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Hello and welcome. I am

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very, very excited to be sharing

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something that I've been working

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on. For a while this is really a

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result of years of, of hard work

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on binge eating and working with

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people who come through my

0:59

program and working as well and

1:02

through it myself, as well as

1:02

working, researching and

1:07

learning more about binge

1:07

eating, as I've finally been

1:10

able to categorize the different

1:10

types of binge eating because I

1:13

always wondered why the industry

1:13

tends to look at binge eating as

1:18

just binge eating. And that's it, you're either struggling with binge eating, and you're

1:19

not. And I've always thought

1:22

that it shouldn't just have to

1:22

be about that is there must be

1:26

different subsets of binge

1:26

eating. Because based on what

1:30

I've learned through my work

1:30

through working with people is

1:32

not everybody binges for the

1:32

same reason is there's different

1:36

causes contributing to the binge

1:36

eating. And so to treat two

1:39

people who struggle with binge

1:39

eating, the exact same way is to

1:42

do do them both of this service

1:42

really, unless one gets lucky

1:47

and just matches the

1:47

intervention or the approach

1:49

that they recommend happens to

1:49

align with the with the binge

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eating that the person struggles, the type of binge eating the person struggles

1:54

with. So I'm going to be sharing

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four different types of binge

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eating that I've grouped based

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on my work. Unlike personality

2:00

tests, and different

2:03

personalities, one is not one type, or nothing

2:05

at all. So you're not just like

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Type A or type B, and that's it.

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And this is where it becomes it

2:13

can be a bit complicated,

2:13

unfortunately, is that one can

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be a combination of all

2:15

different types of binge eating.

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So one could be type A, B, C, D,

2:18

for example, I'm going to give

2:22

them specific names, as I

2:22

started discussing shortly. But

2:25

one could be type a type B, or

2:25

type ABCD, or type C type D,

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there's really, it's not because

2:30

one is a certain type means that

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they're not other types. So

2:33

that's unlike a personality

2:35

test, where one is predominantly

2:35

like introverted or extroverted,

2:38

for example, right, that's

2:38

different with binge eating is

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that one could be more than one

2:41

type. And I also think that one

2:45

could have a different

2:45

percentage of how that type of

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binge eating is prevalent or

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dominant in their life, is

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there's a different percentage

2:53

there. And that's, that is what

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is kind of similar to

2:57

personality tests. So if you've

2:59

ever taken a personality test,

2:59

and you you, specifically the

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Myers Briggs one and it will

3:04

give you the percentage of

3:07

introversion extroversion, right? Like you're let's say 20%, introverted or 80%, etc.

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With the different types of

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binge eating is one could be

3:14

60% 50% 20 80%, etc, I've type A

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or type B, type C, type D,

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depending on the different

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causes that contribute to it,

3:23

and how prevalent it is in their

3:27

life as in how dominant that

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type of binge eating is, how

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much it how much it's expressed,

3:30

the frequency, the intensity,

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how long they struggled with it,

3:33

and whatnot. So let me start by

3:38

talking about the four different

3:38

types of binge eating. And as

3:41

you start to learn more about

3:41

them, start to reflect a little

3:45

bit and see if potentially, you

3:45

belong in one of these, or

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multiple of these, and most

3:49

people are combination of

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multiple of these. I also want

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to share that i will i am

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working on a quiz right now that

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will help people kind of

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discover what percentage they're

4:00

binge eating. They're different

4:05

than binge eating types are and

4:05

which ones who struggle with the

4:07

most. This might take a little

4:07

bit of time just because I want

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to get it right. And the

4:11

specific questions are really

4:14

important to get right. And so

4:14

I'm devoting a lot of time on

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that this project I'm working

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on. So let's get started on the

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different for the four different

4:20

types of binge eating. And as we

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go along, I'll talk about what

4:23

is the main characteristics of

4:27

that type, and what the

4:27

challenges for them lie in so

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that we know what to focus on.

