The Over 50 Health & Wellness Podcast Never Binge Again with Dr. Glenn Livingston
Tell me if this sounds familiar. You tell yourself you’re not going to eat that left over ice cream in the freezer. I mean, this is the new healthy you after all. But then you have this nightmare-ish day at work – you know – one of those days where everything goes wrong, and you’re pulled in 15 different directions and nothing you do seem good enough. So, you leave work late in a foul mood, and the traffic is horrendous. Where do all these people come from and where did they learn to drive?
You finally get home only to find that your husband forgot to pick up the shrimp you were planning to use for your stir fry tonight. Seriously? The man has the attention span and memory of a gnat. Now you need to improvise, because the neighbors are coming over in 45 minutes for dinner. So, you pull some frozen chicken out of the freezer and throw it in the microwave to defrost while you curse your idiotic husband under your breath.
But – you’re a bad ass, and you manage to pull off a delicious dinner and put on a happy face and are a gracious host. You finally shoo your company out the door and clean up. You curl up in your favorite chair, turn on the tv, and for the first time today take a big breath and relax.
And then you remember the ice cream. You consider it for a moment and then decide, nope, you’ve been on a health kick lately and things are going well. You start flipping through the recently added selections on Netflix, and the image of the ice cream comes back, but this time you can almost taste it’s chocolatey goodness. You consider the proposition for a minute – I mean after the day you’ve had, a little bit of ice cream would be a nice treat. But your willpower wins, you put the ice cream out of your mind and go back to browsing new releases on Netflix.
But there’s some part of your brain, deep down, that’s just relentless, and suddenly you’re sitting there with your remote in your hand reasoning with yourself why having a little bit of ice cream is no big deal. I mean, you’ve had the day from hell, and you’ve been so good with your exercise and nutrition this week, why wouldn’t a little ice cream be the perfect reward right now.
And somehow – almost magically – you go from having that conversation with yourself to digging into the bottom of the container to get the very last bit ice cream out of the corner of the carton. And as you come out of your ice cream coma, you think to yourself… how does this keep happening to me?
My guest today is Dr. Glenn Livingston. Glenn is an author and psychologist who has dedicated decades to researching the nature of overeating and bingeing. Join us today as Glenn shares his thoughts on the causes of overeating, and more importantly what steps we can take to permanently end binge eating.
You can connect with Glenn. In the following ways:
Website - https://www.neverbingeagain.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NeverBingeAgain/
Twitter - @NeverBingeAgain
Instagram - @livingstonglenn
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLD5wZRmKOuixUvFvDQH2Jg
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