Eating Disorders and Binging

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You’re listening to Reset Your Health. I’m your

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host, Mary, and with me is my co -host, Steve.

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in your desired method and let us know what you’d

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like to hear next. Today’s topic is going to

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be on food addiction. That’s a huge area in my

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life that I’ve struggled with. Of course, I covered

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a little bit on the last episode of how I was

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overweight. And honestly, I was as overweight

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as I was because I ate food. Yes, different people

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have different metabolisms, yada, yada. There

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can be different reasons that it’s harder for

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somebody to lose weight or easier for somebody

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to gain weight than the other. But when everything’s

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said and done, it’s because we’re taking more

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calories in than we’re giving out. And a lot

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of that can be because of food addiction. So

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there’s a show that I. um have watched and I’m

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sure many of you have heard of is my 600 pound

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life and it’s funny because the doctor on there

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um even though I’m very sensitive to those people

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and the ones that are on there because I can

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only relate because had I not changed my life

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when I did I would have been one of those people

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the road the road I was going down But the doctor,

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he tells them, he’s straightforward with them,

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and he just says, look, you’re overweight because

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you’re eating too much. You know, when these

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people that are 650 pounds tell them, no, I’m

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going by your diet, but yet they gain 30 pounds.

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Well, to be realistic, just to maintain 650 pounds,

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I didn’t do the math on this. So I may not be

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exact, but that takes about six or 7 ,000 calories

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a day just to maintain that weight. It might

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even be close to the 8 ,000 mark, but I’m not

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exactly sure. That is a lot of food. Now, it’s

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a lot of food, but at the same time, we can get

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those calories very easily with today’s society,

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with going to… You know, whatever the fast

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food, I want to say McDonald’s. But honestly,

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McDonald’s isn’t even where people are going

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anymore. It’s more Chick -fil -A and in and out

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burger, things like that. And one meal, just

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one meal at those places can easily be fifteen

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hundred and two thousand calories, possibly even

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more. depending on what you order, if there’s

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a drink with it, there’s a milkshake with it,

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how big the fries are. I mean, whatever. So many

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different things. That’s as many calories as

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you need in one day. And what’s sad is when you’re

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done within an hour, you’re hungry again. And

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we can always go into that in a future episode

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and how that how that food is broken down, unlike.

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Beans that is 2 ,000 calories. It’s just broken

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down totally different than a Burger and fries.

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That’s 2 ,000 calories. Of course, it’s more

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food too, but we can go on to that in the future

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So something that I brought up to you actually

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earlier today was the fact that Like I have access

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to snacks I have access to all kinds of goodies

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stuff that tastes good, but it lacks the proper

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nutrition and calories that Honestly, you don’t

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need because, again, there’s nothing there of

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substance. It’s literally crap that you are eating.

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And it’s to fill that void of like, I like this

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food or I’m hungry, but it’s not actually it’s

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not actually achieving the goal of filling that

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hunger because you continue to go back. Well,

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so putting on that, we have two boys ourselves.

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We have a 12 year old and a nine year old. My

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rule always after a meal, let’s say dinner, if

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I’ve given them a sufficient amount of food and

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they should be good, then the rule is they can

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have veggies or in between meals, they can have

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veggies. So I always have things like celery,

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carrots, cucumber, things like that are always

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cleaned, cut up and ready in the fridge. And

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I don’t mean veggies with with, you know, dips

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and all of this stuff. I mean, just plain veggies.

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And I say, and my son, my oldest is really bad

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with always wanting something sweet. So he’ll

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say, can we have, you know, this or that after

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dinner? And sometimes I allow in the summer some

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watermelon after dinner or maybe an apple or

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pineapple, whatever it is. But I always say.

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A lot of times I’m saying no, because when we

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just want a craving, I’m like, no, if you’re

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still hungry, go ahead and go get some of those

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cucumbers out of there. Well, no, I don’t want

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any of those. Well, honestly, a craving doesn’t

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always mean hunger. And so trying to figure out

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that difference between actual hunger, because

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here in the U .S. very few people go hungry.