4:31

So we can overcome that type of

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binge eating. The first one is

4:34

very, very common, is the

4:39

emotional eater. And the

4:39

emotional eater usually is more

4:44

best described by eating to

4:44

avoid certain emotions. So

4:48

whenever there's negative

4:48

emotions prevalent like anxiety,

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depression, sadness, shame,

4:51

disgust, etc, or anything like

4:54

that, it will trigger a bit so

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we're eating to avoid the

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negative emotions. And the

4:57

negative emotions don't have to

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be a result of something we

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experienced, right? So many

5:04

people think well negative

5:04

emotions is that say I go to

5:07

work and my boss says something

5:07

that makes me feel anxious or

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I'm at home and my partner is

5:11

doing something that makes me

5:14

feel upset. And so that causes

5:14

me to be upset. No, sometimes

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negative emotions is directly a

5:18

result of our own thought

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process of what we are thinking

5:21

and how our mind looks like. And

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so if our mind is almost like a

5:24

prison constantly saying things

5:27

to make us feel anxious, and

5:27

that is very common. For those

5:32

who struggle with Body Dysmorphia is something that I struggled with for a long long

5:34

time. It you know that it is

5:38

very easy to get triggered into

5:38

having negative thoughts about

5:41

yourself and that is enough to

5:41

trigger that negative emotion.

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So the the trigger doesn't have

5:44

to be external, you could be

5:47

having a great day, everything

5:47

is good, nobody is bothering

5:50

you. But that internal narrative

5:50

is

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causing negative emotions that

5:53

lead to a bench after and what

5:57

would happen is you'd feel that

5:57

anxiety come in or a wave of

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sadness or depression coming

6:01

about and your first thought

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would be binge eating. And that's your way of kind of getting out of it. The emotional

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eater is an avoidant type.

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avoidant type means they avoid

6:09

their binge eating is their

6:12

binge eating is rooted in the as

6:12

a means to avoid the emotion

6:17

itself, or what they're

6:17

experiencing in their body. And

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so that is one of the most

6:19

common ones I come across the

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challenges for the emotional

6:22

eater is to learn how to deal

6:26

with their emotions, and how to

6:26

prevent unnecessary negative

6:29

emotions as to prevent emotional

6:29

overwhelm. So let me break that

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down for a second. How to deal

6:33

with the emotion is a matter of

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trying to understand our

6:36

negative emotions and try to

6:39

learn how to deal with them, and

6:39

work with them as opposed to run

6:42

away from them and avoid them,

6:42

or start to kind of look at them

6:47

as a source of stress and a

6:47

source of discomfort, we need to

6:51

gain a need to be friend, and

6:51

basically to be friends with our

6:53

negative emotions. They come

6:53

from our body, therefore they

6:56

serve a purpose. So

6:56

unfortunately, we grew up in a

6:58

society where negative emotions

6:58

are completely shunned. And

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they're completely downplayed.

7:01

And a big example of that is the

7:05

huge amount of medications being

7:05

prescribed to reduce negative

7:09

emotions like anxiety, depression, and not that I'm against medications, by the way,

7:11

because I do think medications

7:15

can provide some people with

7:15

relief and give them a window of

7:19

working on themselves. But I

7:19

think that the tendency to

7:22

prescribe medication, whenever

7:22

somebody is feeling negative,

7:26

feeling anxious, the moment

7:26

they're feeling anxious, we give

7:28

them medication, and we numb it

7:28

is sending the signal that

7:31

anxiety, sadness, all this

7:31

stuff, all these negative

7:33

emotions are bad to experience,

7:33

they're not normal to

7:36

experience. And that is

7:36

incorrect, negative emotions are

7:39

normal. So that's the first part

7:39

is learning how to deal with our

7:42

emotions. And the second part is

7:42

how to prevent unnecessary

7:45

negative emotions. So

7:45

unnecessary negative emotions

7:48

are emotions, we trigger because

7:48

of certain thought processes

7:52

that we have that are incorrect.

