How refreshingly honest to hear that for some people, for example a petite older woman like me who wants to stay very slim, 450 cals per lb of (mostly raw) food is what I need rather than the average 600, which would be too rich for me. I eat legumes a few times a month only and (sweet) potatoes rather than wholegrains every other day. I might introduce pasta again but it will be very carefully and I'll treat it as an experiment. I eat a couple of nuts a week and no seeds. Occasionally I'll have some minimally processed food that may contain a bit of oil like falafel, hummus or a pasta sauce but I will then reduce the calories somewhere else, for example I'll have the pasta sauce on microwave-in-a-bag riced cauliflower (delicious) instead of pasta. After decades of bingeing and yo-yo dieting (it started age 12), 4 years ago I finally lost the weight for good thanks to a WFPB way of eating and absolutely no junk in the house. I'm only happy and only feel good and look great in clothes when I'm very slim as extra fat is distributed very unevenly around my body (all in the wrong places!) so I like being very slim. I have maintained my slim weight for 4 years and counting. I have cravings from time to time, but they pass when your tummy is full of delicious whole plant food. Besides, no food, however delicious, is worth feeling bad about yourself and I know that if I indulged in trigger foods I would feel fat and ashamed and very possibly the floodgates would open after the first bite, so not worth it. Nothing beats feeling comfortable wearing fitted clothes or slim jeans that hang a bit loose, whatever your age. My overweight friends are often angry, defensive and aggressive, I've had to distance myself from them. They say that they're happy being fat when this is clearly not the case but won't take any advice and they eat less than me. Being overweight affects their mood and mental health as well as their physical health and general wellbeing. Becoming WFPB was the best decision I've ever made and a great achievement in my life as I'd lost hope I'd ever achieve and maintain my desired weight, so I can't thank enough Dr Lisle, Dr McDougall, Chef AJ, Dr Barnard and all the wonderful people and health professionals in the WFPB community.
Oh AJ... Goldhamer's email to you "food ...just needs to not taste bad." I used almost that same language talking to my mother. I asked her "how were the sweet potatoes, green beans, broccoli, and avocado?" and She said, "well....it was sort of plain...I just ate it because I was hungry" to that I said, "well...you ate it when you were hungry, right? I assure you, when you get hungry again, you'll want more of it. That's how food is SUPPOSED to work."
Nope. He explains many times that waiting to be extremely hungry is bad because it makes it more likely to binge. You regolate intake so if you eat more when not hungry you wouldn't eat more later.
Right! That's exactly how it supposed to be. However, in the modern environment, many ppl want a little bit more flavor, when knowing what's out there. Eating this plain might people to kick over the table m it works for many, but for many this level is also not necessary. However I really like the mindset. Your everyday meal shouldn't have to be a taste explosion, but just good enough and make you full. When I was a kid we sometimes just had potatoes soup for dinner. Very blend. Nothing exciting. But good enough for your everyday meal. Then you can make say tacos with different spices and flavors in the weekend, with maybe added avocado if that works for you, etc. I think that's probably a reasonable middle ground for many.
I find it interesting Dr. Lisle is what I would call on the periphery of gaining a significant audience. The podcast "Beat Your Genes" is my favorite podcast, ask Doug a question and he can go on a riff for the whole show, and I'll be spellbound the entire time. These nuggets that Dr. Lisle drops during his talk are more in a few minutes than the drivel of listening hours to these mainstream psychologists.
Yeah, when I lost my peanut butter weight in 2020/2021 my weight loss followed a nice neat glide slope, (a limit). In November 2020, my weight loss was three pounds per month, but in 2021, it was 1/2 pound per month, and in 2022, it was about a quarter pound per month, until just last month it was about a tenth of a pound, and this month it is about zero (as it should be since I am at 162 pounds at 6'2" tall.) So, when approaching biological equilibrium, the weight loss slows as the weight loss progresses. The same phenomenon occurs when gaining weight on a given caloric density.
