SSP 127. Engaged to be Divorced

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♦ Engaged to be Divorced ♦

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Scott compares repeated diet failures common with fad dieting to the cycle of unhealthy romantic relationships.

Remember: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.”

♦♦ People who don’t learn from their history are destined to repeat it. ♦♦

• Unhealthy relationship cycle: Meet, courtship, engagement, wedding, honeymoon, facing that the relationship won’t work, divorce, learning nothing, then repeating the same cycle later thinking it will be different this time.

• This cycle is often repeated because the process of meeting and courtship is glorified. This is true of vogue diet trends.

• Deprivation and denial diets are back, alive and well. A few of the current vogue diet trends:

- Seven-day metabolic reset

- Intermittent fasting

- Keto diet with intermittent or true fasting

-One meal per day

• Cutting carbs is a form of fasting.

• Thinking a diet will work doesn’t change how the mind and body will respond to it.

• Diets that call for deprivation and denial run counter to the hardwiring of the brain, and are therefore doomed to fail in the long term.

• Falling in love with a diet blinds the dieter to internal signals from the body that the diet isn’t healthy, sustainable, or abusive to the body.

• “Keto flu” is the body’s way of signaling that something’s wrong.

• Deprivation diets are repeated when hope wins out over experience.

• Metabolic compensation system operates in the immediate, residual and cumulative realms of time.

• Fad diets operate in the short term, immediate time frame.

• People don’t talk about their diet failures. All that’s publicized in social media are the short-term results.

• Consequences of unhealthy diets can be experienced long after the diet is abandoned.

• The longest, most important relationship you will ever have is the one you have with yourself.

• Since when does a survival diet have anything to do with robust health?

♦ We are the only mammal on the planet that fears its food.

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