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I’m not saying absolutely nobody in the US goes

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hungry because there are people that do, but

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most of the time that’s by choice. Even a homeless

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person, the one thing that they can get is a

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meal. It may not be the most nutritious meal

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and everything else, but there’s so many places

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that they can go to get food. And that’s also

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the thing that a lot of people will stop and

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either pick them up something from fast food

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or or they’ll have something in their car and

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give it to them, those type of things. So very

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few people in America are going to go without

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food. So we have to know when it’s the right

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time to stop and we need to know what our triggers

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are. So I have never been an alcoholic, so I

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do not want to down anybody who has been. But

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the difference between alcohol and food addiction

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is alcohol. You can completely give up. 100 %

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never touch it again. Obviously, that’s not going

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to be an easy thing for people who struggle with

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alcohol, but they don’t ever have to pick it

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up again. Somebody with a food addiction, guess

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what? You have to eat. So you also have to find

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out what things are triggering. For me, I had

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learned years ago that something that’s very

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triggering for me is Reese’s. It must be that

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combination of peanut butter and that milk chocolate

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because I can have a healthy smoothie that I’ve

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prepared with maybe a little bit of almond butter

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and some cocoa powder and it just gives me a

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different reaction. It doesn’t take me down the

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same rabbit hole even though it’s still that

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pretty much chocolate peanut butter. It doesn’t

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have the same chemical reaction. It doesn’t give

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me the same dopamine hit or the serotonin hit.

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That’s going on and I know when I have Reese’s

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or I have that peanut chocolate It takes me down

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a rabbit hole and that’s when I just go into

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excessive overeating and I’ll start with multiple

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Reese’s but then it leads in for the next few

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days into all of these other foods. So it’s just

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something that I know if I decide to have a Reese’s,

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which is every once in a while, I know I have

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to be very careful. Is this going to send me

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or I just need to say no to it? So there’s also

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the fact that we recently got a ninja device

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which allows us to make healthier ice cream because.

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One of the earlier triggers that Mary and I both

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had were we would eat a gallon of ice cream every

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couple of days. Now this was back when I was

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very large before my weight loss days and everything.

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Yeah, I mean, I couldn’t eat that if I tried

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now. Like I eat maybe, I think what’s the smallest

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size, like a pint or something. Yeah, I think

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so. Anyways, I can’t barely get through one of

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those anymore without being I’m done. I’m good.

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But it also it creates that same chemical reaction

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in your brain where the milk and the sugar and

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the everything how it’s hitting like you just

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constantly crave more or you really need salt

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after you’re done and it sends you down another

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different rabbit hole. Whereas when we use the

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ninja device, we’re able to make it healthier

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with like almond milk and with protein powder

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and maybe a couple of like littler mix in type

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items that are. You know, for the most part,

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I mean, it’s it’s mostly healthy, but it tastes

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consistency wise about the same as ice cream,

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but it doesn’t give you the same dopamine hit

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that ice cream does. And you feel fulfilled afterward

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because you’re getting that protein instead of

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getting a bunch of sugar. So the ninja device

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he’s talking about is called the Ninja Creamy.

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And I bought it earlier this year and we’ve used

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it. We used it more over the summer while it

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was hot than we are now, but we use it maybe

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once a week now. But when I first got it, I had

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to do a lot of playing around. I had to because

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the recipes that come with it actually are. not

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very healthy recipes in the book I’m sure they

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taste fantastic but if I’m going to mix milk

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sugar and all that stuff into it then why not

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just go do the easy thing and buy it from the

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store so what I do is I put in almond milk and

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then I do ours we have the deluxe version. And

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so the deluxe version is a bigger container.

