(Notes taken from FB Live Aug 21 2018 ~ Click to Watch)
Hello good morning! This morning I am thinking about the wonderful life changing piece of information I got earlier this year which launched me into this fascinating world of health and fitness. I was listening to Drew Manning’s fit2fat2fit podcasts and he interviewed this fellow Dr Glenn Livingston. I was captivated and for the first time really felt like I could do it – become healthy – for real!
When he described the lizard brain it made so much sense. Our lizard brain is our most primitive part of our brain and is where all pleasurable substance is craved. When it looks at something there is no love there. It asks Do I eat it? mate with it? kill it?
It is in that moment where if I can distance for a moment, the other parts of my brain can kick in and start to reason and make decisions. The trick for me is how to create that gap.
He talked about how he was a binge eater and he chose to call his lizard brain his inner pig and his weakness was chocolate. He made a rule that he would never have chocolate on a weekday again. And that chocolate on a weekday was pig slop. So if he heard his pig squealing that chocolate is made from cocoa beans which grows on a plant therefore chocolate is a vegetable, he would say to himself “well I don’t eat pig slop and I don’t take direction from farm animals.” Brilliant! This changed my life in so many ways. I did a scan of all the areas in my life where I felt something beyond me dictating and controlling I understood in that moment that I was in control. I had a mechanism to help in those moments where I was struggling to maintain my goals. I don’t call it my inner pig but I do recognize it as my lizard brain and it’s only interest is getting into that pleasure at any expense.
I am so glad I remembered this story because it has reenergized my resolve! There are a couple other major points that I will share on a different day!
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