7:52

So for example, if I look in the

7:55

mirror, and I start giving my

7:55

body a hard time, and I say,

7:57

find all the reasons why I don't

7:57

look good, and why I'm not

7:59

worthy, and why I'm not good

7:59

enough, then I start to trigger

8:02

a lot of internal, a lot of

8:02

negative emotions, because I've

8:05

just attacked my body myself

8:05

using my own thoughts. And that

8:09

is unnecessary, it's

8:09

unnecessary, because it is

8:13

something within our control and

8:13

doesn't do us well at all,

8:16

there's no upside to attacking

8:16

our body. Unfortunately, it's an

8:19

automatic pattern that we don't

8:19

really have control over. And so

8:23

to learn how to be in control of

8:23

it, and to reverse it, is one of

8:26

the mains way, one of the main

8:26

ways to prevent emotional

8:29

overwhelm, so that we're not

8:29

always having to deal with

8:32

negative emotions. Because

8:32

ideally, we wouldn't have to

8:35

deal with negative emotions all

8:35

the time, we will be dealing

8:38

with negative emotions when they

8:38

arise, because of a adjust cause

8:44

or a reason. So for example, if

8:44

somebody is crossing boundaries

8:48

with me, then feeling anxious is

8:48

to my benefit, or right to

8:50

feeling a bit angry is to my

8:50

benefit. If somebody is not

8:55

treating me well, or if my

8:55

partner is not treating me well,

8:58

and I'm experiencing some

8:58

sadness, and that that is to my

9:00

benefit, again, I have a right

9:00

to feel that way. But if I'm

9:03

constantly making myself feel

9:03

bad, because of what I'm saying

9:06

to myself, or because of what

9:06

I'm interpreting that how I'm

9:09

interpreting things around me in

9:09

a way that is untrue, then I

9:12

start to add unnecessary

9:12

negative emotions. And that can

9:14

be overwhelming because then

9:14

when in a constant state of

9:17

negative emotions, so that's the

9:17

emotional eater. Number one, the

9:20

emotional eater, we're going to

9:20

talk call it Type Type A

9:23

emotional eater. The second one,

9:23

type B is the stress eater. And

9:27

the stress eater is also an

9:27

avoidant type. And it's an

9:30

avoidant type because it is

9:30

trying to avoid stress. So in

9:34

the moment, the stress crosses a

9:34

certain a certain threshold. And

9:37

it's different from person to

9:37

person, it's not exactly the

9:39

same, but the moment it crosses

9:39

a certain threshold, then that

9:42

person starts to think of binge

9:42

eating and wants to eat so that

9:45

they can avoid that stress. And

9:45

so stress is really is different

9:50

than emotions is that it's

9:50

marked by the body's body's

9:54

response to certain triggers or

9:54

things happening in our world,

9:59

in our in our in our life,

9:59

whether it's external or

10:02

internal our mind by the way,

10:02

that causes us to be in a kind

10:06

of like an tensed up spot, a bit

10:06

tense and a bit kind of, on the

10:10

on the alert a little bit. So

10:10

it's a strict kind of like a

10:13

distressed place. So the body is in a when the body

10:15

is in a constant state of

10:18

stress, the body's cortisol is

10:18

high. So cortisol is the stress

10:23

hormone. And when it's too high,

10:23

what happens is we become really

10:27

fatigued and the body is

10:27

overworked. Even though it

10:30

doesn't have to be overworked.

10:30

It doesn't have to be in that

10:33

constant state of high stress.

10:33

The problem is we don't know how

10:35

to bring our stress down, and

10:35

we're constantly adding stress

10:38

to the body. And this is very

10:38

common for people who struggle

10:42

with traumatic experiences in

10:42

the past. or some forms of PTSD

10:45

because their body is in a

10:45

constant state of stress

10:48

constantly in that state of

10:48

elevated tension prepared

10:51

preparing itself to do anything.

10:51

And that can be difficult

10:53

because then it's never at a

10:53

point where it takes a break.