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And so I put two scoop two servings of protein

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powder with my unsweetened almond milk, mix that

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put it in the freezer. And then when we’re ready

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for ice cream, I pull it out and I mix it. So

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literally all we are eating in that one container,

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it’s a quart. And so that container gives two

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people a serving. And so I can either mix just

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the top half just the bottom half whatever or

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usually for us since there’s four of us I mix

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two containers we each have half of that container

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and we’re good. Literally all we are having is

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a little bit unsweetened milk, almond milk and

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some protein powder and so really it’s no different

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than having a protein shake so maybe that serving

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that we’re having is 200 calories and it’s 25

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grams of protein. Now what I do allow my family

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to do with that and this is where that food addiction

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and that that letting yourself have some things.

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I will break down like a Oreo and it has a mix

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in setting that where you can just have that

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Oreo crushed up and it mixes it right through

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the ice cream. And so it’s like there’s one Oreo

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mixed into the serving. Or for me, every once

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in a while, I will get a Reese’s and I’ll let

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a Reese’s be mixed into that setting or into

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that ice cream just to give me that taste. That’s

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something that I had to learn as I fought, because

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I’m not sure if I covered this on the last one.

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But after I lost my weight, I struggled a lot

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with binge purge disorder for at least five or

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six years quite severely. where I would binge

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on five to seven thousand calories and nobody

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knew I was doing it. It was closet eating. It

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was when I was alone and it was on just anything.

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It was the granola bars in the basement. It was

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the cereal. It was the whatever it was because

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remember, I’m not holding a bunch of cookies

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and things in my house anymore and I haven’t

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been. but then I would fall into these huge binges

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where my stomach would literally hurt because

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I had eaten so much and I didn’t know what to

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do but I was working out six hours a day. And

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it’s like it was my payoff. I would work out,

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which I love working out and I love exercise.

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I mean, I am a personal trainer, so of course

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I back exercise and working out and everything.

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But six, seven hours a day where I’m working

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out for two hours early in the morning and then

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the kids are napping or they’re, you know, doing

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something and I’m working out again and then

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I’m working out again in the evenings, going

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to a couple classes. I mean, that’s just. obsessive.

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And now I, I work out, you know, I do work out

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six days a week. And, but I have my certain things

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that I do to make sure I work all the muscle

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groups and everything, but I don’t have this

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unhealthy way about anymore. It’s, I’m no longer

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at the time I was subconsciously, I was working

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out to be able to have these binges and not gain

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my weight back. And I didn’t even realize I was

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doing it. And so now I’m aware of that. And I

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have to and I find myself to this day. I find

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myself starting to go in the basement. That’s

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always kind of a starter point to me. And OK,

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if I grab a snack because I actually need a snack,

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most of what’s in our house is pretty healthy,

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then that’s fine. But then I can grab another

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and another and another. And I just stop challenge.

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Choose. I stop. I think about what I’m doing.

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And then I make my choice. OK, do I actually

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need this granola bar? Do I actually need these

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mango slices? I like the dehy or freeze dried

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mango they sell at the store and things like

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that. Do I really need these? And if I do, then

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I’m going to let myself have, you know, two or

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three mango slices. That’s fine. But if I’m sitting

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there eating half the bag of mango slices, it’s

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not because I’m hungry. It’s because I’m letting

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my food addiction take over. So yeah, I mean

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And I I was shocked to find out how much you

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were actually eating when it kind of came down

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the pipe of of that But also like I I can get

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into it too. I mean, I don’t have the same metabolism

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issues you do No, I show on the outside. He doesn’t

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yeah, so I mean like me it affects me internally

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It doesn’t affect me externally. So externally

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I look the same Beanpole size that I have since

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high school on the inside however I’m dealing

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with it from a totally different perspective

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because I’ve destroyed my insides by eating the

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junk for years And I also can go down the same

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rabbit hole of just eating and eating and eating

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and I actually noticed that I was starting to

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do that somewhat at work because I didn’t have

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enough food that I packed that was of quality

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to take with me. That’s because I work full time

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and I don’t pack every single one of his lunches

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anymore. I’ve also learned that I need to pack

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more of the healthy food when I’m packing it

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so that I’m not as hungry throughout the day.

