Health is Wealth: How to lose weight without Dieting

Health is wealth, If you don’t have your, health, no amount of wealth can buy it. A healthy, weight, is an indication of health so today we are talking about, how to lose weight, without dieting.

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Health is Wealth

Think about it. Most of us dream about becoming wealthy but would you trade your ability to walk for a million dollars? I know I wouldn’t.

The second way we could look at the phrase, health is wealth, is that you can be healthy but poor and still be happy. On the flip side, you can have copious amounts of wealth, but if you don’t have your, health, you would willingly trade all your money to feel good or be healthy again.

So the message in this, health is wealth, series is, You can’t just trash your body and then try to alleviate the evidence of disease.

Healthy Weight Loss

Health, is not the absence of disease, disease is the absence of, health.

What is, health? According to the dictionary, health, is fitness of body or mind, and freedom from disease or ailment. It can be body fitness, or mental fitness.

What is wealth? In the same dictionary the meaning of, wealth, is stated as “a great quantity of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches.

So in the first episode of this series we and going to unpack how your, health is your wealth,. To start off this series, our topic today is “How to Lose Weight, without dieting”

How to Lose Weight when you Have an Eating Disorder

Myrna – Dr Nina. What led you to do this work?

At a very young age, I suddenly and randomly developed an obsession with my size. I thought that my thighs should be thinner and I thought if my thighs were smaller, I would be perfect. By the way, I was a perfectly normal weight. But I became convinced that thinner legs would somehow make me better. This obsession just got worse as I got older and by the time I was an adolescent, I had full blown, eating disorder. My last thought at night was what did I eat today. I would fall asleep counting the calories and fat grams of my food intake for the day and figuring how to, lose weight,

The scale was my most welcome friend and my biggest enemy, it ruled my life. So much so that when I went hiking with friends or did anything fun like dancing, I would focus on how many calories I was burning instead of how much fun I was having. I would be calculating how, to loose weight,

Getting Therapy to Help Lose Weight

I would restrict restrict myself of food and then eventually I would binge and then purge. So finally I went to therapy. I would open up with my therapist about every aspect of my life except one, I never ever told her what was going on with me and food. I went to my therapist once a week for three years and I never talked about what was going with my. eating disorders.

After some time in therapy, I became aware of my feelings. I learned to process my emotions rather than to deny them. I learned to use words to comfort myself instead of using words to criticize myself. By the time I left therapy, I had zero, eating disorder, or, anorexia, issues and No unhealthy relationship to food. The amazing thing about this is that not once did I ever talked about food to my therapist. When I fixed my emotional issues, I fixed my, anorexia. So the answer to the question How to, lose weight, without, dieting, is first learning how to process your emotions instead of stuffing them down with food.

People ask me all the time. How did you recover from three, eating disorders, that consumed your life without ever talking about it? How is that possible? The answer is that whatever was going on with food and my, eating disorders, was a symptom of the actual problem, not the problem. When I learned different ways of coping with what was going on with me, I cured my, eating disorders including, anorexia.

How to, lose weight, by understanding why you eat certain finds of foods

I developed this formula to help people figure out you know what is eating them out.

If you like creamy foods like ice cream or frozen yogurt or pudding. It suggests a longing for comfort or nurturing. Limit your exposure to these foods to, lose weight,.
If you like foods that like bread, pasta, cake, pizza those are correlated to loneliness since they are bulky and they symbolically filling an internal void. Fill your internal void by finding a hobby. Doing something you like instead of eating. It will help you to, lose weight,
Finally, foods that are crunchy like chips or pretzels, anything with a crunch suggest you are angry. Dealing with your anger in a healthy way will help you to, lose weight.

The best way to deal with the triggers of emotional eating is try to understand where they’re coming from. It is the first step. The next step is to deal with those an underlying feelings of lack of self worth.

How do you see yourself?
How do you feel your loneliness?
How do you express your anger?
How do you deal with what you are feeling?

Weight Loss Tips

Nurture yourself with words instead of ice cream. If you use mean words to describe yourself and then you nurture yourself with food, it becomes a viscous cycle. You eat the ice cream and you call yourself nasty words for being so weak, then you eat again to comfort yourself.

When you feel good about yourself it’s easier to be good to yourself.

Self acceptance is the key.

The most practical thing that you can do, is to throw out your scale. It is a tyrant, it does not measure your value, it ruins your day. It has too much power over you, so getting it out of your life is a very powerful stance that you can take on your own behalf.

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Additional Resources

How to Reprogram your Mind to Stop Binge Eating

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322345.php

https://blog.myhelps.us/detoxing-both-the-body-and-soul/

https://blog.myhelps.us/tips-to-change-your-skin-change-your-life/

When you develop, Binge Eating Disorder, you aren’t able to fight your desire for food. It’s like an addiction. It IS an addiction. Binge eating, and overeating and how that negatively affects your health until you learn how to reprogram your mind.

My guest today is Dr. Glenn Livingston, author of “Never Binge Again” and our topic is “How to Reprogram Your Mind to stop, binge eating,”

Glenn Livingston PhD, is a veteran psychologist and was the long-time CEO of a multi-million-dollar consulting firm which serviced several fortune 500 clients in the food industry. Dr Glenn has sold over 30 million dollars of marketing consulting services over the course of his career. You may have seen his previous work in major periodicals like the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago sun-times, the Indiana Star Ledger, the New York Daily News, American demographics, or any of other major media outlets.