10:56

And ideally, the stress cycle,

10:56

and this is something that I

10:59

really focus on in my programs

10:59

is the stress cycle is something

11:02

that requires is a requires a completion. So

11:05

completion basically means that

11:09

the first half of it is the

11:09

stress being elevated. And the

11:12

second half of it is us bringing

11:12

that stress down. If the stress

11:15

is constantly constantly

11:15

elevated, and we don't know how

11:18

to bring the stress down, then

11:18

the cycle is not completed. And

11:21

our body is too overworked,

11:21

specifically, the kidneys, the

11:23

adrenal glands are constantly in

11:23

a high state of functioning

11:27

overworking, and it becomes

11:27

fatigued. And so we get to a

11:30

point where like we're really

11:30

burnt out that is burnout is

11:32

when we're too stressed out. But

11:32

the moment we experience certain

11:36

a certain threshold of stress,

11:36

stress eaters will find

11:39

themselves eating to try to

11:39

resist or avoid that stress, or

11:42

bring the stress down. And

11:42

you'll find them really kind of

11:45

eating whatever certain things

11:45

happen in the environment that

11:48

they're not, that bring their

11:48

stress up. So maybe when their

11:51

job gets difficult, or when

11:51

there's arguments going on at

11:54

home, or when their kids are not

11:54

doing so well. Or when they have

11:57

this kind of fear or worry that

11:57

they might not, you know, be

12:01

finding a relationship, or that

12:01

might they might not be doing

12:04

well on this upcoming date or

12:04

exams or anything like that. So

12:08

things that usually will cause

12:08

the body to be in a state of

12:10

stress, that is quite normal.

12:10

But instead of using that stress

12:14

and learning how to work with

12:14

it, what happens is we tend to

12:17

avoid it by binging because we

12:17

have that negative relationship

12:20

with stress. And the challenges

12:20

with stress is to recognize when

12:24

we're stressed and to learn how

12:24

to cope with it. And to complete

12:28

the cycle by bringing it

12:28

bringing the stress down

12:31

eventually, and not counting it

12:31

and a constant elevated state is

12:34

that stress is useful sometimes,

12:34

by the way. And I know this is

12:37

actually a very big

12:37

misconception is that stress is

12:39

bad. And that is not true.

12:39

Stress is useful, because it

12:42

puts us in this elevated state

12:42

where we can focus more, produce

12:46

more, think more. But when we're

12:46

stressed out in times where we

12:50

don't need to think or produce

12:50

or overcome anything or solve

12:53

the problem, then we don't then

12:53

we're constantly body's

12:56

overworked internally, and so

12:56

what we need to do is learn how

12:59

to complete the cycle, and learn

12:59

how to do things that bring the

13:02

stress down so that we can go

13:02

back to our day. And then the

13:05

next day, we can start to think

13:05

about the problem and how we can

13:08

solve it. So to recognize

13:08

stress, and to cope with stress

13:11

while in complete the cycle. And

13:11

the second part of it is to

13:14

reduce unnecessary additions to

13:14

stress. So unnecessary additions

13:17

to to stress is a matter of

13:17

again, it's all internal

13:21

perception wise, is to learn how

13:21

to perceive certain things that

13:25

potentially are, can you view is

13:25

very stressful and to view them

13:29

instead as something that is not

13:29

as stressful. So for example,

13:32

let's say I'm, I have this

13:32

stress in my mind that I know

13:37

I'm not in a relationship, and I

13:37

need to find a relationship. So

13:39

I can, you know, be in one. And

13:39

that's when I'll be happy, for

13:42

example. And whenever I think

13:42

about it, because I haven't

13:46

found a person yet, it stresses

13:46

me out, right, we can perceive

13:50

that situation in different ways

13:50

to reduce the stress from it, we

13:52

can start thinking, well, when

13:52

the right person comes along,

13:55

then it will work out, I just

13:55

need to focus on myself. And I

13:58

need to learn how to be happy

13:58

with myself, and how to be in a

14:02

place where if I meet somebody

14:02

else, then I can be a good

14:05

version of myself. So you can

14:05

contribute well to each other

14:08

each other's life. And then I

14:08

have faith that is going to go

14:11

well in the end. But we're

14:11

eliminating that idea of what's

14:14

out of your control, removing

14:14

it, instead of making it a

14:17

source of stress. The problem

14:17

nowadays is that a lot of times

14:20

we look at things that are out

14:20

of our control, and we worry

14:23

about it, and we stress out

14:23

about it. And while that's

14:26

normal to kind of have that

14:26

worry about a little bit, it's

14:29

not really serving us well to be

14:29

constantly stressing out about

14:33

it, and thinking, Well, what is

14:33

going to happen there? And how

14:36

come it's not happening quick

14:36

enough, etc. Another good

14:40

example is the weight component,

14:40

right? So we step on the scale,

14:43

and the scale doesn't, you know,

14:43

go down or instead it goes up

14:46

and that stresses us out. Right?

14:46

One of the most important things

14:49

I talked about is that weight is

14:49

actually out of our control.