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So I’m not running off to the work kitchen and

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not that I don’t mind the occasional snack in

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there when I’m actually like I need a little

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bit of a. a snack, but it can get down to the

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rabbit hole where I’m like, I just want to keep

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eating this particular item because it’s here.

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And it’s also because I’m trying to hit that

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hunger. But at the same time, I’m not fulfilling

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that need with quality food. And so it’s not

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it just keeps me going down the rabbit hole of

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trying to eat the same thing to fill that void.

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So something I want to cover I kind of vaguely

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covered is a little bit of what’s causing the

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food addiction so One the main thing about the

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food addiction is the feel -good chemical Which

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I’m sure you’ve heard of serotonin and the dopamine

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hit it is literally giving you This hit this

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I feel good it only lasts a short time While

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we’re eating that little bit maybe right after

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and then it goes away And then you need it again,

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and you need it again. It’s Actually sugar is

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just as addictive they say as cocaine I believe

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it and So I’m not saying never ever ever heavier

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sugar But really pay attention. Are you going

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I? I’m a coffee drinker and I used to love going

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to the coffee places and getting frappes. Okay,

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frappes for my coffee drinkers out there, frappes

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are not coffee, they’re dessert. And of course

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they taste fantastic, but they’re literally,

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again, Milk and sugar. Look at a lot of those

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things that you’re being led back to the milk

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and sugar reaction actually causes you to have

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this sensation that brings you this happiness

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and this, you know, chemical reaction. And that’s

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why you keep coming back to get more and more.

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Now, that’s what I used to do. I slowly I do

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like to have my coffee. Alright, and so what

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I usually do is I make my own iced coffee now

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my ninja creamy it does have a crema Chino Setting

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to it and so what I’ll do is I’ll do unsweetened

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almond milk Because I do like some almond milk

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in my coffee. I don’t know there’s something

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about the creaminess for you guys Like I know

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a few of my clients you all about the black coffee

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awesome job That’s the best way to do it, but

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I’m not quite there So I will go ahead and put

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my cold brew that I make myself and then I put

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a little bit unsweetened almond milk and then

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I’ll do like a tablespoon of pudding mix. Or

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if I know I’m not going to have a lot of time

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in between clients to eat, I’ll put protein powder

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in it and I mix that whatever I freeze it. And

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then I mix it so it stays nice and cold all day

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long. And it it gives me my coffee. It gives

00:18:50.609 –> 00:18:55.319
me just a of sweetness and when I need it it

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gives me that protein as well that’s only when

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I know I don’t have time to get an actual some

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food in but so what I’m saying is pay attention

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to what what is causing that feel -good reaction

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for you and then start taking yourself away from

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it. Everybody can struggle with food addiction

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and it’s becoming more and more common and more

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prominent because of how processed the foods

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are anymore and how much of this we’re doing.

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People don’t realize things like white bread.

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White bread actually gives you the same reaction

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as sugar because it breaks down right away and

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turns right into sugar and insulin. Sugar comes

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in a lot of sneaky forms. And certain things

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that are signs of food addiction are things like

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cravings, as I’ve already mentioned, restlessness,

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irritability. I mean, if you’re getting irritable

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because you really want a chocolate bar or you

00:20:03.809 –> 00:20:07.009
really want this or that, I mean, those are all

00:20:07.009 –> 00:20:09.250
signs that you’re struggling. And I’m sure many

00:20:09.250 –> 00:20:12.200
of you are struggling with food addiction. And

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I think a lot of times we can be struggling with

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that addiction and not even realize that we are.