Show Notes:

Dr. Glenn can you tell us what makes you uniquely qualified to comment on, binge eating disorder?

Well I’m not just a psychologist who wanted to work with people to help them lose weight; I’m a guy who had a very serious, binge eating, problem myself.

I know what’s happening in the addiction treatment field that we’re being told that we’re powerless over the, food addiction, that it’s a disease. Binge eating, is

An irresistible impulse that gets worse over time.

Here is Dr Glenn’s story on how He conquered, Binge Eating,

I discovered a weird thing when I was a youth. I’m 6’4” I’m reasonably muscular and I figured out when I was about 17, that if I worked out for two or three hours a day, I could eat whatever I wanted. So my diet was boxes of muffins, boxes of donuts, boxes of pizza, boxes of chocolate bars. I was eating six, seven, eight thousand calories a day and it was no problem.

Well as you could figure out, I couldn’t continue, binge eating, like that as I got into my 20’s.

When I got to be about 22 or 23, married and in graduate school, I was commuting to school, I had all these responsibilities as a husband. I could barely work out two hours a week, much less two hours a day. But I couldn’t get rid of the cravings for, junk food. I had a, food addiction, and I started getting fatter and fatter. My triglycerides went through the roof, and I had doctors telling me that I was going to die in my 30’s if I didn’t find stop, binge eating .

I eventually figured it wasn’t what I was eating, it was what was eating me.

I had been doing some reading in alternative, food addiction, treatment by a guy named Jack Trimpey. He wrote a book called “Rational Recovery” and he made it clear to me for the first time that the seed of, food addiction, was really the, reptilian brain,.

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Binge Eating, Definition

Binge eating, is looking at food from the reptilian brain doesn’t know love. We’re all we’re all busy trying to love ourselves out of these, food addictions; but the reptilian brain doesn’t know love. The reptilian brain assesses something in the environment and says, do I eat it or do I kill it! There’s no love there, there’s no concern for tribe or family or friends or long-term aspirations or creativity or music or art. There’s none of that. It’s just eat, mate or kill, and when you look at the animal studies you see that is what happens when you short circuit the pleasure system.

You can walk a block in most cities and find a McDonald’s, a Burger King across the street. There’s a fast-food restaurant on every corner these days. So we don’t have physical electrodes in our brain; but there are chemical electrodes and concentrations of pleasure that we weren’t prepared to meet by evolution.

Binge Eating, and what your choice of foods signifies:

My research found was that people who struggled with, binge eating, chocolate was definitely lonely or brokenhearted.
People who struggled with, binge eating, salty crunchy things, tended to be stressed at work people
People who struggled with, binge eating, soft chewy things like bread or bagels or pasta, tended to be stressed at home.

I found out from my mom, the reason I struggled, binge eating, chocolate.

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How to reprogram your mind to stop, binge eating.

I tell people the best way to stop the, food addiction, and, binge eating, is to is to think of the single worst trigger food or eating behavior that’s getting you in trouble.

Maybe it’s eating in the car, maybe that’s where you do all the damage. Maybe you could create one rule that says: I never eat in the car or maybe it’s a particular food. e.g I can only have salami on Sundays. Maybe it’s about how you eat, maybe it’s more like you need to pause and be more mindful. e.g I’ll always put my fork down between bites.

If there’s something that you know is getting you into trouble, binge eating, start with that one.

Binge Eating and the Reptilian Brain

Don’t worry if making this rule will help you loose weight or not. Unless your doctor says that it’s really urgent that you do, don’t worry about your weight. I just want you to get the hang of the way this mental game is played, because that rule allows you to separate your thoughts from your, reptilian brain.

Come up with a name for your, reptilian brain, I called mine my “pig”
Some people call theirs their food monster or food demon or something like that.
Then you want to listen for those destructive thoughts.
You want to listen for what your inner food demon says is the rationale that you should break the plan with, binge eating, you can do one of two things when you hear it.
You can ignore it, because it doesn’t matter how smart what is saying, it doesn’t matter how logical it sounds, if you know that it’s coming from your food demon, your pig, you now it’s bad. So you might as well ignore it even if it sounds like it’s got a PhD from Harvard!
You could write out what the food demon is saying and you ask yourself where is the lie within it. Where is the logical fallacy within it. For example maybe the food demon says one bite won’t hurt you, or you can start again tomorrow, which is based upon the logical fallacy that you’ll be in the exact same place tomorrow.

If you reinforce the connection today between that craving and the actual eating of the food then, you’re going to have a stronger craving tomorrow. That means the, food addiction and, binge eating, will be a little worse tomorrow.

One of the ways to attack your craving and, binge eating, is to create a food plan. The food plan would have some things that you always eat, some things you never eat, and some things you eat sometimes.

- I always eat five servings of fruit or vegetables.

- · I always drink two whole glasses of water when I get up in the morning.

- · I will only eat pretzels at major league baseball games.

- · I only eat bread when I am out at a restaurant.

- · I never eat after 6 pm.

· I never eat pizza.
I never eat more than two squares of chocolate a day.

Conclusion

While other addictions, such as alcohol and drug abuse, are more widely known and understood, food addiction, and, binge eating, isn’t. Hope this blog post and Dr. Glenn Livingston, author of “Never Binge Again” helps.

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Additional Resources

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