We've addressed the important health topic of binge eating on the ATF podcast before, only this week we're bringing yous an interview with an expert on the field of study. Dr. Glenn Livingston is a veteran psychologist, health coach and author of the bookNever Binge Over again: Reprogram yourself to think similar a permanently thin person.

Dr. Livingston's by history dealing with his own obesity and working as an consultant for Fortune 500 nutrient corporations has given him a unique insight into individuals that struggle with binge eating. Below are a few highlights from our conversation.

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Interview

    • Dr. Livingston describes his own battle with obesity – ate anything and everything in his 20s and early 30s until he got blood markers tested and had high cholesterol and other precursors of center disease, which was problematic since his family unit had a history of centre affliction
    • Beingness a psychologist, and growing upward in a family of psychologists, he wanted to observe the psychological root of food dependencies – discovered that binge eating was caused primarily by your inner monologue telling you that binge eating is OK and believes it's easier to "quiet" that phonation than removing the emotional triggers that invoked the desire to binge/emotional eat
    • He worked as consultant for Fortune 500 nutrient companies and witnessed many manipulative marketing tactics including the VP of a major nutrient bar company stating that they could make more coin if they took the vitamins out of the bar and created colorful packaging that elicited the feeling/notion that the bar contained essential vitamins
    • His book Never Binge Again  is applicable to all diets because it focuses on the affect that different evolutionary stages of the brain (cadger brain, mammalian brain, logical brain) play on food pick; controlling the lizard brain with specific mantras is fundamental to his method
    • Most of the binge eating patients he works with believe that there is something wrong with them, but he informs them that they are victims of the industrial nutrient organisation (e.chiliad. manipulative marketing, hyper palatable processed foods, etc) and their own physiology
    • Instead of insisting that you can never have certain foods ever again, he helps his patients discover their "trigger" foods or situations and then define terms on how/when those foods tin can exist consumed
    • Dr. Livingston's 4 foods rule: Never, Always, Sometimes, Unrestricted –giving your cadger/primitive encephalon these rules gives it the structure it needs to help make ameliorate dietary decisions
    • He encourages individuals who use his system to commit to perfection simply forgive themselves with dignity

Brand sure yous visit NeverBingeAgain.com to get a FREE digital re-create of Dr. Livingston's book. Y'all volition too receive reader bonuses and food plan starter templates with nutrient rules for any blazon of dietary preferences when y'all join his email list. Don't forget to follow the Never Rampage Again Facebook page  and let them know you heard well-nigh Dr. Livingston on the ATF podcast.


If you lot're an individual that struggles with rampage/emotional eating, we highly recommend reaching out to someone like Dr. Livingston. You should ever experience free to reach out to us as well if you have a health related question. If we don't know the answer, nosotros can connect you with someone who does. You tin connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter or send an email to theatfpodcast@gmail.com.

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Episode Links

Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/usa/podcast/addicted-to-fitness-podcast/id1121420986?mt=2&i=1000416857627

Spotify: https://open up.spotify.com/episode/1oNf725C3u589P9uUixjkW?si=Tz2XLBK9TzOqgIZ2tB5PTg

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nick-burch-702220833/an-interview-with-the-author