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The Toddler in All of Us
We all have a TODDLER living inside our brain. There are two of the “main parts” of the brain: the Adult Brain and the Toddler Brain. Most of us our functioning with our Toddler Brain. Our Toddler Brain is all about functioning in the moment, and getting immediate gratification. It is reactive and just wants to do what feels good in the moment. It doesn’t like to wait for things or reason things out. It wants what it wants and it wants it NOW! Our Toddler Brain is really good at throwing really loud temper tantrums, and it can whine like it’s going out of style. It acts exactly like…
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Emotional Eating
Emotional Eating This is a big one for a lot of us. because we’ve never been taught how to handle our emotions. We just eat to escape them, and to not feel them. In the world today, we have so much immediate quick pleasure available that we haven’t had to live through many hardships. We can easily escape discomfort through food, television, the internet, pornography, social media, gaming, etc. We’ve created this entitlement that life should be fun and happy and pleasurable all the time; and when it’s not, and things get hard or uncomfortable for us, the best thing to do is to escape the overwhelm, or the…
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Dopamine
One of the reasons we carry extra weight is our overdesire for food. We desire food that is not used to fuel our body, or we eat when we’re not hungry. Yesterday we learned that overdesire is a learned behavior and there are certain things that can trigger us to eat. If you missed it, you can find it HERE. Reason #2 we overdesire food: Dopamine It is our brain’s job to keep us alive. One way it does this is by releasing dopamine. Dopamine is a chemical that lights up the neuropathways in your brain and makes you feel happy and good. Each time you eat, dopamine is released.…
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Overdesire
Not only do we have to contend with overhunger, we also have to contend with overdesire. Overdesire is the desire for food not used to fuel our body, or the desire to eat when our body does not need any fuel. Desire is a feeling or an emotion. All emotions begin with a thought. Most of these thoughts are unconscious due to repetition and neuropathways created by our lower brain. Let’s talk about why we overdesire food. We experience overdesire for three reasons. Today is reason #1. Reason #1 –It’s a learned behavior. Desire is something that is learned. The good news is that…
