Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Who's Making Your Food Decisions?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Who's Making Your Food Decisions?
For more details on this podcast visit: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/35
Episode 35: Don't fall to the whim's of the moment - preparation is the key!
Blog Description:
Knowing how you feel and why, and what those emotions do in relation to your eating is so very important. Also, planning ahead can help you overcome those moments where instinct takes control.
Timestamps:
4:00 To end our struggles with our weight permanently, we can't just go on a diet. We have to actually slow everything down and begin to make very conscious choices about the foods that we eat and why we're eating them, making it conscious is the key. So no more of these automatic grabs for food. You want to make very clear and rational decisions about what foods you're going to eat.
8:15 So what part of your brain should be making your food decisions? The prefrontal cortex. That's the front part of the brain, the highest, most evolved human part of your brain. And this is the rational part of your brain that can think ahead. That can think about what you're thinking. It can plan. It knows what your long-term goals are. This is the part of your brain that you want to have in charge of your food decisions.
13:01 You're using your executive brain, your prefrontal cortex to plan, not just what you're going to eat, but how you're going to overcome the obstacles that your primitive brain puts in the way. You have to learn how to process your feelings without caving into the desire to eat, or without ‘people pleasing’ by eating some of your mother's cookies.
Full transcription of this podcast: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/35
This episode was produced and marketed by the Get Known Podcast Service: getknownstrategy.com/podcast-service
View all episodes
By Angela Zechmann, MD
5
11 ratings
For more details on this podcast visit: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/35
Episode 35: Don't fall to the whim's of the moment - preparation is the key!
Blog Description:
Knowing how you feel and why, and what those emotions do in relation to your eating is so very important. Also, planning ahead can help you overcome those moments where instinct takes control.
Timestamps:
4:00 To end our struggles with our weight permanently, we can't just go on a diet. We have to actually slow everything down and begin to make very conscious choices about the foods that we eat and why we're eating them, making it conscious is the key. So no more of these automatic grabs for food. You want to make very clear and rational decisions about what foods you're going to eat.
8:15 So what part of your brain should be making your food decisions? The prefrontal cortex. That's the front part of the brain, the highest, most evolved human part of your brain. And this is the rational part of your brain that can think ahead. That can think about what you're thinking. It can plan. It knows what your long-term goals are. This is the part of your brain that you want to have in charge of your food decisions.
13:01 You're using your executive brain, your prefrontal cortex to plan, not just what you're going to eat, but how you're going to overcome the obstacles that your primitive brain puts in the way. You have to learn how to process your feelings without caving into the desire to eat, or without ‘people pleasing’ by eating some of your mother's cookies.
Full transcription of this podcast: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/35
This episode was produced and marketed by the Get Known Podcast Service: getknownstrategy.com/podcast-service