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So for me, the best thing I could do trying to

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overcome that is first, I had to take those things

00:20:28.579 –> 00:20:32.059
out of my diet completely, which is hard. You

00:20:32.059 –> 00:20:34.299
can do it right away. Some people are strong

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enough to do it, and other ones may have to do

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it more in a a slow process, you know, take,

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take if you’re eating, I don’t know, a bowl of

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ice cream every night, take it down to three

00:20:51.279 –> 00:20:54.940
a week and then slowly until it’s gone. Some

00:20:54.940 –> 00:20:57.660
of you who can handle it, take it out. Period.

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End it. That’s the best way, in my opinion, to

00:21:00.859 –> 00:21:03.359
be able to overcome it, get it out of the house,

00:21:03.380 –> 00:21:06.319
get it gone. But I know that’s not realistic

00:21:06.319 –> 00:21:08.579
for everybody. So I’m just trying to be realistic

00:21:08.579 –> 00:21:12.099
here. And that is the first thing because you

00:21:12.099 –> 00:21:15.240
need to detoxify your body. So once you get it

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all out, you’re no longer having it. Give yourself

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time to detoxify. That does mean that you may

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have to go through headaches and withdrawals

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of some sort through this. And then after that,

00:21:31.640 –> 00:21:35.940
then you’ll want to start keeping track, start

00:21:35.940 –> 00:21:38.970
paying attention. You know, once I Once you’re

00:21:38.970 –> 00:21:41.970
completely done with that detoxifying, what is

00:21:41.970 –> 00:21:44.470
it that you should keep out of your life? Kind

00:21:44.470 –> 00:21:46.950
of like me with the Reese’s, I like to have one

00:21:46.950 –> 00:21:50.809
from time to time, but it’s not something I buy.

00:21:51.890 –> 00:21:54.589
It’s maybe if we’re somewhere and there’s a little,

00:21:54.789 –> 00:21:57.809
I really like the Christmas tree ones and the

00:21:57.809 –> 00:22:01.589
pumpkin ones. They have the right, I guess, depth

00:22:01.589 –> 00:22:03.329
of peanut butter. I don’t know. I love those

00:22:03.329 –> 00:22:05.740
ones. I do not buy them. Because if they come

00:22:05.740 –> 00:22:08.440
into the house, I know where that’s taking me.

00:22:08.440 –> 00:22:11.440
So if I’m somewhere and somebody offers me one,

00:22:11.480 –> 00:22:14.779
I might take one because it’s just not very often

00:22:14.779 –> 00:22:19.019
that they’re around. But figure out what you

00:22:19.019 –> 00:22:23.299
can have and what you can’t have. And then keep

00:22:23.299 –> 00:22:25.619
it out of your life. If it’s something that you

00:22:25.619 –> 00:22:28.480
know is going to set you off and send you down,

00:22:28.700 –> 00:22:32.039
you’ve got to take it out. And it’s OK. You may

00:22:32.039 –> 00:22:35.319
have to go through some sadness. through it.

00:22:35.380 –> 00:22:38.000
I know that sounds crazy to some of you, but

00:22:38.000 –> 00:22:41.420
honestly, food becomes a relationship to us.

00:22:41.420 –> 00:22:45.839
So it’s almost like we’re giving up a relationship

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or a love of ours. And that’s okay if you have

00:22:49.420 –> 00:22:53.500
to mourn over it. Now with me being a Christian,

00:22:54.180 –> 00:22:57.740
I have to lean in, lean into God. I had to a

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lot going through my recovery in the beginning

00:23:01.819 –> 00:23:05.339
and Now, it’s just like sometimes I have to pause

00:23:05.339 –> 00:23:08.059
and just be like, OK, Lord, please help me to

00:23:08.059 –> 00:23:11.880
not do this. And then I’ll find a scripture that,

00:23:11.880 –> 00:23:17.059
you know, is about not giving in to self. And

00:23:17.059 –> 00:23:19.240
that’s what it really is doing is when we’re

00:23:19.240 –> 00:23:22.099
doing that, we’re giving in self or I read. I

00:23:22.099 –> 00:23:24.740
just remember that my body is the Holy Temple

00:23:24.740 –> 00:23:29.019
and I’m hurting it by putting these things in.

