EPISODE 87: How to Deal with Your Inner Bad Guy or Bad Girl and Conquer Binge Eating for Life

Dr. Glenn Livingston is a veteran psychologist and author of the book Never Binge Again, a short yet comprehensive guide to controlling emotional eating and food obsession as well as knowing how to achieve your fitness goals. Having been a binge eater before, he relates his own story regarding the vicious emotional cycle of feast and famine and explains how he eventually found the road to recovery. His main drive behind the book was his severe dissatisfaction with what traditional psychology had to offer regarding obesity and emotional eating.

 

Dr. Glenn Livingston joins me today to share his wisdom and expertise regarding emotional eating, to whom and how it happens, and the steps to recovery. He discusses how the media and the giant food industries are heavily invested in making you eat all the time and how they use psychology to trick people. He also explores the concept of self-flagellation and shame after a binge eating as well as how to forgive yourself.

 

“When you commit, you have to commit with perfection. If you make a mistake, you have to forgive yourself with dignity.” - Dr. Glenn Livingston

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

 

• What led Dr. Glenn to start addressing emotional eating and binge eating?
• His opinions on the food industry and why they're out to promote unhealthy eating.
• What prompts our brain to make us feel bad after a binge?
• His story as a binge eater and how he recovered.
• Foods that get people starting off on a binge.
• The kind of people who often fall victim to binge eating.
• How he helps binge eaters recover.
• The feast and famine cycle and the highs associated with them.

 

Key Takeaways:

 

• A lot of us eat for comfort. Binge eaters eat to get high with food.
• Big companies spend billions of dollars to produce and advertise food that finds our bliss point and makes you eat what's not healthy for you.
• If it was as simple as just exercise and eat appropriately, we'd all be fit.
• Virtually everybody experiences periods where they eat beyond personal intent.
• The solution for binge eating is not a week of juice fasting, but regular, sustained reasonable nutrition day in and day out for months.

 

Connect with Dr. Glenn Livingston:

 

• Never Binge Again
• Never Binge Again book
• Facebook

 

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