Compulsive Eating - It's JUST a wire! Just dismantle it!

• Obesity

We call it many things. Emotional overeating, comfort eating, binge eating, sugar addiction, choc-oholic, and then the mean statements about the downstream effects, the love handles, the chubby cheeks, the loosened belt buckle. What is it REALLY? It's a wire. That wire is a "survival circuit" and if you break that circuit and, by the way, get your whole brain to be wired at 1 so you aren't always tripping that circuit, then there is peace at last. Weight loss is nearly meaningless, because if that survival circuit that is triggered the overeating isn't clipped, then another excess takes hold, and we are not free. When did you go to a commercial weight program or a diet doctor and hear that your job was to turn off the drive to overeat, to stop wanting it? If they told you that, you might have laughed or may not have believed them. When I had one of those realizations that we have when driving (probably too close to the van in front of me) or languishing in the shower (I was driving), that these circuits were wired at Brain State 5, when we are so stressed that unless you know that and target it, you will have to live with it. When a circuit is encoded in stress - of betrayal, abandonment, physical pain, metabolic upset -- it is stored behind the curtain. We can't access it because when we arouse it we have to be in Brain State 5. In that state our mind turns off! So we become prisoners of our own circuits. In EBT we are rewiring them! Our new programs (short term Boulders and Peas or Life at 1 - for weight loss), you will learn those skills. Right now I hope you will think about those circuits, the ones that we defend and don't know what to do about, because we really can't even see it, because it was wired at Brain State 5.