The Upper Limit: Why Success Makes You Nervous And Then Makes You Snack
About this episode
This episode explores the psychological reasons behind food cravings following success and how to manage the discomfort of change.
Something good happens. Somebody notices you've lost weight, or the scale finally moves, and twenty minutes later you're standing at the vending machine with no memory of deciding to walk there. That's not weakness, and it's not self-sabotage in the way you've been taught to understand it. Your brain runs a guess about who you are, and success contradicts the guess. This episode explains what happens next, why food is the fastest way for your brain to close the gap, and how to hold the discomfort long enough for the guess to update instead. The discomfort near success is the sound of the change taking hold. Once you can hear it that way, it stops being a warning. In this episode Why the trouble almost never arrives on the hard days The Relapse Prophecy, and who installed it Your brain as a guessing machine, and what the missing stair has to do with your weight The two ways a brain closes a gap, and why one of them is sitting in your pantry What's actually inside the Identity Thermostat The Dictionary Update: four moves for holding a new self-image steady Why deflecting a compliment deletes the evidence you need most A note on the science This episode…
People in this episode
Host: Rick Taylar
Topics covered
- success
- self-sabotage
- weight loss
- identity
- predictive processing
- behavior change
Keywords
- success
- weight loss
- self-image
- identity thermostat
- predictive processing
- behavior
- relapse prophecy
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