I have really suffered with this problem for most of my life. Spent thousands of dollars on supplements, naturopaths, I moved to two different countries, spent countless years in 12 step programs. Still fat and heartbroken. After listening to this, I have a piece of the puzzle that is giving me some hope. THANK YOU SO MUCH ! I want to take the next step. Is it buy the book? Join the program? Do the at home detox? Join the binge eating program?
I would start with the McDougall's programme (google the free starch solution programme and you'll find it on his website) then later maybe switch to the McDougall maximum weight loss programme if and when you reach a plateau.
Was a good question! Much easier to "white knuckle" if you know that it will only be hard for a limited time. That it actually does get easier with time.
What helped me with junk foods later on in life was reading packages and watching my mother in-law cook. When you see what is actually in a cheese cake, it's hard to believe. When the foods come all nicely made in a finished form, they do not look that "dangerous". Read the ingredient lists! I never buy anything with coconut or palm oil for example. In natural food stores is a lot of garbage. When Rapunzel, an organic food company in Germany, came out with "organic" Nutella (their recipe), I knew the health aspects of these stores was out; they had to provide what average consumers wanted to just stay open.
This was so helpful and encouraging! Thank you so much Dr Lisle and Chef AJ. I really needed this. I have reached my equilibrium several months ago and have been losing heart. This has really encouraged me to not give up, but really knuckle down and try harder! So awesome!!
Loved listening to Doug! Thank you chef AJ for all your hard work. I would love to come and chat to you on your channel. I have lost 20kg following starch solution/spud fit challenge! I still have 10kg to go but I’ve reversed few health issues 🥰🥰
Last question posed, a good one. That one was me with cookies during my exams and then again 20 years later, minutes away was a late night corner market, I was Tia Maria lard cookie depemdent at 99 cents a roll. I had to just stop, it wasn't easy. I did not wantto bethat type of person. He's right with your brain is mapping it out.
Fill your tummy (if necessary stuff yourself) full of delicious SOS free whole plant food. Feeling full leaves very little space for cravings as you simply can't eat any more
Chef AJ ain’t messing around. Remove your distributor cap BAAAAHHAHAHHA! Yeah yeah! Take your distributor caps off, and throw your tools in the river. How bad do you want that body BABAY! 🤗 Man. That’s TOO GOOD 👊🏼
In a nutshell Chef AJ knows the secret to the best diet in the world. And I know too- due to John McDougall: a starch -based WFPB diet. And SOS not much! And exercise of course!
One of my young family members overeats. He generally needs lots of stimulation and excitement in life. I sometimes think he needs more food/stimulation to get the dopamine hit so this video suggests the opposite. It’s making me think! I do think he gets the wow factor from food that I’m happy to taste but can take or leave it. It all seems quite complicated! He’s definitely influenced by what people are eating around him. He won’t miss out on anything. Thank you for the video , thought provoking…
You'd never guess that I have a food addiction issue. I'm slim, I've pretty much always been slim, and people have generally commented that I have a lot of "willpower" that I'm a "health nut" and so on.... Well, you stick a jar of peanut butter under my nose, and not only will that jar of peanut butter be gone in about 5 minutes, I will have ordered 24 more jars....each of which will be eaten in a luxuriously decadent half hour, each night over the ensuing three weeks, and I will order 48 more. And I will eat those too. The only thing I can do, is avoid it. In 2020 I went and gained nearly 30 pounds in a few months eating a pound of peanut butter every night, and sometimes two (my thin privilege hard at work for me) but just as soon as I caught my head, and stopped it, the weight fell off, AND my cravings for the stuff went away too.
@@Crazydoglady. Haha, I have the defatted peanut butter powder on hand, just in case;) It's got one tenth the fat of peanut butter, so it doesn't trigger me, and I don't get addicted to it.
Well done, vegan Nutella led to bingeing once and I'm not even a chocolate person, but I had it in the house (stupidly!). I haven't fallen off the wagon since that episode 3 years ago. I can have peanut butter in the house though even though it is delicious I am able to eat it in moderation (never more than 2 flat teaspoons) when I decide to do so. If I was ever tempted to binge on it it would have to go.
