Couch Talk W/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

In this week’s episode I had an enlightening conversation with Marc David from the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Marc shares his insight into your relationship with the experience of eating. Willpower is not the only factor contributing to failed dieting,  there is a biological and psychological influence to your eating behaviors and the first step to breaking free from that is awareness!  Marc encourages you to recognize where your bad eating habits started and points out how common it is that these habits start in adolescence. Sometimes, the associations you make when you are a child end up  hijacking your impulses as you experience stress. If you are always rushing through dinner and never pausing to enjoy your food you subconsciously will crave more and more based off these associations of food being an escape from everything that is stressful in your life..  Marc explains that digestion begins in the brain, it is the anticipation, the full experience from thought, to cooking, to sitting down to