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Georgie Fear and Dr. Glenn Livingston discuss cravings, binge eating, and practical tools for managing eating patterns.

Stop Arguing With Your Cravings: A Conversation with Dr. Glenn Livingston This episode is a rare guest conversation on Breaking Up With Binge Eating . Georgie is joined by Dr. Glenn Livingston, psychologist, author, and creator of Defeat Your Cravings , for a wide-ranging conversation about binge eating, cravings, food rules, self-trust, and why insight alone often isn’t enough to change an eating pattern. Glenn shares his own history with compulsive overeating, including how years of therapy and self-understanding helped him become kinder to himself, but did not automatically stop the binge eating. Together, Georgie and Glenn explore why emotional pain can be part of the picture without being the whole cause, how the brain can use old wounds as justification for continuing a pattern, and why clear lines or “guardrails” can sometimes reduce the mental negotiation that keeps cravings alive. They also talk about the modern food environment, hyper-palatable foods, intermittent fasting, perfectionism, self-forgiveness, and why it is often easier to prevent cravings upstream than to fight them once they are roaring. Glenn offers practical tools for identifying the thoughts that try to…

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