My mom said that she rarely saw her mom, who was obese, sit down and eat with the family. Rather, Grandma tended to "taste" food a lot while she was cooking.
Do our vulnerabilities change? I used to always think my main weakness was salt, especially potato chips. In the last while, I’ve realized that salt isn’t drawing me as much, but I’m having a real problem with sugar. Louise J
Then eliminate added (refined) sugar and eat natural foods like fruit (nature's sweets), sweet potatoes, kabocha/butternut squashes. Try not to use sweeteners either. The less added sugar, salt or oil (SOS) you ingest the better as they are refined/processed ingredients that will make you want to eat more and encourage weight gain/fluid retention.
Trying to understand the gene theory…using AJ as an example…at one time, AJ was 50+ lbs overweight. What would have someone shift so radically and then toe the line so flawlessly? At 5’5” (67 YO) eat more food than my 6’2” husband but I’ve weighed about 115 my entire life but he will jump from 170 (eating alkaline diet) to 220…I’ve watched him struggle for 18+ years w/sugar addiction…it’s no joke!
Have u tried some intermittent fasting? I lost the last 25 lbs by skipping breakfast & lunch & then just eating and afternoon snack & then big dinner & fruit dessert. Coffee, tea, seltzer water allowed while fasting. Even Chef A.J. skips breakfast.
There are actually no people who put weight on just from smelling food. You have to actually eat it for that to happen. Sorry:) Eat more salads. I wish I had good news for you, but...welp.
Over eaters anonymous provide only suggestions about diet but they leave it up to the individual to decide what diet to follow. Overeaters anonymous provide a way to fill that hole in the soul that addictive eaters are really trying to fill. And it provides companionship along the way to weight loss. Aj please don't talk about that which you don't fully understand like 12 step meds and sometimes meds are necessary for the truly mentally ill who can also have weight issues.
I believe that the human brain does far FAR more calculations per second that a trillion. It's like a hundred trillion TRILLIONS per second. My nephew is working on AI and cognitive sciences, and he told me, that the worlds fastest computer (peaked at 1.8 quintillion flops) is about one hundred-millionth the computational power of the human brain.
How refreshingly honest to hear that for some people, for example a petite older woman like me who wants to stay very slim, 450 cals per lb of (mostly raw) food is what I need rather than the average 600, which would be too rich for me. I eat legumes a few times a month only and (sweet) potatoes rather than wholegrains every other day. I might introduce pasta again but it will be very carefully and I'll treat it as an experiment. I eat a couple of nuts a week and no seeds. Occasionally I'll have some minimally processed food that may contain a bit of oil like falafel, hummus or a pasta sauce but I will then reduce the calories somewhere else, for example I'll have the pasta sauce on microwave-in-a-bag riced cauliflower (delicious) instead of pasta. After decades of bingeing and yo-yo dieting (it started age 12), 4 years ago I finally lost the weight for good thanks to a WFPB way of eating and absolutely no junk in the house. I'm only happy and only feel good and look great in clothes when I'm very slim as extra fat is distributed very unevenly around my body (all in the wrong places!) so I like being very slim. I have maintained my slim weight for 4 years and counting. I have cravings from time to time, but they pass when your tummy is full of delicious whole plant food. Besides, no food, however delicious, is worth feeling bad about yourself and I know that if I indulged in trigger foods I would feel fat and ashamed and very possibly the floodgates would open after the first bite, so not worth it. Nothing beats feeling comfortable wearing fitted clothes or slim jeans that hang a bit loose, whatever your age. My overweight friends are often angry, defensive and aggressive, I've had to distance myself from them. They say that they're happy being fat when this is clearly not the case but won't take any advice and they eat less than me. Being overweight affects their mood and mental health as well as their physical health and general wellbeing. Becoming WFPB was the best decision I've ever made and a great achievement in my life as I'd lost hope I'd ever achieve and maintain my desired weight, so I can't thank enough Dr Lisle, Dr McDougall, Chef AJ, Dr Barnard and all the wonderful people and health professionals in the WFPB community.