00:23:29.299 –> 00:23:33.420
So those are all kind of things that. One of

00:23:33.420 –> 00:23:36.660
the things that I did in the very beginning too,

00:23:37.740 –> 00:23:40.799
was when I did a, I wish I would have done more.

00:23:41.000 –> 00:23:43.079
I really wish I would have done more of these

00:23:43.079 –> 00:23:46.799
journal entries, but when I was first, first,

00:23:46.799 –> 00:23:54.140
first recovering, I wrote down a, I wrote down

00:23:54.140 –> 00:23:57.210
a binge of mine. When I binge, I went and wrote

00:23:57.210 –> 00:23:59.930
a letter to myself. My coach had told me to.

00:24:00.269 –> 00:24:04.109
I said, Dear Mary. So I wrote this note. I had

00:24:04.109 –> 00:24:07.029
had a huge binge, put it in a drawer, forgot

00:24:07.029 –> 00:24:10.950
about it. It sat there. Well, fast forward about

00:24:10.950 –> 00:24:13.869
six months and I had fallen into a binge. I was

00:24:13.869 –> 00:24:17.890
home alone. I don’t know why I headed to the

00:24:17.890 –> 00:24:20.910
basement. I ate a couple of granola bars or something.

00:24:21.420 –> 00:24:24.980
And then I don’t remember exactly what I ate

00:24:24.980 –> 00:24:27.880
100 percent, but it was a few old things. And

00:24:27.880 –> 00:24:30.299
I go in my office and I sit there and I start

00:24:30.299 –> 00:24:33.599
crying. And I was like, really? I did this again.

00:24:33.599 –> 00:24:35.839
I thought I had recovered because it had been

00:24:35.839 –> 00:24:39.000
months since I had had a binge. And I was just

00:24:39.000 –> 00:24:40.880
down on myself. I’m like, you’re never going

00:24:40.880 –> 00:24:43.299
to overcome this. This is just who you are. And

00:24:43.299 –> 00:24:45.880
I was just it was just devastated. Well, something.

00:24:46.180 –> 00:24:49.279
And this is I believe it was God. Something made

00:24:49.279 –> 00:24:52.160
me open up my drawer. And I see this notebook

00:24:52.160 –> 00:24:54.079
in there and I pull it out and know what was

00:24:54.079 –> 00:24:56.460
in there. And I find that letter I had wrote

00:24:56.460 –> 00:24:59.180
to myself. And what that letter said was, Dear

00:24:59.180 –> 00:25:04.700
Mary, I’ve eaten 38 granola bars and 42 cookies.

00:25:05.240 –> 00:25:08.519
My stomach is killing your my herb. My stomach

00:25:08.519 –> 00:25:12.680
is killing itself. Whatever it was. Why won’t

00:25:12.680 –> 00:25:15.839
you just love yourself? And those words to this

00:25:15.839 –> 00:25:19.500
day stick with me. Why won’t you just love yourself?

00:25:20.109 –> 00:25:23.890
Why won’t you just love yourself? And for me,

00:25:23.970 –> 00:25:26.509
that was huge because of looking at the binge

00:25:26.509 –> 00:25:29.670
I had had that day. I had eaten about two granola

00:25:29.670 –> 00:25:32.950
bars and like a bowl of cereal. So, yes, had

00:25:32.950 –> 00:25:36.210
I had a binge, I wouldn’t even say it was a binge.

00:25:36.250 –> 00:25:39.049
It was a little bit of overeating, right? I had

00:25:39.049 –> 00:25:42.750
eaten, what, 600 calories maybe compared to.