14:53

Yes, it is out of your control,

14:53

wait, your number on the scale

14:56

is out of your control, it's

14:56

within your body's control to

14:59

lose or gain weight. And not

14:59

because you lost a certain

15:01

number on the scale means that

15:01

you actually lost lost that was

15:05

a healthy weight loss, right?

15:05

Somebody might lose 100 pounds

15:08

and their friends would look at

15:08

them be like oh good for you and

15:11

whatnot, but maybe they were

15:11

sick and they lost 100 pounds.

15:14

And that's sickness and a lot of

15:14

it was muscle mass and it was

15:16

not good for them to lose that

15:16

weight. Right. So looking at it

15:19

as a from the perspective that

15:19

weight loss is within your

15:22

body's ability not actually

15:22

yours, your what's within your

15:27

within your control is how to

15:27

make sure that you're providing

15:31

the body with the energy and

15:31

taking care of it and giving it

15:33

what it needs so that it can do

15:33

its best and keep you healthy as

15:37

well as a healthy body is always

15:37

going to minimize the fat on it

15:42

and whatnot and just keep itself

15:42

in a healthy So all we have to

15:45

do is take care of that body and

15:45

allow it to do what it does

15:48

best. So that is one way we can

15:48

reduce the stress is to kind of

15:52

like perceive things differently. But the stress eater to summarize, is somebody

15:53

who, whenever stressed, whenever

15:57

things get a little bit

15:57

stressful, they find themselves

16:00

going to food and hitting that

16:00

cookie jar really quick. So,

16:04

the third type is the is that

16:04

oh, sorry, I should have

16:08

mentioned that this. Probably

16:08

that mentioned that stress eater

16:11

is also an avoidant type, like

16:11

the emotional is an avoidant

16:14

type. The third one, the Type C

16:14

is the pleasure seeker. So now

16:18

the pleasure seeker. Pleasure

16:18

secret is a bit of a hybrid

16:23

between an avoidant and a secret

16:23

type. And I'm going to talk a

16:26

little about that means. So a

16:26

pleasure seeker is somebody who

16:29

potentially is not emotion is

16:29

not eating out of emotions,

16:32

negative emotions is not eating

16:32

because they're stressed. Or for

16:35

the other fourth, cause that

16:35

we're going to force types that

16:38

we're going to talk about, but

16:38

they're eating because there's

16:40

kind of like a disconnect from

16:40

the body, or source of

16:43

discomfort in the body, or

16:43

dissociation from the body, or

16:46

an inability to feel joy in the

16:46

body, or some form of pain that

16:50

is not emotional in the body,

16:50

right, and not physical pain as

16:52

well. But this just potentially,

16:52

like lingering pain. And pain is

16:57

not either physical or

16:57

emotional, it can be almost in

16:59

the form of this, you know, this

16:59

energy that we can see to get

17:03

rid of, we're not really upset.