One of the best interview ever with Dr Lisle. Love what you're doing Chef AJ
DDL, you are simply the best. Your mind is just incredible. I LOVE listening to your wisdom and truth.
Oh AJ... Goldhamer's email to you "food ...just needs to not taste bad." I used almost that same language talking to my mother. I asked her "how were the sweet potatoes, green beans, broccoli, and avocado?" and She said, "well....it was sort of plain...I just ate it because I was hungry" to that I said, "well...you ate it when you were hungry, right? I assure you, when you get hungry again, you'll want more of it. That's how food is SUPPOSED to work."
Nope. He explains many times that waiting to be extremely hungry is bad because it makes it more likely to binge. You regolate intake so if you eat more when not hungry you wouldn't eat more later.
@@pixelated.peachyangel you couldn't have said it better.
Right! That's exactly how it supposed to be.
However, in the modern environment, many ppl want a little bit more flavor, when knowing what's out there.
Eating this plain might people to kick over the table m it works for many, but for many this level is also not necessary.
However I really like the mindset. Your everyday meal shouldn't have to be a taste explosion, but just good enough and make you full.
When I was a kid we sometimes just had potatoes soup for dinner. Very blend. Nothing exciting. But good enough for your everyday meal.
Then you can make say tacos with different spices and flavors in the weekend, with maybe added avocado if that works for you, etc.
I think that's probably a reasonable middle ground for many.
This show is out of the world! Thank you Chef AJ for churning out the gems from this genius doc's brain!
I find it interesting Dr. Lisle is what I would call on the periphery of gaining a significant audience. The podcast "Beat Your Genes" is my favorite podcast, ask Doug a question and he can go on a riff for the whole show, and I'll be spellbound the entire time. These nuggets that Dr. Lisle drops during his talk are more in a few minutes than the drivel of listening hours to these mainstream psychologists.
Another stunning show!! Dr Lisle just keeps getting more handsome every time!!
Yeah, when I lost my peanut butter weight in 2020/2021 my weight loss followed a nice neat glide slope, (a limit). In November 2020, my weight loss was three pounds per month, but in 2021, it was 1/2 pound per month, and in 2022, it was about a quarter pound per month, until just last month it was about a tenth of a pound, and this month it is about zero (as it should be since I am at 162 pounds at 6'2" tall.) So, when approaching biological equilibrium, the weight loss slows as the weight loss progresses. The same phenomenon occurs when gaining weight on a given caloric density.
Dr. Lisle is looking sooooo good!!! Very healthy and happy!!
I have really suffered with this problem for most of my life. Spent thousands of dollars on supplements, naturopaths, I moved to two different countries, spent countless years in 12 step programs. Still fat and heartbroken. After listening to this, I have a piece of the puzzle that is giving me some hope. THANK YOU SO MUCH !
I want to take the next step. Is it buy the book? Join the program? Do the at home detox? Join the binge eating program?
How did it work out for you? I, too, spent countless years in 12 step for this. I’ve lost 50 lbs the WFPB SOFAS FREE way so far, another 80 to go.
I would start with the McDougall's programme (google the free starch solution programme and you'll find it on his website) then later maybe switch to the McDougall maximum weight loss programme if and when you reach a plateau.
Dr Lisle is always such a treasure trove when it comes to this topic :) thank you so much
Thank you for answering my question and explaining white knuckling.
Our pleasure! Thanks for sending it in ahead of time. I love pistachios too so stay far away from them 😂
Was a good question! Much easier to "white knuckle" if you know that it will only be hard for a limited time. That it actually does get easier with time.
