Breaking Up With Sugar with Author and Addiction Therapist Molly Carmel

Join Jon and Will from Men Talking Mindfulness as they interview the anti-diet, sugar-free warrior, author, and podcaster, Molly Carmel!  

Learn about the Breaking Up with Sugar book and how harmful sugar is - for your weight, your skin, your heart, your mind, your sleep, your nervous system and much more!  

Links from discussion: 

Info on retreat: https://imiloainstitute.com/retreat/reflect-reset-rewire/ 

Molly's podcast: What You're Craving.  https://podfollow.com/1553369318 

Molly's book: https://mollycarmel.com/book 

Molly on social @mollycarmel  

Timestamps 

01:13 Welcome to the Show 

03:40 Introducing Molly Carmel, author of Breaking Up With Sugar 

06:45 Jon leads Opening Grounding Practice 

09:00 Mindfulness and joy 

11:30 Molly’s Journey as a “Wounded Healer” 

19:30 Men and “Diet Addiction” 

21:00 Sugar is an abusive relationship 

22:30 We have to have a relationship with the food we eat 

25:00 Cognitive Dissonance keeps us from making the decisions we know we should 

27:30 Sugar is causing 2 addictions - substance and process 

33:30 The Science of Food Addiction 

34:45 The Shame/Diet Cycle 

35:45 You have to find a solution as big as your problem

41:00 We do what’s easiest for us 

44:00 The Bliss Point is what’s messing us up. 

45:45 Finishing your food isn’t disrespectful 

48:00 Sugar is not a solution 

51:50 Artificial Sweetener is destroying your taste and your gut 

55:00 Not everyone has a food addiction 

58:00 Relapse is a part of the story. 

1:00:00 Molly’s 3-C’s: Compassion, Curious, Corrective Action 

1:07:15 Willpower is only a 15-minute intervention 

1:11:00 Why Mindfulness is key to moving forward 

1:15:00 Will leads Closing Grounding Practice    

Opening and closing Music: Malecon by Soyb & Amine Maxwell https://soundcloud.com/soybmusic https://soundcloud.com/aminemaxwell Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-malecon Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/xbWzYbtMgIE

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