Ep. #3: Overdesire and Urges

I used to really overdesire food and have a hard time dealing with my urges for it. This was so hard for me that I even started to fear food and situations where there would be a lot of it – especially things like family parties. Until I figured out how to respond to my urges and slowly change my overdesire, food was an obstacle rather than a neutral circumstance. 

We can learn to not fear food or overdesire it. We have to work around the messages we get from culture that encourage us to overeat, and we have to rewire our brains to handle urges, but both of things are completely possible for you. And a key step in this process is understanding how our brain works, especially in relation to rewards like food. 

Today we’re talking about how to handle overdesire for food and the urges that come up around eating. I’ll share some of my experiences with these feelings and how I’ve slowly but surely reprogrammed my brain so that I no longer overdesire food.

And I have two more transformational questions for you to ask yourself after today’s episode:

1. What is something that you used to desire that you no longer do?
2. When you don’t eat something that you have an urge for, what thoughts come up for you?

I am so excited to be bringing you this show, and to celebrate the launch of the podcast I’m giving away $50 Amazon gift cards to 12 lucky listeners.

What You’ll Discover:

• How fear used to come up for me around food.
• How overdesire and urges work together to keep us overweight.
• Why culture teaches us that it’s more normal to overeat than to say no to extra food.
• Why we can feel deprived if we immediately reject an urge that comes up when we want food.
• One of my favorite brain hacks for allowing urges to arise without having to say yes or no to them immediately.