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An Emotional Relationship with Food?
For more details on this podcast visit: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/55
Episode 55: Food. An emotional relationship, or fuel for your body?
Episode Description: In today's podcast, we ask the question: What does it mean when we say we have an emotional relationship with food? Tune in, because these insights and awarenesses are an absolute KEY if you want a more empowering relationship with food and a vibrant, healthy body!
Episode Highlights: 9:49 Foods are engineered and designed to produce huge dopamine spikes in our brain. Dopamine is the pleasure center. These heavily processed foods are engineered to produce this response that feels like love in our brains.
13:11 II've actually had people tell me, it's like all of my family traditions revolve around food. And suddenly, if I decide not to do that, I'm no longer a member of the family. We get these feelings of belongingness and belonging to a group is a primal need. It's how we survived. So if you feel like you're doing something that's against group norms, if you're doing something that's against what your family has raised you to believe, then you have to deal with this intense anxiety coming from your primitive brain that's saying, oh my gosh, you are going to be left alone. You are going to die.
27:22 And that's why I always say, the weight loss journey done well is a journey of personal evolution. And the skills that you learn in the weight loss journey done well are skills that are gonna serve you in all areas of your life, not just in your health.
Full transcription of this podcast: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/55
This episode was produced and marketed by the Get Known Podcast Service.
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By Angela Zechmann, MD
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For more details on this podcast visit: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/55
Episode 55: Food. An emotional relationship, or fuel for your body?
Episode Description: In today's podcast, we ask the question: What does it mean when we say we have an emotional relationship with food? Tune in, because these insights and awarenesses are an absolute KEY if you want a more empowering relationship with food and a vibrant, healthy body!
Episode Highlights: 9:49 Foods are engineered and designed to produce huge dopamine spikes in our brain. Dopamine is the pleasure center. These heavily processed foods are engineered to produce this response that feels like love in our brains.
13:11 II've actually had people tell me, it's like all of my family traditions revolve around food. And suddenly, if I decide not to do that, I'm no longer a member of the family. We get these feelings of belongingness and belonging to a group is a primal need. It's how we survived. So if you feel like you're doing something that's against group norms, if you're doing something that's against what your family has raised you to believe, then you have to deal with this intense anxiety coming from your primitive brain that's saying, oh my gosh, you are going to be left alone. You are going to die.
27:22 And that's why I always say, the weight loss journey done well is a journey of personal evolution. And the skills that you learn in the weight loss journey done well are skills that are gonna serve you in all areas of your life, not just in your health.
Full transcription of this podcast: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/55
This episode was produced and marketed by the Get Known Podcast Service.