17:03

We're not there's nothing making

17:06

us upset or making us emotional,

17:06

and there's nothing hurting us

17:08

physically. But there's this

17:08

energy that's there that's kind

17:11

of uncomfortable to be with. And

17:11

we tend to kind of avoid that

17:16

sometimes and want to seek

17:16

pleasure by benching to kind of

17:18

escape it. So that is the that

17:18

is how the pleasure seeker can

17:22

be a bit of an avoidant, but it

17:22

can also be a seeker as an a

17:26

four, we feel nothing in the

17:26

body, really, we can feel joy in

17:29

the body, we can't feel a

17:29

connection with the body, we

17:31

cannot feel pleasure in the

17:31

moment or just by being and in

17:35

our body in our environment, we

17:35

must seek food to feel some

17:38

source of pleasure. And because

17:38

as human beings, we want to feel

17:41

alive. Food is a way to feeling

17:41

alive. And the pleasure seeker

17:45

you'll find is common is

17:45

commonly also addicted to other

17:48

things like has common

17:48

addictions in the past, such as

17:50

smoking, drinking, potentially

17:50

drugs, sex, pornography, all

17:54

these things. It's not that they

17:54

do them, it's that they're

17:57

addicted to them. It's an

17:57

addiction that comes out of

17:59

there. And so the pleasure

17:59

seeker is one who binges to

18:04

instill this source of pleasure

18:04

in the body and to feel

18:08

something because other than

18:08

that, if they're not doing that,

18:10

they don't really feel much

18:10

pleasure or joy in the body. And

18:13

if we look at it from a normal

18:13

kind of perspective, it is from

18:18

it is it we're supposed to be

18:18

able to feel joy in the body and

18:21

feel a certain amount of

18:21

pleasure in the body and being

18:23

present. Because that's

18:23

something that's very, that's

18:26

very normal when we're in our

18:26

body. And we're just nothing,

18:28

no, there's no negative emotions

18:28

going on. There's nothing wrong

18:31

going on. And we're in the body

18:31

kind of experiencing that. And

18:34

when people think, ask me, okay,

18:34

what do you mean in the body, I

18:36

mean, literally inhabiting your

18:36

body and being in it, right,

18:39

just being in that body and

18:39

connecting with it and putting

18:42

your attention on different

18:42

parts of your body. Right? The

18:45

pleasure seeker won't understand

18:45

what that statement means.

18:47

Because there's this inability

18:47

to do that there's this

18:50

inability to be present with the

18:50

body, or difficulty being

18:54

present in our surroundings.

18:54

Hence why the pleasures eating

18:57

comes out, the binge eating

18:57

comes up comes to usually after,

19:00

and frequently so that we can

19:00

feel some sorts of pleasure,

19:04

then usually excitement is the

19:04

dominant feeling here is we're

19:06

kind of seeking excitement.

19:06

We're excited to do it, there's

19:08

this like overwhelming

19:08

excitement, and we must do it so

19:11

we can feel like some

19:11

excitement. And sometimes the

19:14

binge eating comes along with

19:14

other addictive habits such as

19:17

like drinking or smoking, etc,

19:17

stuff like that. So we can have

19:19

like pleasure stacked on top of

19:19

each other. And that is the

19:22

pleasure secret is very, very

19:22

common. Something I personally

19:25

struggled with, it's the cause

19:25

of my own addiction, with

19:28

smoking and with binge eating is

19:28

the is that I couldn't feel any

19:33

source of pleasure in the body.

19:33

It just it was kind of this this

19:36

constant discomfort even when I

19:36

wasn't upset or even when there

19:39

was nothing going on to upset me

19:39

this or this, there was this

19:42

constant discomfort going on.

19:42

And the only way to kind of

19:47

overcome that is to seek certain

19:47

pleasures like binge eating. The

19:52

fourth type of binge eating is

19:52

the energy seeker, or type D is

19:59

the energy seeker. And that one

19:59

is a little bit

20:03

similar to the pleasure seeker

20:03

as an IT is also a little bit of

20:06

a hybrid of avoidant and a

20:06

seeker type, which means that

20:11

there's some avoiding something

20:11

we'll talk about in a moment.

20:14

But there's also the seeking

20:14

right seeking energy as well and

20:17

energy, the energy seeker

20:17

primarily binges when they're

20:21

feeling low energy, whether it's

20:21

physically or mentally,

20:24

specifically in the brain

20:24

physically or mentally in the

20:26

brain. And that low energy could

20:26

be a result of many things, the

20:30

most common being the dieting or

20:30

restricting which is not eating

20:33

enough during the day, which is

20:33

specifically from cutting

20:36

carbohydrates, and a lot of

20:36

people when they're trying to

20:38

lose weight. They immediately

20:38

cut the carbohydrates out, and

20:42

depending on how they're strong,

20:42

they're more To Lose Weight is

20:46

they can really white knuckle

20:46

their way into doing that and

20:49

you know, persist for weeks, but

20:49

then eventually that low energy

20:51

catches up. And eventually they

20:51

end up binging. And the reason

20:54

why is because there's a certain

20:54

hormone called ghrelin, and this

20:58

hormone is specifically, its

20:58

only job is to motivate us to

21:02

get go and get some energy. So

21:02

something like, specifically

21:07

carbohydrates, because carbohydrates are our main source of energy is to go eat

21:09

sugar, go eat carbohydrates,

21:12

that hormone is necessary.

21:12

Because back in the days, when

21:14

we were cavemen, and we were

21:14

living, we had to go, the body

21:17

had to motivate us to go out and

21:17

either hunt to forage or do

21:20

something. And that hormone is what got us to do that. Nowadays, we don't need to do

21:22

that, we just need to click a

21:24

couple of buttons and the food

21:24

is right here, we order it or we

21:27

go to a convenience store

21:27

nearby, or we drive somewhere we

21:30

pick up our box of doughnuts,

21:30

etc. And from there, it's just a

21:33

matter of going all out on it.

