How can you use neuroscience to break the habit of eating when you are not hungry? In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer shares a three-step method to rewire your brain and relationship with food.

• Dr. Jud’s thoughts on GLP-1 agonists
• Dr. Jud leads Diana through his three-step model
• The “bigger better offer” than eating when not hungry
• The power of self-compassion for changing your eating habits

Listen to this episode to learn tips and strategies for breaking eating habits that do not serve your well-being and how self-compassion can help.

About Jud Brewer

Jud Brewer MD PhD (“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 25 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. Dr. Brewer founded MindSciences (which merged with Sharcecare Inc. in 2020) to move his discoveries of clinical evidence behind mindfulness for anxiety, eating, smoking and other behavior change into the hands of consumers (see www.drjud.com for more information). He is the author of The Craving Mind, Unwinding Anxiety, and The Hunger Habit. Follow him on twitter @judbrewer.

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