N4L 091: "Never Binge Again" by Dr. Glenn Livingston

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SUMMARY

A formerly food-obsessed psychologist, Dr. Glenn Livingston delivers his free book, Never Binge Again: Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person. (Stop Overeating and Binge Eating and Stick to the Food Plan of Your Choice). Borne out of his own disillusionment with traditional psychological approaches to overweight and/or food-obsessed individuals, the book cracks the code on binge eating. Contrary to the popular thought that focuses on healing and self-love, Livingston proposes a different approach. After spending several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating and self-funding a research program with more than 40,000 participants, Livingston has finally found a way to help us cage the “food monster.” Most importantly, his own personal journey out of obesity and food prison has led him to a normal, healthy weight and a much more lighthearted relationship with food.

KEY POINTS

• “Exercise bulimia” = purging by working out really hard
• Everyone could blame bingeing on some trouble or life trauma.
• Find the voice of justification, and disempower it.
• Control of the middle-brain impulses; take charge and assert superiority.
• “Pig” = reptilian brain; “pig slop” = unhealthy food; “pig squeals” = powerful arguments filled with persuasive lies to get us to overeat
• Your personal food plan should include when you eat foods: never, always, conditional, and sometimes.
• Written laws make it possible for people to get along in society. Similarly, we need to write our “laws” for interacting with food.
• Like an archer aiming for a bullseye, we need to commit to a specific target before eating.
• Dependency on others to police our eating doesn’t work and leads to failed diets.
• The deprivation trap: what don’t and do get by not eating certain foods
• Taking control and deciding the kind of person we want to be is at the center of our personalized food plan.
• This approach to eating is a codification of common sense.

QUOTES FROM LIVINGSTON

• “I figured there must be a hole in my heart, and if I could figure out how to fill the hole in my heart, then I could figure out how to fill the hole in my stomach.”
• “I went about trying to love myself thin.”
• “Ask yourself, ‘Do you eat beyond your own best judgment, and would you like to take control over that?’”
• “Ambiguity is the Pig’s best friend.”
• “Commit with perfection, and forgive yourself with dignity.”
• “The way to get started with this is to think about the single worst trigger-food behavior that dogs you, and then make one rule.”

Get a free copy of Never Binge Again along with starter templates for developing food plans and recorded coaching sessions, OR go to Amazon to buy a print copy by clicking the link below:

BUY Never Binge Again: Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person. Stop Overeating and Binge Eating and Stick to the Food Plan of Your Choice!

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