The Eating Coach

Today's Saturday Question is inspired by the painting The Conjurer by Hieronymous Bosch, which you can see at http://www.theshiftinside.com/saturday/ 

...but if you cannot see it right now, don't worry - I explain all in this minisode. 

RESOURCES

Episode 53: Why Is Bread So Addictive? http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-is-bread-so-addictive-ec53/

For coaching, go to http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching

Continuing The Eating Coach series on addiction, we look at the actor Nelsan Ellis’ best known creation, Lafayette from the HBO series True Blood. Lafeyette is a brilliant role model for reclaiming our lives not only from food, but any addiction. The tragic early death of Nelsan Ellis last year at the age of 39 adds a very poignant layer of meaning and metaphor to this discussion.

 RESOURCES

24 Brilliant Lafayette Quotes on YouTube: 

https://youtu.be/VrXqHs3wa3o

The Hedy Lamarr article: https://www.marketplace.org/2017/11/21/tech/inventor-changed-our-world-and-also-happened-be-famous-hollywood-star

Recover To Live: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586948-recover-to-live

Episode 18: http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-own-your-food-compulsion/

The interview with Nelsan Ellis can be heard here: https://blackgirlnerds.com/bgn-121-spider-man-homecoming-nelsan-ellis-tribute-jason-mewes/

The Independent article on Ellis: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/nelsan-ellis-dead-true-blood-actor-died-alcohol-addiction-a7835026.html

How can a woman who knows less about football than your average amoeba podcast about The World Cup? And what has it all got to do with reclaiming your life from food?  All will be revealed in today's Saturday Question - a shot of inspiration to brighten up your weekend. 

RESOURCES

Episode 35 on Cavebrain: 

http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/

... what has walking got to do with going sugar-free?

#1 Imperfectionism

Your 10, 15 or 30 day detox conceal a nasty wolf-in-sheep's-clothing thinking : perfectionism. Your body is however powerfully imperfect, and will not put up with you treating it like a robot. The 'NEVER AGAIN' energy feels like an escape hatch from yourself, but it puts you back in the dock when you stop acting like a health-fixated robot on day 11, 16 or 31.

Just think where you'd be today if you had managed your feelings about that first post-detox piece of junk you ate this time last year, and prevented it being the opening of the junk floodgates...

#2 Decouple Your Sugar Status From Your Social Status

You will come up against social pressure to eat sugar and you need to be prepared. This section gives you some practical ideas.

#3 Find Something To Replace The Novelty Value of Being Sugar Free

No matter how great you feel in the first weeks of being sugar free, hedonic adaptation will arrive and make you forget about how wonderful this new life actually is. You need to connect to something deeper than your improved state to weather this inevitable process.

#4 Choose Your Discomfort

Stop chasing that elusive permanent happy state and instead opt for a much more realistic path to life satisfaction.

Do you choose:

A - endless struggle with temporary reprieves?

or

B - the discomfort of transformation - which is always temporary

#5 The Pauly Principle

Listen to find out exactly what this one is

RESOURCES

14 Days To Freedom From Sugar: http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom

To 50 and Beyond podcast: http://lorimassicot.libsyn.com/

Episode 26 on pleasure:

26 http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-real-vs-fake-pleasure/

Episode 35: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/

Episode 29: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-better-than-willpower-ec29/

Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/

Get your free audiobook at:

http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach

Sound effects by https://www.zapsplat.com

Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/

How can the ordinary actually be the extraordinary? Find out with today's Saturday Question - a small dose of inspiration to start your weekend. 

Today's Saturday Question will help you reframe eating and body issues, to look at them from the inside out instead of the outside in, as most of the diet industry would have you do... it's so good that we go 60,000 miles in only 4 minutes!

"The huge online gaming craze Fortnite is a problem". No it is NOT. It is our kids' relationship to the game. We can apply the same principle to junk food.

https://youtu.be/4qeALy5Ml9Y

Did you know that cheese contains casein, a protein that has opioid-like qualities? So if you ever feet a mild high from this foodstuff, that is what you are experiencing. One doctor has even described cheese as 'dairy crack'. On the other hand, experts say that no, cheese isn't really addictive. So what do we do amidst all this confusion?

Also, ideas about how to deal with cheese if you feel compulsive.

RESOURCES

My Interview on episode 19 of To 50 And Beyond: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/to-50-beyond-wellness-sobriety-entrepreneurship/id1345136168?mt=2&i=1000413528809#

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/cheese-triggers-the-same-part-of-brain-as-hard-drugs-study-finds-a6707011.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11949643/Cheese-is-addictive-as-drugs-study-finds.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/18/we-found-out-if-cheese-is-really-as-addictive-as-cocaine_a_21473133/

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural-health/casein-dairy-protein-and-your-health/

Episode 53 on bread:  http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-53-why-is-bread-so-addictive

Join the private Eating Coach Discussion Group at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1594950873896541/

Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/

Ask a question at:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast/

Get your free audiobook at:

http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach

Sound effects by https://www.zapsplat.com

Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/

There is a big difference between hunger and a hunger. Find out what that is and ask yourself today's question as a way to reclaim your life from food. It's a good 'un today!

You can watch Florence and The Machine's 'A Hunger' here: 

https://youtu.be/C7VxXRR8BEI

Welcome to The Saturday Question, a small dose of inspiration to kick off your weekend. 

Today's question is inspired by the map of the world.

No Gluten, No Dairy, No Joy

A short preface on gluten intolerance - the symptoms.

I then have a discussion on if we should change the word 'addictive' in the same way I want us to replace 'addiction' with compulsion'?

There are 2 reasons why bread is addictive.

Reason #1 relates to white bread. Being a source of highly refined carbohydrate, it triggers the production of glucose and consequently insulin into the blood stream. It is this regular emergency response, the call for insulin that can lead to obesity, type II diabetes and a host of other health problems.

Reason #2 is less well known. You probably know that bread contains gluten, but have you ever heard of gluten exorphins? They have an opioid effect on the brain and can cause spontaneous behaviour. Compulsive binge, anyone?

Fascinating factoid of the week: The roman empire used bread to subjugate the peoples it was dominating

RESOURCES

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/nutrition/no-gluten-no-dairy-no-joy-has-britain-become-nation-nutrichondriacs/

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/signs-you-are-gluten-intolerant

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/06/26/195292850/can-you-be-addicted-to-carbs-scientists-are-checking-that-out

https://www.scgmatt.com/researchology-blog/archives/02-2015

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/page/dark-side-wheat-new-perspectives-celiac-disease-wheat-intolerance-sayer-ji

Join the private Eating Coach Discussion Group at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1594950873896541/

Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/

Ask a question at:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast/

Get your free audiobook at:

http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach

Sound effects by https://www.zapsplat.com

The 5 Minute Willpower Game 

http://www.theshiftinside.com/willpower/http://www.theshiftinside.com/willpower/

Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/