Jan 21, 2019
Never Binge Again - Glenn Livingston, Ph.D.
Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. is a veteran psychologist and was the longtime CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm which has serviced several Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. Glenn has sold $30,000,000 of marketing consulting services over the course of his career. You may have seen his (or his company’s) previous work, theories, and research in major periodicals like The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Indiana Star-Ledger, The NY Daily News, American Demographics, or any of the other major media outlets you see on this page. You may also have heard him on ABC, WGN, and/or CBS radio, or UPN TV.
The Epiphany
Disillusioned by what traditional psychology had to
offer overweight and/or food obsessed individuals, Dr.
Livingston spent several decades researching the nature of
bingeing and overeating via work with his own patients AND a
self-funded research program with more than 40,000
participants. Most important, however, was his own personal
journey out of
obesity and food prison to a normal, healthy weight and a much
more lighthearted relationship with food.
Overweight Epidemic
Most people in the United States are, to say the least slightly overweight. Many of us are overweight through no fault of our own. The food we consume is not the natural variety intended for us on this planet. Due to the ever-growing population, we are bombarded with a synthetic version of the natural foods to feed ourselves.
Each year adults across the globe make New Year's resolutions to lose weight. It's very hard to win the battle of the bulge when it comes to food choices and health. Many of us are addicted to the food that is intended to keep us alive and healthy. Frequently the food we consume is detrimental to our long-term wellbeing. We consumed far too many calories as the food is packed with calories but not much nutrition.
The Podcast Interview
Glenn Livingston Ph.D. is the author of never binge again. Glenn Livingston took it upon himself to decipher why binge eating was a hard addiction to break for many people. On the billionaire lifestyle podcast, Glenn spoke of how as a young man it was very easy to stay in shape and eat whatever he liked. Progressing in age Glenn found it harder and harder to lose weight or keep the weight off his body. His food addiction of choice was chocolate. After performing some research he found the root cause was in his childhood but still he could not break this addiction.
Feelings and food
Glenn Livingston is the product of a family of professional therapist. In his own words if you ask a therapist to solve a problem they're going to ask the subject in question how it feels. Glenn Livingston found his food addiction was so severe at times, it hampered his attention to work prosperously. Upon identifying the problem a food addiction Glenn began his research to find out why he could not control his food urges.
During his research, Glenn found our reptilian brain can override our sense of logic for choices to feed our pleasure centers. In many cases please is found in the form of food. There are situations which cause us to act differently than our norm. He found emotional states can trigger food preference addiction.
In essence with the type of food available, we have been trained away from natural whole food. The replacement for the natural foods are the industrial process foods available in every grocery store across the globe in industrialized nations. During our interview, Glenn summed up modern food as a new kind of crack.
Other revelations included:
- Lonely or broken heated people overindulge with Chocolate.
- Stressed at work individuals overindulge with Crunchy salty snacks.
- Soft chewy foods indicate stress at home.
To get all the information Glenn provided please listen to the podcast.