What is Normal Eating?

For more details on this podcast visit: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/50 Episode 50: Take charge of your NEW normal! Blog Description: When they get frustrated, many people on a weight loss journey will say "I just want to eat normally!" In today's podcast, Marchelle and I ask the question: what exactly do we mean when we say we want to eat normally? What exactly is normal eating, anyway? It's a fascinating question and one each of us needs to seriously think about! Episode Highlights: 5:44 So here's the interesting thing about normal. We're hardwired to conform to whatever our society tells us is normal. So when we do what everybody else does, we are part of that group. And when we're part of a group, we survive, we have a primal instinct to survive and to conform, to group standards of behavior. 13:19 The corporate food giants are out there trying to get us to desire their products so that we'll purchase and consume them. They study our brains very carefully so they know just how to trigger that desire by putting just the right amount of sugar in their food to trigger a dopamine release. And they call this the bliss point, and they put chemicals in the food to give it the right mouth feel. They've basically hacked our primitive brains by engineering their foods to create as much desire as possible so that they can reap the profit. 24:06 How would you define normal? If you took back control of that word for yourself and found it for yourself, what would you be eating in your new normal? How would you be managing your emotions without food or alcohol? Full transcription of this podcast: https://www.journeybeyondweightloss.com/blog/50 This episode was produced and marketed by the Get Known Podcast Service: www.getknownstrategy.com/podcast-service