Eat When Hungry: Journey into Food and Fires

Eat When Hungry: Journey into Food and Fires

Learning to Avoid Garbage Fires In a Corrupt Food Environment

Dr. Lisle and I dig deeper into hunger and the complex processes that I went through to understand my hunger drive and to make lifestyle changes in myself. In doing so, I moved from fueling myself with the explosive garbage fires of junk foods to the slow-burning fire of satiation with a plant-based lifestyle. As always, Dr. Lisle brings powerful science and deep wisdom to our conversation.

Processes are important in self-discoveries, and there can be important variations to understand about our individual hunger drives. To that end, I focus heavily on sharing my own processes and my individual learning which may include different details from others.

My internal agitation around food comes from what and how much I eat. When I don’t eat right, I feel agitated and go on the prowl, which means looking for the corrupt junk foods that cause garbage fires in me — overeating and binge eating.

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Eat When Hungry: Journey into the Science of Satiation

Eat When Hungry: Journey into the Science of Satiation

Trust Our Bodies, Not Our Foods

More specifically, don’t trust the foods of the standard American diet because they will lead us astray and this episode goes deep into the answer of why that is — deep into the center of Eat When Hungry into the science of satiation.

Trusting our bodies is truly is one of my favorite messages from my latest episode of Eat When Hungry with Dr. Doug Lisle. This episode looks at my most profound personal insight of moving into plant-based living and losing half my weight:  I was not broken, and I am not fixed. 

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Satiation: Discovering a New Sensuality

Satiation: Discovering a New Sensuality

Satiation. I love this word and have only recently started to understand its meaning around my hunger drive.

Satiation is the pinnacle of what it means to fulfill the hunger drive, to eat when hungry. Satiation is the linchpin of my long-term success.

Discovering satiation was a confusing, complex process. I had lost half my weight and had maintained that weight loss for more than a year.

Yet, I was flailing and careening all over a razor blade even though the numbers on the scale held steady.

I was desperately trying not to fall into the abysses where one of my shadow selves ruled — either through the excesses of food addiction and binge eating, or the deprivations of anorexic restriction.

I had no idea how to maintain my success.

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