Join Jon and Will from Men Talking Mindfulness as they interview the anti-diet, sugar-free warrior, author, and podcaster, Molly Carmel!
Learn about the Breaking Up with Sugar book and how harmful sugar is - for your weight, your skin, your heart, your mind, your sleep, your nervous system and much more!
Links from discussion:
Info on retreat: https://imiloainstitute.com/retreat/reflect-reset-rewire/
Molly's podcast: What You're Craving. https://podfollow.com/1553369318
Molly's book: https://mollycarmel.com/book
Molly on social @mollycarmel
Timestamps
01:13 Welcome to the Show
03:40 Introducing Molly Carmel, author of Breaking Up With Sugar
06:45 Jon leads Opening Grounding Practice
09:00 Mindfulness and joy
11:30 Molly’s Journey as a “Wounded Healer”
19:30 Men and “Diet Addiction”
21:00 Sugar is an abusive relationship
22:30 We have to have a relationship with the food we eat
25:00 Cognitive Dissonance keeps us from making the decisions we know we should
27:30 Sugar is causing 2 addictions - substance and process
33:30 The Science of Food Addiction
34:45 The Shame/Diet Cycle
35:45 You have to find a solution as big as your problem
41:00 We do what’s easiest for us
44:00 The Bliss Point is what’s messing us up.
45:45 Finishing your food isn’t disrespectful
48:00 Sugar is not a solution
51:50 Artificial Sweetener is destroying your taste and your gut
55:00 Not everyone has a food addiction
58:00 Relapse is a part of the story.
1:00:00 Molly’s 3-C’s: Compassion, Curious, Corrective Action
1:07:15 Willpower is only a 15-minute intervention
1:11:00 Why Mindfulness is key to moving forward
1:15:00 Will leads Closing Grounding Practice
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