00:25:43.729 –> 00:25:47.109
38 granola bars and 42 cookies or whatever. I

00:25:47.109 –> 00:25:50.269
mean, it was tremendous amount. I think the other

00:25:50.269 –> 00:25:53.970
one had been about 6000 calories compared to

00:25:53.970 –> 00:25:57.609
maybe 600. So I guess look at those steps as

00:25:57.609 –> 00:26:01.130
you go. Don’t expect yourself to be perfect overnight.

00:26:01.589 –> 00:26:04.930
Don’t expect yourself five years from now to

00:26:04.930 –> 00:26:09.670
not have a mess up, but give yourself credit

00:26:09.670 –> 00:26:13.940
for the steps that you’re taking. I think that’s

00:26:13.940 –> 00:26:19.039
all great information that you’ve relayed. I

00:26:19.039 –> 00:26:24.779
appreciate you sharing your story and being vulnerable

00:26:24.779 –> 00:26:27.539
about it because it is a difficult thing for

00:26:27.539 –> 00:26:34.900
a lot of people to deal with. I would like to

00:26:34.900 –> 00:26:39.819
see questions. We’ll see if that happens. So

00:26:39.819 –> 00:26:42.000
like, is this something that you struggle with?

00:26:42.099 –> 00:26:43.920
Is this something that maybe you need like an

00:26:43.920 –> 00:26:46.559
accountability partner or somebody that you can

00:26:46.559 –> 00:26:51.000
be like, hey, how did you deal with this? And

00:26:51.000 –> 00:26:54.579
I’m willing to get something going. Maybe we

00:26:54.579 –> 00:26:58.720
do an email chain or social media, whatever.

00:26:59.259 –> 00:27:01.339
If this is something that you need help with,

00:27:01.640 –> 00:27:05.410
please be willing. To reach out and let me know

00:27:05.410 –> 00:27:08.549
so that I can help you because this is very difficult

00:27:08.549 –> 00:27:13.910
to do alone and you can I think you have a Facebook

00:27:13.910 –> 00:27:17.309
group still somewhere floating around of like

00:27:17.309 –> 00:27:21.289
fit ready go That you were running for a number

00:27:21.289 –> 00:27:23.990
of years that you were doing some of that when

00:27:23.990 –> 00:27:28.440
we had the website going It was years ago. But

00:27:28.440 –> 00:27:30.119
anyways, if people want to get a hold of you,

00:27:30.160 –> 00:27:32.720
they can either do that or they can reach out

00:27:32.720 –> 00:27:35.759
feedback at geekcastradio .com and I’ll forward

00:27:35.759 –> 00:27:41.160
the information along. I would also like to know

00:27:41.160 –> 00:27:44.099
what you would like covered. Please give me some

00:27:44.099 –> 00:27:48.579
input of what you would like to hear. You know,

00:27:48.579 –> 00:27:51.720
I’m not an absolute expert, but I do have quite

00:27:51.720 –> 00:27:55.240
a bit of training in nutrition and also on the

00:27:55.240 –> 00:27:57.579
fitness side. So remember, there is this fitness

00:27:57.579 –> 00:27:59.980
side. So just tell me what you would like to

00:27:59.980 –> 00:28:03.619
hear about. So I think that’s about it on this

00:28:03.619 –> 00:28:07.180
episode of Reset Your Health. So I want to thank

00:28:07.180 –> 00:28:09.180
everybody for listening to the episode. And you

00:28:09.180 –> 00:28:12.480
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transform your mind transform your heart from

00:28:51.319 –> 00:28:56.119
the shadows you’ll depart reset your health renew

00:29:17.869 –> 00:29:22.730
you need to do a path of health that’s strong

00:29:22.730 –> 00:29:29.069
and true a life that’s made brand new leave behind

00:29:29.069 –> 00:29:32.009
the doubts and fears wipe away