Cold Turkey (There are very few humans who can go cold turkey with things they abuse/overuse in their life)

Sleep, Cope, Trigger, Move

There is no Binge Eating Disorder (BED) or food addiction. You are merely addicted to processed food. Some people have been diagnosed with BED and will fight me to death on this thought. However, it is a hill I am willing to die on. If BED was a real thing, then why don’t people that primarily eat whole foods and limit their intake of processed foods complain of having BED? Ask a person coming off of a binge what they ate, and very rarely will fruits and vegetables be included in their inventory. “I had a burger and fries. Then when I got home I had some cookies. Then there were doughnuts, so I had some of those. I wasn’t full, so I had a couple bowls of sugar-sweetened cereal. When I have something sweet, then I need something salty so I had some cheese puffs. When I have something salty, then I need something sweet so I had a few ice cream bars.” You get the picture. Many people cannot remember what they ate during a “binge”, but they can tell you if they ate something considered healthy during said binge.

When was the last time you heard a food addict say, “I went to the farmer’s market and bought as many in-season fruits and vegetables as I could buy and proceeded to eat all of them in one sitting”? You will never hear that because the hold food has on you is from the overprocessing of food and not a chemical imbalance in your brain chemistry. I guarantee that if you increased your consumption of whole foods – foods the way nature intended them to be with little to no processing – your desire for processed foods will diminish.

GLP-1s are only for people who need to lose more than 100 pounds. Anyone who needs to lose less than 100 pounds should focus on exercise and cooking in addition to the types of food they consume. Of course, the drug companies will disagree with me on this one, but it is my personal philosophy. If you feel you need a drug to help you lose weight, then it is no concern of mine. I feel that instead of using a drug to get rid of “food noise”, you should understand why that noise is present in the first place.

Amino Acid Profile vs. Total Protein Amount (If you are not an elite athlete or heavy endurance athlete, then you do not need as much protein as you think you need)

Personal Standard, Sense of Accomplishment, Something bigger than yourself, Weight loss for Vanity