Damn ! I need to white knuckle for the next 3 weeks 😢
What helped me with junk foods later on in life was reading packages and watching my mother in-law cook. When you see what is actually in a cheese cake, it's hard to believe. When the foods come all nicely made in a finished form, they do not look that "dangerous". Read the ingredient lists! I never buy anything with coconut or palm oil for example. In natural food stores is a lot of garbage. When Rapunzel, an organic food company in Germany, came out with "organic" Nutella (their recipe), I knew the health aspects of these stores was out; they had to provide what average consumers wanted to just stay open.
This was so helpful and encouraging! Thank you so much Dr Lisle and Chef AJ. I really needed this. I have reached my equilibrium several months ago and have been losing heart. This has really encouraged me to not give up, but really knuckle down and try harder! So awesome!!
Glad it was helpful!
Tack!
Love this whole week chef Aj thank you!!! Definitely a good addict feels so good to have others that UNDERSTAND ❤️❤️🙏🏽
Glad you enjoy it!
This is truly informative. Thank you for sharing this knowledge, Dr. Doug Lisle!!!!
This was like he was talking directly to me. He was quoting my numbers and speaking my experience. Isn’t serendipity amazing!
Sure is!
Potato chips are Khrushchevite revisionism and counter revolutionary.
Great interview.
Thank you for doing this series !
My pleasure!
Loved listening to Doug! Thank you chef AJ for all your hard work. I would love to come and chat to you on your channel. I have lost 20kg following starch solution/spud fit challenge! I still have 10kg to go but I’ve reversed few health issues 🥰🥰
Last question posed, a good one. That one was me with cookies during my exams and then again 20 years later, minutes away was a late night corner market, I was Tia Maria lard cookie depemdent at 99 cents a roll. I had to just stop, it wasn't easy. I did not wantto bethat type of person. He's right with your brain is mapping it out.
Fill your tummy (if necessary stuff yourself) full of delicious SOS free whole plant food. Feeling full leaves very little space for cravings as you simply can't eat any more
Chef AJ ain’t messing around. Remove your distributor cap BAAAAHHAHAHHA!
Yeah yeah! Take your distributor caps off, and throw your tools in the river.
How bad do you want that body BABAY! 🤗
Man. That’s TOO GOOD 👊🏼
In a nutshell Chef AJ knows the secret to the best diet in the world. And I know too- due to John McDougall: a starch -based WFPB diet. And SOS not much!
And exercise of course!
Fabulous! Brilliant! 👍🏻😄
Dr lisle's talks are so helpful
So so helpful. Sincerely thank you both. I’ll listen to this a few times. For me..From 34.4 min onward… specifically 💚🌱💚
Thank you.
One of my young family members overeats. He generally needs lots of stimulation and excitement in life. I sometimes think he needs more food/stimulation to get the dopamine hit so this video suggests the opposite. It’s making me think! I do think he gets the wow factor from food that I’m happy to taste but can take or leave it. It all seems quite complicated! He’s definitely influenced by what people are eating around him. He won’t miss out on anything. Thank you for the video , thought provoking…
Has he been introduced to the dopamine hit that is exercise?
I think most food addiction has mental illness as it's root! Most morbidly obese & obese people are mental.
You'd never guess that I have a food addiction issue. I'm slim, I've pretty much always been slim, and people have generally commented that I have a lot of "willpower" that I'm a "health nut" and so on.... Well, you stick a jar of peanut butter under my nose, and not only will that jar of peanut butter be gone in about 5 minutes, I will have ordered 24 more jars....each of which will be eaten in a luxuriously decadent half hour, each night over the ensuing three weeks, and I will order 48 more. And I will eat those too. The only thing I can do, is avoid it.
In 2020 I went and gained nearly 30 pounds in a few months eating a pound of peanut butter every night, and sometimes two (my thin privilege hard at work for me) but just as soon as I caught my head, and stopped it, the weight fell off, AND my cravings for the stuff went away too.
@@Crazydoglady. Haha, I have the defatted peanut butter powder on hand, just in case;) It's got one tenth the fat of peanut butter, so it doesn't trigger me, and I don't get addicted to it.
@@Crazydoglady. It's pretty close!
