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Your Primitive Brain
For more details on this podcast visit:
https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/78
Episode 78: Your Primitive Brain
Have you ever felt like you had 2 different parts of you that were fighting each other? For example, one part of you wants pizza and wine and chocolate while the other part of you wants to get your weight under control so you can feel better? It's the proverbial angel on one shoulder whispering one ear while on the other shoulder is the devil tempting you with immediate pleasure, right?
What's going on here? Is there anything we can do to stop the war going on in our heads? Tune in to today's podcast to find out!
Episode Highlights:
(4:41) The primary motivations of the primitive brain are: 1) Seek anything that brings pleasure 2) Avoid anything that brings pain 3) Conserve energy at all costs. 4)Stick with people who are safe, fear those you don't know 5) Avoid being seen. Now, this is our primitive brain…. But our brains did evolve beyond this, right? So we have a human brain that has evolved past our primitive brain. This is called our "prefrontal cortex"
(10:35) In order to lose weight and keep it off, what we need to do is to put the prefrontal cortex - the human brain - in charge of the primitive brain. We do this by planning ahead EVERYTHING we will eat, 24 hours in advance. This way we are not giving our primitive brain any chance of making a food decision.
(13:14) This is why I always say the weight loss journey done well is a journey of powerful personal evolution. When you can take control over your primitive brain with food, you can do it with spending, you can do it with drinking, you can do it with exercise, you can do it with relationships, you can do it with time management, you can just watch yourself coming more and more into alignment with your goals and dreams, evolving yourself, getting better all the time.
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By Angela Zechmann, MD
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For more details on this podcast visit:
https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/78
Episode 78: Your Primitive Brain
Have you ever felt like you had 2 different parts of you that were fighting each other? For example, one part of you wants pizza and wine and chocolate while the other part of you wants to get your weight under control so you can feel better? It's the proverbial angel on one shoulder whispering one ear while on the other shoulder is the devil tempting you with immediate pleasure, right?
What's going on here? Is there anything we can do to stop the war going on in our heads? Tune in to today's podcast to find out!
Episode Highlights:
(4:41) The primary motivations of the primitive brain are: 1) Seek anything that brings pleasure 2) Avoid anything that brings pain 3) Conserve energy at all costs. 4)Stick with people who are safe, fear those you don't know 5) Avoid being seen. Now, this is our primitive brain…. But our brains did evolve beyond this, right? So we have a human brain that has evolved past our primitive brain. This is called our "prefrontal cortex"
(10:35) In order to lose weight and keep it off, what we need to do is to put the prefrontal cortex - the human brain - in charge of the primitive brain. We do this by planning ahead EVERYTHING we will eat, 24 hours in advance. This way we are not giving our primitive brain any chance of making a food decision.
(13:14) This is why I always say the weight loss journey done well is a journey of powerful personal evolution. When you can take control over your primitive brain with food, you can do it with spending, you can do it with drinking, you can do it with exercise, you can do it with relationships, you can do it with time management, you can just watch yourself coming more and more into alignment with your goals and dreams, evolving yourself, getting better all the time.