeating with OMAD, it allows me to kind of overeat during my eating window!!!
I like that too.
I stopped overeating since starting tirzepatide. Doesnt matter what UPF environment I am in. My level of willpower hasn't changed, I can now apply it to something useful.
Hell yeah man
apply the willpower to be a better friend, parent etc
Great stuff
I seem to remember reading an interview with Jared Harris (actor) who said about his famously alcoholic, hellraising father Richard Harris that he just didn't get hangovers and as such there was no immediate physical downside to his drinking. All upside.
After 11 months on Lion diet, feel hungry every day. Control the 3 lbs of red meat and fat portions every day… Am very stable as per therapist…
Truth is, you can make an average day in your life better with processed food. Maybe it's an average Tuesday night, but order pizza and it removes the tedium of just another night and replaces it with a high point for the day. Repeat this several times a week and suddenly you are obese.
Your comment is very insightful. I always felt certain foods are the highlight of my day and knowing I was going to have them at dinner and after dinner. Nothing else does this for me; not alcohol, not sex, not gambling, not drugs.
@@mey7579 Same. Thank god I don't need sex that bad - so much easier for me to get pizza. 😂😂😂
I lost 60lbs probably 20 years ago and I'll never go back. I meal prep for every day of the week to make things simple for me. I'll have Sunday lunch with the family after church other than that I'm extremely regimented. For me if I eat bad it makes me think how much excersizing I've blown. For me it's just not worth it.
I have been asking myself this question all my life as a food vulnerable person but nothing else tbh. Problem with food is that you need it to live and it is ubiquitous.
If you look at the fact you get to have it, unlike cocaine or alcohol, we must eat food to live. So we get to have, enjoy and manipulate it,instead of having to quit.
I got very drunk and vomited the first time I drank at 17. It was awful. I went on to drink and get drunk regularly through my 20's. I still drink every day, but never get drunk or even tipsy anymore. I also became withdrawn at the age of 17and started overeating for the first time in my life. I went on to struggle with weight gain and loss into my late 40's. I am now 64 and very healthy and fit, but I overeat processed foods every Saturday. I don't think it's about early experiences. I think it's genetic/physiologic.
I overeat no matter what diet I’m doing.
When doing carnivore, I was eating 6lbs of fatty beef and a block of butter a day (only stopping because I knew I had to).
Similar when trying semi-keto, I’d be eating already too large portions of meat (hence too much protein to consider it a strict keto diet) and adding upwards of 400g of fat, and just pounds of non starchy vegetables (which again, would still have been too much carbs for a strict keto definition)
When doing Plant Based, I would eat a meal of 2x15oz cans of beans with 10-12oz of steamed non starchy vegetables (again, only stopping because I knew that this quantity is already ridiculous).
And during episodes of junk food? Do NOT ask.
For me, I dont think it has anything to do with seeking to achieve a certain level of nutrition like protein or fiber, it’s just pure volume. I hate it.
I don't touch alcohol because of how it makes me feel if I drink it: OUT OF CONTROL and HELPLESS!!
If I don't get enough sleep, the cravings start. That is physiological, not emotional. And the reason I didn't get enough sleep is most of the time not for an emotional reason. I might have been watching something really interesting and didn't go to sleep until late, for example. Stress causes overeating, but not always. Stress can drop my blood sugar and then I get hungry. Or like a heavy smoker trying to quit or an alcoholic, trying to quit, if I start on a delicious piece of cake, my mind will make up reasons to keep eating it. I'm happy at that time, not stressed out, but I just couldn't stop the rationalizations about why I shouldn't eat that cake. But I don't drink, or smoke, or do anything harmful except overeat if I don't use my tricks/hacks.
Last night I had bad carb cravings and I'm not sure why. I had no stress. I gave in to 2 'low carb tortillas'. Then I mitigated it by going on the exercise bike in the basement and did a slow pace for like 45 minutes and afterwards drank 2 cups of water with magnesium and a little low salt. Before I went to bed my blood sugar was 124. This morning I woke up and my fasting was 98. I knew I had to do all my hacks or risk catching a cold. Blood sugar on the high side lowers my immunity and the children I teach are all getting sick right now. At 6 am I had a 3 egg omelette with feta cheese for breakfast and homemade bone broth Chinese style with Napa and tofu and coffee and cream. At 8:30 am I had a 30 gram protein drink. For lunch at 12:30- a can of sardines and a 30 gram protein drink. I got home not hungry. My blood sugar was 80. My hacks of high protein and not over-stretching my stomach worked.
Love to drink. 40 Years Old now. When i start i go for four days, a liter Vodka and a six pack a day. But after it's hell for four days. I can't do That shit anymore. I crash so bad
I’m a mom of 3 under 5. And I stress eat.
So excessive behaviors are related to a psychological soothing biproduct with a physiological positive stimulus.
This guy wouldn't sound like Kermit the Frog if he could only give up on trying to speak with a deep voice.
FTO gene?
It’s an unstudied leptin issue.
Start chewing tobacco and you will stop the stress eating
ask a behavioral geneticist