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You could be forgiven for not getting overly excited about food planning, but when I tell you just how much this can transform a person’s life and weight loss journey, you’ll be rushing to the nearest notepad and pen.

There are lots of things that people want to change, from body image to body weight, but often they keep finding themselves in the same place. Whether you’re at the beginning of your journey, or you've plateaued somewhere and are going through the next sprint, you will need to figure out what you need to change. Ultimately, we have to keep changing what we're doing otherwise our body gets used to it (the joys of metabolic adaptation…).

But change can feel exhausting. Everything becomes a conscious decision you need to make and you’re no longer working on autopilot. So today, I’m going to share how just a little bit of food planning can be a powerful tool to help you get a different outcome. Tune in to find out how you can break some of those patterns and start to program something new into your brain.

Quotes

01:49 - “About 90 to 95% of the things we do are run by the habit brain.”

05:00 - “If we're not living an intentional life, if we're not planning things, if we're not putting a little bit of thought into what we're doing, the past just keeps repeating.”

07:21 - “If we can do planning, we can break some of these habit loops and some of this automatic thinking and program away new things.”

10:16 - “If we let go of perfection, which is not required for you to plan and to take care of yourself and be more intentional in this area, life gets a lot easier.”

16:53 - “I'm Obesity Medicine board certified. I help patients with clarity all day long on this, and everyone's getting results. And for myself, I can't see it clearly. That is the nature of this. We often cannot see our own brain. We often cannot see things in our own life clearly.”

Audio Stamps

01:49 - Dr. Rentea introduces us to the idea of having a “habit brain”.

04:27 - We learn how breaking habit loops and being more intentional can help us to program new things.

07:29 - We find out why perfection is not the goal.

10:26 - We discover how planning gives us data we need to be the scientist for our own body.

12:15 - Dr. Rentea emphasizes the importance of keeping planning simple.

14:50 - Dr. Rentea runs through some questions to ask yourself if planning is something that you are currently doing or want to start doing.

All of the information on this podcast is for general informational purposes only. Please talk to your physician and medical team about what is right for you. No medical advice is being on this podcast.

If you live in Indiana or Illinois and want to work with doctor Matthea Rentea, you can find out more on www.RenteaClinic.com

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