Dr. Jason Fung

Well, you're just bored, right?

You're not hungry, but you're bored, so you want a little dopamine hit or something.

You want to feel better, so you have the cookies right there.

It takes super willpower to not eat the cookie versus the 1970s, where it would take a lot of willpower.

You'd have to get up, leave the room, go downstairs, get into your car, find somewhere that sold cookies, and then drive back.

Would anybody really do that?

So here it is, the environment has basically set you up for failure, right?

And that's just a little mini example, but it's everywhere, right?

You go to the hospital even, like there's food everywhere, right?

The coffee shop is not a coffee shop anymore.

It's got like a lot of other stuff in it, right?

And now it's like, it's not just coffee, it's sandwiches, it's this, it's that, it's this, it's that, right?

And then you combine that with all the food noise.

So other places, like other countries don't allow that same sort of do whatever you want and eat wherever you want.

And that makes it easy to follow because of that sort of social modeling, right?

Everybody's doing the same thing.

So, hey, it's not a struggle, right?

You're not consciously trying to, right?

The difference is that you're not exerting willpower to not eat all the time, right?

Because you have to exert willpower to eat, right?