21:33

And so this is where the low

21:37

energy see, the energy secret

21:37

starts, as the most common

21:40

weights expressed, is in the

21:40

form of

21:44

seeking energy, physical energy,

21:44

so that they can increase their

21:49

energy because they've been no

21:49

energy for a while, and the body

21:51

doesn't like being low energy,

21:51

no longer the body actually

21:54

wants to be energized. So the

21:54

this is specifically how it's

21:58

expressed. But the other way,

21:58

which is actually very common,

22:01

I've realized is really, really

22:01

common nowadays, is when we're

22:04

mentally low energy. And when

22:04

we're mentally low energy, it's

22:06

a different story, because it

22:06

might not be really big, because

22:10

of an under eating or eating,

22:10

not eating enough. But it could

22:13

be because we've overwhelmed our

22:13

brain's reward center, which has

22:16

our dopamine, dopamine levels,

22:16

so overwhelmed it. And we have a

22:20

kind of like an over overworked

22:20

and abnormal, kind of like

22:28

levels of dopamine in the brain,

22:28

ups and downs, ups and downs,

22:30

I'm going to explain it in a

22:30

second. So if you think about

22:33

nowadays, with the, if you ever

22:33

watched the documentary, the

22:36

social dilemma, you understand

22:36

what I'm about to talk about, if

22:39

you didn't, you got to watch it.

22:39

But Dopamine is a

22:43

neurotransmitter, a chemical in

22:43

the brain that is actually

22:46

involved in motivating and

22:46

stimulating the prefrontal

22:48

cortex, which is the logical

22:48

center of the brain. And

22:52

whenever we do something, right,

22:52

we accomplish a task, or we find

22:57

something or we eat something,

22:57

even the brain releases some

23:01

dopamine, to motivate us to do

23:01

it again, because it's something

23:04

they want to reward. When we

23:04

take that and look at it from

23:07

the terms of social media. How

23:07

many? How many? How many times

23:10

do we find something new on

23:10

social media right now, in a

23:13

span of 10 minutes, right? So

23:13

much, we can easily find up to

23:17

like 50 videos, maybe in 10

23:17

minutes, sometimes even more.

23:20

And so every time you find

23:20

something the brain releases

23:22

dopamine hit, and it gives

23:22

releasing, releasing, releasing,

23:25

releasing, it's very abnormal,

23:25

because back in the days, when

23:29

we were cavemen, there was no

23:29

none of all that right, the

23:31

brain release dopamine, a lot of

23:31

intervals, maybe like you found

23:34

something cool, they found a

23:34

cool new spot, right, or he

23:37

found a new bush or something to

23:37

forage, that the brain releases

23:41

some dopamine there, or you find

23:41

a new, you make new friends,

23:44

again, the bad news is dopamine

23:44

over there, or you find some new

23:47

piece of information from your

23:47

neighbor, right, which is,

23:50

nobody like back in the days

23:50

would wake up and talk to the

23:52

neighbor immediately. Nowadays,

23:52

the information is right next to

23:56

our bed, as soon as we wake up,

23:56

we pick up the phone and

23:58

overwhelm the brain completely.

23:58

And so this is what caused this

24:00

faulty reward center, the

24:00

dopamine, dopamine levels are

24:04

completely depleted. And so what

24:04

that means is the body needs

24:08

more like more dopamine to feel

24:08

stimulated more and more and

24:11

more and more. And that is what

24:11

makes us mentally low energy.