Well done, vegan Nutella led to bingeing once and I'm not even a chocolate person, but I had it in the house (stupidly!). I haven't fallen off the wagon since that episode 3 years ago. I can have peanut butter in the house though even though it is delicious I am able to eat it in moderation (never more than 2 flat teaspoons) when I decide to do so. If I was ever tempted to binge on it it would have to go.
Love them both!!!🥰
My mom said that she rarely saw her mom, who was obese, sit down and eat with the family. Rather, Grandma tended to "taste" food a lot while she was cooking.
Same here, my food addict mother who binged and took laxatives "in secret" and passed these bad habits on to me, never sat at the table with us. Sad
Thanks for sharing!
Love you’re video and you’ve got style
Do our vulnerabilities change? I used to always think my main weakness was salt, especially potato chips. In the last while, I’ve realized that salt isn’t drawing me as much, but I’m having a real problem with sugar. Louise J
Then eliminate added (refined) sugar and eat natural foods like fruit (nature's sweets), sweet potatoes, kabocha/butternut squashes. Try not to use sweeteners either. The less added sugar, salt or oil (SOS) you ingest the better as they are refined/processed ingredients that will make you want to eat more and encourage weight gain/fluid retention.
Trying to understand the gene theory…using AJ as an example…at one time, AJ was 50+ lbs overweight. What would have someone shift so radically and then toe the line so flawlessly? At 5’5” (67 YO) eat more food than my 6’2” husband but I’ve weighed about 115 my entire life but he will jump from 170 (eating alkaline diet) to 220…I’ve watched him struggle for 18+ years w/sugar addiction…it’s no joke!
Chef AJ thanks for a another great show! Do you have the link for Christina? (Dr Lisle mentioned her in the show). Thanks!
Justina Froese is who you are looking for :)
@@noramaddock4165 thanks!
Genes are a bitch. I'm one of those people who puts weight just by smelling food. I can't lose the last 15 pounds with a good job.
Have u tried some intermittent fasting? I lost the last 25 lbs by skipping breakfast & lunch & then just eating and afternoon snack & then big dinner & fruit dessert. Coffee, tea, seltzer water allowed while fasting. Even Chef A.J. skips breakfast.
There are actually no people who put weight on just from smelling food. You have to actually eat it for that to happen. Sorry:) Eat more salads. I wish I had good news for you, but...welp.
Low carb and fasting did it for me.
@@sgray4995 Fasting works, regardless of the diet;)
@@peter5.056 yes, just saying what I did.
Who is the Kristina (sp?) that Dr. Lisle refers to regarding a 30-day modular program, please? Thanks!
It’s Justina Froese. She is on TH-cam and is a lovely, and very helpful, person :)
@@noramaddock4165 Thank you, Nora. I will look for her.
Does coffee stop weight loss?
Over eaters anonymous provide only suggestions about diet but they leave it up to the individual to decide what diet to follow. Overeaters anonymous provide a way to fill that hole in the soul that addictive eaters are really trying to fill. And it provides companionship along the way to weight loss. Aj please don't talk about that which you don't fully understand like 12 step meds and sometimes meds are necessary for the truly mentally ill who can also have weight issues.
12 step meetings have no opinion on medication or diet
@Chef AJ I'm confused: The title says Day 3, but I thought he was the first speaker of the Food Addiction Week? What did I miss?
Dr. Robert Lustig and Dr.Eric Walsh were #1 and 2. You can catch the replays if you missed them.
@@CHEFAJ Thank you!!
I believe that the human brain does far FAR more calculations per second that a trillion. It's like a hundred trillion TRILLIONS per second. My nephew is working on AI and cognitive sciences, and he told me, that the worlds fastest computer (peaked at 1.8 quintillion flops) is about one hundred-millionth the computational power of the human brain.
Eight min in were in the weeds on a seven ft tall b ball player and Einstein. Gotta love Dr Lisle. Okay okay we are discussing gene variation. Ha ha
Same here with the BBQ potato chips. Lol.
Antipsychotics help me.
Tack!