07/29/2026
Question for you. What is your brain rehearsing most with food?
Think about it: Actors ONLY rehearse the character they're going to play. They don't rehearse the villain to prepare for the hero's role.
They rehearse the one part they're actually going to play repeatedly, until it's automatic.
Your brain works the same way.
Whatever you "rehearse", in your thoughts, your food rules, your self-talk ... that's the role you're training yourself to play.
In yesterday's podcast episode, I talked about how for YEARS I obsessed over sugar. Doing sugar-free challenges, binges on sugar, planning when I was going to stop eating it, recovering from eating it...
My brain was rehearsing SUGAR constantly. I couldn't stop thinking about it.
Yet, what I wanted was the opposite.
What I truly wanted more than anything, was to be one of those people who didn't care about sugar (or at least to be able to have a simple bite of something without it turning into a 5-day nonstop sugar binge.)
Yet I wasn't rehearsing to become that person.
If you want to be the kind of person who genuinely sees food as a non-issue, you need to start rehearsing as that person.
That's what will open your mind to new ways of thinking, which (when repeated) creates your new normal, where sugar is no biggie.
That's exactly what happened to me, and hundreds of others.
Now those exact same cookies that used to trigger me to binge nonstop, no longer enter my mind. And even if they do, I still don't want them, or care!
This single principle changed my life. If I could only teach you one thing, this is it.
If you want to understand this more deeply, go watch yesterday's podcast episode on the Outgrow Binge Eating Podcast.
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