Are you struggling with eating habits? Do you want to end the cycle of overeating or restricting and change your relationship with food? Eating with awareness and understanding your body’s cues is the key. In this episode of “Your Life in Process” Diana and regular contributor, Dr. Judson Brewer, discuss resetting your eating habits to overcome challenging food patterns.

About Dr. Judson Brewer

Judson Brewer M.D. Ph.D. (“Dr. Jud”) is a New York Times best-selling author and thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry at the Schools of Public Health & Medicine at Brown University. He is also the executive medical director of behavioral health at Sharecare Inc. and a research affiliate at MIT. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI and EEG neurofeedback. He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits and the New York Times best-seller, Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind. Follow him on Twitter @drjudbrewer

Key Takeaways

• If you want to find a way of eating that works for your unique needs, first begin to notice your own eating patterns in order to bring awareness to the associated behaviors, emotions, and physical body sensations.
• Our relationship with food is impacted by our judgments, rules about “good vs. bad” foods, our food-related values, and our societal body culture.
• Take a compassionate perspective with yourself around your eating habits. You struggle with your eating because you care about your health, body, and life.

Related Resources

• Download Your Daily Practice for this episode
• Find out what kind of Striver you are and get your free Skillful Striving Toolkit
• Learn More About Dr. Jud
• Read Dr. Jud’s books: The Craving Mind and Unwinding Anxiety
• Download the Eat Right Now App on Apple Store
• Download the Eat Right Now App on Google Play
• Learn your eating habits using Dr. Jud’s habit mapper.
• Listen to Diana and Elizabeth Rickter discuss scientific self-help
• Learn More about Insight LA

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Remember when you become psychologically flexible, you become free.

Episode Segments

• [00:00] Introduction
• [00:23] Upcoming Events With Diana
• [02:52] About Dr. Judson Brewer
• [03:37] Why Eat Right Now
• [07:29] How Do You Know What And How Much To Eat?
• [13:37] What To Track When It Comes To Eating
• [16:07] The Pleasure Plateau
• [21:20] Dr. Jud’s Relationship With Food
• [24:07] The Link Between Body Shame and Overeating
• [29:52] Feeding Yourself With Compassion
• [35:52] The Obstacle Becomes The Way
• [36:08] The Eat Right Now Book
• [40:57] Three Qualities To Bring To Eating
• [42:07] Your Daily Practice