Dr Adam Bibbey is a senior lecturer, with an interest in stress, psychology, and behaviour change and with comfort / boredom eating and motivation such a hot topic at the moment, I thought it would be great to get Adam on to discuss this more.
After some technological issues, we got there in the end. Here is what we discussed:
😃 A simple technique to help with habitual behaviours like eating just because someone else is eating
😃 Addictive behaviours and what to do if you have 'no time' to fit anything
😃 A three-step model to help change your habits, be it with your motivation, exercising more, comfort eating or - like me - procrastinating with 'yet another cup of coffee'
😃 How to break the cycle of mindless eating (and put the bowl of soup down <<< really interesting study)
😃 Reward deficiency syndrome & how this relates to stress, exercise addiction and comfort eating
😃 Stress and how it can impact me and you differently depending on your personality and reward deficiency syndrome
😃 Cardiovascular disease and our stress response (the risk)
😃 When stress is actually a good thing
😃 Why for some people '2 squares of chocolate' just isn't enough to satisfy them and what to do instead
Plus much more...
If you have any questions, please do post below and I can see if we can help in any way
Let me know what you think and please like and share if you feel it can help someone.
Matt