24:14

And so the way to sometimes the

24:14

way to correct that, for us is

24:18

to binge eat, because when we're

24:18

eating so much food, it really

24:21

causes a huge dopamine spike in

24:21

the brain. But then what happens

24:24

is there's a huge dopamine

24:24

decline after that. And that's,

24:27

that is very problematic. So

24:27

that is what they're that is

24:30

where the energy the energy

24:30

secret comes in. Right. So the

24:33

energy seeker is one who

24:33

physically is is seeking energy

24:36

physically, because they're

24:36

under eating a lot, or they're

24:39

seeking some source of energy

24:39

mentally because their reward

24:42

center is kind of depleted. And

24:42

the challenges there is to learn

24:46

how to provide the body with

24:46

energy is to learn how to meet

24:48

our energy needs, and also learn

24:48

how to protect our brain's

24:51

reward center, which is super

24:51

important can't discuss how

24:55

important it is right now. This

24:55

is like the ADHD pandemic is

24:59

purely because of the dopamine

24:59

center being overwhelmed, and

25:03

being completely overworked. And

25:03

we need to learn how to protect

25:06

our brain's dopamine center

25:06

reward center. So we can learn

25:09

how to focus and learn how to

25:09

function without the need to

25:12

stimulate constantly do

25:12

something to stimulate the

25:14

brain. And those are the four

25:14

types of binge eating that I've

25:18

been working on. Now, everything

25:18

that I do and our program beyond

25:23

the binge is to address these

25:23

four types of binge, binge binge

25:27

eaters, again, people can be

25:27

different different different

25:29

different types of they can be,

25:29

let's say emotional eater,

25:32

stress eater, pleasure eater,

25:32

but not maybe energy eater,

25:35

seeker that could be a pleasure,

25:35

pleasure seeker stress eater

25:38

energy, stress eater energy

25:38

seeker, because this is a new

25:42

concept to me. It's gonna take

25:42

me a while to remember and is

25:44

really well, but it could be

25:44

combination of a few of them.

25:47

And the percentage could differ.

25:47

So somebody could be, let's say,

25:51

100%, emotional eater, or

25:51

somebody could be, let's say,

25:53

40% emotional eater, which means

25:53

100% of the time they avoid

25:56

their emotions. And they're

25:56

eating every time they're

25:58

feeling like feeling upset, or

25:58

negative, or they can be on 40%

26:02

of the time. So they're able to

26:02

like hold hold on hold on hold,

26:04

but then they eventually kind of

26:04

given in Cape, so depends on

26:07

several factors. And that that's

26:07

something I'm working on in my

26:10

quiz. So I just wanted to share

26:10

this, that this exciting new

26:15

area that I've been that I'll be

26:15

kind of talking about, and I'll

26:18

be doing more episodes, and

26:18

videos on these different types

26:24

of eaters how to recognize and

26:24

different strategies and doing

26:28

more work based on categorizing

26:28

them. Eventually, when I

26:31

finished the quiz, I will

26:31

release it. And hopefully,

26:35

you're able to take it and hopefully will give you more insight into what kind of eater

26:36

you are and what kind of work

26:38

you need to do. So you can

26:38

overcome that. So that today I'm

26:43

recording this is October 26. On

26:43

the Tuesday tomorrow, Wednesday

26:47

is October 27 is the last break

26:47

the cycle workshop which I'll be

26:51

running, if you haven't attended

26:51

one, then please feel feel free

26:55

to attend, you can go to Mr E's

26:55

at k.com. And go to start here

27:01

and book a spot. This workshop

27:01

is practically free, but it is

27:05

just kind of orientation into

27:05

binge eating, discovering the

27:08

root causes of binge eating,

27:08

discovering why we binge eat,

27:10

sharing our story and then

27:10

looking into the ways to how you

27:15

can break free from binge

27:15

eating. So tomorrow is the last

27:19

one of the month. If you would

27:19

like to attend, you will go to

27:22

www.mr is that k.com. And you

27:22

will go to start here and you

27:27

would find find it and just kind

27:27

of like book for tomorrow. So we

27:31

usually run those workshops

27:31

towards the end of the month. So

27:34

there won't be any for a few in

27:34

the first weeks of November as

27:37

we go into November. So just

27:37

wanted to share the work that

27:41

I've been doing. And I hope that

27:41

you found that helpful. I hope

27:44

that you found it useful. If you

27:44

kind of have an idea at this

27:47

point, what kind of either that

27:47

you fall underneath, or

27:50

potentially you struggle with

27:50

put it and let me know. And

27:53

hopefully this gives you kind of

27:53

an insight as to what you need

27:56

to do so you can overcome it.

27:56

And I look forward to doing more

27:59

episodes on this. Have a

27:59

wonderful, wonderful day and

28:02

I'll see you the next one.