Dr. Layne Norton
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Because it makes you so sensitive to the behavior that anytime you get close to it, you're just going to be black or white, all or nothing.
So – and then I said, OK, what's the antecedent to this?
OK.
You have a stressful day at work.
You get home.
There's not foods readily available that would be more conducive to your goals.
So I was like, OK.
Hey, man, not everybody is like this, but I'm like you have means meal prep service, right?
Like I'm not saying you have to eat these every meal, but like at least having them available.
So if you're home, you're hungry, you have this available.
And then he would end up night eating as well.
So I said, okay, lock your door, your bedroom door on the inside so that when you're going out to the kitchen, you have to unlock it and then put a little – like a lock.
Put a little lock on the fridge or something like that or whatever you tend to get into.
Of course, it's not going to keep you out.
But a lot of times those behaviors, a lot of people like to think that their behaviors are all choices and it's not.
We're on autopilot for so many things.
And just that moment of mindfulness of having to actually like enter in a code or something like that, sometimes that's a game changer for people.
And I even said to him, hey, if you have a stressful day at work, when you're driving on your way home and
Say out loud, man, I just had a stressful day.
This would be a situation where I'd be more likely to binge eat.