Defeat Your Cravings - Self Mastery with Glenn Livingston

In this #podcsat Dr. Glenn Livingston helps you understand why you make the decisions you make and out to get better control of your habits.

RESOURCES:
Download the book "Defeat Your Cravings"
https://drhaley.com/dyc

Visit the Website Defeat Your Cravings
https://www.defeatyourcravings.com/

Blog Post:
https://drhaley.com/self-mastery/

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Podcast Sample
00:37 Introduction
01:45 About the Book "Defeat Your Cravings"
05:34 What is a "Lead Magnet"?
08:08 The days when we could get away with eating anything
09:45 The uncontrollable obsession with food that interfered with counseling patients
10:54 The journey to figure out what was wrong and so many failures
11:44 The major impacts to shift Dr. Livingston's paradigm
12:15 What changed his mind - the things he learned while consulting for "big food"
13:18 The non-psychological but rather external force that drives our caloric consumption
14:28 The brain as a "calorie acquisition machine".
16:23 The reptilian brain's decision process vs. mammalian vs cortex
19:07 How Dr. Livingston overcame his obsession
21:48 Why do we have such strong cravings?
23:08 food cues and a story of Thag and how food cues were created
25:26 Why the brain is reluctant to let go of food cues
26:03 How to make a food cue dormant
27:45 Techniques to decrease the need for willpower to get through the difficult beginning of breaking a habit
28:26 What makes the reptilian brain supersede the more dominant cortex?
30:40 The promise made on Dr. Livingston's one page about controlling cravings forever
32:42 Dr. Livingston explains why it will work and the promises are not too good to be true.
35:42 What does the "trip wire" do?
39:10 How to disempower the reptilian brain - the power of breath
41:00 The power of a rational refutation
43:25 How we got programmed by "Big Food" and "Big Pharma"
47:30 This is what Glenn Livingston learned from his study regarding people's worst cravings
50:02 This is why Dr. Livingston got hooked on chocolate
52:44 What his favorite testimonials are about and how it doesn't have so much to do about food.
54:13 How many books have you written and where should I start?
54:52 What causes night time overeating
55:22 What is in it for you? (I go first...)
57:40 a description of the the freebies and what is available for purchase

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